When it comes to poppies, it is easy to fixate on the California poppy at this time of year. However, there are several other poppies worth planting that, like our native poppy, germinate effortles… ...

However, most of the poppy seeds sold and sown in California are anything but locally produced. Outsourcing was the standard in the flower seed business before most of America knew the word.

Many California natives require fire to germinate their seeds and so we could see some of them sprouting this winter and spring where wildfires burned.

The California poppy, Eschscholzia californica, is a tough, fast-growing, drought-tolerant, self-seeding California native wildflower. It is indigenous to western North America.

This packet of Sunset Mixed California Poppy Seeds at Walmart will grow plants with blooms in shades of red, cream, orange, and pink.

While we always think of this poppy in the spring, it is a child of autumn. Unlike many annual wildflowers, Eschscholzia californica is technically a perennial. The tiny seeds produce a plant with ...

Clark explains that somehow California poppy seeds are programmed to wait for cooler temperatures, shorter days and gathering autumnal moisture before they germinate.

When spring 2014 comes around and California Golden Poppies start popping up along La Jolla Boulevard, they may be the work of local design architect Mark Bucon — or those who collect seeds from ...

This poppy has finely cut blue-green foliage, clear butter-yellow flowers and multiplies from its own seeds. These drop in place year after year, eventually naturalizing drier portions of the garden.

California poppies are common along Marin’s rocky slopes, bluffs and roadsides. The California poppy, Eschscholzia californica, is a tough, fast-growing, drought-tolerant, self-seeding ...