Tag: sunflowers

UK Climate Activists Arrested After Throwing Soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers

Two UK climate activists have been arrested after throwing tinned soup at one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous paintings in the National Gallery in London. The activists, who are supporters of the Just Stop Oil organisation, threw two tins of Heinz Tomato soup over the 1888 work Sunflowers shortly after 11 a.m. on Friday,…


How to Grow Your Own Majestic Sunflower Patch

By Erica Pearson From Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Tips from Minnesota farmers on how to plant and which varieties to choose. Is there any plant more cheerful and charming than a sunflower? This year, the sunny yellow bloom — the national flower of Ukraine — also has become a hopeful global symbol of solidarity with the…