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British father takes gardening to new heights with a giant sunflower
David Clark Scott
As the lockdowns started in March, Douglas Smith鈥檚 4-year-old son had a request: Let鈥檚 grow a sunflower as 鈥渂ig as our house.鈥�
You may already know that pandemic gardening is a thing. You know this because your neighbor keeps leaving zucchini the size of scuba tanks on your doorstep.聽
This past spring in the Northern Hemisphere, about the time that toilet paper became scarce, a new backyard farming movement began. It started as a hedge against food shortages. 聽that it halted orders for a few days in April to catch up. Nurseries and garden centers are still doing a booming business. But sales have gone way beyond the apocalyptic preppers.聽
Gardening has emerged as the ideal break from Zoom meetings. Weeding is therapeutic. The raised bed has replaced the day spa as a source of solace and rhapsodic contentment. 鈥淚 found love in my garden and I honestly never expected it to get like this, but聽 It鈥檚 so rewarding,鈥� first-time gardener Nyajai Ellison told ABC News in Chicago.
Meanwhile, in the village of Stanstead Abbotts, England, Mr. Smith took his son鈥檚 request to heart. He ordered sunflower seeds, and started watering 鈥� twice a day. He now has聽 towering over his two-story house, reports SouthWest Farmer.聽
How big is a father鈥檚 love for his son? As big as a house.
