July 28, 2009 – Sunflowers!
Once again, dumb luck descends upon High Hopes Gardens. Midwest Living magazine is planning on coming out to the farm this Thursday and Friday to shoot for a story on sunflowers. We have been sending small amounts of garden products to sell at the Des Moines Farmer’s Market. The editors were scouting the market for unusual sunflower varieties.
I think the Moulin Rouge caught their eye.
Perhaps along with the Music Box Sunflower.
Or the Teddy Bear sunflower.
Heck, here’s a honeybee on a more standard variety.
So, they contacted us and we just kind of laughed when they asked how big our fields of sunflowers were. Truth is, we have two or three 50-foot rows and quite a few volunteers between the rows of this year’s crops that Linda didn’t have the heart to weed out. It’s some of those volunteers that caught the eyes of the editors. They sent someone out to look at the farm and decided to go ahead with the photo shoot. So, look for updates on Thursday and Friday about a magazine photo shoot.
one year ago…”Digging Potatoes and Garlic”
2 Responses to “July 28, 2009 – Sunflowers!”
Kristin says:
July 30, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Congrats on the photo shoot! Your sunflowers are wonderful! How many cultivars did you plant this year?
highhopesgardens says:
August 3, 2009 at 11:42 am
I’m not really sure – since we planted a few seed packs with multiple varieties – probably about 8-10 varieties.