depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, made a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. Image credits: Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers Gone to Seed (1887 ...

If sunflowers are so closely identified with van Gogh, he actually envisioned a world of flowers, with images of his interpretations of roses, peonies, poppies and orchids projected on a vase.