With their brilliant orange-red paper-like blooms, corn poppies add a ton of color to the garden. They are also called field poppies, a reference to this wildflower’s tendency to naturalize in open ...

Grow flame-orange California poppy flowers to light up your garden. These flowers will love the sunniest spots in your yard.

California poppies, also known as golden poppies, are short-lived perennials in USDA zones 8-11 and are often grown as eye-catching annuals in other areas. These vibrant flowers, famous for their ...

A jar of poppy seeds sitting open next to two poppy seed bagels. - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock It's tempting to wonder if that little jar of grocery store poppy seeds in your pantry could do more than top ...

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 after ...

Growing up in suburban New York City, our house was surrounded by woods of primarily American beech (Fagus grandifolia) and white oak (Quercus alba). And one year it occurred to me that I could ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...