Sunflowers, a bright, happy, hardy, season long flower that many gardeners’ love.
We have a patch of sunflowers in a small garden down by our mailbox. I get a kick out of the antics of the local squirrels trying to eat the ripening seeds in the heads, they certainly earn the calories they get from them. Here, several stalks of sunflowers are displayed against a warm red brick retaining wall on the south side of Queen Anne Hill north of downtown Seattle. What about you, did you grow sunflowers in your garden this year?
I wish I spoke French.. hope my title actually says ‘sunflowers’ not can I buy that Mercedes Benz!!
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Growing up I always thought of sunflowers as weeds. After moving to South Dakota I see them with more beauty. My Mother-In-Law plants a row of them in her garden. It is amazing to see a big field of crop sunflowers blooming as far as eye can see.
awesome, lovely & beautiful view. (:
my favorite flowers are daisy’s and sunflowers and all yellow flowers and against the brick they are breathtaking
No garden, so no sunflowers, but I like to stop and admire the occassional patch I come across in my travels.
i love that they so often ‘volunteer’. :)
They sure can make one smile.
They looks so pretty up against that brick- nice shot!
Lovely contrast of colour and texture in this image.
Sun and flower are literally soleil and fleur respectively, but the sunflower is tournesol (follow the sun). I had to reach back to my native Montreal French for that one. :)
Thank you, Hilary! ;-)
Oui… in French it is a ‘tournesol’.
And a gorgeous capture!
I grew some sunflowers but they were a miserable lot – to grow sunflowers you need sun and there was precious little of that this year; glad to see your flowers did better.
wonderful flowers
The sun flowers are so pretty against the brick. I don’t grow them but had a few small volunteers from the bird seed.
Lovely! I don’t grow them but a house down the block from my mom’s had a massive garden of them…and then the owner got rid of them ALL…Boo Hoo Hoo!
No, I am embarrassed to say I did not. Last year we had so many volunteer sunflowers, this year we had one!
Anyway love this photo.