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| Poppies are among the most resilient of our wild flowers, retreating stubbornly against the onslaught of agro-chemicals that annually try to keep them at bay, and can still be seen blooming at the field's edge and on roadside verges where they have escaped the sprays, providing a splash of colour for passing motorists such as here alongside the main A15 at Morton, three miles north of Bourne. Poppy seeds will lie dormant for | many years, waiting for a chance of renewal, so becoming a feature of disturbed land such as road works and new housing estates, the footpath here being re-laid in recent years, or more memorably, in the fields of Flanders during the Great War of 1914-18 when trenches were dug as fortifications and so the flowers that sprang up became an emblem for those who died in that terrible conflict. See more about Poppies. |
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