With their papery petals and clear, bright colors, oriental poppies (Papaver orientale) are among the most recognizable plants in the poppy species. Unlike corn poppies and California poppies, these ...

Attract more pollinators to your yard with colorful, nectar-rich cosmos flowers. Learn how to grow cosmos and which cultivars ...

Editor’s note: Once a month, OSU Extension Master Gardener volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Once established, these native poppies grow in clumps of ...

The Iceland poppy, with its tall, gray-green, fuzzy stems, appears to be peeking over the garden as if constantly on guard, reminiscent of the Kalahari Desert’s adorable meerkats. This plant comes in ...

All the hard work has been done — the half-mile section of the Old Rail Trail in Tiburon has been cleared of weeds and invasive plants, and the soil has been loosened and irrigated with recycled water ...

Congratulations, poppy -- 2003 has been designated your year by the National Garden Bureau. To celebrate with you, we will plant some Shirley poppies this spring. Shirley poppies were selected by the ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: Fruit Trees. If you are considering planting apple trees, but are unsure if your winter is cold enough to promote flowering and fruit growth, select one Anna ...

An Irish surgeon-botanist, Dr. Thomas Coulter of Newry, Ireland, discovered the plant in the chaparral and scrub of Southern California in 1831 or 1832. The first seeds reached England in 1875 and ...

Consider adding the yellow wood poppy to your garden for a splash of bright spring color. Native to an area from western Pennsylvania to Illinois, north to Wisconsin and south to Arkansas, the yellow ...

The plant: The Iceland poppy, with its tall, gray-green, fuzzy stems, appears to be peeking over the garden as if constantly on guard, reminiscent of the Kalahari Desert’s adorable meerkats. This ...