Scatter seed in August and it will naturalize and multiply happily, brightening borders with cups of orange and lemon blooms ...

This poppy has finely cut blue-green foliage, clear butter-yellow flowers and multiplies from its own seeds. These drop in place year after year, eventually naturalizing drier portions of the garden.

Renees Garden (reneesgarden.com) offers the seeds of several California poppy varieties and mixes: Buttercream, whose nearly white flowers have a hint of yellow; copper pot, with burnt orange ...

The California poppy, Eschscholzia californica, is a tough, fast-growing, drought-tolerant, self-seeding California native wildflower. It is indigenous to western North America. In 1816, a ship ...

California poppies will form seed pods after blooming and leaving just one unpicked flower will leave behind hundreds of poppy seeds when the pod ripens and explodes. Hector Amezcua hamezcua ...

Poppies may seem fussy since they're hard to start indoors from seed, but they are actually much easier to start than most plants. Here's how.

California poppy seeds like exposure to sun and heat to ripen and so a fresh mulch that buries the seeds now will prevent most from sprouting in the spring.

It takes 60-90 days from planting California poppy seeds to see the first flowers bloom. You can also send questions or comments about gardening practices or problems to [email protected].

The silky, orange-petaled California poppy is what’s called an “annual.” Each seed has one season a year to sprout and flower.

California poppies will form seed pods after blooming and leaving just one unpicked flower will leave behind hundreds of poppy seeds when the pod ripens and explodes. Hector Amezcua hamezcua ...