{"id":10280,"date":"2016-04-09T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/alys-fowler-growing-sunflowers-from-seed\/"},"modified":"2016-04-09T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T05:00:52","slug":"alys-fowler-growing-sunflowers-from-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/alys-fowler-growing-sunflowers-from-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"Alys Fowler: growing sunflowers from seed"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI want to follow their cheerful faces as they track the sun, and fill the house with their extravagance and glamourSowing sunflower seeds is like scattering happiness over the soil; it is\u00a0a gesture in optimism. Hello\u00a0summer, hello sun.I intend to have rows of them this year on the allotment. I want to follow their cheerful faces as they track the sun. I want to pick them by the armful and fill the house with their extravagance and glamour. In my garden, I\u2019m going to use them to create a little rhythm architecturally, adding height and late summer colour to the back of my beds, which can be a little flat by the end of the year. Then I\u2019m going to leave them standing as bird feeders until that time when they are nothing more than stripped-bare, weather-worn stems for earwigs to hunker down in over winter. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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