Sunflowers

~~~APPEARANCE~~~ Sunflowers are tall, thick stemmed flowers with a large head and bright yellow petals. They can grow up to at least 3 metres tall. They also bear a resemblance to the Sun, hence the name!! I am always quite cheered up when I see a sunflower because of its bright yellow petals, and its large head. The colour is wonderful and bright. I don't know why but it's as if it is smiling. They are also quite personified, as they face the sun, and if you watch them over a day, the moving of their "heads" is quite dance like and interesting! ~~~EASE OF GROWTH~~~ Sunflowers are extremely easy to grow, just pop the seed in the ...  Read the complete review

Sunflowers are one of the easiest things to grow from a seed and they are beautiful when the flowers open out because the flowers look so massive on the tall stalk and it looks like magic that the plant can hold itself up right. You buy a packet of 10 or 20 seeds and that costs about £2 and if you look after them you will get most of them growing and hardly any of the seeds die off. I always use compost from the shop and I sometimes buy the proper seed compost but not always and they always come through whatever one I use. There's a shop by me that sells the big bags of compost dirt cheap so I get them. I just start them in empty yogurt ...  Read the complete review

'Sunflower' is the common name given to plants of the genus Helianthus, derived from the name of the Greek sun god Helios. Helianthus consists of 67 known speicies and numerous subspecies. The most common of all ideally called the 'common sunflower (Helianthus annus). Sunflowers are best known for their bright, mostly yellow, flowering head. They normally grow to a height of up to 3 metres, with a narrow diameter in relation to this. Despite their widespread distribution and popularity in the United Kingdom today, not a single sunflower grew here 500 years ago! Helianthus was first introduced to Europe in the mid 16th century from North America. The ...  Read the complete review

Sun flowers are my absolute favourite flower! They are so beautiful and so different from most other flowers. Many flowers that you might typically have in a vase on your kitchen table are petite, vary in colour and smell lovely. Sunflowers are none of the above! Why do I like them then? They are just so different and varsatile. They look wonderful in a big tall vase and also lovely growing outside in the garden. Unlike most flowers you don't need a bunch, one sunflower in a vase is sufficient and just as beautiful. Sun flowers can be so big that they look like smiley happy faces. They almost have a human quality and look so sad when the sun isn't ...  Read the complete review

"I live to adore the Daystar! Herald of good health, loyalty, hope and cheer. My smiling face turns with the wheel of passing Time. Banish fear! For long days shall follow those gifted with my healing warmth." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." ~ The Koran "Where flowers bloom so does hope." ~Lady Bird Johnson, Public Roads: Where Flowers Bloom "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the ...  Read the complete review