Sunflowers
My flower beds change from one year to the next, even though there are lots of perennials in them. I would expect the plants to come up in the same place where they were last year, but sometimes they don't. They edge farther away from the original spot, or the seeds blow into other places in nearby beds. Birds spread seeds around.
So, I always have sunflowers growing, usually because birds have dropped the seeds in unlikely places. One year the sunflowers were thick and dense around the front bird feeder. That was really striking. Passers-by commented on how great they looked. I looked from them to grow that way the next year, but there were only a couple that grew there.
As I walked through the yard looking at the plants today, I suddenly realized that there are no sunflowers growing this year. I tried to transplant the sunflowers that the squirrel planted in the flower pots, but none of them made it. No sunflowers this year! That's a disappointment to me, in a way. However, there are lots of other beautiful plants for me to enjoy and I'll expect that next year there will be more sunflowers again.
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