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Sunflowers Make Me Happy.
Bright and cheerful, the sunflower is a happy flower. Named Sonnenblume in Germany, Girasol in Spain, or Tournesol in France, the birds don't care, they love the seeds anywhere. Twenty years ago, Van Gogh's sunflower art painting (Vase of 15 Sunflowers) sold for a cool 39 million at Christie's auction in London! That was in 1987, and with new estimates for inflation, those sunflowers are now worth 71 million.
Did you know sunflowers come in red? And also two-toned shades!
Did you know their are rainbow colored chocolate coated sunflower seeds?
And that there are special sunflower seeds you can sprout at home?
Sunflowers get me feeling pizazzed and zesty. To me they are a symbol of powerful optimism and cheerful expectancy.
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."... Helen Keller.
Surfers and sunflowers, they both follow the sun...Lilly
This lens is my personal fun dedication to the sunflower.
Here you'll find all things sunflower. Sunflower videos (artists painting, seeds growing, slide shows to music, farmer in sunflower field), sunflower cards, calendars, books, paintings, and sunflower food products, sunflower seeds for humans to eat or to sprout, for birds, or for growing in your garden. Sunflower mugs, sunflower paintings and illustrations... posters, t-shirts, and sunflower postage stamps. There's also sunflower clipart and cartoons.
Hey, these flowers get around.
The birds and the bees love them. So do chipmunks and squirrels. And rabbits and mice and hamsters. If you have lots of sunflower seeds, you can become extremely popular with rodents!
Sunflower Clipart Stickers
Personalize these cute sunflowers with your own text
Customize these funny sunflower clipart stickers with your own special message. You can also resize and move the images, and change THE COLOR of the background. Stickers come in small and large round glossy. These make great place cards for kids birthday parties, they are fun on note cards, stationary, journals, scrapbooking, envelopes...and a zillion more stick-on ideas. Have fun designing!
Personalize sunflower clipart stickers
And if you'd like some free sunflower clipart visit my website.
Sunflower Coffee Mugs
Brighten your beverages
Customize and personalize any of these coffee mugs with your own text and fonts at my zazzle gift shop. JUST CLICK THE MUG TO GET THERE. There are more colors and styles from travel mugs to disappearing heat mugs. Fill them with sunflower seeds, wrap them as a gift, and tell someone they make you feel radiant!
MORE Sunflower Mug Shots
"Caution: We're HOT!" says these sunflower coffee mugs.
Sunflower Postage Stamps You Can Customize
Illuminate your invitations and announcements.
Cartoon Sunflower Clipart and Sunflower Seeds Cartoons
Zebras are born from sunflower seeds!
This cartoon of piles of sunflower seeds on a bird house is also available as an cartoon jigsaw puzzle to play or send as an e-card that says Happy BIRDay!
It's what all the hip birds are saying these days: Seeds the Day. Some say Carpe Seedum.
It's a sign of their times. Big haps.
Zebras are born from sunflower seeds. Not many people know that.
The beach is thataway. Sunflowers like to go there to catch some rays on the sand.
Love at first sprout!
Beautiful sunflower public domain photo from PDPhoto.org
Beautiful free image.
PDPhoto.org Public Domain Sunflower Image15 more lovely sunflower public domain images from PDPhoto.org :
15 Sunflower Beauties
Sunflower Photographs from Flicker
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Sunflower at Bertuzz...
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Road to the Mountain
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Assorted Sunflower Links
- Sunflower Stuff from Amazon
- Here is a link to my "Sunflower Store" at Amazon.
Find Sunflower Books, Seeds to eat, Seeds to Plant, Seeds to Sprout, Seeds for Birds, Sunflower Toys, Sunflower Calendars, Sunflower Kitchen Items, and other Sunflower Surprises! - Sunflower Photo Slide Show at Flickr
- 112,363 beautiful photos of sunflowers at Flickr in this slide show. Beautiful bright exquisite photographs of all kinds of sunflowers captured by a variety of photographers. I watched for about 10 minutes and felt uplifted and refreshed. I put it on pause for later. I could not believe the abundance of this earth regarding just this one flower. Such variety and beauty. So many seeds to munch!
And if you don't want to watch the slide show, but just to see the images one by one, page by page, here are all the pictures on Flickr with the tag sunflowers
Also check out two sunflower groups on flickr:
Sunflowers Sunflowers Sunflowers
Sunflowers - Wikipedia Sunflower Information
- Lots more sunflower information can be found here: history, scientific, cultivation, trivia, and pictures. There is also a video of a sunflower head in stop motion moving to follow the sun. It's also interesting the spiral in the center. There is a mathematical formula for the cool way a center swirls to make the seed pattern.
