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 ...

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

Dear T.H.: Perennial or Oriental poppies grow vigorously once they have ... bloom is visible from a few hundred feet away -- can be orange, pink, red, white or purple. The flowers only last ...

The Oriental poppy has the distinction of being the most popular garden poppy. It produces large orange-red flowers. Its flowers are 3-4 inches in diameter and have petals with a crepe paper texture.

‘Wisley Beacon’ is a good orange, as is ‘Allegro’, although ... Whatever their colour, all Oriental poppies thrive on the same growing regime. For a start they should always be supported ...

There are many cultivars of oriental poppy besides ‘Queen Alexander.’ ‘Allegro’ has very large, bright scarlet blooms while pure white flowers with broad, orange edges and frilled petals ...

The month of June means gardeners are strongly urged to do this essential task to encourage growth and improve your garden's ...

The Oriental poppy was first grown in Britain in the early 18th century by the royal gardener George London, and for 200 years was only available in shades of orange or crimson. But over the past ...

Poppies are among the easiest plants to grow from seed. You scatter their seeds over the surface of the earth and let them sprout. This assumes, of course, that there will be a modicum of rain ...

the Moroccan poppy keeps going, putting out its soft apricot-orange, semi-double 3-inch flowers for much of the year. It does seem at times as if Mother Nature somehow couldn't find the "off ...

His words came to mind yesterday when I walked into my son’s garden at his home in Vancouver and found superb orange Oriental poppies blooming right next to pink peonies. They both look fabulous.