I almost pulled out this plant when it appeared, looking like a scruffy weed, in our garden in Radley Village in Oxfordshire. It's just as well I didn

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I almost pulled out this plant when it appeared, looking like a scruffy weed, in our garden in Radley Village in Oxfordshire. It's just as well I didn't, because a few weeks later, it turned into this beauty - a wild Poppy. There's a moral in that, A poppy is a flowering plant in the subfamily Papaveroideae of the family Papaveraceae. They are herbaceous plants, often grown for their colourful flowers. This vivid orange is a common colour.

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