If you spot a big, dense bed of fluffy orange-red Oriental-like poppies blooming near an old house, you’ve discovered a heritage perennial of now unknown name and origin. The plant looks a lot ...

Around the end of May, the vast, bright red petals of the Oriental poppy ... to get established before the poppy foliage begins to regrow. Although the plants grow easily from seed, they ...

Since that time, the red poppy continues to symbolize Memorial ... Patty’s particular plant had nearly 20 blooms. Oriental poppy flowers often measure 6-9 inches across. The blossoms have ...

The very showy flowers -- a patch in full bloom is visible from a few hundred feet away -- can be orange, pink, red ... Oriental poppies are summer dormant. Relatively few plants that are grown ...

More than a century after “In Flanders Fields,” the poppy still symbolizes Memorial Day and is used to honor our fallen ...

You can buy oriental poppy plants from garden centres now and enjoy ... I also grow orangeflowered Saffron and intense red Beauty of Livermere. Visit perennial nurseries such as claireaustin ...

So many plants are trying to attract the attention of pollinating insects that they have to stand out from the crowd – so ...

The plants I used in my Illini ... There are many species of poppy besides the Oriental poppy. One of the more famous species is Papaver rhoeas, the red-flowered corn poppy mentioned in the ...

New varieties are available in a range of colors — cream, carmine, orange, yellow and red. I plant these flowers ... The old-fashioned oriental poppy (P. oriental) is the only garden perennial ...

While the iconic red flowers do not bloom beyond September, it's not too late to plant ... poppies that "last forever", Sarah Raven recommended planting perennial varieties including Welsh ...

After flowering, oriental poppies die down to almost nothing, creating a gap in the border in late summer or beginning of autumn. Claire Austin of Claire Austin Perennials suggests careful ...