This is by far the largest display of poppies I've seen this year (if not in many a year). Huge thank you to my Brother & Sister in Law for telling us about them. Three fields, absolutely packed with poppies.
Got here almost at dusk on my trip home to Lincs, light not great (oh to have had the full frame camera)
And yes, in the background is another of the poppy fields.
Anyone in the Leicestershire area, these are just off Tickow Lane in Shepshed
Wow, that's a lot of poppies. I'm in Somerset at the moment but will certainly get up to Shepshed when I get home to Leicester next week! Thanks for the info
@shepherdmanswife You're very welcome, couldn't not share the locatoin of this @365projectorgjenfurj I think this is an agricultural sowing of the poppies in these fields; they will be used for culinary purposes after the flowers have gone to get the 'poppy seeds' for toppings on bread, rolls, plus we guess the planting of meadows (which the UK is undertaking at this time) @henrir Unfortunately not. I poppoed in on my way home. I can't write what she sent me when I texted her. We are planning to go that way on Monday on our return from London.
Beautiful, I managed to see 2 fields together between Pocklington and Warter in East Yorkshire. They are so beautiful. Great to get one behind the other.
@mandygravil when they are this dense, it's a wonder to behold @henrir We're both off work on Monday and I've said we'll take a drive out to them. @susiemc Thank you Sue.
@365projectorgjenfurj Hi, visited again yesterday and spoke with my Brother-in-law (they are immediately behind his house). They are NOT an agricultural sowing, but the result of a house-builder ploughing the fields in readiness for the construction of 300 homes. Poppies germinate when the ground they are in (and they can be dormant for tens of years before germinating) is moved/turned over. As @Cherrill said, this is what Flanders, and other WW1 battlefields must have looked like.
Oh alright then - amazing amount of poppies! Lovely capture!
@shepherdmanswife You're very welcome, couldn't not share the locatoin of this
@365projectorgjenfurj I think this is an agricultural sowing of the poppies in these fields; they will be used for culinary purposes after the flowers have gone to get the 'poppy seeds' for toppings on bread, rolls, plus we guess the planting of meadows (which the UK is undertaking at this time)
@henrir Unfortunately not. I poppoed in on my way home. I can't write what she sent me when I texted her. We are planning to go that way on Monday on our return from London.
@henrir We're both off work on Monday and I've said we'll take a drive out to them.
@susiemc Thank you Sue.
@365projectorgjenfurj Hi, visited again yesterday and spoke with my Brother-in-law (they are immediately behind his house). They are NOT an agricultural sowing, but the result of a house-builder ploughing the fields in readiness for the construction of 300 homes. Poppies germinate when the ground they are in (and they can be dormant for tens of years before germinating) is moved/turned over. As @Cherrill said, this is what Flanders, and other WW1 battlefields must have looked like.