Flanders Poppies

 
              IN FLANDERS FIELDS POEM
             The World’s Most Famous WAR MEMORIAL POEM
              By Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae

   

​     In Flanders fields 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.
      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!
     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

Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915 
during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium

​Poppy (Wild)    Papaver rhoeas, Corn Poppy, Field Poppy, Flanders Poppy   Hardy Annual              Often seen sprinkling cornfields with its bright scarlet flowers. Ideal for creating a bright splash of colour in a sunny corner where little else will grow, or in the wild garden where it self seeds with ease. Flowers early summer. Height: 18-24 inches. Bee friendly 

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