That’s the question Lee Wilson pondered as his 50th wedding anniversary approached with his wife Renee.
He first met Renee in high school, though the two didn’t become a couple immediately due to the fact that she couldn’t date until she turned 16.
As soon as her birthday came around, however, Lee gave Renee a call and asked her out. Their first date was at a roller-skating party, and they’ve been together ever since. Thinking back on their decades of being in love, Lee knew he had to do something special.
Here’s what he came up with…..he’d plant acres-worth of her favorite flower; sunflowers. And to be precise, acres worth comes out to 1.2 million of them.
He told KAKE TV, “I put a lot of thought into it and she always liked sunflowers. And I thought this is the year to plant sunflowers, so I planted her 80 acres of sunflowers.”
With the help of their son, Lee has secretly been planting the fields with these beautiful flowers since May. Now, just a few days from their August 10 anniversary, about 1.2 million sunflowers are in bloom, just for Renee.
Renee said, “It made me feel very special. It couldn’t have been a more perfect anniversary gift than a field of sunflowers.”
Although the flowers were planted for Renee, their beauty is drawing visitors from all around Kansas.
As lovely as this whole experience has been, Lee doesn’t expect to do it again next year.