This monster of a volunteer sunflower was at least 12 feet tall and had many, many noggins! They were not the largest sunflower blossoms that I’ve ever grown, but they did make a very nice size cut flower to feature by itself in a good size vase. What I really loved about this sunflower is that it accommodated a lot
Here’s a jump back in time a couple of autumns ago. I had crawled into the greens bed to weed and when I sat down and looked up, this is what I saw… a group of tired sunflowers full of seeds, peering down from me from a late afternoon sky. I took a photo so that I could paint it
When one is a gardener, during the off season, there is always going to be a little pining away over the memories of the fairer months of the year. 🙂 Here is a flashback to, oh, probably a couple of summers back. It was a year or so after we’d grown both Mammoth sunflowers as well as Royal Burgundy sunflowers
This is an original painting by me, acrylic on canvas. I was inspired by a very fuzzy bee that I spotted and took a picture of on one of our wild-colored sunflowers. She looked extremely content, all fuzzy and golden in the warm sunshine, and wandering around the face of the sunflower in a leisurely manner. I hoped to capture
