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| Written by Maureen Jane Tan | |
| Sunday, 21 August 2005 | |
 Being a Filipino in a foreign land, one of the things that surprises me are the sunflowers during summer time. There are sunflowers in Philippines but not as big round types that I most often see in foreign movies. Having grown in Manila, I do not have much opportunity to see a garden full of flowers, except during my trip in Baguio.Hokkaido, the largest island in northern Japan, boasts of its fields of sunflowers during summertime. In mid-September to early October, over 60 million sunflowers bloom in the several flower fields of Hokkaido. Sunflowers are the classic example of heliotropism, the involuntary response of plant to the sun. Sunflower blooms physically turn directly to face the sun, reorienting overnight to await the rising of the sunrise. So at early dawn, especially in huge tracts of sunflower fields, they look like soldiers in their places waiting to be kissed by the first rays of the morning sunlight. |
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