Friday 28 June 2013

Those beautiful lilac poppies are OPIUM poppies

I visited Terry Tippett's today for her plant sale and noticed one of the "controversial" lilac poppies growing wild in a pot.  I asked what is was called to discover it was an opium poppy. Well you have heard of the opium fields of Afghanistan and here am I cultivating the opium  fields of Mas del Sol.
Who knows when all those heads were picked down the road, perhaps it was not the neighbour  but a passing  drug cartel from Marseille. Before long I could be in the middle of drug busts and "go fasts" and all for some very pretty poppies. I googled opium poppies and the first post was an American saying it was illegal to grow them in the US of A. I wonder about France?
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