the friday feed: sunflowers

Treadway Gardens has two rows of zinnias that are planted just for our young customers, the children who come along with their parents to shop. Every time a child visits, he or she can have a choice of any zinnia that's out there. Behind the zinnias are sunflowers that are made into bouquets and those bouquets of sunshine have been purchased as fast as we can make them. 

When we are super-duper busy, it is so comforting to look out from the stand at the sunflowers and view that sea of yellow. And when we're not-so-busy, it's very comforting to take a walk along the sunflower garden and see the butterflies resting on the flowers, the bees gathering pollen, and the finches who fly away as soon as someone gets close. 

“Yellow is my favourite summer colour – it makes me feel like a sunflower.”

~ Bria Vinaite

cheery sunflower

you feed birds and butterflies,

the bees and my soul.