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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

California poppies will form seed pods after blooming and leaving just one unpicked flower will leave behind hundreds of poppy seeds when the pod ripens and explodes. Hector Amezcua ...