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November 30th, 2009 link
Today, at long last, we brought in our sunflower harvest! I think I mentioned earlier in the summer, out of all the sunflower seeds we planted, just one brave & hearty Russian Mammoth Sunflower grew…and grew…and grew…
It was pure joy for the bees…
…as the days passed, & a cool & rainy Autumn arrived, I waited & waited, & thought that the seeds would never form completely…
The sunflower had become a wrinkled, dried out, forlorn thing, hanging droopily from its giant stalk…
….Until one day… we discovered…that it was bursting with new, plump seeds!
Hurray for the brave sunflower who never gave up!
I am so happy!
I just can’t wait to plant a new bumper crop of sunflowers next year!
love,
Clay Ball
