Re: poppy question
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: poppy question
- From: A* R* <a*@austx.tandem.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 12:51:34 -0600 (CST)
> Here is the info I read in the a-z enclyclopedia of plants. lists shirley
> papaver as P.rhoeas(corn poppy, field poppy, flanders poppy) cultivars have
> single , smi-double or double flowers in yellow, pink, orange, or sometimes
> red, always unmarked at the bases; they need careful selection to maintain
Here's a little education about this flower: The Canadians lost a great
percentage of their young men at Flanders in World War I. This inspired
the poem that begins "In Flanders field the poppies blow; Between the
crosses, row on row; That mark our place: and in the sky; The larks
still bravely singing, fly; Scarce heard amid the guns below. <p> We are
the Dead. Short days ago; We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow; Loved,
and were loved, and now we lie; In Flanders fields. <p> Take up our
quarrel with the foe:; To you from failing hands we throw;The Torch: be
yours to hold it high!; If ye break faith with us who die; We shall not
sleep, though poppies grow; In Flanders fields." John McCrae. The
poppy in question was scarlet red, and on Canada's Remembrance Day
(November 11), you can buy paper red poppy pins from veterans to wear.
The poppies grow best in disturbed soil -- the soil roughed up by the
fighting.
--
Amy Moseley Rupp (amyr@austx.tandem.com) Austin, TX, USDA z8b, Sunset z30
Amy Moseley (amy@ece.utexas.edu) Graduate Student in Software Engineering
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