If only van Gogh had been around to paint this!Flowers, flowers everywhere - and doesn't it make you feel blooming marvellous!With summer finally gracing the UK, sunflowers have been sprouting up all over the country to welcome the warm weather. And flower power was in full swing at Severn Trent Water, where a million sunflowers have been grown using sewage cake fertilizer at the company's Old Hattons Farm at Coven cov·en n. An assembly of 13 witches. [Perhaps from Middle English covent, assembly, convent; see convent. , near Wolverhampton. Caroline Hosie, from Severn Trent Water, inspected the bumper crop on the 1,300-acre farm by the Shropshire Union Canal The Shropshire Union Canal is a navigable canal in England; the Llangollen and Montgomery canals, sometimes counted as branches of the SU, lie mostly in Wales. The canal lies in Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire in the north-west midlands of England. yesterday. After harvest the seeds will be used as bird seed to feed the wild birds on Severn Trent's reservoirs this winter. |
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