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
Photo © Stuart Logan, 16 June 2010.
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