My Love for Sunflowers
My love from sunflowers comes from growing up in the south of France and the occasional trips to the Provence region where sunflower fields and lavender fields greet you! Of course there are fields in other parts of the south of France (we lived in the Languedoc Roussillon) and we would come accross fields there too.
I remember going to camp in the summer and going into the fields and eating the seeds right off of a sunflower.
For the past two years, I have planted sunflowers in front of our house in our little 2 ft by 8 ft raised bed as well as in the one in front of our kitchen. The mammoth ones do the best but some of the orange colored ones have done well too.
The bumblebees love them as well as the yellow finch who love to pluck them, one petal at a time.
This is such an easy and inexpensive way to bring France to my door step. Some sun, dirt and water is all they need and while I started watering them at the beginning my mother in law took over that duty.
I think that sunflowers are one of the reasons I love the color yellow so much. A lot of our likes and dislikes in life are associated with experiences and memories.
Even without a green thumb, I can take care of sunflowers and they are a joy to me! What is your favorite flower?
A bientôt!
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24 Comments
Penny
What lovely sunflower pix – they are such happy flowers. What a beautiful area you grew up in!
mimifce
I do miss the south of France!
Nancy
Oh they are beautiful!! We tried to grow them but nothing came from the seeds. My favourite in the garden are hydrangeas.
mimifce
Hydrangeas are really pretty but the ones I have gotten have never survived more than a couple of years.
Joanne
Your sunflowers are beautiful! I have only tried to grow them once but I do love them; our first kitchen had deep green tiles and white cabinets and I used all sorts of sunflower accents to decorate it. We have one local farm that grows fields upon fields of sunflowers but we missed their event last month.
mimifce
I have done some sunflower decor in the past… I went last year to a sunflower farm but we didn’t go this year.
Heather Noire
I just love sun flowers as well. They are so gorgeous! And I never realised there was other colours of them how interesting thanks for sharing 🙂
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mimifce
I don’t know that they grow different colors in France but yes, you can find all different ones here.
Mica
They are such lovley sunflowers! We tried hard to grow some sunflowers the other year but they and the rest of our veggie patch just wilted and died with all the bushfire smoke in the air 🙁 Maybe we can have better luck this year!
Hope you are having a good weekend 🙂
mimifce
They are pretty hardy but they do need water!
jodie filogomo
Let me just show my ignorance in that I didn’t realize there were red sunflowers. How beautiful Mireille,
XOOX
Jodie
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mimifce
I only learned that in the last couple of years.
Michelle
Your sunflowers are beautiful, Mireille!
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mimifce
Thanks, Michelle!
Amy
My favorite flower is “Whatever is in bloom at the moment”. ha ha! I do love sunflowers. I don’t plant them, but I feed the birds and they plant them. I always let them be, and never pull them even though they may grow in an undesirable spot.
mimifce
Funny! You have the loveliest of gardens!
Lovely
Your sunflowers are beautiful! I have only grown a dwarf variety so far. Need to give this a try.
xoxo
Lovely
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mimifce
I will have to look those up
Kathrine Eldridge
These sunflowers are stunning! Love you piece of France here in the US.
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mimifce
Thanks, Kathrine! I really enjoyed them while they were in full bloom!
Leslie Susan Clingan
Really enjoyed getting to know more about you. And your flower photos are so pretty. Sunflowers are so cheerful and friendly. I bet I could grow them, too, even with my brown thumb.
mimifce
If I can grow them, you can grow them! I have 2 posts you can look up I wrote last year about growing up abroad, one about France and one about Mexico.
Grace
So pretty! I’ve never seen sunflowers in those other colors before. I love that they remind you of France and your childhood. I really love sunflowers now too because they remind me of my Camino in Spain!
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mimifce
Exactly! It’s a flower associated with good memories.