Sow your opium poppies - used to make medical painkillers including morphine, codeine and oxycodone, as well as illegal ...

Dear T.H.: Perennial or Oriental poppies grow vigorously once they have settled in to a suitable spot with moist, well drained soil and plenty of sunshine. The very showy flowers -- a patch in ...

Some key steps - and a trip to the garden centre - now, will mean enjoying homegrown produce including courgettes, pumpkins ...

Oriental poppies do best in full sun (and) need well-draining soils. Poorly drained soggy soils, especially in winter, can lead to root rot and death of the plants. Leave the plant stems standing ...

With flowers growing fast now, the priority is to make sure that stakes, netting and sticks are in place and sufficient to ...

Oriental poppies are great as a centerpiece with their thick, dark green foliage and tall, wiry stalks, while the other varieties are great as fillers between plants like lupines, roses ...

Spring has sprung ... and so has the garden, starting with the hellebores and a sprinkling of wild bloodroot that snuck into ...

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 ...

Again, once you have them, they will last forever, both as individual plants and in the form of their offspring that seed themselves about (unless you carefully deadhead them)." Oriental poppies ...