Sorry it’s a bit shit, but I got my other plant shelf up (I have to post proper pictures that weren’t taken from a potato), and things are going well so far. Everything is kinda crammed in at the moment, but that’s how we do. Some Christmas cactus blooms for good measure.
So many posts going into such details over why the poppy was chosen. Many of them beautiful and tear-jerking, but also wrong.
The colour red wasn’t chosen to signify anything, it’s the natural colour of the flower.
Poppies were chosen because they grew in such numbers on the battlefields during and after WW1 ended. These flowers on the battlefield were the inspiration for the poem “In Flanders Fields”
Selling them started as a way to fundraise to help those who had lived find jobs and survive after the war. The original were made of silk, and not the paper/felt that many are sold as today.
While the majority of people wear their poppy on their chest, there is no right or wrong way to wear a poppy.
As the Royal British Legion says: “We only ask you to wear it with pride.”
Wait what… people don’t know that the Remembrance Day Poppy is naturally red???
It’s even an entirely distinct species of poppy separate from other poppies; Papaver rhoeas, a European annual wildflower that proliferates on disturbed land/soil. You can even grow it with other poppy species side by side in the gardenscape. It’s funny that there are people who know of the day but not of the flower that is worn for said day.
Do not just assume that the Democrats are going to win…the only way we can GUARANTEE that the Democrats make gains in these midterms is for people to go out and vote
Whatever the polls say, get out there and vote democrat, whereever you are
Do not just assume that they’ll “Definitely win” and so it doesn’t matter if you go out and vote or not
Remember how many people didn’t vote in 2016 because Hillary was “definitely going to win?”
Vote.
Vote like you will be the tie-breaker
Photos of the first & last of the spring bulb plantings;
A troweled trench of Quail Daffodils and a shoveled trench of Tulipa tarda and Dorothy Crocuses (second pic somewhat showing the different planting depths in the same trench- 3" for the crocuses & 6" for the tulips).
This spring’ll be a show I know it will! Might be my first impactful spring bulb planting I hope as well.
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