Remembrance poppies
World Radio Gardening
English - November 20, 2015 16:30 - 3 minutes - 4.94 MB - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsLeisure Hobbies Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The poem In Flanders Field by John McCrae was largely responsible for beginning the tradition of wearing red poppies for remembrance. The common poppy is the official county flower for Essex and next summer it is hoped a new array of poppies will be seen in surprising places as Peter Holmes has been finding out.