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 ...

Dear Carol: I have been trying for many years to grow poppies. This year they did well. What do I do with them now that they have stopped blooming? -- T.H., New Hartford. Dear T.H.: Perennial or ...

There are no more flamboyant splashes of colour in the June garden than the huge petals of Papaver orientale – the oriental poppy. It is not subtle or elegant but it is joyous and completely right in ...

We asked Traverse City poppy expert, David Williams, whose home and gloriously lush poppy garden we featured in the May 08 issue of Northern Home & Cottage and is pictured above, for insight. Here’s ...

Above are the first few lines from the well-known poem, “In Flanders Field.” A Canadian soldier, John McCrae, serving during World War I wrote the poem. At the time, he was stationed in the Belgian ...

POPPIES have been having a hard time of it so far this year - the frequent rain and buffeting with wind has proved a rigorous welcome for the first of the oriental poppy flowers. The oriental poppy ...

The National Garden Bureau celebrates 2003 as the Year of the Poppy. The plant is special because it comes in an annual and perennial form, can be grown from seed, does as well in containers as in the ...

Bright and blowsy, blue or plumed, poppies have great charisma. Even their name is suitably evocative. Growing vegetables: top tips for first-time kitchen gardeners What's more, many of these cheerful ...

Winter is approaching, so it’s time to think about what you’d like in next year’s gardens. Some flowers to consider are poppies, since most species grow easily in our soil and climate. One that does ...

Oriental poppies are a flamboyant splash of colour in any early summer border. Even the white petals of a variety like ‘Royal wedding’ or the pale pink of ‘Coral reef’ are not subtle. They arrive in ...