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No, not MY sunflowers. My sunflowers aren’t wild. We planted them. Back in Texas, sunflowers grew wild everywhere. On the side of the road. In vacant lots. Across meadows and fields. I used to stop and cut them, bringing home armfuls to put in vases in my house. Here, no wild sunflowers. You only have sunflowers if you plant them. And when I tell people about the wild sunflowers in Texas, they look at me like I’m telling them that in Texas they have unicorns blowing bubbles at every street corner. “Somebody must have planted them.” NO! They grow wild!
Texas people, back me up!
Posted by Suzanne McMinn on July 21, 2011
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If we want good eating sunflower seeds or giant plants, we still have to plant them.
Sometimes it’s hard to remember that all the flowers we cultivate are wildflowers SOMEWHERE, where they came from. I was very surprised to find big plots of impatiens growing in the middle of the jungle in Central America, until it dawned on me that they grew wild there.
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Yes, sunflowers grow wild in Texas, but do you seriously want to give Texans another reason to brag? We don’t mean to, we just can’t help it.
And I am not sure, but there must be at least one street corner in Dallas where you can find unicorns blowing bubbles. Okay, maybe in Austin, then.
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I grew up in the country in Missouri and in the summer time, wild TIGER LILIES bloomed in every country road ditch. I was enthralled with their lovely orange and black flowers and I feel the same way about the sunflowers here.
Love the idea of the International Sunflower Guerilla Day!!
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We have orange roadside day lilies in CT, and lots of wild phlox. Sunflowers would be nice!
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Sunflowers and Blue Bonnets are some of the most beautiful flowers in Texas.
I started growing sunflowers several years ago quite by accident, some of the sunflower seeds from the bird feeder ended up in my flower garden, so now I just pick the sunflower seeds out od the bird seed and throw some into a sunny spot in my garden. They look lovely and the Finches love them as well.
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Tina
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YES, sunflowers grow like weeds in the hot Texas sun. I’m a native Texas and one of my early memories is picking sunflowers on the fence row of our dirt road. I was amazed at all the ants that loved sunflowers too!
Now I live in Aggieland (that’s Bryan/College Station for outlanders, south of Dallas, north of Houston and east of Austin.) We don’t have as many sunflowers here as where I grew up, which was north of Dallas/Fort Worth. We also have farmers here who cultivate them for their oil, It’s strange to see them marching in rows, all the same distance apart, across the fields. Looks like the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Marching Band!!
As for the unicorns blowing bubbles, there’s no question they are in Austin.
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Here in Oregon we have Oxeye Daisy growing wild every where. Which I might add if a dairy cow eats them it makes the milk taste wierd, so we keep them out of the pasture and hay field. Not a problem!
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I do love the wild tiger lilies that grow wild here – and some of the wildflowers are beautiful, but can’t hold a candle to the wildflowers of Texas. Bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush, evening primrose, mexican hats, black-eyes susan, red clover … I sure miss them in the spring.
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Y’all come check us out.
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