Blessed with a bright and beautiful day, something is definitely different this year compared to when we first moved here which was constantly gray. We’re months and months away from sunflower season but the brightness of today is definitely something a sunflower would enjoy. I am looking forward to planting …
I apologize for over posting about sunflowers. I really do love them. I get a new bloom every week and it’s like seeing a new smile in the backyard. I prematurely ruled out my Zinnias to be a total disaster on a previous post but I have pruned the affected …
After months of waiting, I finally have some sunflowers bloom since I sowed them in April. This is the only flower that looks completely open, not mature, but open. I am happy and yet sad to see that despite my attempts to ward off the bugs, they keep feasting on …
Sunflowers happen to be one of my favorite flowers. Even more amazing about this particular plant is that during development, it has mechanisms on the flower head that makes them tilt to follow the sun! Knowing of this very calculated and orchestrated mechanism that sunflowers have just makes me scratch …