Despite the rather overcast and relatively cooler weather we have been experiencing poppies are popping up everywhere. Not far off there are some fields full of poppies which, covering such a large area, look very impressive. The timing could not have been more prescient.
I was unable to stop and take a photo so here is one from the year before last of a nearby field of perhaps 10 acres with the same effect. It had been ploughed during the Winter after a crop of wheat and then left fallow the following season. Seemingly out of nowhere a field of poppies appeared.
The poppies round here have been beautiful too
ReplyDeleteWe should enjoy them whilst they are here. All self-seeded each time too.
DeleteI remember the poppies in England, and recently a friend in Bulgaria has just sent me a similar photo of a field of poppies there. Where I see a picture I'm always reminded of the poem about Flanders Fields.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is difficult not to think of that imagery when u see poppies. Do poppies grow in our part of the world?
DeleteI've never seen poppies growing wild like they do in many parts of Europe, along train tracks even. I have a clump of cultivated poppies in my garden, they have the large flowers. My friend has smaller flowers but they are still not like the wild variety.
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