Flowers are the perfect way to invite pollinators like butterflies into your garden, and there is one easy-growing perennial that you should plant this April.

With their papery petals and clear, bright colors, oriental poppies (Papaver orientale) are among the most recognizable plants in the poppy species. Unlike corn poppies and California poppies, these ...

These are my absolute must-plant perennials for May, if you want a colorful show that starts in spring and lasts all summer ...

Dear Carol: I have been trying for many years to grow poppies. This year they did well. What do I do with them now that they have stopped blooming? -- T.H., New Hartford. Dear T.H.: Perennial or ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ryan McCallister Every year, Martha and I grow dozens of poppy varieties. These must-have flowers are easy to grow and last for ...

Every November we wear poppy buttonholes as solemn badges of remembrance. But real poppies are summer flowers, bringing joy rather than sadness. The first wild poppies open in late May, painting ...

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 ...