Calendar Girls the musical (was: The Girls)

"We wear our sunflowers because when John was in hospital he had lots of cards with sunflowers on them. It's a happy flower. You can't look at a Sunflower and feel sad. When he came out of hospital the first time, my daughter-in-law Georgina came around with a packet of sunflower seeds and said we should grow them into plants and give all our family and friends one to grow, for John. She had worked out that when the Sunflower was in bloom, hopefully, John would have been in remission. That's what we did. But he died in the July and he never saw the Sunflowers in bloom. But everywhere we went, after that, everyone had a Sunflower. We've been in hotels in America, and there's been a Sunflower on the wall. It's been incredible, as through the Sunflower has followed us around. That's why we wear it and why it's on every picture. It became our flower of hope."