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Purple Poppies

GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
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Not  the best place to post but I hope that many forum readers will see this message.
I have just seen alot of purple knitted poppies along with red ones at a church a few miles away.
I was informed by one of the ladies who was installing it that a knitting group had been busy making the purple poppies mainly for the British Legion to sell in memory of the animals that have died in conflict.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Is that by any chance Bingham?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Yes we were out walking today. They plan to fill the netting with poppies over the next few years. I hate knitting but perhaps I will give it a go over the winter months for next year.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    You’re in luck then, those look crocheted rather than knitted.   ;)
    Utah, USA.
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    I helped knit poppies for my sisters village when they had their 100 year anniversary of WW1. I hadn’t knitted for years but the pattern was very easy to do. There was also a crochet version
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I can't crochet at all ! There is a WI knitting pattern on line that even I can follow all in garter stitch 
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • CatDouchCatDouch Posts: 488
    I bought a purple knitted poppy quite a few years ago @GardenerSuze to commemorate all the brave animals that have died in conflicts.  My last dog and my current dog always wore it on their collars during the poppy period but I was really upset as I couldn’t find where I’d stored it when I tried to find it a few weeks ago, so my dog is wearing a red poppy this year instead. 

    South Devon 
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @CatDouch Wear your poppy with pride! What a lovely photo.

    Eight million horses donkeys and mules died in the First World War.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • 2000GTV2000GTV Posts: 112
    I've been wearing red and purple poppies for many years. Great to see the animals being remembered alongside the humans. 
    Martina Franca, Puglia, southern Italy
    Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart 
  • CatDouchCatDouch Posts: 488
    @GardenerSuze  There is a lovely monument in London “The Animals in War Memorial” near Hyde Park, it’s so beautiful and very moving.
    South Devon 
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited November 2023
    CatDouch said:
    @GardenerSuze  There is a lovely monument in London “The Animals in War Memorial” near Hyde Park, it’s so beautiful and very moving.


    Interesting CatDouch 
    Thank you.


    Credit below.

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animals_in_War_memorial.jpg

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_War_Memorial#/media/File:Animals_in_War_memorial.jpg
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
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