- Ohio State University Sunflower Facts
- A one page quick useful info guide to sunflowers.
Planting, roasting, about... - National Sunflower Association
- Everything you wanted to know about the sunflower.
A wonderful resource for agricultural information.
The history of the sunflower (Native Americans in North America and Russians commercially). Wonderful FAQ (the largest head was 32 inches!) There is a great oil chart - showing mono/poy/unsaturated oils. There is another great chart of which birds prefer which seeds. A huge nutritional section with recipes and dietary info. A sunflower magazine. - Sunflower Greens Sprouting
Sprout People has an incredible website about sprouts.
Sunflower seeds for sprouted greens are the small pure black oily seed. To me, the only reason to only use those, was because the seeds had enough strength to push the hulls off, [without growing a deep root]. (Even so, I always had to manually remove some hulls).
This link is for growing 3-4 inch greens.
(An easier way, I came upon, was letting my sunflower heads go to seed and letting the birds have their way with them. They dropped hundreds of seeds which sprouted in groups every week. I went outside with scissors and cut little bouquets for salads.)
Sunflower greens have a potent flavor and are great on sandwiches. You can also buy sunflower greens in markets. They don't last too long in the fridge. (3-5 days) But if you keep them nice and dry, they will maybe last 5 days.- Colored Pencil Instructional Video
- Are you interested in learning colored pencil drawing, and making a sunflower artwork? I came across this instructional video by Janelle Johnson. DVD, pattern, and all how-to's to create your own sunflower petals perfectly.
Send Fresh Sunflowers!
- Sunburst Sunflower Bouquet Pickup Flowers
- Send a beautiful bright yellow sunburst bouquet of sunflowers with yellow roses ANY WHERE IN THE WORLD from Pickup Flowers! What a thrill to receive. Such a great way to light up the room.
Sunflower Cards and Beautiful Gift Items on Zazzle
From an assortment of talented artists and photographers
Beginning and End Mousepad by Redboy (Gregory Anthony) Gallo
Funky Sunflowers Note Card by Lisa Lorenz
Sunflower Original photograph by Pauline Chiarelli, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx
Sunflower Summer Series Card by Amanda
Sunflower Card By Gigi, San Francisco
Sunflower by Jill, artist, United Kingdom
Sunflower Summer Series Calendar - by Amanda- 13 beautiful images
Sunflower with Tuxedo Cat Greeting Card Art by Maria K Bell
Sunflower Posters
Brighten a room. Bring sunshine inside.
24 in. x 36 in.
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24 in. x 36 in. $8.99
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Summer I Art Print This beautiful sunflower poster is by Amy Melious, measures 11x14",and sells for $12.99Buy at AllPosters
Giant Sunflower Seeds Poster Fine Art by Lilly Fluger
More Sunflower Cards and Posters
Beautiful, creative, unique, original - so many ways to express a sunflower!
Sunflower by Roger- Florida
Giant Sunflower - original art greeting card by Amy Jordan
Red Velvet Sunflower Card by GinaSignore
Colored pencil drawing of sunflower botanical style by Julie Richman, Chicago artist
"Golden Sunflower" Original Painting by Helen Zapata, artist, Phoenix, Arizona
Sunflower Poster Canvas Print by Lynda Price, fine artist, Ocean Springs, MS
Nature's Fury Greeting Card by Chantell Van Erbe
Sunflower bloom bumper sticker by WanderLinArts
Texas Sunflower Postcard by baytownbert
Sunflowers in Bloom on Cards and Posters
Siamese Cats With Caterpillar & Sunflowers Poster - Jamie Wogan Edwards , Artist Illustrator, Ontario, Canada
Dragonfly on Sunflower Bud Poster by Leatha
Razzmatazz Red Bicolor Sunflower with Bud by Charles Black
Elegant black and white sunflower photograph by Lauren Perry
Sunflower Bird Card in colored pencil by illustrator Mariana Musa from Australia
Sunflower Blue Butterfly Greeting Card by GinaSignore
Growing Sunflowers from ... Sunflower Seeds!
Sunflowers will follow the sun (called heliotropism). In the morning they are facing east and follow the sun as it moves across the horizon to the west. Then each night, they slowly turn back towards the east. So if you are planning a sunflower garden, you want to figure out your directions, so when you look at them in bloom, they will not have their backs turned to you.
Sunflowers also come in all sorts of sizes from dwarf, some are more bushy, to others gargantuan tall. So again plan your garden for size and color.
