Sunflowers

My sunflowers make me happy.  I love them and have never had a good place to plant them at this house.  But last summer, Scott re-worked sprinklers and dug out a new flower bed for me on the north side of our lot.  We planted a few perennials for Mother’s Day to give the bed some structure, and the rest of the bed is seeded with all kinds of flowers, meaning we just broadcast seeds all over it.  At first I was a little concerned about design, color schemes, etc. and Scott told me we can call this our “Joseph bed”, referring to his coat of many colors.  So we just planted a bunch of things I like and let the seeds fall where they may.  The only thing I was careful about was making sure the sunflowers and hollyhocks got in the back so they could grow tall and not block anything.  Hollyhocks are biennial, so lots of little plants and no flowers this year, but next year we should have a tall forest of both kinds of flowers.  But this year, we have many different sunflower hybrids.  And that makes me happy!