THE RED POPPY...
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Icelandic Poppies. LOVE the papery texture!
Papaver nudicaule or Iceland Poppy, with large, papery, bowl-shaped, lightly fragrant flowers supported by hairy, one foot, curved stems among feathery blue-green foliage 1-6 inches long.
They were first described by botanists in 1759.
Cultivars come in shades of yellow, red, orange, salmon, rose, pink, cream and white as well as bi-coloured varieties.
All parts of this plant are poisonous, containing (like all poppies) toxic alkaloids: ALWAYS wash you hands thoroughly after handling ANY flowers/plants!
Because of wars, they became a sad symbol of what, as a child, I saw as a happy flower.
I grew up in Flanders in the shadow of the poppies, remembrance of the wars never far away.
Everywhere you go, there are graveyards, Belgian, English, American, Canadian, Polish, South-African, Australian and German...
As a child, it is just part of the countryside, pretty, neat rows of stones and flowers.
Then, the age of awareness comes, you want to know and understand.
The adults would rather not talk about it, their gaze becoming distant and full of sorrow and hidden, unspoken suffering ...
Most of them gone now too, and still I try to understand.
Thank you, M, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
Poppy Icelandic, stamens, pistil pollen, red, portrait, bloom, bud, flower, studio, colour, square, black-background, "magda indigo"
THE RED POPPY...
#AbFav_PHOTOSTORY
VARIATIONS on a THEME!
Icelandic Poppies. LOVE the papery texture!
Papaver nudicaule or Iceland Poppy, with large, papery, bowl-shaped, lightly fragrant flowers supported by hairy, one foot, curved stems among feathery blue-green foliage 1-6 inches long.
They were first described by botanists in 1759.
Cultivars come in shades of yellow, red, orange, salmon, rose, pink, cream and white as well as bi-coloured varieties.
All parts of this plant are poisonous, containing (like all poppies) toxic alkaloids: ALWAYS wash you hands thoroughly after handling ANY flowers/plants!
Because of wars, they became a sad symbol of what, as a child, I saw as a happy flower.
I grew up in Flanders in the shadow of the poppies, remembrance of the wars never far away.
Everywhere you go, there are graveyards, Belgian, English, American, Canadian, Polish, South-African, Australian and German...
As a child, it is just part of the countryside, pretty, neat rows of stones and flowers.
Then, the age of awareness comes, you want to know and understand.
The adults would rather not talk about it, their gaze becoming distant and full of sorrow and hidden, unspoken suffering ...
Most of them gone now too, and still I try to understand.
Thank you, M, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
Poppy Icelandic, stamens, pistil pollen, red, portrait, bloom, bud, flower, studio, colour, square, black-background, "magda indigo"