One of the greatest pleasures at this time of year is to see so much of the countryside here covered in poppies. Sometimes there are so many it looks, from a distance as if a red sheet has been spread across the ground. But close up I like to see them mixed with the other wild flowers I associate with fields left fallow and meadows of the past.
On the overcast day at the beginning of the week the poppies positively glowed in the late afternoon light.
I wonder how many millions of poppies are there in this field
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Tomorrow is Garden Blogger’s Foliage Day – the time when when can share the pleasure of the foliage in our gardens and the flowers can take a back seat for once. I hope you’ll join me.
Creating my own garden of the Hesperides 
Those are fabulous. I have only once seen a field like that down in the south of England. I didn’t get any good photos though. I love your photo with the yellow flowers in the corner for contrast.
They are a real pleasure for free!
I have serious field poppy envy looking at these stunning images. Lucky you!
I look forward to them every year.
What a truly wonderful sight, something we don’t see very often here. When we do, cars screech to a halt and everyone jumps out to photograph them!
There are photographers here too but usually they are semi professionals.
Really beautiful images Christina, your walks must be an absolute delight.
Yes they are
So beautiul. That used to be quite a common sight in Suffolk, but you see fewer and fewer fields like that now.
There was one near us in Cookham but not every year; in this area everywhere we go there are fields and fields.
Wow, that’s amazing, and beautiful! It must be perfect conditions for them.
All they need is disturbed ground; after the first world war all the areas where the trenches had been dug and bombs exploded were covered with poppies; that’s why for the British at least we use the poppy as an emblem for commemorating the dead of the war.
Here in NZ this weekend is a long weekend for ANZAC day which is the time poppies are worn here. April 25 is the date when the Australia and NZ soldiers landed at Gallipoli in 1915 where so many were killed.
Thanks for that; I’ve heard of ANZAC day of course but I didn’t know when it was.
Magnificent. My parents used to volunteer me to sell paper poppies on Memorial Day on main street in my little hometown (both parents served in WWII). Would love to see fields of real poppies.
More reasons for you to come in late April or early May when you come!
I love poppies. I just have never been able to grow them successfully.
These are annuals and just grow as long as the ground has been disturbed.
The sweeping red with spots of other colors is lovely. I bet watching them in a breeze is mesmerizing. Well done…again.
Yes you’re right. Just a little wind and the whole field seems to move.
Glorious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely amazing!
I will never, ever, get tired of seeing your beautiful photos of poppies. They are so wonderful.
I always think of you when I see them
Beautiful! There must be a lot of happy bees near you. Amelia
Their is certainly a constant hum and buzz that sounds like contentment to me.
Blankets of flowers are an unusual sight in my region. It’s so wonderful that you have a view like that so close.
Beautiful photos. Nothing better than seeing whole fields of poppies, but they are so rare these days.
Not here!
just adorable, I’d be spending the whole day in amongst them with my camera – they flower early for you
They are a little earlier than other years but not by very much. It is a temptation to never stop taking photographs of them.
Even more Monet-like …….
That’s what I was thinking.
Love the red! Most of our swathes of wildflowers are either blue or yellow.
Christina que preciosidad de campos de amapolas. Ojalá los tuviera aquí. Que afortunada es viviendo en un entorno tan bello. Muchas gracias por mostrarlo. Saludos de Margarita.
One stand of Iris is flat, so far others seem to be protected by surrounding plants.
Good to see the closer shots with the other flowers too
I like seeing the poppies mixed with other flowers and not just on their own. They seem to be getting better and better.
What a spectacular sight, and how nice to have that as well as your own garden. It’s why I could never live in a city again.
Absolutely adore the poppy views!