GIANT red poppies adorn the lawn at Dandenong Civic Square as a symbol of peace and hope.
People from the Greater Dandenong community created the flowers at Poppies for Peace workshops and helped to ‘plant’ them on Tuesday 21 April in time for Anzac Day.
They’ll travel across the municipality throughout the year, with the final display coinciding with Remembrance Day on 11 November.
The flower featured in World War I poem In Flanders Fields, which described the striking blooms growing over soldiers’ graves in Belgium.
Since 1921 it has been used to commemorate soldiers who’ve died in war.
