It wasn’t understood at the time, but Papaver rhoeas seeds can live in the ground for as many as eighty years and spring back to life when the surrounding soil is disturbed.

It wasn’t understood at the time, but Papaver rhoeas seeds can live in the ground for as many as eighty years and spring back to life when the surrounding soil is disturbed. Baker Creek Heirloom ...

Flanders Poppies (Papaver rhoeas) are easily grown from seed if you want to grow your own field of poppies for Remembrance Day. In temperate zones they are planted in autumn for spring flowering ...

Papaver rhoeas, Remembrance Day poppy Photo by RICHARD LAM / PNG. Article content. The opposite of hostas and rhododendrons, ... Seed can also be sown in spring and may then flower in late summer.

“Shirley” refers to any named cultivar of Papaver rhoeas. Some cultivars are quite colorful and have flowers likened in texture to tissue paper. They are easy to grow from seed.

They grow effortlessly from seed and are close relatives of opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). Be advised that any poppy species, if overly consumed, will produce narcotic, if not toxic, effects.

Seeds, seedheads, pods and fruits have their own astounding beauty that sometimes even surpasses that of their flowers. One example, shown here, is the seed pod of annual corn, or Flanders poppy, ...