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We're excited to get Lynn Valley blooming again! We hope you can save a little bit of space for Project Sunflower so the neighbourhood can see the gardens, balconies, and patios bursting with sunflowers this fall!

It seems like 2021 is a great year to get Lynn Valley blooming again! With gardening booming we want you to save a little bit of space for Project Sunflower. We want to see the gardens, balconies, and patios bursting with sunflowers this fall! Sowing community spiritWe have got seeds and we want...

Miss Mollie Nye herself couldn't have asked for a more pleasant celebration of the 100th birthday of the house her family built on Lynn Valley Road in 1913.House staff and volunteers from the Lynn Valley Services Society, which operates the house on behalf of the community, brought together...

It's been fantastic travelling around Lynn Valley and seeing more and more sunflower patches out in full bloom. Perhaps they are showing up more now, thanks to the backdrop of our recent grey weather!Some of our own flowers are still to emerge, and others are drooping. But just because their...

The stems are staggering, the leaves are lion-sized, and the blooms are bursting open. Congratulations to all you Project Sunflower growers who managed to nurse your seedlings through to flowering!We've seen the results as we've been cruising the neighbourhood streets, and some of the...

Can you spot the editor? Thanks to a wall of sunflowers (and her sunhat!), probably not - but she's there!It's official, my sunflowers are now taller than I am (which, I have to admit, isn't saying much). Still, I'm very proud of them, especially since much of the rest of my...

From the garden of Lynn O'Malley:Well, I'm very glad I planted my Project Sunflower seeds out in mid-May, because ever since then - between Lynn Valley Days and end-of-term festivities and grad and visitors - there has certainly been no chance for much meaningful gardening.Fortunately,...

From the garden of Lynn O'Malley...This was going to be a celebratory post about the fact that my sunflower seeds poked their heads above the soil last Saturday, a scant week after I detailed their planting in this post.While I would like to take credit for this feat (the packet said 15 days...