So now he grows the favorite flower she grew as a child: the Iceland poppy.

They are also sold as cut flowers in flower arrangements, especially the Iceland poppy.

Iceland poppies are hardy, but don't like it very wet, hence overwintering inside.

For pastel flowers, try the Iceland poppies with colors in soft pink and yellow shades.

In cool summer climates on well-drained soils, Iceland poppies can live 2-3 seasons, flowering from early spring to fall.

Iceland poppies are biennials or short-lived perennials.

Iceland poppies, like all poppies, possess exceedingly minute seeds and long taproots that resent disturbance.

The Iceland Poppy (Papaver nudicaule, syn.

Papaver - Iceland poppy, Oriental poppy, Opium poppy, corn poppy and about 120 other species.

In the foreground, a mule deer twists his neck away from the mountains, toward the viewer; the Iceland poppies associated with Lake Louise grow at his feet.

"It's like a drug," said Dennis Baker, 82, who was selling seeds in front of his own display for Home Meadows Nurseries in Suffolk: nothing but brilliant orange and yellow Iceland poppies.

The Iceland poppy was the designer's talisman (she also painted them on her toenails): simple in shape and brilliant in color, its petals as delicate as silk gauze and as bright as Kool-Aid.

Iceland poppies I have a new succession to add for another group of pots - between the Iceland poppy 'Meadow Pastels' and a couple of crimson black-leaved dahlias, 'Roxy' and 'Bishop of Oxford'.

Iceland poppies are amongst the best poppies for cutting, lasting several days in the vase if they are cut just before the buds open and the stem-ends are seared for ten seconds in a flame or boiling water so that their white latex does not leak out.

In the old days, relatively mainstream nurseries like Veitch, Bees or Rochfords could exert real influence on the look of the nation's gardens because they would introduce brand new species (such as the Iceland poppy in the 1920s), fresh off the boat from China and other far-flung climes.

In her move last week from her Soho gallery to an eponymous new space at 800-A Fifth Ave., Ms. O'Brien brought along one of Haraszty's homemade reinventions - a bentwood Thonet settee, painted shining white and dressed in white linen embroidered with voluptuous Iceland poppies.

The Iceland Poppy (Papaver nudicaule, syn.