Contentment by design - Living

I love Maximilian sunflowers with their graceful clusters of flower heads. In fact, they're my favorite type of sunflower. When we first moved here more than 15 years ago, we planted quite a few of them in front of our deck and around our parking area. They took a few years to establish and then, just as they were getting robust, they were overrun by spittlebugs, which create nests of foam for their eggs/nymphs. This happened for several years, and then the Maximilians disappeared.

I thought they had died off, but it appears they just went dormant for a few years. This years, two clusters of them came back, grew to full height with no spittlebugs, and now are flowering in all their glory. I'm so glad they're back!

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