Buy bright sunflowers in the grocery store to brighten you winter table. Allow them to inspire you to make plans for a stand of 
sunflowers in your own garden. When you have a small garden, it is very important to pick and prepare a sunny spot and start the seeds indoors. If planted outdoors, the squirrels and birds will consume them.
Winter bird watching is a great activity for young and old. Select a bag of seeds for wild birds from the shelf at the grocery store. This February, stuff pine cones with peanut butter and birdseed for the snowy days sure to come! Seed eating birds are the ones that stay with us through the winter. Attracting colorful birds to an outdoor view from your window brings the joy and beauty as they sing little sunshine songs. Select bare winter tree or shrub branches near a window. Use two bread twisters or yarn to attach each cone firmly and watch the little birds feast away! A shepherd’s crook flower pot holder will hold the seed cones.
It is time to start sunflowers seeds indoors, so they will be ready to transplant to your garden as soon as the soil warms in the spring. In the fall, when the sunflowers will be blooming save the seed heads for the birds in the winter months! Be sure to save a few seed heads for your garden spot.
