My daughter called me on her drive home from Ann Arbor over
the weekend to tell me she was passing field after field of sunflowers, a
beautiful sight. We decided someone has
to grow all those seeds we buy each winter for the birds.
I pass a small home garden each morning on my way to the
post office and the whole west edge of the garden is several rows of
sunflowers, greeting the sun. I’ve never
gone by in the afternoon; I don’t know if the flowers face west then. There are two hives at the front of the
garden, and I think they are the source of the bees I see working the flower
beds at the town hall.
Sunny is soldiering on.
I think her head was permanently bowed down in those relentless days of
hundred degree heat, but her stalk is firm.
A few more leaves are gone. We’ll see.
looks like she is furiously making seeds. I see her drip water bucket is gone.
ReplyDeleteShe looks like she's doing her job.
ReplyDeleteShe's a game old girl!
ReplyDeleteJane x
Okay I love that last image. Faded sunflowers are just special to me.
ReplyDeleteHow I love the resilience of plants. Except the expensive ones I buy to put in the garden which far too often wither and die. I have everything crossed for sunny.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter used to live on the North Dakota border where they grow a lot of sunflowers. I remember seeing whole fields of them with their head bowed like that. I hope your Sunny is just doing its own thing.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the info on your tipsy cat. I'm so glad to know that he survived and learned to live a full life in spite of it!
The tension mounts!
ReplyDeleteYou are my sunshine
ReplyDeletemy only sunshine
you make me happy
...
Please don't take our sunshine away just yet.
Tough little flower! I'm amazed!
ReplyDeleteWe grow sunflowers every year. We try to save some for winter for the chickens and the birds. This year the birds have already started picking the seeds.
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful day. Thanks for coming by to visit.
Can't get over where she is growing ! :D
ReplyDeleteGo Sunny go! (She is the most adorable sunflower I've ever seen. Such a pet!)
ReplyDeleteThe death of a flower is sad, but necessary for the seeds to develop for the next generation of blooms.
ReplyDeleteOur sunflowers haven't even bloomed, the weather has been so bad this year, almost constant rain. Sunny is the coolest sunflower ever!
ReplyDeleteOh those sunflower seeds will be welcome for the birds, that's for sure, what a pleasant sight the sunflowers and bee boxes are I raised bees in Arkansas and they are fun to watch working back and forth from their hives.
ReplyDeleteWe planted a few seeds which were supposed to be giant sunflowers, but I have officially given up on them. They grew about 12 inches and have not grown any more and have no flowers on them. Glad to see that Sunny is still hanging on!
ReplyDeleteI love Sunny's "hairdo" - it's the windblown look :)
ReplyDeleteMuscle on Sunny! Muscle on!
ReplyDeleteI tried to email 'Magic' to you, Joanne, but I must have lost your address with all of the others in the great crash of '12. Could you please send it to me again? I friended you on Facebook if you want to send it that way . . .
Deletehow fun!! kind of inspiring!!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe SUnny is still soldiering on!!! Amazing!
ReplyDeleteI have about 100 sunflowers behind my barn and they are so wonderful. THe bees love them.