Annual poppies are one of the easiest and most beautiful flowers to plant and grow, with stunning new types of poppies being developed each year.
Recently, corn poppies have become available in more astonishing new colors which have supercharged their popularity and made them even more desirable for gardeners. The other popular group is the breadseed poppies (Papaver somniferum), sometimes wrongly called opium poppies. They produce the poppy seeds we see on bagels as well as wonderful blue-grey foliage and large flowers in some stupendous colors, singles and doubles.
