A summer garden filled with colorful poppy flowers starts in autumn. Either let your poppies dry out and naturally scatter seeds at the end of the growing season or sprinkle a packet of seeds over ...

Many California natives require fire to germinate their seeds and so we could see some of them sprouting this winter and ...

The climate of these parts of Asia seems peculiarly adapted to the growth of the species of poppy (papaver somniferum), from which opium is obtained ; accumulating in the juice of the plant the ...

Queer things happen in the garden in May. Little faces forgotten appear, and plants thought to be dead suddenly wave a green hand to confound you.” (W.E. Johns) One day as I looked out the ...

But how did the distinctive red flower become such a potent symbol of our remembrance of the sacrifices made in past wars? Scarlet corn poppies (popaver rhoeas) grow naturally in conditions of ...

Matilija poppies have also proven themselves as long-lasting flowers for vase arrangements. Incidentally, if you wish to eschew burning pine needles as a pre-germination treatment for this plant ...