Pick-Your-Own Adventure as Sunflower Season Blooms in Australia

The eastern states of Australia will turn yellow throughout February and March, the typical sunflower season. Antonino Visalli/Unsplash

In the middle of the drought, Jenny Jenner’s husband bought her a bunch of sunflowers from the supermarket.

The Queensland farmer put them in a vase on her kitchen bench, where she admired their thick manes of bright yellow petals and big round faces.