The white poppy

Jane Mace reflects on red and white poppies

Jane Mace reflects on red and white poppies. | Photo: José Luis Culebras / flickr CC.

Most of us probably think we know what the red poppy stands for: but what’s all this about the white poppy? As summer turns to autumn and the month we give to ‘remembrance’ in this country, it’s a question that begins to need an answer.

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