The Cheerful Flower

The Cheerful Flower

The Cheerful Flower – Sunflowers grow large, tall, and cheerful flower heads that brighten and animate your yard—and though you most commonly see these aptly-named beauties in sunny yellow, the annuals can be red or orange, too. There are so many good reasons to grow them, beyond the fact that they make you happy: They’re easy to cultivate, attract beneficial pollinators like butterflies and native bees, and draw beautiful songbirds (many species love these blooms!)

Including deer, they love eating them when they are young plants. But I was able to keep them away from a couple of my sunflowers so I could see them bloom and provide seeds for the birds this year.

The Cheerful Flower

Short video below of my tallest sunflower, over 10 ft. this one. Like the sun looking right at you. Click here, Sunflower

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Have a great weekend. 🙂

The Cheerful Flower

Have a great weekend.

The Cheerful Flower

Sandra J

Sandra J’s Photography & Fine Arts

25 Replies to “The Cheerful Flower”

  1. Stunning sunflower Sandra … looks like you are climbing up a beanstalk in the video until you get up to the top. 🙂 I once had a Russian Mammoth Sunflower, grown from a packet of seeds, in the backyard. It was fun, but it was top heavy and broke the stem in half before the middle was ripe. The squirrels had a field day when it collapsed.

  2. Our Ukrainian guest planted 24 sunflower seeds at the back of our yard- unfortunately the deer ate them all. The ones planted near the house bloomed though. Lesson learned.

    1. I have issues like that now and then as well. My mouse sometimes gets stuck and the arrow just fly’s around the computer screen. 🙂 have a great weekend as well Gerry, 🙂

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