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

Poppies have a tendency to self-sow or naturalize in the garden. Other plants that do this include love-in-a-mist (Nigella Damascena). It’s not only pleasantly named but beautifully adorned as well.

Although no significant fields of California poppies grew this year in Southern California, a large field of the colorful native flowers grows wild at Elizabeth Lake and Munz Ranch roads, in the ...

Poppies are also in jeopardy. When thousands of people walk across the ground, it compacts the soil. A trampled path can turn barren by the next year. It’s illegal to pick poppies at the Poppy Reserve ...

Red poppies are worn on Memorial Day to honor fallen military members. The tradition started during World War I, inspired by a poem and the poppies growing on battlefields.

The four-acre poppy field at Pleasant Hill Blueberry Farm was planted as a memorial, with the first seeds placed in 2018.

The poppies are red, for the blood that was spilled. And the poppy has been used since ancient times for its medicinal properties — it is even used to make opium — which perhaps, ...

Since, red poppies gained popularity and are now distributed, planted or pinned onto clothing over military-related holidays. Here's more on red poppies over Memorial Day 2025: ...

Poppies are among the easiest plants to grow from seed. You scatter their seeds over the surface of the earth and let them sprout. This assumes, of course, that there will be a modicum of rain ...