Well, I finally found my sunflower earrings (see yesterday's blog) but, drat, the backing on one had fallen off, so I just wore boring black earrings to the Garden Club meeting today. Here are some of the amazing sunflower tidbits of knowledge that I dispensed:
The sunflower became the Kansas state flower in 1903, just a few years after legislators tried to get it eradicated from the state as a noxious weed.
Inca and Aztec Indians coveted sunflowers, crafted them from gold, and high princesses wore them in their hair.
There is archeological evidence that sunflowers have been around at least 3,000 years.
North Dakota currently leads all states in sunflower production.
The tallest sunflower on record was 25'5".
There are only 17 calories in a teaspoon of shelled sunflower seeds.
The most sunflower heads ever grown on a single plant is 837.
Peter the Great encouraged that sunflower hybrids be developed in Russia.
Vincent Van Gogh's painting "14 Sunflowers in Vase" sold for over $36-million in 1995.
Hooray for the sunflower!!!! Too bad poor Vincent wasn't around to cash in.
(Sunflower photo provided by the garden of The Flaming Bore)
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