One of the most stunning blue flowers grown in Canada is the silky-petalled Himalayan blue poppy. This sky-blue flower (Meconopsis betonicifolia) comes from Tibet and has made friends in high places.

The California State Blue Book for 1903 contains this picture of the Golden Poppy, copied from a watercolor by Arlie B. Stone of Sacramento. The occasion was that on March 2, 1903 “The Peopl… ...