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.
Short video below of my tallest sunflower, over 10 ft. this one. Like the sun looking right at you. Click here, Sunflower
Have a great weekend. 🙂
Have a great weekend.
The Cheerful Flower
25 Replies to “The Cheerful Flower”
Sandra, you’ve given the sunflower the perfect name for such a warm inviting flower.
Thank you Beth, they are such a unique flower.
Superb photographs of one our favorite flowers. Not to mention the many members of the sunflower family.
Thank you for sharing some bright beauty!
You are very welcome, Wally 😊
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.
It’s amazing how the stem can hold the regular flower heads. The blue Jay has been landing on them now.
That is amazing as Blue Jays are large birds.
Wonderful!
Thank you very much 😊
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.
Yes, the deer love them. They ate a few of mine as well.
So colourful ! Pure beauty !
Thank you, Sandra. Have a great weekend 🧡🌻🧡
I love the bright yellow on these flowers. Have a wonderful weekend also Francine, thank you 😊
That is an interesting view! Intricate!
Yes, there’s so many layers to these flowers.
Sorry about the 1,000 LIKES! My wireless keyboard when nuts. New batteries may have solved it. So, I was going to say, Sunshine, have a good weekend!
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, 🙂
They are realy beautiful, they always get my full attention if I see them. They should be in every garden.
Yes, they sure stand out with the bright yellow petals. The deer did not get to these so they grew nice and tall.
Wish you lots of sunshine
Kind regards
Thank you very much Rob 😊
Bon week-end 🌼🌻
Thank you very much 😊 ☺️
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Thank you very much 😊