Poppies and redshank can lie dormant in the ground for a long time awaiting the opportunity that a ploughed field gives. Famously the churned-up battlefields of Flanders in the summer following the withdrawal of combatants during WW1 resulted in a carpet of red poppies. Redshank leaves have dark splotches that supposedly are the result of Christ’s blood dripping on a redshank ancestor that grew under the cross on Calvary. (info source: John Feehan ‘Wildflowers of Offaly’).
Veronica Nicholson Photographic Artist 
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