Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[Cinnamon]

We drove to Dorset & back last week & saw loads of field full of gorgeous lilacy white crops,but were too far away to make out what they were.

Just driven down the road to see the same crop - it appears to be a beautiful lilac Poppy,& a field full of it in full flower is quite stunning.

There was nowhere to pull over,or i would have taken a photo

 

Does anyone know why they would use Poppies as a crop (Poppy seeds maybe), & has anyone else seen them?

 

I also have seem Linseed around here,which is a lovely blue, & Rape which is that vibrant yellow of course

[squiffs]

We drove to Dorset & back last week & saw loads of field full of gorgeous lilacy white crops,but were too far away to make out what they were.

Just driven down the road to see the same crop - it appears to be a beautiful lilac Poppy,& a field full of it in full flower is quite stunning.

There was nowhere to pull over,or i would have taken a photo

 

Does anyone know why they would use Poppies as a crop (Poppy seeds maybe), & has anyone else seen them?

 

I also have seem Linseed around here,which is a lovely blue, & Rape which is that vibrant yellow of course

Opium?

[squiffs]

Does the field look like this?

 

 

if so, it's possibly opium poppies for use in painkillers etc

[Chucky Mama]

It is probably linseed Click

[HappyhenSG]

I was wondering the same thing - I passed a field full of these beautiful poppies last week on the way to my mum and dad's. I thought they would probably be opium/drugs related but if so, am surprised that they are grown so openly. You'd think they'd be likely to targeted by the criminal fraternity.

[squiffs]

I was wondering the same thing - I passed a field full of these beautiful poppies last week on the way to my mum and dad's. I thought they would probably be opium/drugs related but if so, am surprised that they are grown so openly. You'd think they'd be likely to targeted by the criminal fraternity.

 

 

The opium isn't harvested until the poppies come to an end and the petals drop off - and they need to be left on the stalk in situ to be harvested - so until they come to the end of their life, they don't require too much supervision.

[Cinnamon]

No,its not Linseed - I know what that looks like,& its way more blue that these flowers.

 

It is definitely the Poppies - they look stunning when there is a field full of them

They are exactly like those ones in the photo.

 

I will try to get a photo myself tomorrow!

[Chucky Mama]

Oh, I am intrigued. Would love to see a photo

[The Dogmother]

We have that too and I understand that it's linseed (flax). We have a crop with tiny white flowers at the moment, I have a couple of photos on my phone - I will post them here when I get round to getting them off the phone.

[Charlottechicken]

I understand that opium poppies are grown under licence in the UK.

 

My opium poppies (weeds, they just appear in the veg patch) are the lilac ones, they are beautiful.

[squiffs]

I understand that opium poppies are grown under licence in the UK.

Yup. Last time I checked there was only one company licenced to grow them in the UK, Macfarlan Smith.

[yvonne]

Around here poppies have been looking fabulous this year all over the place - motorway borders, gutters of smaller roads etc - never seen so many - they must have liked the recent weather.

[The Dogmother]

We've had loads of ox-eye daisies in the verges.

[newcountrygirl]

I saw an article in the daily paper last week showing a field full of these poppies but i can't remember where they were. It said that they were being grown as a crop for morphine so i guess they were the opium poppies. I've got quite a few in my garden hmm!

[Patricia W]

I think its opium poppies too. There are quite a few fields of these in Oxfordshire.

 

Has anyone seen fields of lavender? We drove through France last week and saw several stunning purple fields - why can't I even grown one bush!

[The Dogmother]

you can have some of mine Patricia; the front garden has the best lavender display I've ever had.