The field behind the nursery was awash with wild poppies last year – gazillions and gazillions of them – to the extent that passers-by would detour onto the nursery to stare at them, and the field was almost more red than green.

OK chaps, stand at ease...

This year, probably thanks to a more intensely sown crop, the poppies have been largely defeated by the wheat – except here, where we have a line of them, less than a metre across, stretching right across the field.

Presumably the precision seeder was missing a station or two, and the wheat was sown just that bit thinner on this strip….and delivered the most unlikely crop of wild flowers we could imagine.

Or maybe there are alien forces at work, contriving signals to their mother ship disguised as agricultural machinery failures….

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