Thursday July 08, 2004 Sunflowers
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The house we live in now has a landscaped garden at the back. Lots of different kinds of plants, that flower at different times of the year. It's beautiful. In short, it's inspired an interest in gardening in me that I've never had before. Our son recently said he'd like some sunflowers, No problem I thought and about 2-3 months ago, went down the local nursery and got a couple plants. |
The snails got one of them and the other was outgrowing the 3 foot stick I'd bought to support it. So it was a return to the nursury to get two more plants, 3 long sticks and some snail bait.
Now, with the plants flowering we have one that's about 7 foot high with a large flower at the top. A second that got bent in the winds a couple weeks ago and lost the top half and the first flower. It's now got a second flower blooming half way up (about 4 feet off the ground). The third also got bent in the winds and is just starting to recover.
This morning, I took a closer look at the one that's in full flower. The flower (as of 8am) was facing towards the sunrise. Earlier this afternoon, it was facing south, and this evening it's almost tracked around to where the sun will set. I simply didn't realise they could do that. It's kind of unnerving. Brings back memories of reading Day of the Triffids.
(I hope you weren't thinking I was going to be writing about flowers at Sun).
( Jul 08 2004, 05:07:45 PM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink
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