Photos by Diandra Womble
Every Mother’s Day weekend, Mickey Womble starts his garden and planting of his sunflowers. He started this many years ago for his daughter, Diandra. Each and every year the garden gets bigger and the sunflower color palette gets larger. Mickey uses past dried sunflower seeds from each year’s planting and plants those seeds for the coming year. As you see, many colors bloom from this. The blooms start around July 4th and really peak mid-July. There are many different kinds of sunflowers and some, like pictured, are called the dwarf sunspot, black peredovik, early black heart, procut red, velvet queen, chocolate and florenza sunflower.
