Texas is seeing sunflowers everywhere this summer for unexpected reasons
An abundance of sunflowers have popped up around South and Central Texas this season, the result of seemingly disconnected events that conspired to put on a beautiful display of blooms.
I first noticed them a few weeks ago. After an early dinner in East Austin, some friends and I decided to walk to a nearby bar for a nightcap. It was one of those perfect early summer evenings — hot, but not too hot, with daylight stretching far into the evening hours. Behind the restaurant was a dirt patch where a house had recently been razed. My friend Jenny and I stopped to snap pictures of a patch of sunflowers growing through the concrete.
"Is it just me or have there been a lot of sunflowers this year?" Jenny asked. I replied that truthfully, I hadn't really thought about it, and we rejoined our group a few steps ahead.
In the days that followed, I noticed them everywhere: patches of small sunflowers in alleyways and towering, 8-feet tall monsters growing over neighbor's fences, impressive clusters taking over highway medians and poking out along trailheads. This summer, it seems the whole region is bursting with blooms.
Read more: https://www.mrt.com/lifestyle/travel-outdoors/article/Why-are-there-so-many-sunflowers-in-texas-2021-16288407.php
(Midland Reporter-Telegram)
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