The poppy has a long association with Remembrance Day. But how did the distinctive red flower become such a potent symbol of our remembrance of the sacrifices made in past wars? Scarlet corn ...

Events and services take place around Armistice Day - 11 November - as well as Remembrance ... opened Lady Haig's Poppy Factory, employing former veterans to make the flowers out of tissue.

Usually falling around the beginning of Spring, National Flower Day returns Friday. National Flower Day is on March 21 every year despite the vernal equinox, which marks the first day of Spring, ...

Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day ... made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting and find a truce. Poppy A flower that was found to grow on WW1 battlefields after the war which ...

They wore the poppy as though it was a badge of honour ... The French who made the highest sacrifices in WW1 wear the blue corn flower on their Remembrance day. It is called Le Bluet de France, the ...