Happy Tuesday sweet friends! Are you ready to celebrate?
“The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation—”
Psalm 18:46
Each year when the sunflowers bloom, I get excited and celebrate their arrival by photographing their happy, sunny faces! Grab a glass of iced tea and join me for a visit to our sunflower patches.
I order sunflower and zinnia seeds from Johnny’s Seeds. We have had wonderful success with their seeds for several years. They still send out catalogs and I feel like a child again (remember the Sears Christmas catalogues) as I peruse pages of flower and vegetable seeds!
‘Sunrich Orange’ have just started blooming. Their blooms are 4 to 6 inches in size and are single stem!
I love the stage when the bloom begins to open…notice the bee is enjoying! It attracts bees and butterflies and birds love its seeds.
This variety makes great cut flowers.
‘ProCut Bicolor’ sunnies have been blooming a couple of weeks!
RM prefers the traditional sunflower, but he does like this variety! It attracts bees, butterflies, and birds, especially the American goldfinch!
Mahogany red flowers with bright yellow tips and a dark disk make this a stand-out variety.
The ProCut Bicolor grow tall with strong stems. This sunflower patch is in a raised bed at the back of our garden…love the bright sunflowers with the Japanese maple in the background!
This patch is behind the cottage garden and both sunflower varieties are growing in this garden spot! ProCut Bicolor is also growing in a sunny raised bed near our woodlands along with zinnias!
Late June and the first half of July is when the garden is at its best! By mid-July, blooms can begin to look a little tired, like me!
Jack and the sunflower stalk!
We have been growing sunflowers for several years and this growth pattern is unusual and new to us!
You may have read that sunflowers always follow the sun, that is inaccurate. Only young flowers “move” to face it throughout the day. Once they reach maturity, their blooms forever turn eastward. We have always observed this in our garden.
As the bloom is spent, they bow their head!
“Like a single sunbeam on a warm summer day, there is an exuberance and brilliance in a sunflower.”
~Unknown
Thank you for your visit and gracious comments. Wishing you a joy-filled day!
Linking with: Pieced Pastimes, Between Naps on the Porch, Katherines Corner, Follow The Yellow Brick Home,
Imparting Grace,Life and Linda
Gorgeous Pam! I love the pretty contrast the red maple against the bicolor rays of the beautiful sunflowers! I need a raised bed area for sunflowers as we have too many critters that eat the tender seedlings as they emerge. Happy Tuesday! 🌻
Thank you, Mary. Oh those critters that feast on our gardens. Deer ate a few of our young plants. Have a lovely day 🌻💛🌻
Oh Pam, I have so enjoyed visiting your sunflower garden this morning! This is such a bright and happy way to start the day. Each photograph is beautiful! I wish I could grow sunflowers, but we have too much shade. They are the happiest of blooms! Have a wonderful day, dear friend!
Thanks so much, Shannon. Sunflowers are a happy flower! Enjoy your day, dear one 🌻💛🌻
Nothing is happier than a sunflower, and yours are just gorgeous! I sowed some seeds directly in the ground but see nary a sign of a sunflower. Pretty sure the geese and the squirrels viewed it as their personal smorgasbord!!
Thank you, Roxanne. Those pesky squirrels and geese. We had a few eaten and we suspect deer due to their tracks. Enjoy your day 🌻💛🌻
Pam, I have enjoyed your sunflowers so much. The red maple is a beautiful backdrop for your sunflowers. I love seeing every stage of the sunflower. As I said on Sunday, the sneaky little rabbits had mine for dinner. After seeing your garden on Sunday, after church I headed to Flying Cloud farm to gather sunflowers and zinnias. Flying Cloud is less than a mile from my house and they allow visitors to bring their containers and cut their own bouquets. Thank you for this beautiful post.
Dianne, thanks so much. Flying Cloud sounds fabulous. I think there might be a future blogpost including your flowers that you cut 🌻💛🌻
Your sunflowers are gorgeous! They look so healthy. They are a wonderful cut flower and food source for the bees and birds. Enjoy your day. Clara ❤️
Thanks so much, Clara. Enjoy your day 🌻💛🌻
Your sunflower garden is stunning Pam and they are doing their job of helping to save the bees! I didn’t realize there were so many different varieties and they are all beautiful. What is the average life span of a bloom?
Jenna
Thank you, Jenna. Unfortunately the life of a sunflower is short-lived. Supposedly two-three weeks. I think it depends on the variety! Have a wonderful day 🌻🌻🌻
Thank you for sharing your sunflowers. I LOVE SUNFLOWERS!
My pleasure and thank you, Nancy 🌻🌻🌻
Absolutely Beautiful
Thank you, Deborah!
