Sunflowers on Seventh project started

| June 10, 2015
Gardeners: The Duncan family started its Sunflowers on Seventh beautification project June 9. Pictured smiling for the camera before they started planting are: Eli Duncan, who was sitting in front, and then from left are Greyson Schultz, Caleb Kline, Cooper Duncan, Caleb Schultz and Noah Duncan. Beacon photo by Josie Sellers

Gardeners: The Duncan family started its Sunflowers on Seventh beautification project June 9. Pictured smiling for the camera before they started planting are: Eli Duncan, who was sitting in front, and then from left are Greyson Schultz, Caleb Kline, Cooper Duncan, Caleb Schultz and Noah Duncan. Beacon photo by Josie Sellers

COSHOCTON – Amy Duncan is hoping to have sunflowers blooming everywhere on Seventh Street come fair time.

Duncan and her family encouraged the community to join them last week outside the fairgrounds agriculture building to fill planters with soil and sunflowers.

“It’s a community service project we came up with to help beautify the area and increase participation in the county fair,” she said.

Participants were encouraged to take their planter home to care for them and then bring them back at fair time to be placed around the fairgrounds. Duncan also was hoping there would be some planters that could be placed in front of businesses on Seventh Street. The planters were borrowed from the Garden Patch, which also donated the sunflower seeds.

“Most of them are Mammoth Sunflowers, which they said should be blooming around fair time,” Duncan said.

They also planned to pass seeds out to people who live on Seventh Street and encourage them to plant the flowers in their yards.

Duncan said about five Mammoth Sunflowers can grow in each pot so people can clip one or two to enter in the fair’s sunflower exhibit and use the others for decorations.

Youth exhibitors will receive a discounted exhibitors pass of $10 (4-H) or $17 (non-4H).

“I’m hoping kids learn about growing something and that it’s a fun project that turns into something beautiful,” Duncan said.

Anyone who was unable to come last week, but would still like to take care of a planter, can e-mail Duncan at [email protected]. Everyone who signs out a planter with her will be contacted in the fall and given information on when and where to drop the flowers and pots back off before the fair.

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I started my journalism career in 2002 with a daily newspaper chain. After various stops with them, I am happy to be back home! I graduated from Coshocton High School in 1998 and received a Bachelor of Arts in Communication in 2002 from Walsh University. I also earned several awards while working for daily papers, including being honored by Coshocton County’s veterans for the stories I wrote about them. I am honored and ready to once again shine a positive light on Coshocton County. I also am the proud mother of a little girl named Sophia!

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  1. What a great project. One of my favorite flowers. Can't wait to see the results.