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Featured plant: Oriental poppy (Papaver orientale)
Photo by Paul Albertella
Oriental poppies are popular perennials for the temperate ornamental garden. In nature the species bears bright orange-red flowers, but there are cultivars with white, pink, and deep red flowers. They grow taller than other species of garden poppies and flower in the early summer.