This undated photo shows corn poppies in New Paltz, NY. Corn poppies, like other poppies, look most at home in informal settings where their flower-capped stalks can be allowed to sprawl according to ...

With seeds as fine as dust and flower petals as delicate as fairy shawls, it might seem that poppies are too fragile to have their seeds sown directly on melting snow or frozen ground. But early ...

The plant: The Iceland poppy, with its tall, gray-green, fuzzy stems, appears to be peeking over the garden as if constantly on guard, reminiscent of the Kalahari Desert’s adorable meerkats. This ...

I wonder about plants all the time. I am sure you do, too. We drive by a perfect hedge of Simplicity roses on our way to work and wonder how the homeowner pulls it off. Or park the car under a ...