Best for: poor dry soils Type: annuals (plus perennials best treated as annuals in the UK) This sunny little poppy (Eschscholzia californica) is the state flower of California, and majors on shades of ...

Monty revisits one of his classic books, Gardening at Longmeadow, in an occasional series. For all their massed effect of brilliant colour when growing in a field or on a bank, annual poppies – which ...

I can’t help but picture the Wicked Witch of the West in her slow, wobbly voice conjuring up a field of poppies to put Dorothy to sleep. “Paw-pees” I repeat in my head in the same tone when I sprinkle ...

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 ...

What do people love about a poppy flower? Is it the delicate and fleeting beauty of their papery petals in mesmerizing colours? Hardly anyone looks at a poppy without gazing into the bejeweled centre ...

Amonth ago, when I was visiting Naples, I saw great swathes of the field poppy, Papaver rhoeas, spangling the fields with brilliant red. Now the poppy season has drifted its way north and reached us ...