Sunflower Bouquet 2022 Two-Ounce Stamps — Wedding and Invitation Rate (Not a Forever Stamp)

Please note: this is a 2-ounce rate stamp, not a Forever Stamp. It covers heavyweight invitations — birthdays, weddings, anniversaries — along with oversized greeting cards and small packages that need extra postage.

Issue facts

Value: 2-ounce Mail Rate
First Day of Issue: March 24, 2022
First Day City: Lawrence, Kansas
Printed by: Banknote Corporation of America
Printing Method: Offset, Microprint
Format: Panes of 20

The design

Harold Davis's digital photography puts orange and yellow sunflowers at the center, with irises, dahlias, echinacea and smaller red, purple, white and pink blooms filling in around them. It is a close relation of the 2022 Tulips Forever design. No official ceremony was held; the first-day postmark came from Lawrence, Kansas, home of Grinter's Sunflower Farm.

Why wild sunflowers

Sunflowers read as summer anywhere in the world, and they come in enough colors and sizes to suit any occasion. The mental image is usually a towering stalk, but North America's native wild sunflowers are often modest — up to about six feet, with flower heads three to four inches across. They grow easily in a backyard and pull in pollinators, butterflies and hummingbirds especially.

That smaller scale is exactly what makes them work in a delicate bouquet, which is what this stamp shows. Combined with other bright blooms, it is a piece of summer you can put on an envelope in any month.

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