Every year, Martha and I grow dozens of poppy varieties. These must-have flowers are easy to grow and last for many years in the garden, attracting pollinators like bees and butterflies. We grow them ...

With their papery petals and clear, bright colors, oriental poppies (Papaver orientale) are among the most recognizable plants in the poppy species. Unlike corn poppies and California poppies, these ...

Watch how a California poppy flower plant was growing from a seed to blossoms. A poppy seed was randomly chosen from a sunset mixed colors pack and sown in a pot. Under a grow light with regularly ...

Artists use every experience to inform their creations, and the Eaton fire is no different. Ideas of loss and destruction were raw material for art installations produced by professors and students ...

We asked Traverse City poppy expert, David Williams, whose home and gloriously lush poppy garden we featured in the May 08 issue of Northern Home & Cottage and is pictured above, for insight. Here’s ...

• California’s official state flower, the California poppy (Eschscholzia californica), is celebrated every year on April 6, California Poppy Day. • The California poppy has been the state’s official ...

TALBOZANG, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Fifty-year-old Abdul Wadud walked for two hours across Afghanistan's remote northern mountains to hear a police commander give yet more promises of aid for those who ...

NAKILABAD KALAY, Afghanistan — This stretch of the Helmand River Valley, the heart of the nation’s poppy-growing area, stands as a showcase for one of NATO’s most ambitious offensives against the ...

Taliban forces work to destroy a poppy field in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, in May 2024. [VOA] Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan was down sharply last year, according to the United Nations ...

FOB SHAMULZAI, Afghanistan (May 29, 2012) -- Afghan National Army and 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Soldiers, teamed up earlier this month to locate and destroy several acres of opium poppy fields.

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan -- Mahmad Naim's cucumber patch is a speck of defiance in a vast landscape of opium poppy fields whose bright green bulbs, bursting with toxic sap, will bring nearly $1 ...