Sentence examples for field poppy from inspiring English sources

Perhaps most spectacular is the brilliant red field poppy, making a stunning splash of colour this summer.

But I did searches for "sunflower field", "poppy field", "flax field" etc, and "field for the British Isles" (brown), and saved them in this folder.

Corn poppy, also called field poppy, or Flanders poppy (Papaver rhoeas), annual (rarely biennial) plant of the poppy family (Papaveraceae), native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia; it has been introduced into Australia, New Zealand, and North America.

The likes of nigella, field poppy and cerinthe will thrive if sown directly into the soil (they sulk when transplanted), and if started off now, they'll germinate quickly in the still-warm soil.

There is something otherworldly about the common field poppy (Papaver rhoeas) – and for good reason, for this arable "weed" is not native to Britain, but travelled here with the earliest farmers and their grain crops, perhaps from as far as the Fertile Crescent, that arc of land that lies between the Syrian Desert and the Anatolian uplands.

Hardy annuals such as nigella, field poppies, phacelia and borage, which resent transplanting, are good examples.

They also said the poppy is red "because of the natural colour of field poppies, It is not red to reflect the colour of blood".

Annual field poppies and Californian poppies have had to be reintroduced because, as the planting has become denser, they have found less space to reproduce.

Great drifts of pink and lavender clarkia, golden California poppies, pink Mexican primrose and shocking red field poppies surround stands of Wedgwood blue-bearded iris and spiky yuccas.

Wheat Fields After the Rain (1890, pictured top) Wheat fields, poppies, poplars streaming towards curlicued clouds, "so healthy and fortifying," wrote Van Gogh; a few days later he shot himself.

Artist Mark Humphrey said: "The soldier stands in a field of poppies, the poppies flutter up and softly fall, paying tribute to each and every one for their sacrifices made.