Poppies tend to bloom right after all of the spring bulbs have faded, filling in gaps in the landscape beautifully. They are ...

And if the plant is growing in a lackluster spot, move the whole thing. The secret is to work with the plant’s natural cycle. Oriental poppies die and disappear in summer, a survival trick from ...

However, this can be less so if you have borders full of nettles or brambles - and let's face it, most gardeners would rather ...

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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 ...

Scarlet corn poppies (popaver rhoeas) grow naturally in conditions of disturbed earth throughout Western Europe. The destruction brought by the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th Century ...

Many plants rely on the cold weather to germinate seeds. Poppy and lupine seeds germinate best when planted in the snow for a minimum of five weeks. Then, the moisture from the melt encourages ...

The atsumigeshi poppy can grow 80 centimeters high during spring to early summer. Ibaragi Yasushi, a curator at Tokushima Prefectural Museum, says it is hard to get rid of the plant as it has a ...