One of the best new colours to be introduced in recent years with its mouth45watering combination of rose45pink outer petals and a delicious creamy white centre these dainty hardy annuals are tougher than they appear and positively thrive on poor dry soils the papery flowers attract bees and hoverflies and make excellent if short45lived cut flowers california poppies are easy to grow in beds and borders or let them self seed throughout gravel gardens to form natural drifts he