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 ...

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 ...

Iceland poppies (Papaver nudicaule) are flowering perennials that thrive in subarctic regions, but are often planted as annuals in warmer climates. The foliage is feathery and grows from fuzzy, ...

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 ...

I continue to enjoy your gardening questions. QMy sedum, which I thought was fall-flowering, is already budding. In past years, they have been quite leggy. Should I pinch them, and if so, how far back ...

The California poppy, Eschscholzia californica, is a tough, fast-growing, drought-tolerant, self-seeding California native wildflower. It is indigenous to western North America. In 1816, a ship from ...