It’s said that McCrae, a poet and physician, was sitting on the back of a field ambulance overlooking a mass field of graves when he noticed red poppies growing. “In Flanders fields ...

In late 1914, the fields of Northern France and Flanders were once again ripped open as World War One raged through Europe's heart. Once the conflict was over the poppy was one of the only plants ...

Eating even a small amount of food containing poppy seed can lead to a false positive on drugs tests. You probably know that poppies sprung up in their thousands on Flanders fields after the ...

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row.' In 1915, Lt-Col John McCrae, a Canadian army surgeon working in the field in France in the First World War, wrote his famously ...

On the garden front, many have now laid down arms in the fight against dandelions and turned attention to other matters like flowers and shrubs, and adding beauty to the places we live and work.

Tracey Largue After the war, the poppy became the symbol of Remembrance for those who gave their lives. It was inspired by the famous poem, In Flanders Fields, which was written during World War ...