Filed under: Art, Phoenix | Tags: Art, Downtown Phoenix, Flora, Global Community, Greater Good, imagine, Learning, Phoenix, Valley of the Sunflowers
This is the last growing season at the Valley of the Sunflowers.
The bulldozers and cranes are encroaching and soon this former dirt field that became gloriously yellow will be a construction site for the future Phoenix Biomedical Campus and the Arizona Cancer Center, already in progress the next lot over. Fortunately, for those of us who loved seeing the sunflowers, there are plenty more vacant lots in downtown Phoenix and the sunflowers have been such a hit that they will probably be back a few blocks away.
The sunflowers have been an A.R.T.S. (Adaptive Reuse of Temporary Space) project sponsored by the Roosevelt Row Community Development Corporation in collaboration with Arizona State University, University of Arizona, Intel, Bioscience High School, and others.
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Gorgeous! I love sunflowers.
Comment by Pam from eclecticlivinghome June 7, 2012 @ 4:27 pmI was thinking about these just the other day! I hope another of the vacant lots will be used the same way after these are gone.
Comment by montucky June 7, 2012 @ 7:02 pmA fine sunflower series from this soon to be gone field. I guess this progress sounds needed, but I’m glad there are other areas of growing sunflowers.
Comment by Don June 8, 2012 @ 8:02 amThis looks like a good use of vacant lots. Luckily, sunflowers seem to grow well in lots of places.
Comment by Steve June 9, 2012 @ 3:10 pmCandace, these sunflowers are just beautiful, especially today, as it rained ALL day.
Comment by lisa June 9, 2012 @ 4:01 pmSending you wishes for a wonderful weekend!
This was such a great way to make one tiny corner of the Earth a little more awesome
Comment by roadsidewonders (@RoadsideWonders) June 9, 2012 @ 4:33 pm