If all goes to plan Griffith Memorial Park will be a sea of red by November 11.
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The Griffith RSL Sub-Branch planted red poppies around the Cenotaph at memorial park last Thursday.
The poppies were planted by members of the sub-branch, along with their families and friends, and should be blooming by Remembrance Day.
This was the first time that poppies had been planted at the park.
Griffith RSL Sub-Branch secretary Ffiona Beverley came up with the idea and made contact with Bunnings who supplied the poppies.
The red poppies were among the first to flower in the devastated battlefields of northern France and Belgium in the First World War.
Poppies are worn on Remembernce Day, also known as poppy day, each year in memory of the sacred dead who rest in Flanders’ Fields and to keep their memories alive.
