{"id":110188,"date":"2019-08-25T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/summers-lofty-sunflowers-bring-colour-and-joy-allan-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2019-08-25T12:05:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T05:05:33","slug":"summers-lofty-sunflowers-bring-colour-and-joy-allan-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/summers-lofty-sunflowers-bring-colour-and-joy-allan-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer\u2019s lofty sunflowers bring colour and joy | Allan Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSunflowers can charm as swiftly as they grow, and are especially loved by kids, bees and birdsI came late to sunflowers. I didn\u2019t 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…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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