Around the end of May, the vast, bright red petals of the Oriental poppy ‘Beauty of Livermere’ silkily unfurl, and throughout June they are the biggest, brightest, most sumptuous flowers in my ...

Red hot: orientale's bold colours are back in vogue THE fortunes of plants soar and plunge in a way that would make a yo-yo dizzy. Take Oriental poppies. Ten years ago, they were scarcely to be ...