Working on fine motor skills and encouraging pretend play, this is the perfect activity to do with your sunflowers at the end of the summer. Did you grow sunflowers with your kids this year? We did and we have had a bumper crop. Our tallest sunflower measured 2.25m (our tallest sunflower to date). But unfortunately … Read more
Sunflowers have to be my all time favourite flowers. Such cheerful blooms to have in your garden, so tall and majestic towering over all of the other flowers during the summer. Seeing them also reminds me of happy holidays with my grandparents over in France, where we used to drive by fields of them all … Read more
Before having kids gardening wasn’t even on my radar. Despite growing up on a vegetable farm, it certainly didn’t leave me with any green fingers. I struggled to keep a house plant alive when I left home! But having kids tends to change your perspective on many things and gardening has been one of them. … Read more
We have had great success with sunflowers in our garden this year. Earlier in the summer my children helped to plant sunflower seeds into pots, which we kept inside for a few weeks before planting out into our garden.The kids really enjoyed looking after and watering their plants and arguing over who was going to … Read more