Before the deluge of spring annuals arrives, there are poppies and sweet peas to get in the ground. Breadseed poppies are a popular choice, and there is no shortage of fabulous colors to choose from.

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 ...

This undated photo shows corn poppies in New Paltz, NY. Corn poppies, like other poppies, look most at home in informal settings where their flower-capped stalks can be allowed to sprawl according to ...

Poppies can be annual or perennial, but the common red poppy, which is as hardy a flower as you’ll ever plant, is an annual. Once its flower fades, it forms a round-ish capsule full of seeds that ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Dorothy and her pals in the “Wizard of Oz” venture into a spectacular meadow of scarlet poppies, she quickly falls into a deep slumber under their enchanted perfume. In the real world, poppies ...

Poppies are fleeting flowers, blooming in the most unlikely places, then shedding their petals at the first sign of wind or rain. But they provide pops of colour that bring borders to life. Full of ...

I can’t deny that one of my most pleasurable experiences is discovering a plant in my neighborhood that is not included in the “Sunset Western Garden Book,” widely considered to be the gardeners’ ...

With seeds as fine as dust and flower petals as delicate as fairy shawls, it might seem that poppies are too fragile to have their seeds sown directly on melting snow or frozen ground. But early ...