Last but not least, the Black Russian Sunflowers are in bloom. They insisted on a blog posting of their own.
Despite the commonly held belief, sunflowers do not really follow the sun. They generally face south, and never show any interest in facing north. The fact that so many people believe they follow the sun shows how little they get outside and actually look at sunflowers late in the afternoon when the sun has moved on to the west.
Many Praying Mantises have moved into the sunflowers, preferring a high-rise location.
I believe they are called sunflowers not because they follow the sun but because they look like the sun.
