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Here Comes the Sun.... Flower!

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Perhaps even…. The Greatest Flower? How is the humble Sunflower much like The Beatles?     Well, and bear with me on this one. Imagine you asked a hundred people in the street to   ‘name the biggest , best, most popular pop group of all time’… I reckon The Beatles would form a majority answer. Now, asking those same people to ‘name the biggest, most popular flower’ and I’m pretty sure the noble sunflower would rank highly in their responses. Therefore, and somewhat like The Beatles, the sunflower suffers from that strange and similar dynamic… You know, the one that goes something like this. Because of their brilliance and majesty, reliability and all-round loveliness, they often get a little overlooked, in favour of whatever is new and current.   George - the Dark Horse - was always my favourite!   By now, regular readers of my blog will know that I LOVE yellow daisies. Again, a rather camp-sounding admission, but who cares!? For me, yellow flowers bril