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Remember Monet’s pictures of poppies in wheat fields? Those were the days before selective weed killers and maximum return on crops, but in today’s farming world our birds and bees have a hard time finding pollen and food.
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Farmers have kept a ‘green’ border to their fields for many years, but more recently the famous French biscuit manufacturer LU, created a project encouraging farmers to lay aside a small border on their fields to be sown with flowers. Packets of seeds were distributed, cornflowers, sunflowers, cosmos, escholzia and many others depending on the region.
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LU is a major consumer of wheat flour and this way they hope to improve their corporate image as well as the fashionable bio friendly image of their biscuit.
In the meantime, whatever the motive behind the operation, we get to enjoy flower-edged fields all over the valley, and maybe the best bit of all, nobody stops to pick the flowers, everyone has understood they are there for a reason and the best way to enjoy them is to let them grow where they stand.
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36 comments
Beautiful, I adore Cosmos.
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Oh how beautiful.
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what a delightful look, how nice a measure for the insects even though it's just marketing… i adore the sight of cosmos.
Love all the cosmos, we had them at La Pouyette years ago and now farmers have them here as well.
Wonderful images!
Bonne semaine,karin
wow that sums it up in one word!!!
Love this!!!!!
That is wonderful to read and see.
çok güzel!!! Beautiful.
wow, what a beauty! I wish it could be implemented in the fields along the highways here in Argentina. It would certainly bring a smile to everyone driving along and improve their days.
Thanks so much for sharing.
what vision…
What a great idea. Don't you love it when corporate need and community gardens can come together?
It's absolutely beautiful. I love cosmos.
Suffia
Gorgeous. Cosmos are such a happy flower!
I think many companies are starting to realize that they must put back something when they take so much out. Good for them. It shows awareness and caring. At least they do not behave like Monsanto! I think I will go find some LU and bring a packet home.
what a terrific idea!
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So nice pictures about flowers – cosmos is even in vase very beautiful mixed other flowers. In this summer I used they a lot in my home.
I love this look of natural, wildflowers. When we moved to our new house this summer, we thought, oh look, pretty purple wild flowers. Then we realized they're thistles (pretty from afar, but nasty weeds!) and we are under bylaw to get rid of them. I told my hubby that I'd like to get a packet of wildflowers and spread them in that section of field =)
How lovely! And how French to make even the biscuit-flour fields aesthetically pleasing.
Oh, I love this – planting flowers for the bees and other creatures. Beauty for a reason.
I planted one package of cosmos 9 years ago and seeds from those original flowers still appear year after year to add delight to the garden.
I applaud the good people at LU, and to you; for the small and important steps needed to take care of this beautiful earth.
The beauty of the flowers is a wonderful thank you from Mother Nature.
We were in Napa Valley, California for a wedding recently and I had noticed a lot of the vineyards had done the same thing…it's so lovely to look at and if left natural, so beneficial to the birds and bees. How pretty the images you sent us are.
Karen
How beautiful! Such a wonderful idea too.
~ Clare x
What a lovely story & the flowers look amazing, the colour how happy it would make people. Trudy x
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I swear I must be part French! I adore Cosmos, I throw seeds throughout my vegie patch to bring in the bees! Keeps the weeds down too!. C'est magnifique!
Gorgeous Sharon… such a wonderful way to preserve the fields..We have rosemary and lavender growing along our beach front courtesy of the local council..
Have a great new week.. ciao xxx Julie
So beautiful! What a neat way to keep the fields intact. Loved this inspirational story….
Thanks you for yet another wonderful snippet of French life. Who would have thought that those beautiful field of poppies were under threat. Nothing is sacred anymore.
I check in everyday for your wonderful posts. Have a great week.
I have admired them, and the rondpoints, for years.
Last year I bought a box or two of the seeds from Monsieur Bricolage and now I have a patch of France in my English garden!
CC
Gorgeous! I would fill my house with those beauties.
Love cosmos and LU biscuits – especially Le Petite Ecolier!
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