The Poppy is something used in Canada to recognize and honour soldiers who have died in war, and in November it is something many wear over their heart leading up to Remembrance Day on November 11th.
This year, the Poppy is celebrating 100 years of being the symbol of remembrance in Canada.
Mark Cullen, Canada’s Garden expert used to join myFM on the morning show, and he explained once that if you were to go to Flanders Field right now, you wouldn’t see poppy’s, because everything else would be growing. The poppy grows when nothing else can.
Cullen explained when the soil was turned up during battle, it was the poppy that was pushed up and bloomed in the midst of war.
He thinks it is a beautiful metaphor of the survivability and tenacity of the poppy and that of the men and women who were engaged in battle.