I discovered Flower Friday last year while visiting Lorilin@Bugbugbooks and have been having a blast sharing some flower pictures and information. Please check out Lorilin’s blog if you haven’t already for book reviews and more!
Today’s Flower is:
Bird seed sunflowers!
My young daughter was out in the driveway waiting for me to load the bird-feeders and decided to throw some of the seed in an old pot that I hadn’t planted yet. I guess she thought the birds might visit the pot. The flowers sprouted and this is what we ended up with.
I’ve seen bird seed sprout under my bird-feeders before, but had no idea we would get these. I have no clue what type of sunflower this is, but it’s really nice having them!
Also, the one cat we didn’t get fixed last year had kittens. Here’s one below prancing around in the water…
Here’s another picture of an orange king zinnia. These are just now taking off as I planted them late. More on these later!
How’s your garden doing? Growing anything interesting this year? Have a great weekend everyone! 🙂
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Ok…coming to get the kitten….
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Yay! You mean all four, right? 😂❤
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If my daughter sees the picture it will be
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I honestly never thought about what would sprout from birdseed. The kitten is adorable!
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It’s quite amazing and a fun surprise! 😉❤ Thanks!
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I love the photos! Especially the kitten! ♥
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Thanks, Janie! I need to catch up with you. Hope all is well. 💙❤💙
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All is well! Thanks Mischenko! ♥♥♥
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Thats awesome how you got the sunflowers! Such a great story! And the kitten is adorable and i want it but I already have two cats who would murder me if I brought home a third haha
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We were very surprised! I hear you on the kittens. We have too many already as well. They actually have homes to go to soon though. Thanks for your comment. 💙😚
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I love this post! I have had birdseed sprout, but I probably pulled it up before it could do something amazing like this! I showed my mom, and she said that she’s tried to grow something from it before and never got anything, so this is pretty awesom! I love how big it is and how many blooms you’ve gotten! I also love that zinnia! And of course the kitten! I had one years ago that looked similar! Does she have any orange? We got a St. John’s Wort flower in a pot- it has beautiful flowers – well, not now, but when we got it. I’ve fed it so hope it does something. Slowly my rose is getting its leaves back, and my mini rose has a tiny bloom. It gets eaten by rabbits and chipmunks, and I love the animals so much, I can’t get mad. Happy Friday, favorite M! 💗 xo
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Thanks, Jennifer! That warms my heart. Not bad for bird seed, right? My daughter was so excited 😀
This little kitty is mainly grey and white. Her siblings have some orange though! I’m going to have to look up St. Johns Wart. That’s one I don’t have any experience with.
I’m so glad your roses are coming back! The insects and everything have been so bad this year. It’s hard to maintain. If we could just get some rain too LOL. ❤ Chat soon, Jenn! Thank you! 😉
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Happy surprise, huh? That the way to test the seed to see if it is good for the birds! If it germinates, it’s good for birds.
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A very happy surprise indeed! I guess it makes sense that it should sprout. It’s just so nice having something different and it was a fun experience. ❤ I'm thinking it might be nice to just have a bird seed bed next year. Might be fun! 😀
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Are bird seed flowers like little sunflowers?? They’re so cute! AND SO IS THAT KITTEN!!!! It just looks like it’s prancing home to cuddle me!!! 💖💖
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This was a song bird mix so it had a lot of little black sunflower seeds in it. Some of the other seed sprouted, but didn’t do much so, it’s mainly just these little sunflowers of some sort.
Glad you liked the little kitty! They are so much fun right now. Very active. ❤ Thanks!!
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Oh! The kitty!!! 😍
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😉
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I love surprise flowers like that! Lol. How absolutely gorgeous they are. Beautiful, vibrant colours. And surprise kitten as well! 😄
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Thanks, Nina! It was a beautiful surprise. ❤
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Such beautiful pics! And the kitten is adorable!! I don’t have a garden, but we do have flowers in the front yard. My fav are our California Douglas Irises. They bloom and shed every week or so.
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Thank you so much! I’m going to have to Google those irises. I can’t say I’ve seen them? Blooming every week is wonderful! ❤
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I never associated bird seed with flowering plants. Amazing! The zinnia was one of Grandmas favorite flowers. She had them in all of her gardens. I know I’ve said this before but I believe you have her ‘green thumb’. 💕
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Isn’t it? We were so surprised and just laughed about it. We kept them watered to see what we would get and here we are with blooming sunflowers! So fun. I believe this must be where some of my plant interest came from. Well, and from you too of course! 🙂 ❤
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What a nice surprise with the birdseed! I didn’t know that something could grow from them. Your garden and kitten look wonderful. Happy summer!
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Thanks so much! It’s been so fun! ❤ You too! 😀
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I love zinnias, and I love any and all sunflowers.
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Yay! Me too. ❤ 😉
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