Many California natives require fire to germinate their seeds and so we could see some of them sprouting this winter and ...

Poppies may be an old-fashioned flower, but their vivid petals evoke a timeless beauty that’s captivated artists like Claude ...

The destruction brought by the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th Century transformed bare land into fields of blood red poppies ... formation in 1921. The White Poppy was first introduced by ...

Here are some notable references: “In Flanders Fields”: Written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae during World War I, this poem references the red poppies that grew over the graves of fallen ...