Individual Flower Pages

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Poppy'Lilac Pompom' from Seed The fluffiest flower in the garden -- Very Hardy Annual H7; Paeoniflorum type with 50+ fringed laciniatum petals...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to GrowPoppy 'Lauren's Grape' from Seed The garden designer's poppy -- Very Hardy Annual H7 bred by Lauren Springer Ogden through years of patient...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to GrowPoppy 'Ladybird' from Seed The RHS Award of Garden Merit AND RHS Plants for Pollinators poppy -- Very Hardy Annual H7 with vivid...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to GrowPoppy 'Hungarian Blue' from Seed The definitive breadseed poppy -- Hardy Annual H5 producing tall elegant stems with large single violet-purple bowl flowers...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to GrowPoppy 'Flanders Red' from Seed The symbol of Remembrance -- Native Hardy Annual H7 producing paper-thin scarlet cups with black blotch on hairy...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to GrowCalifornian Poppy 'Golden West' from Seed The solar-powered golden cup -- Hardy Annual H3 (not a true Papaver poppy); golden-yellow silky cups with...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Poppy'Black Peony' from Seed The darkest double poppy available from seed -- Hardy Annual H5 producing massive ruffled peony-like flower heads in...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to GrowPlatycodon Balloon Flower Mixed from Seed The balloon bud perennial -- Hardy Perennial H5 producing unique air-filled buds that inflate into true balloon...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Phlox'Sugar Stars' from Seed The constellation Phlox -- Fleuroselect Medal winner Hardy Annual H3 producing masses of violet-blue to deep indigo star-shaped...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Phlox'Blushing Bride' from Seed The Fleuroselect-winning bridal phlox -- Hardy Annual H3 producing masses of large white star-shaped flowers with a delicate...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to GrowPhacelia tanacetifolia from Seed The dual-purpose powerhouse -- Hardy Annual H3 producing lavender-blue coiled fiddleneck flower spikes from just 6-8 weeks after sowing;...

  Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to GrowPenstemon 'Cambridge Mix' from Seed The late-season perennial that outlasts everything else -- Borderline Hardy Perennial H4 with tubular foxglove-like bells in rich...