Plant poppies in fall for a jaw-dropping garden display of summer color. Learn how to grow poppy flower seeds and divide or move poppy plants. Birds & Blooms. Poppy Flower Care and Growing Tips.

Leave at least 6 feet of distance to neighboring plants. Warning. Due to its vigorous spread, plant only one Matilija poppy until you get an idea about how fast it fills the available space.

Plant with other species of annuals and perennials that will provide color in the area once the poppies go dormant. You can start Oriental poppy from seeds, but it will not flower until the second ...

Poppies can be annual or perennial, but the common red poppy, which is as hardy a flower as you’ll ever plant, is an annual. Once its flower fades, it forms a round-ish capsule full of seeds that ...

Q. Last year a friend gave me some poppyseeds that she gathered from plants in her garden. I don’t know what kind of poppy it is, but she described the plants as annuals, with large, wavy, blue-green ...

Populations of this flower from each area can look very different. Courtesy Elsa Cleland Different climes, different guises. The California poppy is a wizard at adapting to local conditions. In warmer ...