6/25/10: Well, this year’s crop is out there. Seeds have been mailed and handed out for a couple of months and now I hope to hear back from people as your sunflowers grow to maturity! I hope you’ll send photos, and remember to save the heads of your flowers for planting next year! Thanks for all who participate in this fun project! Sunflowers a’hoy!
4/30/10: Thanks to my friend, Richard Ribar, and my friends Edie & Brian (farmers in Banks, OR), I have seeds to give out again this year, 2010. If you’d like some, please get in touch!
For many years I have been planting sunflowers and saving the seeds, giving the seeds to my friends and then continuing to plant again the following year. Over time this has led to many varieties being planted in many places from Seattle to Portland and beyond. In the Spring of 2007 I took this project further by packaging the previous year’s seeds into 500 packets and giving them out to friends, neighbors and family and then hearing back about giant sunflowers growing all around. This year, 2008, I have collected my seeds, and seeds from two local farms and will pack them into at least 1,000 packets and pass those out with an albertideation.com label in the Spring of 2009. Today, on the eve of the election (November 3rd, 2008), I pulled seeds from some giant sunflower heads and the seeds are spread out and drying on my kitchen table. They look like this.
Hello! Wild Sunflowers helped New Orleans rebuild after Hurricane Katrina! I am a musician, and I recorded a solo record, called “Sunflower City”, inspired by the wild sunflowers that grew in New Orleans’ devistated Lakeview neighborhood in the wake of Katrina. Their were many news stories that should still be accesible through Google. Anyway, it seems like a story you would like to hear. If you have trouble finding it, contact me and I’ll fill you in. Happy Hunting!- Matt Perrine
I planted several packets of these Sunny flowers and enjoyed them this past summer…. mine ended up being of the smaller variety and they gave me their sweet yellow smiles throughout the later summer on my patio…..thanks Albert….. I think it’s a good idea to soak them over night first and plant them in a large enough container to handle a good root system….
Please send a pack to Virginia!
Deaton Eisenstein
PObox 202
Farmville Va 23901
Let’s make your sunnies bi-coastal!
First sunflowers of the new season sent your way, Deaton! Hi to you, Steve and the kids!
would love to have some seeds–and
i can distribute to Flemington, Penobscot, and l’ville. austin, too, maybe. all the T’s are farmers at heart.
love, ruth
Hi Albert – how would you like some of your sunflowers to grow in Colorado? I’d LOVE to start some CO sunflowers in your honor. xoxoxoxooxoxoxoxox from Denver
Erin Conway
3025 W. 36th Avenue
Denver, CO 80211
324 Lincoln Ave
Takoma Park, MD 20912-5704
We love some!!!
wow, I’d love to plant some of your sunflowers in my garden in Nova Scotia dude!
Hello! Wild Sunflowers helped New Orleans rebuild after Hurricane Katrina! I am a musician, and I recorded a solo record, called “Sunflower City”, inspired by the wild sunflowers that grew in New Orleans’ devistated Lakeview neighborhood in the wake of Katrina. Their were many news stories that should still be accesible through Google. Anyway, it seems like a story you would like to hear. If you have trouble finding it, contact me and I’ll fill you in. Happy Hunting!- Matt Perrine
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