A farmer in a field of poppies on the South Downs in Sussex England. The flowers are a blaze of scarlet on a hot June day.

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The hot weather in June 2009 week has made wheat fields at Saddlescombe Farm in Sussex blossom into a dazzling mass of poppies, part of the biggest mass flowering of poppies on the South Downs in many years. A farmer inspects the crop wearing traditional Sussex shepherds clothes, hence the Victorian bowler hat weskit and crook

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Size: 5300px × 3521px
Location: Saddlescombe Farm, Sussex England UK Britain
Photo credit: © Roger Bamber / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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