If ever there was a flower that symbolises the fleeting, bittersweet beauty of the garden in summer, then it’s surely the poppy, with its gossamer-thin petals and delicate, slender stems. But do you ...

Opium Poppy, Papaver somniferum The notoriety of Papaver somniferum, the “sleep-inducing poppy,” is only partly to do with ...

Amonth ago, when I was visiting Naples, I saw great swathes of the field poppy, Papaver rhoeas, spangling the fields with brilliant red. Now the poppy season has drifted its way north and reached us ...