It’s been a rough summer for my little sunflower garden. A neighborhood mama rabbit and her four babies did a lot of damage to the young plants, consuming their little leaves. This picture was taken on June 24th. AND, as if being eaten by the bunny family wasn’t enough for them to endure, nasty little […]
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We got a late start this year planting our sunflower garden. Usually we have it planted by Mother’s Day, this year we finally got the seeds into the ground on May 22nd. Every day I try to take pictures of our fast growing little sunflowers, but I’ll try not to bore you with daily pics.
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Recently I ran across this interesting article explaining sunflower behavior: Why Young Sunflowers Follow the Sun “Every day, young sunflowers follow the sun like spectators at an incredibly slow tennis match. But scientists have never known why, or why the tracking stops when they become adults. Now, a new study suggests that this daily sun
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As the old expression goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. In this case, four of Marc’s sunflower oil paintings eloquently depicts the Life of a Sunflower! Oftentimes we see artwork and photos of large commercial sunflower fields. Marc chose to draw and paint individual sunflowers, focusing on the mammoth single blooms as well
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