"I've done this for many years with the help of colleagues, as we try to replicate Flanders Field in the front of our garden. "That then leads on to Remembrance and Armistice assemblies." ...

Poppy seeds can lay dormant for hundreds of years, but will grow where the ground is disturbed. That combined with a particularly hot spring in 1915 led to Flanders Field near Ypres bursting into ...

The corn or Flanders Field poppy (Papaver rhoeas) is often seen on the lapels of people collecting for war veterans. This tradition started during World War I with the publication of poems that ...

John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed of the First World War linked the poppy ... the field in France in the First World War, wrote his famously moving poem about the ...

Look at pictures of the poppy fields in Flanders. Use art materials to make individual poppies, then create a class poppy field, or use them to make poppy wreaths. Display with the words ‘We ...