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Sentence Examples There will be colourful flowers, such as poppies to look at and smell, prickly plants and vegetables to eat. To grow poppies, simply cultivate the area, rake smooth and moisten the soil. From sixpacks, try calendula, Iceland poppies, pansies, primroses, snapdragons, stock, or violas. The idea is to try and drive back the guerrillas and move in to spray the coca and poppies. Planters are hand-painted with poppies, and salt jars and pepper pots are fashioned in the shape of pigs. Chris scattered the feverfew, poppies and foxgloves they had brought with them over the Hand, then straightened up and dusted himself off. Although the plastic pinned poppies are less dangerous, they often require metal pins to keep them in place. She had plaited poppies to wear in her hair and scuffed the dust up with her bare feet. He waved a hand at the rutted, cratered fields, now overgrown with grass and great crimson drifts of poppies and fireweed. And contrary to popular belief, the employees work all year round to make the poppies. And some of them, such as poppies, cornflowers and corncockles are exquisitely beautiful as well. Thus poppies, hemp, some cacti, and some fungi share with vines a symbolic connection with the superhuman powers. Researchers are developing genetically modified poppies producing artificially high thebaine levels. Tomas's father lives in the countryside, amongst fields of golden wheat, rape seed and red poppies. I was so taken by the kaleidoscope of colour, I got carried away sowing poppies. Who are the tall poppies whose talent and drive must be restricted and restrained? Australians love to deride tall poppies, and that's all very well, I love doing it myself. Most poppies are very easy to grow, especially annuals such as the California or the Shirley. And of all the flowers I sowed this spring only a handfuls of poppies and marigolds have come up. Rather spookily, an agave and some opium poppies had survived last winter almost unscathed. Show More Sentences Once the poppies have flowered, the seed heads are harvested and converted into morphine base in local laboratories. Big cabbage roses might bloom among white daisies, with a sprinkling of poppies in front. Down one side of the lawn, we've got a good mass of herbs, clematis, sunflower seedlings and wild poppies. It will be producing 100,000 of the new poppies, which can be stuck on using a form of double-sided sticky tape, for this year's remembrance day. Oats, millet, opium poppies, and flax were also being cultivated by the end of the Neolithic period. We walked ashore among delicate Svalbard poppies and purple-flowering saxifrage. Around the ponds and burn there are paths and various plants, such as Himalayan poppies and rhododendrons. This will be in the New England style of white flowers rather than red poppies. It includes a painting of a bowling match taking place beside a flower bed out of which poppies are flowering. A woman with orange hair wearing a yellow shirt and green tartan waistcoat and trousers plus three enormous poppies. The air is pungent with the smell of the rain-soaked marigolds and yellow poppies. Underneath are Himalayan poppies Meconopsis, primulas and trilliums, many of them also collected from the wild. It's about delphiniums, not about poppies, and seems to be suffering from the same irritating slipperiness. Take root cuttings of oriental poppies and eryngiums and put in pots of sandy soil in the cold frame. A gust of red dust swirls around a patch of prickly poppies outside her hogan door, twisting past a pair of horses in a makeshift corral. Each Anzac Day these children place poppies on the graves of the allied soldiers. Crabgrass and plantain are an indication of acidic soil, while wood asters and poppies prefer alkaline soil. The resultant plants were no smaller in height than the perennial poppies I already had but they produced enormous flowers in a range of shades. With the onset of summer there's the cow parsley, poppies, honeysuckle, wild roses, speedwell, ragged robin and foxgloves. The sky was bright, luminous blue this evening, exactly the same colour as the Tibetan poppies. Show More Sentences And it is a pale grey, with just a big bunch of poppies and oats and I think they're cornflowers. In the 1800s, brilliant fields of native California poppies were so dense that sailors could spot them from the coast 30 miles away. As the military standards were lowered, heads bowed, a sea of poppies were held still in the hands of former soldiers. They make good planting companions to the likes of climbing roses or border plants such as campanulas and oriental poppies. To use poppies in arrangements, cut the poppy stem and sear it with a match right away to seal the end. Other gardeners prefer to interplant them with spring flowers such as columbines, daisies, dianthus, Iceland poppies, lupines, and peonies. The opium poppy, like all poppies, requires rich moist soil, plentiful sunlight, and a clear area in which to grow. I have also bred other ornamentals, including daylilies, streptocarpuses, nasturtiums, and several kinds of poppies. They have grown everything from sunflowers, poppies and hollyhocks to corn, cotton, potatoes, coconuts and dandelions. Plants like peonies, poppies, and irises should also be planted in the fall season. Imagine your garden filled with super-fragrant sweet peas, ruffly-petalled poppies or butterfly-attracting