Beautiful, I love poppies and these are huge. In Australia we have a saying 'tall poppy syndrome' it refer to a tendency in Australian society to try and cut down people who are considered to be too successful or prominent (cutting the tall poppies down to size). The first evidence for tall poppy in Australian records dates back to 1871 and occurs in a newspaper story about the Chief Secretary of the colony of Victoria taking the ‘tall poppies’ into government