poppy time...

...and my bookclub buddy Robin's garden is shimmering with stands of red poppies bearing the black cross of the Flanders poppy (also known as the corn poppy, field poppy or coquelicot ) Papaver rhoeas...extra.
However she also has a tiny 'blow in' group of these white cross poppies, Poppy Victoria Cross. Aren't they gorgeous?

The Flanders poppy flowers in the northern hemisphere in late spring and here we are in the Antipodean late spring and Remembrance poppies are for sale on street corners used since 1921 to commemorate military personnel who have died in wars.
There is also a white poppy introduced by Britain's Co-operative Women's Guild in 1933 as a pacifist alternative to the red poppy AND... a purple poppy, now replaced by a Purple Paw to commemorate animal victims of war.
I haven't seen either the white poppy or the purple paw...have any other blippers?

(Oh and coquelicot is a recorded shade of red, the term originally a French vernacular name for the wild corn poppy.)