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In my mind, it had become like the view of Emerald City just before Dorothy and the gang run through the poppies: a faux backdrop.

Airports and ports in Egypt had been told to look out for this painting of a Vase of Poppies to make sure it wasn't smuggled abroad.

NATO troops will not eradicate poppies , out of a reasonable fear that this would undo all their efforts to win local support.

Funded by the U. S. government, infrastructure projects like this provide jobs and help localfarmers switch to crops other than poppies.

It has become one of the most treacherous parts of Afghanistan, producing more than half of the world's opium poppies.

Along the way I made out a patch of opium poppies waiting to be harvested.

Today a plaque records the details of that day and the memorial is covered with crosses, flowers and poppies.

"You will stay a hyena, etc. . . , " shouts the demon who once crowned me with such pretty poppies.

The sale of red poppies raises funds to help ex- servicemen - the sale of white poppies does not, but does support peace work and education.

Poppies are not allowed to be planted in most countries.

Cultivation of opium poppies declined in parts of the country with more government security, the report said.

An American-funded effort to plough up opium poppies, the main cash crop in much of the Pushtun south, has been wasteful and self-defeating.

Even with the best outcome there, women will suffer discrimination, poppies will flourish and corruption will eat away at daily life.

Bright and juicy poppies, cheerful sunflowers, delicate daisies convey all the charm of the ended summertime.

Poppies were among the first plants that came from the battlefields of northern France and Belgium during World War I.

If they are happy living in mud huts, growing poppies, and living under the control of some local warlord, let them have at it.

On the top of the nearest wave bobs a white swimming costume splattered with poppies. It disappears from sight.

The crop is opium, farmers have been busy harvest their opium poppies. Farmer Faiz Mohammed in Helmand province makes no apologies.

But when a bizarre bouquet shows up at the Watson residence, full of convolvulus, hawthorn, and white poppies, Enola must act.

They followed the bend of the river, and at last came upon their friend the Lion, lying fast asleep among the poppies.

Though, as a PS, I was right about that job. The organisation quickly fell on hard times and all the tall poppies got cut down.

The remaining third -- in particular Helmand and Kandahar provinces -- is rife with both poppies and insurgents.

Afghanistan produces about 90% of the world's supply of the poppies that are used to make heroin and opium.

With few obvious sources of legitimate wealth, other possibilities are foreign spending and opium poppies.

There were real poppies growing among the ripening corn.

Some people choose to wear white poppies , which emphasises a desire for peaceful alternatives to military action.

Topics are: Story of Remembrance, All About Poppies, Activity Guides for teachers and speakers and student info.

Poppies. Made of garden radish and pepper.

It is a place where landscapes are dotted with blue poppies, snow leopards and innumerable banners of bright flapping prayer flags.

My Garden of Desire consists of two painting series, the Blossom of Poppies and the Swamp.

These artificial poppies are already the sign of the first world war tragedy, because there are lots of poppies in the war field of france.

Two-thirds of Afghanistan has -- at considerable cost -- been largely rid of poppies already.

Good location only a few minutes walk away from poppies lane 1 and 2.

Red poppies are worn on blazers, shirts, jumpers and other items of clothing on Remembrance Day to remember those who died during a war.

America also wants to disrupt the drug trade: most of the country's opium poppies are grown in the region.

The only flaw in "Sea of Poppies" is that as the introduction to the trilogy it ends rather abruptly.

Many people wear artificial poppies on the day and key political figures make speeches in remembrance of the nation's fallen heroes.

These poppies are in a field in Rushmere St Andrew, near Suffolk.

Beijing police used a helicopter Saturday for the 1st time to hunt for opium poppies being grown in the city's suburbs, Xinhua reported.

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

Until 1996, poppies were made by disabled veterans in Canada, but they have since been made by a private contractor.

Red Poppies are recognized as the Memorial Day flower.

gardens are overgrown with weeds and poppies sprout on street corners.

People place flowers, flags, and artificial poppies on the graves of serivcemen and service women .

In 2000, the Taliban banned opium production in Afghanistan, making it illegal to grow poppies.

Those Remembrance Day poppies say it all.

For the Chinese, poppies are a reminder of the humiliating Opium wars of the 19th century.

A report from the UN said cultivation of poppies in Afghanistan dropped by 22% in the past year and opium production fell by 10%.

The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin.

The UN and the Afghan government want to eradicate Afghanistan's opium poppies with crop spraying.

Money is short but the village elder has persuaded farmers to resist the temptation to grow poppies.

An abandoned church looms above a field of poppies in the mountainous region of Abruzzo.

The pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray.

In the fields of poppies lay the dying soldiers.

my dear man , i assure you , i need my poppies.

We 've planted lots of different flowers, such as roses, carnations, and poppies.

A policeman shows how to make heroin from poppies.

A magnificent field of poppies.

When Kintuz started his job in 2007, 9, 000 acres were planted with poppies. Two years later fewer than 1, 500 were.

Poppies were cultivated on an estimated 193, 000 hectares last year, 17 per cent up on 2006, according to UN estimates.

illegally cultivating opium poppies of less than 500 plants or a small number of mother plants of other narcotic drugs;

the poppies among the tares fluttering and blown to pieces

A mouse on a stalk of wheat in a field dotted with poppies

Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook

Flanders fields the poppies blow

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

In Flanders field the poppies blow

The Red Poppies of Dnepr, Zigmund (Tokyo Theater)

A field of colourful poppies in Provence, France

a splendid field of poppies

I am very busy gardening now, I have sown scented peas, poppies and daisies