This charming miniature alpine poppy bears flowers in hues of peach, yellow and white, sometimes all on the same plant. Although they are technically short lived perennials, they self-seed well on a rockery or scree, but never ever seem to become a nuisance. ... Learn More

A beautiful Japanese poppy making clumps of wavy-edged hairy leaves beneath thin stems which hold delicate, orange, tissue-paper-flowers. Blooms all summer long if regularly dead-headed. ... Learn More

Soft apricot-orange, single or occasionally semi-double blooms appear continuously on long upright stems above a pretty, flat rosette of blue-green, hairy leaves. It is almost never out of bloom and is incredibly tough, and almost indestructible, growing almost anywhere and will even self-sow in the cracks of a dry rock wall! You can forget to water it for weeks and it will still bloom! This incredible perennial poppy comes from the hot, dry areas of Spain and Morocco. ... Learn More

Large deep red flowers with black blotches on the bases of the petals, open at the ends of quite short hairy stems. Broadcast the seeds where needed in borders or it can it be grown as a rockery plant or alpine. (RHS AGM winner) ... Learn More

Solitary, bowl-shaped, pale yellow or greenish yellow flowers open in a long succession from early summer onwards. This diminutive beauty originates from Russia and Japan and will naturalise very gently when it is happy. ... Learn More

A fiery flowered Poppy with stunning semi-double to double orange and scarlet blooms from late spring through midsummer. This is a poppy that would make a worthy addition to the cottage garden or herbaceous border. ... Learn More

This rare poppy is closely related to the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, with very sizeable flowers which are a stunning scarlet colour, with clear black blotches on each petal. However it is much smaller than its large relation with correspondingly smaller, round smooth pods, and leaves which are deeper lobed too. But its unique status amongst poppies is because the inner petals are not flat but stay upright, an almost doubling effect, hence its common name, the tulip poppy! It is found at high elevations on rocky and sandy mountainsides in Turkey, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran. ... Learn More

This tough, rare variant of Papaver orientale has smaller, blood-red, black-eyed flowers with just 4-5 cm long petals, atop short, thick, hairy stems, which are erect rather than floppy. A beautiful, rarely offered flower, it is native to eastern Turkey (Lazistan to Cappodocia), the Caucasus, and the northern and north-western part of Iran where it grows in meadows, forest glades and rocky slopes at altitudes up to 1450 m above sea level. ... Learn More

This most desirable Japanese midget has unusual yellow flowers on short stems above tiny evergreen hairy rosettes of ferny foliage. A superlative plant to allow to naturalise on a rockery where it will move in drifts over the years. ... Learn More

This is the pink form of this rarely offered species, which grows at a latitude of 83°40'N on Kaffeklubben Island, making it (and the purple saxifrage also found on the island) the most northerly-growing plant in the world. It is most commonly found in the Nunavaut region of Canada and is also restricted to small, mountainous areas in the northernmost regions of Norway and Sweden, where it is endemic. ... Learn More

The attractive 'corn poppy', or Papaver rhoeas, also has many other common names including corn rose, field poppy, Flanders poppy and red poppy. This is the fast-growing poppy which quickly produced flowers amongst the trenches in the world wars and which is used to commemorate the soldiers who fell and is still sometimes so abundant in agricultural fields that it may be mistaken for a crop! ... Learn More

A fabulous mix of colours ranging from lavender-grey to cream to palest pink, some almost double forms, and with an intriguing dark stippling of darker colour. These delightful field poppies will bring an air of sophistication to any border arrangement, flowering from June until August and happily self seeding. ... Learn More

This sumptuous, many-stemmed, double-flowered, long-lived perennial, bears an endless succession of frilly, many-petalled terracotta-orange flowers. Botanically this is Papaver rupifragum 'Flore Pleno', but we feel "Orange Feathers" is less of a mouthful! ... Learn More

These highly ornamental opium poppies are something of a show-stopper with their frilly deepest burgundy blooms standing proudly above fine grey-green foliage. They will hold their own in any border and will reward regular dead-heading with repeated flowering. ... Learn More

This remarkable subtype of the opium poppy has flowers which are highly double and deeply lobed, to the point of looking like a ruffled pompom. The added advantage of growing these lovely variants is that the flowers heads last much longer before the numerous petals fall. ... Learn More