Papaver paeoniflorum 'Double Cream' has fascinating, large, fully double, cream flowers with lovely crinkled petals. An easy-to-grow large flowering plant that is superb in the flower border. These plants are showstoppers when they're in full bloom, the tallest at their eye level. With their impressive variety, spectacular blooms and strange seed pods, peony poppies are one of the easiest ways to add a bit of architecture and a lot of dazzle to your garden. Peony poppies send up thick flower stems that rise as high as five feet and produce five to ten nodding flower heads. When the flowers do burst, overnight, from their casings, the gardener is treated to some of the most dramatic flowers in the plant kingdom. As if this weren't enough to tempt any gardener, once the petals drop, one is left with a spectacular, instantly recognisable seedpod. Sown in early spring, the plants grow quickly and the first flowers appear in early July. They grow to about 60 to 90cm (24 to 36in) tall and have thick stalks and broad lettuce like leaves. The light green, almost round seed pods are well-suited for crafts and dried floral arrangements. This annual variety will readily self-seed and will make an excellent addition to any garden for years to come. These poppies grow quickly. Grow them in a position with deep, well-drained, fertile soil in full sun, they can also be grown in large containers. Give the plants sufficient water to increase both the number of flowers and their individual size. Enrich the soil with manure, compost or bone meal ahead of planting, or use any organic fertiliser rich in nitrogen. Although these poppies gobble up the nutrients, their eventual show will be more than worth the proper environment.