A Kansas American set the bar high by giving his wife 1.2 million sunflowers – one of her favorite flowers – that he planted with the help of his son for their 50th wedding anniversary last month.
“It made me feel very special. “I couldn’t have gotten a more perfect birthday present than a field of sunflowers,” said Renee Wilson with a smile on ABC’s Good Morning America.
In May, Lee Wilson, with the help of his son, secretly planted about 1.2 million sunflowers on 80 acres of land in Kansas – the equivalent of 60 football fields – to give his wife the field full of yellow flowers for their 50th wedding anniversary on August 10.
“What could a man give his girlfriend for her 50th?” he told the American media, making his partner smile at his side. I thought about it a lot and she always loved sunflowers. And I said to myself, ‘This is the year to plant sunflowers’.”
Their love story began in high school when Lee Wilson picked up the phone on the day she turned 16 to ask his future wife to go out with him since her parents had previously forbidden her from dating boys.
The couple then went roller skating in Harper, Kansas, just an hour from where he said he planted the sunflowers, and the man already knew he had found the woman of his life, he reportedly added.
The gift did not go unnoticed on social networks, as several users applauded the gesture.
“The bar has been raised,” said a first internet user, while a second rather joked, “and I can’t even get a reply via text message,” as The Guardian reported.