On April 6 of this year it was Day 19 and I found sunflowers growing in the garden. They looked like this:
They obviously had been left behind in the fall and overwintered in the garden. It was exciting to know so many had made it through the freezing temperatures. Some thinning and we’d have sunflowers without the work of planting new ones, right?
Yep! For this Father's Day we now have our first look at the yellow those little seedlings will be producing.
Our earliest sunflower ever. |