We primarily grow three to four species: Oriental poppy (Papaver orientale), breadseed poppy (Papaver somniferum), field poppy (Papaver rhoeas), and sometimes Iceland poppies (Papaver nudicaule).

As beautiful as poppies are, it would be convenient if you could just plant the poppy seeds from your kitchen cabinet - but ...

The poppy (Papaver rhoeas L.) is an ancient flowering plant and can be used in a variety of landscape situations. Learning how to grow poppies allows you to use their beauty not only to look at ...

Mid-July is the time to protect your blueberries from the birds, prune back fading perennials and continue to deadhead summer annuals and hanging baskets. In your vegetable garden, continue to ...

If you plant poppies in early autumn they’ll flower at the beginning of winter and, if kept well fed and watered with the seed heads nipped off, will keep blooming until Christmas.

Iceland Poppies are tricky to grow. Their tiny seeds are easy to lose or bury in a layer of vermiculite, and they are one of the few poppy varieties that do best when starting in a seed tray.

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 ...

Q. I have a huge Oriental poppy that is peach with a dark eye. The plant is lovely for only a few days as the stems grow long and droop and the flowers drop petals all over.