{"id":483,"date":"2007-03-11T04:28:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T09:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2007\/03\/11\/sunny-days-are-on-the-way\/"},"modified":"2010-10-01T23:40:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T03:40:04","slug":"sunny-days-are-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2007\/03\/11\/sunny-days-are-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunny days are on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2006\/06\/23\/green-thumb-sunday\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/104\/306398715_49775ad925_o.gif\" alt=\"Join Green Thumb Sunday\" \/><\/a><\/center><center><a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2006\/06\/23\/green-thumb-sunday\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2006\/06\/23\/green-thumb-sunday\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Join<\/a> <\/center><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dragonden\/196032348\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/78\/196032348_623ba7d677.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP3103\" height=\"346\" width=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day light savings took me by surprise.  I had forgotten that we were going to jump an hour ahead so early this year.  At least this means that we&#8217;ll have a few weeks more of extra day light than we normally do.<\/p>\n<div class=\"912745ff53504cd4aef8ff3ef7b9aa95\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* gardengrows_300x250inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4054669721\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>An increase in day light hours got me thinking about the sun. As in sunny days, and how much I&#8217;m longing for it to warm up outside so that my plants can begin to come out of dormancy and I can get outside and work in my garden once more.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>To brighten my day while I pine for summer days I thought I&#8217;d post a lovely sunflower photo today.  You can&#8217;t help but look at a beautiful sunflower and think of summer.  Looking at a sunflower just evokes good memories of hot summer days.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;ve grown sunflowers since I was a child.  We used to grow them at our cottage in our country garden.  They were &#8220;My&#8221; flowers.   Now I grow a mix of medium to tall, hybrid and normal, multi and single flowered sunflowers in my front boulevard garden bed.  I grow them there so that my neighbors can enjoy them as well.   I&#8217;m amazed at how many people stop to gaze at them or make a comment about them if they see my husband or I outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why, to me, the sunflower is a happy flower.<\/p>\n<p>What flower or plant makes you feel the way sunflowers make me feel?<\/p>\n<p>* I&#8217;m talking about another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feverishthoughts.com\/2007\/03\/11\/in-the-daisy-patch\/\" title=\"sunny yellow flower\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\">sunny yellow flower<\/a> on my other site today too! 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