Your sunflowers are indeed beautiful . You educated me about the stages that they follow the sun versus maturity when they face only the East. Sounds biblical to me. And of course God is in everything. Summer has finally arrived here. 92 yesterday and expecting 95 today. We are catching up with Alabama. Praying for the people in Vermont and California that are loosing their homes to the floods and land slides.
Thanks so much, my friend. Your summer is sounding like ours. Tomorrow it is supposed to be 95. Yes praying for all that are impacted with flooding and landslides. Wishing you a lovely day!
When I first got married, I mentioned I liked sunflowers, and everyone gave me something with sunflowers on it – towels, potholders, water pitchers . . . my house looked like a field of sunflowers! I still love them, but keep it quiet. Your photos are all I need!
That is too funny, I had the same thing happen to me!
Sunflowers are always so cheerful and pretty. The birds alone probably so excited for the seeds and you mentioned all the other critters that love them too. Have a great week. Hugs. Kris
Thank you, Kris! Hugs 🌻
Oh how I love your beautiful sunflowers! I plant Sunflowers for Fall but last year mine did not do as well. Brings such wonderful memories of my precious late MIL that loved them so. Hugs and blessings, Cindy
Thanks so much, Cindy. Wishing you a lovely week!
These are fabulous, and that conjoined growth is certainly unique! Do you have more than one like that in your beds? I feel like sunflowers would be out of place here in my garden (too large for the plot of land and house), but I had volunteer sunflowers in our former landscape from feeding the birds. They were fun. I’m having enough trouble with zinnias taking over my flower bed. I have dug up numerous ones to thin them out, putting them in containers and in different locations in my beds. They were much taller than anticipated! And with it being 7/11, hopefully they will survive the transplants and overcome the stress. Love your celebration of sunflowers, Pam.
Thank you, Rita. Yes, we have had three, and conjoined is a good description. Zinnias came up in our sunflowers and other places. Our zinnias usually grow taller than me! Have a great week!
I love your beautiful sunflowers Pam! It must make you so happy to see them every year! I’ve only grown them once, but decided if I do it again, I’ll plan to grow them for squirrel food, since we didn’t get any of the seeds! 😊Thanks for the lovely summer moments!
Barbara, sunflowers do make smile and they are happy flowers! Enjoy your week!
We won’t see sunflowers for another month or so, so I love having a sneak peek of one of my favorite blooms! It looks just terrific in your world!
Thanks so much, Jeanie. They are happy flowers!
Stunning Sunflowers! Such happiness and beauty! Hugs and blessings.
Thank you, dear one!
WOW! WOW! WOW!
What a joy to visit your Sunflower garden. I am smiling ear to ear! Such a happy flower!
I was going to ask how you get them to escape the critters from eating them but then you mentioned that they are in raised beds.
Thanks for the joy!
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Thank you, Nancy. Sunflowers are definitely a happy flower. Two of our sunflower patches are in raised beds, but our larger one is not 💛🌻💛 Happy Wednesday 🌻🌻🌻
Oh, your sunflowers are simply beautiful – they make my heart happy!
Thank you, Mary 🌻
The sheer beauty and happiness that radiate from those multi-hued sunflowers peeping out from their very own domain. What buttery joy they bring to the world. Is it any wonder they are irresistible to those four-legged fans? So impressed you found a way to protect your crop.
Bless you and Butch for sharing.
Thank you, Mary! Their bright sunny faces make me smile! 🌻🌻🌻
wow, friend. it’s one thing to see a display of sunflowers at a store … and a whole other thing to see them so beautifully free and glorious in your yard. stunning, happy, sunshine-y!
Thank you, Linda! We love planting those seeds and watching them grow in our garden 🌻🌻🌻
Omg, these look so adorable. And your site as well.
Thanks so much!
What a wonderful happy flower, I must grow some next year.
Thanks Nonie. So happy to see you here and hope all is well, friend!
Pam, your sunflowers are beautiful!
Visiting from Richella’s
Thank you, Paula 🌻
Oh Pam, I love those sunflowers!! They are just such happy flowers it makes me smile to see them and your are gorgeous. And such pretty varieties. They were selling them at our Superstore last weekend in pots – I presumed they were meant to be planted in the garden. I debated for some time over them but in the end, our yard is too shady methinks. So I really loved seeing yours and thanks for sharing your beautiful pictures!
Thank you, Kim. Sunflowers bring bees, birds, and butterflies to the garden which we certainly enjoy! Happy Tuesday!
Pam
It’s funny, but I never before realized there were so many varieties of sunflowers! Each type is so beautiful and you photograph them so well. God bless you today!
You are always so sweet, Cheryl. It is amazing how many varieties of sunflowers that are out there!