This year, Anzac Day, will be an especially poignant occasion as it’ll be 100 years since start of First World War, which was dubbed heartbreakingly ‘the war to end all the wars.’ While there will be all kinds of commemorations taking place, it would be great if you do a simple thing in your backyard-make remembrance planting to mark the anniversary. Keeping your space in mind, you can select a tree or a small flowering plant. Flowers in the Valley, the florist in Newborough, is stocking a wide range of flowering plants for Anzac Day.
Here are a few suggestions for you with regards to remembrance plants that you can choose from for your backyard:
Rosemary may probably be the first plant, which comes to mind. It has been used as a symbol of remembrance since ancient days. Nowadays, it is easy to find spot for rosemary in garden because there is such a increase of varieties, small and large.
Rock rose or cistus can even be planted in your backyard. It is also popular as Gallipoli rose because it grew as well as flowered abundantly on Gallipoli hillsides. This little Mediterranean shrub has hairy leaves and flowers which look like white or pink single roses. It grows best in full sun in dry climate, cool winter and looks attractive in pot. Apart from light trim, the plant may only need a sprinkle with food occasionally. So, if you want to see your rock rose nicely established for next year’s occasion, buy it and plant now!
Forget me not is also associated with remembrance. It is named so because once you will have these spring flowers in your backyard, they will be going to be with you forever. These plants are short-lived but they seed quite profusely.
White lilies also appear in the lists of remembrance plants. Lilium longiflorum is all-time favourite. It is also known as Christmas lily or November lily. It is quite difficult to beat this white favourite, which in early summer and late spring sends metre-tall stems topped up with fragrant, classic, icy white trumpets. April, is after all, a great time of the year to look forlilium bulbs. There are variety of shapes and colours available. 
Flanders poppies are plants, which are associated with battlefields of World War I and Western Europe trenches. It is thought that soil disturbance was the cause of mass germination of the poppy seeds and consequently the blood-red flowers that are basically marked with black cross became symbols of massive life loss. This was cemented further after the end of the war when red paper poppies were sold as the fund raisers for wounded & damaged survivors, If sown in this month, the poppy seedlings will become ready to be planted in sheltered, sunny spot in garden once soil has cooled.
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