sunflowers symbolise long life, vitality and good luck, and to Native Americans, sunflowers symbolise harvest and provision they share. Sunflowers are also thought to be spiritual flowers ...

Spring sunshine is less intense, making it suitable for a host of plants, including these tulips, grape hyacinths and pansies ...

For sun, there is the native twinflower with its diminutive twin purple flowers. Blue woodland phlox is my favorite for sun/part shade. The plant itself is low-growing and spreads rapidly ...