Tour de Fleur: Sunflowers

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Join Kathleen Gibi, with the City of Knoxville parks and rec, and Ellen Blasius with Knox County parks and rec and myself for this month's Tour de Fleur: Sunflower Walk along the Will Skeleton Greenway to Forks of the River Wildlife Management Area.

TWRA manages the 400+ acre parcel of land for wildlife. They have planted acres of sunflowers reminiscent of a canvas by Vincent van Gogh.  

We'll meet at Ijams Saturday morning, July 9 at 10 a.m. and ride a bus out to the location in South Knoxville on the French Broad River. 

Other July flowers of note blooming along the way are chicory, garden coreopsis, Queen Anne's lace, mullien and trumpet creeper, but it's the spectacular fields of sunflowers that will make the walk memorable. 

Birds we are likely to hear are common yellowthroat, yellow breasted chat and indigo bunting.

This is a great outing along an often overlooked greenway.

Kathleen Gibi and Ellen Blasius

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