I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn’t come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers. – Vincent Van Gogh, letter to his brother Theo Sunflowers (Helianthus Annuus), so yellow, so grand,  like yawning lions with sleep-rumpled manes. A flower with an ancient past, sunflowers originated in the Americas* and not in Europe, although lovers of Provence associate the enormous sun-following heads of these flowers with warm, endless […]

Categories: Agriculture, France, French Cooking, Gardens, Lit & Food, Photography, Poetry • Tags: Alan Ginsberg, Anthony van Dyck, Claude Monet, Historie of Plants, John Gerard, National Sunflower Association, Paul Gauguin, Simon Wiesenthal, Sunflower seed, Sunflowers, Vincent van Gogh