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“Sunflowers will grow, somewhere. Bright yellow sunflowers against a deep blue sky.”

For the Ukraine

For Peace

 

Sunflowers have long been a beloved symbol of Ukrainian national identity.

 

“There is no scenario, however grim, in which those now being written in the shelled and traumatized streets of Ukraine will be forgotten,” writes Jeremy Cliffe for the New Statesman. “Sunflowers will grow, somewhere. Bright yellow sunflowers against a deep blue sky.”

 

Helianthus (/ˌhiːliˈænθəs/) is a genus comprising about 70 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the daisy family Asteraceae commonly known as sunflowers.

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Uploaded on September 4, 2022