poppy

A young garden at Gloucestershire Throughout history, a new generation of corn poppies was germinated each year as land was ploughed and grain scattered.

5 Wildflower Honey Bee Flower Mixed, 99p from Thompson & Morgan Seeds - contains 19 different varieties, ranging from wallflowers and forget-me-nots to cosmos, gaillardias and corn poppies. They all have plenty of pollen and nectar to encourage bees in the garden.

POPPIES just love sunbathing and none more so than the glorious scarlet corn poppies, like Shirley (named after a Surrey vicar of that town, not that name).

Today, 3000 acres of annuals, perennials, biennials, and native flowers bloom on North Carolina's roadsides, including daylilies, pink muhly grass, corn poppies, dame's rocket, lanced-leaved coreopsis, purple coneflower, narrow-leaved sunflower, and bidens.

By planting flowers like the California poppies, corn poppies, marigolds, bleeding hearts, or calla lilies, the deer may go elsewhere to fill their bellies.