All the poppies in the other garden got knocked over by foxes or drunks. So I cut them down and tied them in bunches. Then I tied them to the mobile in the kitchen, so they could dry out. I felt like Elizabeth Bennet drying lavender.

I thought this would take a couple of weeks but what happened was almost immediately they started spilling poppy seeds onto the kitchen table and it was incredibly difficult to untie them from the mobile and while I was doing that most of the seed came out. So I’m not doing that again.