StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: poppy

WW1 memorial / poppy project. The aim is to have a poppy for every name on the War Memorial [I think the one pictured is from St John's Chapel]. The loss of life in wartime is appalling, WW1 especially destroyed so many, and in ways other than by killing them outright in battle. {my maternal grandfather lost his right hand in the trenches and he had what I now regard as PTSD - previously known as shell shock}

Taken looking down into the centre of a poppy flower. Probably a Papaver somniferum as the leaves are wrong for Papaver orientale

Patch of poppies, including some oriental varieties, growing in the burn scar of the "bonfire" patch on Elsdon village green.

Spectacular poppy ! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaver_orientale Unfortunately, the slightly weird weather has meant that the red poppy successfully produced only one flower this year, and the pinker one didn't flower at all.

Red oriental poppy, just opening up the petals [unfortunately someone or something has knocked the bud off the second stem]

oriental (or opium) poppy cultivar [Papaver sommiferum] These can and do grow wild around here, the seeds are so light and plentiful the wind spreads them around. This is a cultivar and indoors because the weather was not good - too windy.