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Have you spotted the enormous sunflowers sprouting around Beenleigh?
If you have, they most likely were planted by 10-year-old Alyssa and 8-year-old Mila Delaney, with the help of their father Curtis.
It all started three years ago, pre-COVID-pandemic.
“We went down to Beenleigh farm Supplies, and we looked around the side and there were all these sunflowers taller than me, and I’m 6 foot,” Curtis says.
“We had gone into there to get fertiliser for our veggie garden and I saw them, and asked [the clerk] if they sell the seeds from the sunflowers, and they said it’s just from them sweeping the floor out from the delivery area into the garden.
“So they just gave us a bag full [of sunflowers seeds], and we started planting them around home, in the yard, a couple of years before COVID. It was about us having fun.”
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Curtis says once COVID hit, he and the girls decided they wanted to spread some joy within their Beenleigh neighbourhood.
“We would go for a walk around the street to put a bit of colour around and ask the neighbours if we can plant the seeds in their yards, and it just went from there,” he says.
“The girls started taking the seeds to school, planting the sunflowers, and heaps of huge sunflowers started growing at their school, which if perfect for what were all going through,” Curtis says of the pandemic.
“It’s become a regular hobby. Some neighbours are waiting for us to turn up with seeds, some of them also keep the seeds off their sunflowers, and [the sunflowers] get to the size of a dinner plate by the time they’re grown.”
The family have been planting the colourful flowers around Beenleigh for almost three years to put a bit of colour in the neighbourhood.
“The idea was when I picked the kids up from school, we could see sunflowers on our way home,” Curtis added.
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10-year-old Alyssa, who simply wants to spend time with nature, go for walks, and be a farmer, says for her and her sister it was about brightening up Beenleigh and getting people outside.
“It makes their life more colourful,” Alyssa says.
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You can follow the sunflower trail in Beenleigh through their socials here.
