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

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

Whatever their colour, all Oriental poppies thrive on the same growing regime. For a start they should always be supported to stop them falling over their neighbouring plants and reducing them to ...

BBC Gardeners’ World had to be rescheduled last week due to the death of HRH Prince Philip. The show aired at 8pm on April 10 and saw Monty Don return with a plethora of gardening tricks and tips.

These can be 15cm or more across. You can buy oriental poppy plants from garden centres now and enjoy the first blooms. But in future years, those plants will become huge, long-lasting clumps ...

Oriental poppies die and disappear in summer ... Next, discover the top 10 gorgeous cottage garden plants to grow. Jennifer Bousselot is an assistant professor, teaching horticulture and landscape ...

In your vegetable garden, continue to provide tomato plants ... seeds now will prevent most from sprouting in the spring. Oriental poppies have deep root systems and so even if you try to remove ...

However, such elegance is hard to resist and oriental poppies are widely available at nurseries and garden centres. • Try to see the plants in flower before you buy, especially if they are red.

While the iconic red flowers do not bloom beyond September, it's not too late to plant them in your garden now ... varieties including Welsh, oriental and Spanish poppies. She said "The Welsh ...