Spring in Italy may have been slow in coming this year, but all that rain means even more wild flowers – especially poppies. Come to Tuscany and Umbria in June and you will see the brightest and most colourful wild flowers anywhere in Europe. Normally poppies last until about mid-June, but this year they should be with us until the end of the month.

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For those of you coming to Italy from northern climes, the poppies will seem redder than they do at home. This is not a subjective opinion, but fact. The sun in England, for example, is never high enough in the sky to allow the human eye to switch off the rods…the sensors we use to see in black and white in low light. However, in the Mediterranean the sun is so high that we use only the cones, the colour sensors, the black and white rods switch off, and we see in pure saturated colour. This is one reason why the ‘milords’ on the Grand Tour in the old days were so stunned by the light on crossing the Alps into Italy – the colours of wild flowers, especially, were a revelation.

Poppies field in Tuscany

Though the poppy is without doubt the most colourful of weeds and one of the most beautiful of all flowers, for many it holds a touch of melancholy as the symbol for commonwealth nations of the war dead.

Poppies field in Umbria

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