Sunflowers for the Gardening World Cup

13/8/2011

I’ve been fretting about the sunflowers for my garden for the Gardening World Cup. They’ve taken on a significance quite out of proportion to their place in the original design, since it was announced that sunflowers are being planted in the contaminated land at Fukushima to clean the soil of radioactivity. As the Gardening World Cup this year is being held in aid of the victims of the tsunami my sunflowers have suddenly become quite significant.

And so I was delighted today to receive an email from Japan with photos of sunflower seedlings, which are just beginning to appear, four days after the seeds were planted. They should be in flower by the beginning of October. To be on the safe side, another batch is going in next week. The varieties are Vincent and Valentine, pictured above.

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About Slow Life

The idea of Slow Life is to take the principles of Slow Food, which are “good, clean and fair”, and extend them to life in general.

Here in the Lake District, the air is clean, the pace is slow and the atmosphere is calm. If we don’t grow food ourselves, we can buy it in friendly small shops, where you know the quality is going to be the best.

This blog is a celebration of the Slow Life, with forays into the world of design, music, the arts, gardens, and my particular weakness, Japan.