Roundmoor Copse, Basingstoke and Deane

Results of organic farming beside Back Lane

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The farmer told me that he did not sow seed for this spectacular display of poppy (Papaver rhoeas). Organic cultivation methods for his cereals and a hard winter, to break seed dormancy, must have provided dormant poppy seed with ideal conditions for germination.

Uploaded to Geograph by Stuart Logan on 16 June 2010

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