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Hi there! How are you doing today? First day of summer :) I've got some gorgeous sunflowers growing in my backyard, soaking up the sun.
That's awesome! I don't see many sunflowers where I live. I didn't know helianthus was the technical name. They look like a really interesting type of flower.
I didn't know that either. Its cool how their name is based off it resembling the sun
Oh really? That's interesting. It really does resemble the sun well now that you mention it. I don't know of any other plants that are bright yellow like that.
Yellow is such  bright happy colour. I have it growing in the centre of my garden, with other flowers around it. Kind of like the sun being in the centre of the solar system LOL
Haha, that is really neat. Do you know anything about the type of soil and climate they grow? I live in a high elevation and I'm not sure if they grow well.
Soil
Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life. Earth's body of soil, called the pedosphere, has four important functions:
- as a medium for plant growth
- as a means of water storage, supply and purification
- as a modifier of Earth's atmosphere
- as a habitat for organisms
All of these functions, in their turn, modify the soil.
The pedosphere interfaces with the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, the
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