Property News · August 25, 2019

Summer’s lofty sunflowers bring colour and joy | Allan Jenkins


Sunflowers can charm as swiftly as they grow, and are especially loved by kids, bees and birdsI came late to sunflowers. I didn’t love them much as a child. Too big, maybe too one-note. And at first I was concerned they might be too dominant for the allotment, leech necessary nutrients from food plants, block much-needed light. But that was then.The shift was swift. There is a photo of the early plot with Howard and his young daughters where the girls look like something from Rousseau, as though lost in a sunflower forest. And it was through them and other children I discovered my own late love. We worked for a time with a school gardening club, encouraging primary-age kids to grow together. It was the wonder on their faces at how fast their flowers thrust that made sunflowers irresistible. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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