Farm Garden, City Garden

Farm Garden with Sunflowers, Gustav Klimt

A busy avenue in the heart of Brooklyn is not usually the place to find a small flowerbed filled with zinnias. When you do, it is worthy of a minute or two to stop and soak-in their vivid colors. The red zinnias remind me of Gustav Klimt’s Farm Garden with Sunflowers. There should be and can be more farm gardens in our cities.

Discover farm flowers grown annually from seed, planted in mid-spring in full to partial sun for a burst of color when summer nods to fall.

sunflower

scarlet zinnia

orange cosmos

yellow cosmos

pale pink zinnia

blue aster

phlox

wine aster

blue morning glory

nasturtium

zowie zinnia

white morning glory

City Garden with Zinnias

Gustav Klimt’s Farm Garden with Sunflowers is in Vienna’s Belvedere Museum.