Plant of the Week: Sunflowers
A Keystone Plant for North America
A few years ago, an errant sunflower popped up in what was a gravel area in our front yard. This gravel strip had been nothing but an eyesore since we purchased our home – an ill-advised effort by a former homeowner to create a place to park their boat. The gravel is in places nearly 2 feet deep – and it was the ugly, cheap gravel intended for road pavi…