While most people know poppies for their association with WW1 and WW2, the flower has ... poppies were a direct response to a poem - In Flanders Fields - published in the Christmas 1915 issue ...

While WW1 officially ended with ... now famous poem about them called ‘In Flanders Fields’. Image caption, In fields in Diksmuide, Belgium, wild poppies grow next to the preserved trench ...