It's a common experience in our lives that whenever we mention with joy some extraordinary feat of ours or our children, the majority of listeners will downplay it by either picking holes in the ...

Renees Garden (reneesgarden.com) offers the seeds of several California poppy varieties ... reaching six feet tall or more with hibiscus-like blooms studded along its flower stalks.

The term "tall poppy" entered modern lexicon in the 1980s ... In a field of poppies, part of what makes it so beautiful is that the flowers grow to the same height, presenting a "soothing" uniformity.