High-flyer: 'Karine' is one of the finest Oriental poppies of all Val Bourne on Oriental poppies - which grab the limelight for 10 days or so before fading away for another year Oriental poppies are ...

Many of you know about my passions for trees and Wave petunias, but you don’t know that Oriental poppies ( Papaver orientale) have become another of my horticultural obsessions. I like a variety of ...

Every November we wear poppy buttonholes as solemn badges of remembrance. But real poppies are summer flowers, bringing joy rather than sadness. The first wild poppies open in late May, painting ...

In search of orange-flowered perennials for my orange and blue Illini garden, Oriental poppies (Papaver orientale) were a natural choice. The plants I used in my Illini garden were divided off a large ...

Every year, Martha and I grow dozens of poppy varieties. These must-have flowers are easy to grow and last for many years in the garden, attracting pollinators like bees and butterflies. We grow them ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

With seeds as fine as dust and flower petals as delicate as fairy shawls, it might seem that poppies are too fragile to have their seeds sown directly on melting snow or frozen ground. But early ...

There's nothing more beautiful than a bed of blooming Oriental poppies in early summer. The brilliant blooms, which come in shades of pink, purple, burgundy, white and, of course, the traditional red, ...

Unlike the field poppy, which grows anew from seed each year (seed incidentally that can remain dormant for generations in untilled ground, only to be triggered into growth by soil disturbance and ...

This undated photo shows corn poppies in New Paltz, NY. Corn poppies, like other poppies, look most at home in informal settings where their flower-capped stalks can be allowed to sprawl according to ...