Large flowers with the purest white tissue45paper petals and black blotches at the centre make this a winning variety in the garden poppy 39royal wedding39 is a classy herbaceous perennial forming clumps of serrated hairy leaves and bearing its large flowers on tall slender stems which sway in the breeze flowering from may to july oriental poppies work well in cottage garden borders or wildlife gardens where they will attract bees the seedheads which follow are wonderfully archite