orange tithonias. Many old favourites are here, including poppies, daisies and clarkias and hollyhocks. The poppies and clarkias began to straighten up, and the smaller shrubs saw the sunlight again. Our free plants have included annuals such as purple and pink clary, Californian poppies, English marigolds, and red nasturtiums. For many years, until ill health prevented him, Mr Moore was a familiar sight behind his tray of poppies in Regent Street in the days leading up to Remembrance Day. It's a mix of corn cockle, godetia, honeywort, and California poppies that came up on its own several years ago and has been self-sowing for repeat performances ever since. In London, a sea of ceramic poppies were released from the Tower of London to mark the date. The garden is resplendent with California poppies, blossoming artichokes, and, at its center, a ramada built with kiwi vines intertwined with willow and recycled wood. Over ten days of walking the group will pass through Rioja vineyards, the plains of Navarre, small, traditional villages and lush valleys dotted with red poppies. Many have abundant gardens, with brilliant red poppies, orange marigolds, blue flax, pink clematis and jacaranda, and large cypress and eucalyptus trees. Show More Sentences By the later first century AD, many farmsteads were cultivating coriander and opium poppies, and trees such as cherry, plum, and perhaps umbrella pine were grown. Recalling the artificiality of Armistice Day lapel poppies, the familiar carnation hovers on a collage of basketballs, light bulbs, and peace signs. Harry also knelt on one knee and layed poppies at the grave of the unknown soldier as the last post was played. Huge specimens of eucalyptus, eucryphias, magnolias and rhododendrons are underplanted with unusual shrubs and choice perennials like Trilliums, Arisaema and blue poppies. I'm sad to see the last of the poppies, and I feel a deal of sympathy with the plants that are suffering under the drought, but I'm also enjoying the sun. The nanas and poppies and grannies and grampses who flocked there to roast in the sun. I was expecting tall poppies to be gleefully lopped, hacked and triumphantly danced on, but instead they were treated with a strange degree of respect. It felt like prancing, she said, like the way a happy horse frolics through a field of poppies. Echo the fullness of the fruit in arrangements with berries and blooms, such as pale green nicotiana, chocolate cosmos, Oriental poppies, and viburnum. She grows low or trailing annuals like alyssum, lobelias, and petunias along the edges of the beds, with taller cosmos, poppies, and zinnias behind. Why do people get so much joy from cutting down tall poppies? The first is that you have been strong-minded enough to cut back the early herbaceous plants such as oriental poppies, delphiniums, geraniums and lupins. I leapt out the door and casually vomited as I strolled by a bed of California poppies, bending down to smell the flowers as if the vomiting was an afterthought. Your country is notorious for knocking down its tall poppies. Though it will be hard to prove in court, the drug was probably refined in North Korea, from opium poppies grown there as part of a deliberate government program. The upper bed is mostly for perennials, including red-and-white columbines, purple blue campanulas, and tall blue delphiniums fronted by yellow and orange Iceland poppies. We hate tall poppies, but woe betide the All Blacks when they lose. Situated at the edge of Loch Dunvegan, the garden is extensive with a parterre, and woodland areas planted with Himalayan blue poppies and the Himalayan lily Cardiocrinum. It may be a place of vines, but also of olives, poppies and lavender. His badge of office was a straw hat bedecked with poppies and bindweed. Show More Sentences If heroin poppies had been planted, it might have been different. Forget-me-nots are easily grown, as are sweet woodruff and Welsh poppies. The work involves storing all the collecting tins and boxes, organising the collection and ordering the poppies and wreaths to lay on Remembrance Sunday. June, when the poppies are out, is one of the best times to visit Umbria. We tried cheerful annuals, marigolds, nasturtiums and poppies. It's not the intensely bright colour of summer lilies, irises, poppies and daylilies, but the deeper gem tones of ruby-rose sedums, amethyst ajuga and opalescent anemones. All sorts of poppies can be sown this way too, including our red corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas. They passed undulating fields of wheat speckled with the confetti of poppies and bluets. United States commemorative stamp depicting Moina Michael and corn poppies. In Persian literature, red poppies, especially red corn poppy flowers, are considered the flower of love. Opium poppies are popular and attractive garden plants, whose flowers vary greatly in color, size and form. In South American countries, opium poppies are technically illegal, but nonetheless appear in some nurseries as ornamentals. On the top Balcony is Esperanza just down from the mountains since her husband and all her brothers are in prison for growing opium poppies. For hot colours grow Amaranthus Hot Biscuit, Nasturtium Whirlybird, sunflower Sundance Kid and Californian poppies. For real flower power sow red field poppies, yellow corn marigold, white corn camomile plus blue cornflower and white campion. It is actually the coagulation of thousands