Scarlet corn poppies (popaver rhoeas) grow naturally in conditions of ... by the Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy came to represent the immeasurable sacrifice ...

Poppies grow easily in poor soil and disturbed ... Commemorative poppies were a direct response to a poem - In Flanders Fields - published in the Christmas 1915 issue of Punch magazine by the ...

Inspired by grief, McCrae began the first draft of ‘In Flanders Fields’. Three years afterwards, the poem had such an impact, people started honoring soldiers by wearing poppies on their lapels.

“In Flanders Fields” was published by a British magazine in 1915. Three years later, McCrae died of pneumonia, but his poem pops ... encourage your poppy plants to grow more flowers.