Posts Tagged ‘sunflowers’

Last weekend I was out at my plot in the Railyard community garden and noticed several small seedlings popping out of the soil. I eat sunflower sprouts nearly everyday, but I had never before spotted a sunflower sprout in its natural element. I usually don’t notice them until they are 5 feet tall and competing with me in height.

Several months ago, I posted about the sunflowers in Dupont.  Little did I know that the sunflowers that appear every June are probably part of a larger effort – International Sunflower Guerilla Gardening Day.  I’ve noticed a proliferation of sunflowers throughout the city.  While they don’t really add much “value” to the city  (as one person mentioned on Prince of Petworth), the phsychic value is well worth it!  Here’s some photos of sunflowers throughout Dupont.  

I threw some dwarf sunflower seeds in one of the self watering planters on a whim.  They ended up taking pretty well, and the bright yellow brightens up the garden beautifully!

There’s someone in the Dupont neighborhood (or several of you) – and I don’t know who you are – but you brighten my mornings from June through August each summer.  I take one of the S busses downtown from Columbia Heights, and when I step off at 16th and P, there’s a great patch of sunflowers waiting to greet me. You’ve hit other spots in the neighborhood as well – walking down 18th street (before all the construction), you’ve planted a bed of sunflowers in the tree well in front of St. Thomas Episcopal Church.  I love the different varieties – some small, some large. I don’t know who you are, but thank you!