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Enjoy the Seasons in
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"If you have a mind at
peace, a heart that cannot harden, go find a door
that opens wide upon a lovely garden." |
Dahlias are often
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In my garden there is
a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers
is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The
thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the
dreams are as beautiful. ~Abram L. Urban |
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 Sunflowers
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Helianthus annuus, Sunflowers,
are annual plants native to the Americas, that
possess a large inflorescence (flowering head).
With Helianthus
annuus, what is usually called the flower is
actually a flower head (also known as a
composite flower) of numerous florets, (small
flowers) crowded together. The outer
petal-bearing florets are the sterile ray
florets and can be yellow, red, orange, or
other colors. The florets inside the circular
head are called disc florets, which
mature into seeds. |
Sunflowers
most commonly grow to heights between 1.5 and 3.5 meter.
Sun flowers
have a type of phototropic response called heliotropism (sun
turning); the leaves and flower heads of young sunflowers
follow the sun and their orientation therefore changes from
east to west during the day. The movements become a
circadian response and when plants are rotated 180 degrees,
the old response pattern is still followed for a few days,
with leaf orientation changing from west to east instead.
To grow well, sunflowers need
full sun. They grow best in fertile, moist, well-drained
soil with a lot of mulch. In commercial planting, seeds are
planted 45 cm (1.5 ft) apart and 2.5 cm (1 in) deep.
Sunflower "whole seed" (fruit) are sold as a snack food,
after roasting in
ovens, with or without
salt added. Sunflowers can be processed into a peanut
butter alternative, sunbutter.
(wikipedia)
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