Watch how a California poppy flower plant was growing from a seed to blossoms. A poppy seed was randomly chosen from a sunset mixed colors pack and sown in a pot. Under a grow light with regularly ...

Editor’s note: While Nora Harlow takes some much-deserved time off, we offer a past column on one of her favorite plants. You will hear that the Matilija poppy (Romneya coulteri) is hard to start and ...

A jar of poppy seeds sitting open next to two poppy seed bagels. - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock It's tempting to wonder if that little jar of grocery store poppy seeds in your pantry could do more than top ...

If ever there was a flower that symbolises the fleeting, bittersweet beauty of the garden in summer, then it’s surely the poppy, with its gossamer-thin petals and delicate, slender stems. But do you ...

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California is getting international attention for its superbloom this spring and the most celebrated wildflower has its own day, California Poppy Day, which is Saturday, April 6. Poppy pop quiz There ...

Editor’s note: While Nora Harlow is on vacation, we’re running some of her earlier columns. YOU WILL HEAR that the Matilija poppy (Romneya coulteri) is hard to start and hard to stop, and to some ...

Q. Last year a friend gave me some poppyseeds that she gathered from plants in her garden. I don’t know what kind of poppy it is, but she described the plants as annuals, with large, wavy, blue-green ...