of ceramic poppies. Cut back plants that have already died back, such as dicentra, poppies and aquilegia, and collect their seeds. What you may not know about California poppies is that they have the capacity to rebloom if their spent flowers are removed in a timely manner. If the ground isn't too wet, plant herbaceous perennials including geranium, astrantia and oriental poppies. They love wild flowers such as poppies, valerian, loosestrife, willowherb, teasel and meadowsweet. Show More Sentences Lupins come in a huge range of colours and bicolours, last well when cut, and are great plant partners for delphiniums and Oriental poppies. Native poppies, fescues, and saltgrass, among others, dance in the breeze, and the added insulation value keeps her heating costs low. Purple and yellow saxifrages, pink moss campions, and white poppies dotted the tundra. She knows her black hellebore from her white poppies and writes beautifully about the spirituality of the natural world. Plants range from poppies, thyme, linola oil, St John's wort and bog-myrtle. There were poppies in abundance, cornflowers, toadflaxes, bullwort, wild carrot, larkspur, gypsophilia, flax and numerous grasses. Rich purple 'Cupani' sweet peas and electric orange California poppies create an irresistible mood-lifting combination. Lancaster's current logo, created in 1978, depicts an antelope, a steam locomotive, California poppies and an aircraft. As glorious as a field of California poppies can look from the freeway, that irrepressible orange can dominate a garden. Blue Tibetan poppies, giant Himalayan lilies and Chatham Island forget-me-nots flourish among azaleas, rhododendrons and magnolias. Another six sites have been chosen to be sowed with a mix of cornflowers, poppies, fairy toadflax, larkspur, cosmos and marigolds. Aside from the famous orange poppies, consider clarkias, monkey flowers and lupines. In the untended beds, lavender and poppies prospered healthily, and so too did hardy geraniums, potentillas, sediums, clarkias and echiums. Clarkias, Iceland poppies, pansies, and stock can't stand intense summer heat. Memories of Copenhagen poppies, elves, and the Norns ground the newcomer more deeply than the thin Canadian prairie soil. If you have well-cultivated soil, annuals such as cornflowers, corn poppies, corn marigolds and corncockles will do well. All sorts of poppies can be sown in this way too, including our red corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas. All sorts of poppies can be sown in this way too, including the red corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas. As you start up the Bald Mountain Trail throuigh the meadow, look for California poppies, lupine, and creamcups. Currently, illegal heroin is made from morphine extracted from opium poppies grown in countries such as Afghanistan, Burma, Laos and Mexico. Show More Sentences More than 200,000 farming families are estimated to be growing opium poppies across 100,000 acres. The ROP detectives received a tip-off that the accused had planted opium poppies at their residence in Bahla. Opium poppies, such as the Tasmanian flowers pictured here, are prized for the valuable drugs they produce. We planted cosmos, larkspur, cleome, yarrow, daisies, dame's rocket, poppies, coreopsis and blanket flowers. For your house in Virginia, try annual vinca, marigolds, poppies, verbena, nicotiana, and petunias. Do you think I should be deadheading the flowers of the poppies and the cornflowers now? The sun is high and warm, and the air is filled with the faint perfume of blue lupine and purple owl's clover pushing up among the poppies. Along with the poppies, visitors will be able to see baby blue eyes, fillerie, mountain lupine, goldfield, owl's clover and four o'clocks. Good plant partners include annuals such as Gilia tricolor and Iceland poppies. Good plant partners include annuals such as Gilia tricolor, Iceland poppies or salvias, or perennials including alchemilla and catmint. Oriental poppies are tall and tend to sprawl so set them out at least 18in apart, and support them with a circular metal growth ring. I'll bet that there are primroses, foxgloves, Herb Robert, Welsh poppies, and, perhaps red campion. Bold red poppies, bluebells and Queen Anne's Lace sit side-by-side with the exotic Chrysanthemums and Elephant Garlic. Pick dried flower and seed heads from limonium, helichrysum, poppies, nigella, lunaria and eryngiums. Then the Iceland poppies offer cooling shades of lemon and icy-white but also hot orange. If you've ever been to the Chelsea Flower Show, you've probably marvelled at the breathtaking blooms of the Iceland poppies. Iceland poppy Perennial in some zones With their tall, leafless stems that dance in the breeze, Iceland poppies are graceful companions to many cool-season plants. It's that lovely time of year when you can collect your own seeds from the likes of poppies, honesty, aquilegia, nigella, calendular, pot marigolds and hardy geraniums. That's why gardeners interplant Oriental poppies with concealing companions such as baby's breath, catmint, globe thistle, Heliopsis, purple coneflower, and Russian sage. It is loosely based on the Unknown Soldier, stands on a plinth of limestone sourced from the Somme and is encased in a Perspex obelisk, surrounded by poppies. Show More Sentences Some gardening shows like to sell plants such as poppies but since they are annuals you will not get flowers the following year unless you