Children’s Day is coming. Ten thousand sunflowers are waiting for you in Nanshan Botanical Garden. (Picture provided by Nanshan Botanical Garden)

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- The Children’s Day is coming, and Nanshan Botanical Garden has prepared more than 20,000 pots of more than 10 varieties of sunflowers, and arranged them into flower fields and sunflower maze, to provide fun and popular places for the festival.

A total of more than ten varieties of sunflowers will be exhibited. All sunflower seedlings have undergone a special dwarfing treatment, changed the original large tall into medium tall, and the original medium tall into short. A total of more than ten varieties of sunflowers were exhibited. In this way, all sunflowers no longer need to be supported and fixed, no longer afraid of the baptism of the wind in the square, and it is convenient for young people to get close to sunflowers. The sunflower varieties are mainly Golden 08, Green Angels with green stamens, unique “Golden Diamond”, Black Swans with rare and unique red and black flowers, exquisite and small “Happy Fireworks”, elegant light green and white “Moon Shadow”, and “Golden Starfish” with unique shape. Each variety has its own characteristics and is pleasant.

We all know that the snack seeds we often eat are sunflower seeds. Sunflower seed oil is edible oil squeezed from sunflower seeds. We know that when sunflowers bloom, their petals are golden like sunlight, and their plates are large and full. The sunflowers on display in Nanshan Botanical Garden can completely subvert your understanding of sunflowers. There are “Bright Moonlight” with lemon yellow petals inlaid with black brown stamens, brownish red “Happy Fireworks”, and “Toy Bear” with petite head... rich in form and color. In combination with the science popularization activities of Nanshan Botanical Garden, tourists can have a deeper understanding of sunflowers and even take them home. (Translated by Luo Juan, Fathom Language Limited)