The wheel is basking in a bright red glow while the Shell Centre has also been transformed with images of red poppies tumbling down the side of the building.

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Blue, white, red, and yellow poppies, all rarely seen and only during the summer, May to July.

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The Unikko pattern (big bold poppies, traditionally in red) is the most recognisable design.

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On either side of the river, however, running down the valley, there is a narrow strip of wheat fields and poppy fields, and for several weeks in the spring the poppies bloom: lovely, open-petalled white, pink, red, and magenta blossoms, the darker colors indicating the ones with the most opium.

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