Shirley poppies, bred from corn poppies outside Shirley, England, in the 1880s, come up in red, pink, rose, lilac, salmon and white. Among them is a double-flowered variety known as French Flounce ...

There are annual poppies such as ‘Iceland ‘(Papaver nudicaule) and ‘Shirley’ (Papaver rhoeas) that are easy to grow and make eye-catching displays in a cottage garden. ‘Iceland’ poppy ...

and they are one of the few poppy varieties that do best when starting in a seed tray. However, the other popular species, ...