The farmers' resistance to abandoning opium poppies is common across the province of Badakhshan.
Volunteers have cleared scrubland around Shepreth station so the poppies will bloom at next year's anniversary.
Though I could have easily packed in more of the vibrant poppies, I held back.
Rubin says he and his partners hoped to offer Afghan farmers an alternative to growing poppies.
Oguz says the cannabis plant is also much easier to grow than opium poppies.
He said again that he wished to eradicate poppies in the fields toward the river.
V.s cut through the fields, dragging metal bars on chains, which knocked down the poppies.
The Unikko pattern (big bold poppies, traditionally in red) is the most recognisable design.
Presumably, the farmers whose poppies were spared were well connected or had paid bribes.
He would brake violently for poppies seen at the roadside, and gloried in lupins and clematis.
He is 58 and comes from Afyon, a western province noted for its opium poppies.
Someone capable of fainting at the glimpse of the ephemeral beauty of blooming poppies, the national flower?
Blue, white, red, and yellow poppies, all rarely seen and only during the summer, May to July.
Poppies, Jacob's Ladder, calendula, jasmine, myrtle, stinging nettle, foxgloves, lavender, camphor laurel and irises are in profusion.
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Ateegh says this year he plans to double his cannabis crop, while cutting back on opium poppies.
However, the cultivation of cannabis has replaced poppies in some parts of the country including Balkh province.
The two recovered paintings are Monet's Poppies near Vetheuil (1879) and van Gogh's Chestnut in Bloom (1890).
Local officials add that without more immediate rewards for farmers who've abandoned poppies, Badakhshan's victories could be fleeting.
It is engraved with doves and poppies - ideas put forward by children at Cefn Cribwr primary school.
He believes that as long as there are poppies, the government won't have time to go after cannabis.
Venture capital firms, such as Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital and the Mayfield Fund, began to sprout like poppies.
Eradication programmes and policies to encourage Afghan farmers to grow wheat instead of poppies have had mixed success.
Councillor Susan Van de Ven said the poppies would commemorate those from the village who died in the war.
Carayol will go straight into the Poppies team to face Crawley Town this weekend in the Blue Square Premier.
Opium, the dried residue of poppies, was usually consumed for its anaesthetic properties.
Farmers also favour poppies because they require less water than wheat, another staple.
You can't put defoliant on the poppies or you've already made new insurgents because they have nothing else to grow.
Oberon had rubbed poppies on its eyes to quiet its crying, so it was still sleeping soundly when she woke.
Marouf called off the men once they had destroyed two-thirds of the poppies to leave the farmers with something, he said.
Karzai also admitted that production of poppies the raw ingredient in heroin has yet to be eradicated in Afghanistan.
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