I love sunflowers. I was in Bern Switzerland years ago. The morning after I arrived ( I was at the home of a friend. ) I looked across a vast field of the giant sunflowers set against the periwinkle blue of the mountains and the cobalt blue sky. The vision was magical. There were billions of sunflower making a brilliant carpet of yellow in the intense sunlight. That week-end there was a convention of hot air balloonists hovering above the sunflower fields. The balloons radiated their colors against the sky. I felt so very blessed to have witnessed so much beauty that glorious morning! That night as I lay in bed under an eiderdown comforter and reflecting on that day the tinkle of cow bells lulled me to sleep. In fact, I fought off sleep as long as I could so that I could revel in the sensations from the day. So thank you for sharing your sunflowers with us and reminding me of one of my favorite experiences!
Every video I watch you mention the groundhog--I am so thankful I don't have a similar situation! Laura from Garden Answer had a groundhog issue and used an organic repellent. It has worked really well for her. You successively put it in larger and larger circles in your yard to drive the hogs out. I admire how you do everything with sustainability in mind, but may be worth to look in to this organic solution to save you the pain in the future.
I love your vlogs I can see the effort you put into them, your home is lovely as is your music, watching your vlogs is like taking a long warm bath Siloe.
I love sunflowers! I went crazy and planted three packets of them. I transplanted them to the community garden and put them a long the edges. It gave the garden much needed shade in Los Angeles heatwaves. I come to realize now that I can grow them year round. For next year I will grow them in batches so I have sunflowers year round.
Beautiful, just beautiful!! I also think that sunflowers are really set off in a blue, cobalt blue or Talavera vase. Thank you for another Wonderful video!! Until next one Siloé, be well!!😉
Greetings from Florida- I love the Sunflower and just started a sunflower circle in hopes to have flowers for this fall and to help the Bumble Bees and Honey Bees. Thanks for sharing your story! 🌻🐝🌞⛵️
I've been binge watching for over a month because that's how long it's been raining here. Half our state is under evacuation from flooding. I'm so over the rain. You'll know when it finally stops because I'll be out in the garden instead of living vicariously through youtube 😂💖
Your videos are lovely meditations on nature and it's singular desires and quirks. I tried to do a three sisters thing this year. However, in my local climate corn doesn't grow well so I thought to grow sunflowers and plant green beans below to twine up the sunflower's sturdy stalks. I didn't know about the allopathic nature of the sunflower and was disappointed that my green beans seemed to struggle. Now I know why. Bit by bit we learn. I'll still grow sunflowers but my green beans will have to grow elsewhere next time.
puggirl415 puggirl I planted pole beans in two batches next to sun flowers. Not all my seeds sprouted and the beans were growing slower than the others. They did eventually catch up BUT one of my sunflowers stopped blooming and died. It was no longer sturdy and when the Santa Ana winds came the top part broke off. The other sun flower is still blooming and has been a good trellis 👍
Very poetic and beautiful plants. This year is my first year I planted these and I'm hooked. Their so dramatic and grand. I love them as cut flowers in summer. Thanks for sharing and God bless!
Sunflowers are my favorite and so easy to grow, I grow them every summer, last year I grew a different variety, they turned out pretty good gonna try again this yr and even more varieties
Hey, great video. I also live in Maryland and have been trying to build good soil for some time. Thankfully I got some chickens. This will help the soil tons.
Along with wonderful gardening content, a appreciate the felicitous word choice. The florid, poetry with which you describe your relationship to with your garden is compelling. Thank you. Stay Gold.
I am growing sun flowers for the first time this year. I love the idea of using sunflowers as a trellis. I just learned about this method a few weeks ago and I am trying it in my own garden. I’m a TH-cam gardener too. I think I may have already messed up. My pole beans and morning glories that I planned to grow up the sunflower and growing so much faster then my sunflowers! Do you have any advice on what I should do now? I may make a trellis out of branches but I’d love to see this work out as is. Thank you for all your help. You have taught me something new. I hope we can continue to support and learn more from each other.
Me encantan, tus vídeos, me inspiran para para trabajar en mi huerto, jardín Sería posible que pusieras subtítulos en castellano?. Llegarías a mucha más gente Un afectuoso saludo y muchas gracias.
