In the middle of the drought, Jenny Jenner’s husband bought her a bunch of sunflowers from the supermarket.
The Queensland farmer put them in a vase on her kitchen bench, where she admired their thick manes of bright yellow petals and big round faces.
As the Jenners started running out of water during the historic dry spell, this sweet and simple marital gesture changed their luck.
“I thought ‘these will be easy to grow,’” Jenner said.
Now one million sunflowers are waiting to burst into bloom on their farm at Kalbar, in the Scenic Rim region, replacing the acres of lucerne they used to grow….