Many of you know about my passions for trees and Wave petunias, but you don’t know that Oriental poppies ( Papaver orientale) have become another of my horticultural obsessions. I like a variety of ...

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 ...