It really depends on your weather. If you have a short growing season with morning temperature below 50 to 60F in late May or early June and rain coming in mid to late September, you can't grow sunflower the natural way. They simply will not germinate quick enough. You need to start sunflower seeds in door a week to 10 days before planting them out. Many of them require 100 days to grow to their full potential. If you start them in door, you can guarantee a good harvest. The other problem is if you have some strong grass like fescue and Timothy in your property, they will take over the sunflower space and the sunflower seeds will either be unable to germinate or will be dominated by the grass. One way to do no til and be able to grow sunflower is to cover the ground using some cardboard to kill the grass so that you can plant sunflower in late May. The way of letting plants grow naturally may not work for all plants in all regions. I learn this lesson the hard way.
I just started growing mine for the 1st time ever and as soon as I put a few in the ground yesterday a thunderstorm happened. So now they're just limp they were still on the leaves stage and the ones I let my daughter plant with me came up out of the dirt so I had to replant the seeds today 😔😔
Thank you for the music/vocals also.
I love sunflowers. I was in Bern Switzerland years ago. The morning after I arrived ( I was at the home of a friend. ) I looked across a vast field of the giant sunflowers set against the periwinkle blue of the mountains and the cobalt blue sky. The vision was magical. There were billions of sunflower making a brilliant carpet of yellow in the intense sunlight. That week-end there was a convention of hot air balloonists hovering above the sunflower fields. The balloons radiated their colors against the sky. I felt so very blessed to have witnessed so much beauty that glorious morning! That night as I lay in bed under an eiderdown comforter and reflecting on that day the tinkle of cow bells lulled me to sleep. In fact, I fought off sleep as long as I could so that I could revel in the sensations from the day. So thank you for sharing your sunflowers with us and reminding me of one of my favorite experiences!
Your description was story like and much enjoyed. Thank you
I loved this story
You're a Walt Emerson and a poet! Beautiful video. Thanks for sharing your amazing garden, thoughts, and skill:) Subscriber from Florida.
This was lovely, thank you. I'm so grateful to you for making these thoughtful videos.
Just love all of your narration. Your information and more so your insights are all so precious
They are some of my favorite. I had tons of volunteers this year. The goldfinches, bees and even hummingbirds loved them.
Thanks for sharing!!
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Every video I watch you mention the groundhog--I am so thankful I don't have a similar situation! Laura from Garden Answer had a groundhog issue and used an organic repellent. It has worked really well for her. You successively put it in larger and larger circles in your yard to drive the hogs out. I admire how you do everything with sustainability in mind, but may be worth to look in to this organic solution to save you the pain in the future.
I love your vlogs I can see the effort you put into them, your home is lovely as is your music, watching your vlogs is like taking a long warm bath Siloe.
I love sunflowers! I went crazy and planted three packets of them. I transplanted them to the community garden and put them a long the edges. It gave the garden much needed shade in Los Angeles heatwaves. I come to realize now that I can grow them year round. For next year I will grow them in batches so I have sunflowers year round.
Squirrels and birds do most of the sunflowers for us. Pretty awesome random patches are the best.
Pure Poetry! Sunflower Mayhem!
DUDE! I"ve been watching your channel for 3 years & honestly, it helped me out...
I noticed that probably sunflowers grow better when I do not plant them specially. 🌞Thank you for this story! 😍
Beautiful, just beautiful!! I also think that sunflowers are really set off in a blue, cobalt blue or Talavera vase. Thank you for another Wonderful video!! Until next one Siloé, be well!!😉
You deserve more views honestly the video taking is so pretty and nice
Greetings from Florida- I love the Sunflower and just started a sunflower circle in hopes to have flowers for this fall and to help the Bumble Bees and Honey Bees. Thanks for sharing your story! 🌻🐝🌞⛵️
I've been binge watching for over a month because that's how long it's been raining here. Half our state is under evacuation from flooding. I'm so over the rain. You'll know when it finally stops because I'll be out in the garden instead of living vicariously through youtube 😂💖
I'm the same way winter I study up for spring summer and fallandscaping
Your videos are lovely meditations on nature and it's singular desires and quirks. I tried to do a three sisters thing this year. However, in my local climate corn doesn't grow well so I thought to grow sunflowers and plant green beans below to twine up the sunflower's sturdy stalks. I didn't know about the allopathic nature of the sunflower and was disappointed that my green beans seemed to struggle. Now I know why. Bit by bit we learn. I'll still grow sunflowers but my green beans will have to grow elsewhere next time.
puggirl415 puggirl I planted pole beans in two batches next to sun flowers. Not all my seeds sprouted and the beans were growing slower than the others. They did eventually catch up BUT one of my sunflowers stopped blooming and died. It was no longer sturdy and when the Santa Ana winds came the top part broke off. The other sun flower is still blooming and has been a good trellis 👍
If they break just bury is a couple feet down. It will re root.
