And the winner of the AffirmWater giveaway is….
Congrats to Sherry at Living & Learning!
Thanks to everyone for playing along and making this such a hit!
In other news, I have discovered a love for sunflowers. One by one our sunflowers are blooming, and although they don’t follow the sun like I thought they did, I’m in love and can’t stop singing “You Are My Sunshine” when I see them. Perhaps it’s because of their height and we can see eye to eye that I love taking them in. Perhaps it’s because they are the fastest growing and biggest things in our yard. Whatever it is, my new favorite flower is the sunflower. And as coincidence would have it…
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Let me share a few of the 2984665 sunflower photos I’ve taken.
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This one surprised us. We weren’t expecting such vibrancy. These are from our funky seeds gifted from another blogger last year. This is the only one to turn red so far.
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These are the other seeds from the same batch, red and yellow and gorgeous.
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Beginning of May
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Same sunflower a month later. It has over 3 dozen flower heads opening or getting ready to open and we’re counting more every day!
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Not a sunflower but still fun! Our first tiny cucumber!
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What fun things are happening in your garden right now?
I have Egyptian walking onions starting to bloom in my garden. I got them last year and left many of the plants in the ground over the winter after saving their sets last year. My hope is to save enough seed over the next few years that I will only have to plant the sets I’ve saved and never need to buy onion sets or seed again.
The rattlesnake pole beans have popped through the soil as have many of the squashes I’ve planted.
But my most exciting discovery is the horseradish root that is beginning to take off. Yippee for perennials!
I love sunflowers too…so do the birds. Mine won’t be blooming for another month at LEAST, but looking forward to it!
They’re all gorgeous, but that red sunflower is striking! Tara, I’ve nominated you for a Watermelon Award.
Yay! Thank you!
Your sunflower macro shots are beautiful.
Your sunflowers are gorgeous! So far, so good on our new batch. We’ll be trying your foil tip today. Thanks again.