collect the seed and resow it. Last summer, flower meadows were created at 10 sites across the city, with cornflowers, poppies, oxeye daisies, meadow buttercups and red campion. The wheat, tawny with ripeness, had been cut and stood in tented stooks about the fields, while a few ghostly poppies lingered at the edge of the path. Due to the extent of ground disturbance in warfare during World War I, corn poppies bloomed in between the trench lines and no man's lands on the Western front. Replace spent annuals with Iceland poppies in an area with full sun. A young garden at Gloucestershire Throughout history, a new generation of corn poppies was germinated each year as land was ploughed and grain scattered. California poppies and the annual clarkias are good choices to provide riots of color in spring and to provide a minimal hold on the loose soil during the winter. The gaps can be filled in with hardy annuals like Californian and shirley poppies, love-in-a-mist, cornflowers and clarkias which can be sown where they are to flower. Most will feature the traditional meadow favourites like poppies, foxgloves, buttercups, cornflowers, toadflax, primroses, daisies, cowslips and the like. Try poppies, corn flowers, calendula, larkspur and candytuft. The UV-B-sensitive pollen came from sweet corn, rye, pears, pistachios, Montmorency cherries, California poppies, the Ultra Pink petunia, and a range of other plants. Some gardening shows like to sell plants such as poppies but since they are annuals, you will not get flowers the following year unless you collect the seed and resow it. Poppies and fruit are indeterminate symbols with a practical purpose, mysterious talismans with the power to ward off subsequent suffering. The golden chalices of Celandine Poppies mingle with Virginia Bluebells and intertwine with woodferns. Poppies have long been a favorite of gardeners for planting in rock gardens and for brightening up splashy borders. Poppies also frequently adorned statues of Apollo, Asklepios, Pluto, Demeter, Aphrodite, Kybele and Isis, symbolizing nocturnal oblivion. Corn dogs at Poppies Old-Fashioned Lemonade stand were swallowed up with no condiments. Examples from Classical Literature The first pages of most of these old papers are as soporific as a bed of poppies. The alpine poppies are so delicate and graceful that they seem made for the rockery. Then the purple patch vanished into a shop, and Miss Mapp, all smiles and poppies, went with her basket up the street. Compound tincture of camphor, syrup of poppies, and syrup of tolu, of each equal parts. Now, obviously, if I killed all the poppies in the world, that would be a fait accompli. The last of the sea lavender was fading, but horned poppies and chicory were in bloom. With writhen trunks and stiff contorted limbs they take the storm and flying scud as poppies take the sun. He heard me out, looked at my deceased poppies, and arranged a conference with a bigwig from the State Department. Here you see tin camelias, tin marigolds, tin carnations, tin poppies and tin hollyhocks growing as naturally as if they were real. She said hikers are sure to see mariposa lilies, fire poppies and lupine, annuals that thrive after a fire. Sow quick-growing perennials such as campanulas and poppies to flower this year. Verbascum, primula, Japanese anemones, acanthus, oriental poppies and phlox are all suitable species for this method. It was a thing to be driven out of the mind, to be drugged with poppies, to be strangled lest it might strangle one itself. Violets, poppies, the mimosa, and tuberoses are also here in abundance. I watch the wife of my friend gathering poppies in the wheat. Syrup of poppies, syrup of squills, and paregoric, equal parts. To bed we go, and Somnus touches our eyes with his wand of poppies. But the Field of poppies and daisies begins to sway as under a gale. The poppies, corn-bottles, and darnel, he tied up into bunches. She says poppies are what are meant in the scripter by the tares. Show More Sentences The folds of her dress gave off the enervating scent of poppies. The folds of her scarlet gown gave off the enervating smell of poppies. More than 300 riders, watched by around 15,000 spectators, will inspect the city boundaries with poppies emblazoned on their saddlecloths. They make a perfect foil for the big, blowsy poppies that are at their best in the early days of June. He looked very clean and his nose turned up and his cheeks were as red as poppies and never had Mistress Mary seen such round and such blue eyes in any boy's face. There were big yellow and white and blue and purple blossoms, besides great clusters of scarlet poppies, which were so brilliant in color they almost dazzled Dorothy's eyes. They danced so beautifully that the tall white lilies peeped in at the window and watched them, and the great red poppies nodded their heads and beat time. Edna wore a brown straw hat with poppies, that suited her admirably, and sat in the trailer like a queen, and the eight-year-old motor-bicycle ran like a thing of yesterday. Under the tutorage of Lisa Collins, budding crafters from the resource allocator dispatcher team have crocheted over 150 poppies for The Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal. At the end of the day, we walk up the Mariposa Canyon Trail, shaded by oaks and colored by California poppies and rare, butterfly-like Mariposa lilies. Find more words! 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