That was such a delightful video. Thank you for making these.
Thank you for watching and commenting my friend
the teal from that vase really makes the orange from the flowers pop😍
Well done sunflowers always make me smile... I did not know that they were native to the Americas...
Very poetic and beautiful plants. This year is my first year I planted these and I'm hooked. Their so dramatic and grand. I love them as cut flowers in summer. Thanks for sharing and God bless!
Thanks!
I planted them in my garden once. Now 2 years later the birds have planted them every year.
I love the background music. Makes me think of Charlie Brown
I thought the same thing.
Sunflowers are my favorite and so easy to grow, I grow them every summer, last year I grew a different variety, they turned out pretty good gonna try again this yr and even more varieties
Hey, great video. I also live in Maryland and have been trying to build good soil for some time. Thankfully I got some chickens. This will help the soil tons.
Sheer poetry for the sunflower!!!
Great stories and videos , I love your videos and they whisk me away for 10-15 minutes of the day! Keep doing what you are doing :)
Along with wonderful gardening content, a appreciate the felicitous word choice. The florid, poetry with which you describe your relationship to with your garden is compelling. Thank you. Stay Gold.
Jesus, that vase of daffodils is art!
Thanks for sharing all of your talents with us.
your garden is so beautiful
love sunflowers, thank you
I am growing sun flowers for the first time this year. I love the idea of using sunflowers as a trellis. I just learned about this method a few weeks ago and I am trying it in my own garden. I’m a TH-cam gardener too. I think I may have already messed up. My pole beans and morning glories that I planned to grow up the sunflower and growing so much faster then my sunflowers! Do you have any advice on what I should do now? I may make a trellis out of branches but I’d love to see this work out as is. Thank you for all your help. You have taught me something new. I hope we can continue to support and learn more from each other.
Que lindo seu jardim, parabéns.
Love them both
Me encantan, tus vídeos, me inspiran para para trabajar en mi huerto, jardín
Sería posible que pusieras subtítulos en castellano?. Llegarías a mucha más gente
Un afectuoso saludo y muchas gracias.
This video was Lit.
Wonderful, thank you. ❤
Great video
It really depends on your weather. If you have a short growing season with morning temperature below 50 to 60F in late May or early June and rain coming in mid to late September, you can't grow sunflower the natural way. They simply will not germinate quick enough. You need to start sunflower seeds in door a week to 10 days before planting them out. Many of them require 100 days to grow to their full potential. If you start them in door, you can guarantee a good harvest. The other problem is if you have some strong grass like fescue and Timothy in your property, they will take over the sunflower space and the sunflower seeds will either be unable to germinate or will be dominated by the grass. One way to do no til and be able to grow sunflower is to cover the ground using some cardboard to kill the grass so that you can plant sunflower in late May. The way of letting plants grow naturally may not work for all plants in all regions. I learn this lesson the hard way.
Thank you for this video! Where did you get the seeds for this specific variety of sunflowers please? Also we’re they pollenless? Again, thank you!!
Poetic.
Do you have a video teaching us how to make the chicken wire fence box at 0:30
Great video, thanks
I just started growing mine for the 1st time ever and as soon as I put a few in the ground yesterday a thunderstorm happened. So now they're just limp they were still on the leaves stage and the ones I let my daughter plant with me came up out of the dirt so I had to replant the seeds today 😔😔
Morning,
What is the name of the flowers that you cut at the beginning of the video?
Cheers
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7:35 it was a pleasant surprise to hear music from Brazil
when chat GPT writes your script.
Imagine being planted, this comment was made by feral sunflower gang 🌻
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This song played is a Brazilian song.. ❤️ do you speak Portuguese?
Yes. I’m Brazilian and I wrote the song
What did you feel? 0:32
Where are you located?
What happened with this channel not making videos anymore
I’m working on one. I just got behind since I’m also renovating and getting the garden ready
Great example of lazy gardening
Don't exaggerate, if you want to see a real winter you should come to Alberta, Canada.
they don't know where to grow and plants do not think. they grow where they grow because they can.
Yes, I was anthropomorphizing them.