I'm Moving To Tassie LoL

TASMANIAN wallabies are breaking into the states poppy fields and getting high, the state government has revealed.
The strange occurrence, revealed in a Budget Estimates hearing, has also solved what some growers say has spurred a campfire legend about mysterious crop circles that appear in the state's poppy paddocks.

In true X-Files style, Attorney-General Lara Giddings said the drugged-out wallabies had been found hoping around in circles squashing the poppies, creating the formations - and hence solving the mystery.

The wallabies are increasingly entering the fields and eating the poppy heads.

That causes them to get high and run around in circles creating "crop circles".

"The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," Ms Gidding said.

"Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."

Tasmanian Alkaloids field operations manager Rick Rockliff said wildlife and livestock that ate the poppies were known to "act weird'' including deer in the state's highlands and sheep.

"There have been many stories about sheep that have eaten some of the poppies after harvesting and they all walk around in circles,'' Mr Rockliff said.

How weird!

My neighbour grows poppies... and my goats kept getting into his paddock... and I thought their eyes were weird before

Is it a special type of poppy that has the alkaloids or all papavers?

maybe thats the answer for the wallabies......plant poppies.....they'd be too stoned to find the rose bushes.

That would be worse for the roses... they get the munchies afterwards

....of course

best get on with fence building then..........................

shall I send some seeds? it's the turkish one.



narcotic regards

Bernhard

A Tasmanian poppy field in full flower is one amazing site. I wish you were allowed to grow the old fashioned Papaver somniferum, the big peony flowered ones.

Who needs drugs...my garden zones me out plenty. Ive always found it funny how alot of young guys who start off growing dope end up just gardening. See it all the time in the shop.

Simon wrote:That would be worse for the roses... they get the munchies afterwards

wonder if they work on bugs as well

Bemo don't send those seeds, we have 'em already. Your flower looks like the one Aussies call Flanders Poppies which are worn on ANZAC day as a memorial of those people lost in war. The symbol harks back to the Gallipoli campaign of WW1.
I have them growing in my garden too. They seed each year and come up in a low spreading bush of mid-green leaves.
I also grow another poppy that self seeds every year. It is tall growing with brittle greeny/grey growth. The flowers are pale or strong pink and are single or very double. I believe they are legal to have.
Regarding the commercial alkaloid types: they are all a soft mauve colour and like Ripley says, are beautiful in a great quantity; big paddocks of them colouring the landscape.

Here's a pano-stitch I did last poppy season (early this year). This is my neighbour's place and what I can see from my property. Also my neighbour's pyrethrum paddock at the same time.

I'm awestruck......

Is there anything that Tassie doesn't have??? What a magic place Tasmania is.

Great vista

awww what a sight to see Simon

Stunning photos, Simon. Absolutely lovely.