Annual poppies are one of the easiest and most beautiful flowers to plant and grow, with stunning new types of poppies being developed each year. Recently, corn poppies have become available in more ...
Best for: poor dry soils Type: annuals (plus perennials best treated as annuals in the UK) This sunny little poppy (Eschscholzia californica) is the state flower of California, and majors on shades of ...
If ever there was a flower that symbolises the fleeting, bittersweet beauty of the garden in summer, then it’s surely the poppy, with its gossamer-thin petals and delicate, slender stems. But do you ...
Monty revisits one of his classic books, Gardening at Longmeadow, in an occasional series. For all their massed effect of brilliant colour when growing in a field or on a bank, annual poppies – which ...
I can’t help but picture the Wicked Witch of the West in her slow, wobbly voice conjuring up a field of poppies to put Dorothy to sleep. “Paw-pees” I repeat in my head in the same tone when I sprinkle ...
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio - While some people go positively gaga over tulips and daffodils in the early spring, I try to not have an emotional stake in the matter. After all, where I live in the snow ...
What do people love about a poppy flower? Is it the delicate and fleeting beauty of their papery petals in mesmerizing colours? Hardly anyone looks at a poppy without gazing into the bejeweled centre ...