Romneya coulteri

Related to Romneya coulteri: matilija poppy

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Romneya coulteri - tall branching subshrub of California and Mexico often cultivated for its silvery-blue foliage and large fragrant white flowers

California tree poppy, matilija poppy

genus Romneya, Romneya - one species: matilija poppy

subshrub, suffrutex - low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base

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The Californian tree poppy, Romneya coulteri, is at its peak now.

BEST OF BUDDIES; Buddlejas are the queen of summer-flowering shrubs with breath-taking blooms year after year; AS WELL AS GIVING US COLOURFUL FLOWERS, THEY GIVE STRUCTURE AND FORM TO OUR GARDENS

Also blooming are native Romneya coulteri (pictured), which has fried egg-like blossoms, and 2- to 3-foot-tall African Impatiens niamniamensis, with "red-and-yellow flowers that look like candy corn," says Dry Garden owner Richard Ward.

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One of Procter's most beautiful floral compositions, White Poppies (whereabouts unknown), presents just two stems of the glistening white tree poppy, Romneya coulteri, standing in a dark moulded ceramic jug.

An exotic awakening: the art of Dod Procter: in 1926 the Newlyn painter Dod Procter achieved sudden fame with Morning, still her best-known work. Averil King explores the ways in which Procter's depictions of women and of flowers were influenced by her experiences in Burma, Africa and Tenerife

PRUNE hardy shrubs such as Fuchsia magellanica, Caryoptens clandonensis, Perovskia and Romneya coulteri.

Your garden: Pippa Greenwood's gardening column

mellifera Shrub Loasaceae Mentzelia micrantha Annual Onagraceae Camissonia californica Annual Papaveraceae Romneya coulteri Suffrutescent(*) Polemoniaceae Allophyllum glutinosum Annual Scrophulariaceae Antirrhinum coulterianum Annual A.