That's what plenty of flower fans are doing these days, now that March is here and the season for poppy-seeking enjoyment has moved into glorious gear. Of course, a sprinkling of poppies made an early ...

The National Garden Bureau celebrates 2003 as the Year of the Poppy. The plant is special because it comes in an annual and perennial form, can be grown from seed, does as well in containers as in the ...

With bright reds and yellows -- and even the occasional white -- poppies are very bright and colorful. Their petals, however, are also very thin; they are made up of just three layers of cells.

What do people love about a poppy flower? Is it the delicate and fleeting beauty of their papery petals in mesmerizing colours? Hardly anyone looks at a poppy without gazing into the bejeweled centre ...

Amonth ago, when I was visiting Naples, I saw great swathes of the field poppy, Papaver rhoeas, spangling the fields with brilliant red. Now the poppy season has drifted its way north and reached us ...

For the past 6,000 years, humans have cultivated poppy flowers, including Papaver somniferum, which is one of several species of poppies. They have been at the center of tales both good and bad and ...

Beat the winter blues by planning for spring flowers. Learn the simple technique for sowing tiny Icelandic poppy seeds in a ...