Poppy Power / myLot

Northampton, England

June 3, 2016 3:46am CST

Happy Friday everybody. I've no big news to share with you today so I thought I'd instead share with you a photo of this beautiful poppy that burst into flower in the garden a few days ago. There's something about poppies that makes me smile. They're just such big, brash, beauties - yet intrinsically frail and temporary in their scope. These are cultivated poppies rather than the wild ones we find around the village, so they seem to be stronger and longer lasting than their wild cousins. We have a lot of buds just waiting to burst but this one won the race to be first.

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bonnie

@bunnybon7 (50973)

• Holiday, Florida

4 Jun 16

oh I agree. when I was a little girl we would play with the and turn them upside down like girls with long flaring dresses. and make them dance around . kids don't do these kind of things any more. having video games and already madr toys that are expensive.

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WorDazza

@WorDazza (15833)

• Manchester, England

3 Jun 16

That's not a poppy! Where's the black plastic bit in the middle and the green plastic stem?

Boingboing

@boiboing (13153)

• Northampton, England

3 Jun 16

It does look more like a red nose.

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WorDazza

@WorDazza (15833)

• Manchester, England

3 Jun 16

@boiboing That's what mine looked like when I got an elbow in the face playing football the other week.

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Inlemay

@Inlemay (17714)

• South Africa

3 Jun 16

thats a lovely healthy poppy

Boingboing

@boiboing (13153)

• Northampton, England

3 Jun 16

Next week I start my international opium trading business.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325720)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Jun 16

That's a beautiful poppy. They don't grow wild here but I loved seeing them in the fields on the continent when we were there last year.

Boingboing

@boiboing (13153)

• Northampton, England

12 Jun 16

We have a few wild ones we've sewn from seed heads we picked up around the village but most of ours are big, strong cultivated ones like the one in the picture.

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Scott Ganschow

@teamfreak16 (43421)

• Denver, Colorado

4 Jun 16

They sell fake poppies here to benefit disabled vets. I always buy one, but I much prefer the real thing.

Boingboing

@boiboing (13153)

• Northampton, England

4 Jun 16

They are sold every year in the UK for Remembrance Day - 11th November

iamMe :)

@itsmejing (606)

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3 Jun 16

what a beautiful flower..

Boingboing

@boiboing (13153)

• Northampton, England

3 Jun 16

Thank you

celticeagle

@celticeagle (159008)

• Boise, Idaho

3 Jun 16

They are a pretty flower. My grandmother had both kinds in her yard. She used them in bouquets for the vets on Memorial Day every year. Sounds like you are soon going to have a poppy extravaganza.