Longwood Gardens is showcasing one of its most anticipated botanical displays: Meconopsis, commonly known as the blue poppy. The rare, elusive sky-blue blooms have returned to the popular garden ...

Meconopsis ‘Lingholm’, a very popular seasonal highlight for many of our visitors. These bright, blousy blue poppies first appear as a rather insignificant looking plant, emerging from beneath ...

Later still, when the Asiatic poppies were discovered, people thought they looked a lot like Welsh poppy (apart from being blue) and put them all in Meconopsis. But now a joint German-British ...