They sprout in 1-2 weeks, sometimes sooner. Soil is best if it is "holds moisture and good drainage"... how we all wish all soil acted. Sunflowers are extremely hardy if they have full sun (6 hours per day at least).
You can pre-sprout seeds in a jar or with a moist paper towel in a dark place and then plant in the ground about an inch deep and at least a foot apart. (Use your judgment based on the seed kind. The dwarf can be a bit closer, the giants a foot and a half apart.) The little sproutlet with the outer husk gets planted all together. You use less seeds this way, and can place them more accurately, and birds can't dig them up.
Sometimes as they grow large with heavy heads, you may need to stake them if it's very windy.
If you want to harvest big seeds from the mature heads, choose a sunflower cultivar specifically from the seed catalogue for that purpose. You can eat any of the other seeds, but the colored ones, and dwarf varieties are much smaller. The dwarf varieties can be planted in a pot. They are charming.
If you plan on harvesting the seed heads when mature (they will brown and begin drying out), cut the entire head and .. lay it so it is has air circulation around it (and the will not get moldy) to dry out for a couple of weeks. The dry seeds will then just rub off and pop out. Save some for the next planting, the biggest healthiest dryest. The rest are ready to be sprouted, or roasted, or fed to birds. A couple of useful links on growing:
Growing sunflowers
Anyone Can Grow Sunflowers by Brenda Hyde
Sunflower Seed For Your Garden Resources
- Park Seeds Sunflower Seed Page
- Park Seed carries a broad wonderful collection of different sunflower seed varieties. I love looking at their catalogue, browsing through all the varieties of flowers, herbs, vegetables
- Ferry Morse Seeds Inexpensive
- From TGN's Pumpkin Nook, here are several sunflower seeds at half price from Ferry Morse.
There is also an excellent how to plant page here. (From the Gardener's Network.) - Cooks Garden Seeds
- A nice selection of sunflowers to grow. Sunflower cutters delight is a great mix of varieties.
- Johnnys Selected Seeds
- A wonderful seed company with 5 pages of sunflower varieties to choose from.
- Stokes Seed White Sunflower
- This Moonshadow caught my eyes because it is close to white. Stokes has a wide variety in several categories. Sunflower page-Main link
- Pine Tree Garden Sunflowers
- Also called Superseeds.com, Pine Tree Garden has been one of my favorites for years. Inexpensive and a great selection.
- Nichols Garden Seeds
- This page is for all flowers. Scroll down and each sunflower variety has its own link. There is about 20 varieties.
- Renee's Garden Seeds
- Renee Shepherd has all her seed packets for $2.69.
There are wonderful flower illustrations, but you can also click the photo to see the plants in their pots or garden. - Burpee Seeds
- Burpee has a wide selection of sunflower seed varieties and is a major seed supplier. Seeds ranged $3.50 -$4.40 a packet. There are 40 varieties to choose from.
- Thompson and Morgan Seeds
- Thompson and Morgan has 26 varieties of sunflowers with beautiful photographs and seed packets around $2.95.
- Gurney's Sunflower Page
- More wonderful sunflower seeds to bloom in a variety of colors.
- Harris Seeds
- Another wonderful resource for sunflower seeds to plant.
Painting Sunflower Videos
Painting Sunflowers by Artists
Three gorgeous paintings of a sunflower in process: Sumi brush, Oil, and another quickie that is beautiful. Sumi Painting of a sunflower by Kazu Sumi-e artist from Tameike Akasaka, Japan. A sunflower painting in the making by Duane Keiser. Sunflower painting from Art by Brett - Striking - Beautiful! Thank you all artists letting us watch your work in process!
Lillyarts Sunflower Paintings
Available as Posters on Canvas or Fine Art Papers, Framed, Matted
Starting at portfolio size at $9.99 (11"x14") all the way to colossal size (45"x55") 129.95, these paintings are available and can be personalized, text added (such as a black border with inspirational words or quote) without mat or frame. Or you can choose from a wonderful array of professional fine art watercolor papers, canvas, with frames, mattes and uv glass. Zazzle performs an exceptional quality of printing.
Wear a Sunflower - T-shirts and Apparel Gift Ideas
On the 5 Sunflowers shirt below, you can have any of 5 images, move them around, have one or two, make a collage, add your own custom text... You can even use the customizing tool to copy images to the back of a shirt. Designs can be on different styles and colors... There are several dark styles in black, brown, green, red, greys...
