Garden Variety is an occasional column about growing plants without grief. If seed packets are calling you—their covers adorned with impossibly pink watermelons and lush, billowing blooms—but 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 ...

The notoriety of Papaver somniferum, the “sleep-inducing poppy,” is only partly to do with its outlaw family. Opium poppies are grown for their edible seeds and for pharmaceutical uses. The type that ...

• California’s official state flower, the California poppy (Eschscholzia californica), is celebrated every year on April 6, California Poppy Day. • The California poppy has been the state’s official ...