For the past 6,000 years, humans have cultivated poppy flowers, including Papaver somniferum, which is one of several species ...

December may not seem like an ideal time to start your garden. However, there is a gorgeous blue flower that will thrive in ...

Again, poppy flowers are weeds, technically, so it’s not uncommon to find them in fields out in the wild. But that’s also why they symbolize rebirth and resilience; they don’t die quickly and pretty ...

The poppy flower has long been associated with veterans and their service, but what does it symbolize and why? The flower is commonly used on both Veterans Day and Memorial Day as a symbol to ...

The orange-yellow blooms were adopted 120 years ago as an emblem of the Golden State. By Soumya Karlamangla There is perhaps no better symbol of California than the glorious, golden poppy. The ...