Red Sunflower T-shirt / Apparel
Sunflower T-shirt / Apparel
Five Sunflowers T-shirt Apparel
Catch Some Rays Sunflower Dark T-Shirt Apparel
Sunflower Fine Art T-Shirt
Beautiful Sunflower Oil Painting by Hazel Burrows
Abstract Sunflower painting
Sun Worshipper 13"x17" $16.99 Hazel Burrows
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Sunflower 20"x16" $23.99
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Sunflower Art from Different Artists
Rainbow Graphic of Sunflowers and Watercolor Sunflowers
Sunflower Rainbow 12"x5" $6.99
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Sunflower IV $12.99 12"x12" Marthe
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Sunflower Fine Art
Sunflowers, 1888, Vincent Van Gogh 15"x20" $19.99
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Sunflowers By Del Gish 20"x28" $19.99
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Sunflower Videos - Slide Show Photographs to Music
If you want to relax, and admire, listen and fuzz out in the beautiful flower pictures to wonderful music, these sunflower videos are phenomenal!
Sonia (dolphinsonia) from Belgium made an incredibly beautiful sunflower compilation video with Sarah McLachlan singing about Ordinary Miracles in the background. Sunflower slide show to "Uncle Bill" Still's Ennanga by "Dad" from Australia -10 miinutes of soothing beautiful music and exquisite photos. THANK YOU!
Great Stuff on eBay
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Sunflower Gifts
Life As a Sunflower
Price: $6.00
Takes a comprehensive look at the characteristics of a sunflower as it develops from a seed into a flower. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For persona... more »
Sunflower House
Price: $16.00
How three friends use a package of sunflower seeds and their imaginations to have fun for the entire summer. Color illustrations accompany the text wh... more »
Come Back, Hamtaro!
Price: $3.99
Based on the 8th TV episode entitled, The Sunflower Field, in which Laura goes to visit her grandmother and Hamtaro gets lost in a Sunflower field. Fe... more »
Sunflower Vase Arrangement
Price: $59.99
Delight the sunflower-lover in your life with this bright and beautiful bouquet featuring one dozen of the freshest medium sunflowers, desig... more »
Georgia OKeeffe A Sunflower from Maggie, 1937
Price: $155.00
Artist: Georgia OKeeffeTitle: A Sunflower from Maggie, 1937Frame: Gold with Leaf Pattern - 1.25in WoodMat: Autumn Gold/DoveOne of America's most well... more »
Lenox Artist Sketchbook Sunflower Accent Plate
Price: $18.00
FEATURES THE SUNFLOWER AND DAFFODIL. ITS AS IF PAGES FROM AN ARTISTS SKETCH PAD WERE TORN AND TRANSPORTED DIRECTLY TO THE PIECES IN THIS INSPIRING LEN... more »
The Sunflower Parable
Price: $7.99
The beloved Farmer is back, this time with some sunflower seeds and a lesson of life, death, and new birth. Fans of Liz Curtis Higgs will welcome her... more »
Stainless Steel and Wood Sunflower Pendant
Price: $55.86
Stainless Steel and Wood Sunflower Pendant - In Solid Surgical Stainless Steel - Please Note: chain/necklace is not included
Sunflower Wall Tapestry
Price: $49.99
This Sunflower wall tapestry adds a wonderful accent to almost any setting.Woven with a cotton/polyester blend, the tapestry has a cheerful blue vase... more »
Sunflower Refrigerator
Price: $149.99
Your girls will agree---the clean-and-cool look is blooming with this classically styled fridge! Beautifully hand-painted with sunflower stencil on a... more »
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Made of durable hardwood Dimensions: 17" wide x 34" high x 12
Sunflower gift items from Cafepress artists
Unique Sunflower Fine Art Wall Hangings
Mexican Sunflower and Sunflower Design
Big Sunflower 10"x10" $9.99 Alfred Gockel
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A Mexican Sunflower 16"x20" Elaina Feliciano $23.99 Giclee Print
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Sunflower Books - Fun reading out of the sun.
Sunflower Fine Art Paintings
$12.99 8"x10" Pol LedentBuy From Art.com
Sunflower Variation 24"x16" $29.99 Ineke Vermijen
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Sunflower Photography
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Photographer, Barbara Bordnick, has captured a unique angle on this beautiful "Helianthus" ...eg Sunflower Photo Fine Art Poster Print. It measures 35 x 27 in and sells for $34.99
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More Sunflower Artwork
Homage VII
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Fun Sunflower Paintings - Cats and Fashion
TUXEDO CAT MOONLIGHT SUNF... 8"x12" $12.99
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