Sunflower
Lemon Queen*
American Seed
Finest quality
jump uP UP !
Who Remembers trying to sell Brupee Seeds?
All we had to do was go door-to-door
sell enough seeds
and they would give you a bicycle. Ha!
My mom worked all summer
being a census taker
to buy me a bike
it must have been 1955.
Last week I drove in my Prius
to the dollar store for sunflower seed
they are already
up uP UP!
Carol Carlisle
*Lemon queen are the sunflowers we are told to plant to attract the good kind of honey bees, so as to keep sweetness alive in the world.
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I did not know about sunflowers and honey bees … they are extremely important to save. I love sunflowers — each year I say I’m going to plant some — but am always too far behind in time to do so. I wonder if i haven’t started them indoors yet — whether it’s too late again. Hmmmm! Thank you for the information and for linking. 😀
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They come up really fast. I always start them inside so the squirrels don’t get them. Use lemon queen.
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I am going to go to look for them tomorrow. Thank you! 😀
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Sunflowers!!!!! 🙂
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Yeah! 🙂
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I used to love seeing the giant sunflowers growing in large fields. What a sight. And . . . . wasn’t that a blue bike??
Neal
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I remember fields of sunflowers in Kansas the sunflower state. Those seeds have doubled in size in the last three days.
It was a blue bike. So heavy I never could ride it…they wanted to make sure it wouldn’t break it nearly broke me 😉
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