Death of a TITAN

LOL!
ps, I'm on the old E cigs now!!

A poignant tale and I was so relieved to read its happy ending!!

All sunflowers make me smile except for that one of yours left lying on the ground - such indignity!!!

Lol mate, I do love your blogs, shame about the Titan though.. Great blog..

I always dread looking at my garden after high winds as you never know what damage you might see. I love sunflowers, but they will not grow for me.

Poor Mouldy. Tell you what, cut the dried end off and stand it in abuycket of water next to the fence & tie it into the trellis - you never know your luck, you might get a cut flower! And I bet nobody else will have done that...

Oh, how sad :-( But the five/six-headed one looks promising. The birds and bees will have a field day!

To be honest, I prefer the shorter varieties with their
varied colours. Give it some thought for next year
Mouldy.

All roads lead to Rome, wouldn't you say, Lulu? Lol. Best of luck!
If you think my sunflower suffered indignity, Wildrose, you should have seen how undignified I looked scrambling up the wall. =-O
Thanks, Surrey. It's laugh or cry, as you know! What's a chap to do? ;-)
I thought I'd anchored them sufficiently, Drc. :-(
The nasties, honeysuckle & peas, growing at the same height, weren't even touched! Smaller flowerheads...that must be it.
Steragram, you ghoul! What next...deceased relatives embalmed round the breakfast table? Now you've got me at it. Lol.
Maybe not, Mel, as the heads are bound to be smaller than one single one. Still, they won't all be crowded round the one flower. A bit of wing room. ;-)
I gave it some thought for this year, Diane. Lol. There's some in the planters either side of the back door & at least one has put in an appearance in the border. Dwarf variety.
Thanks, HB. I considered the bucket idea, but didn't want to traumatise the rest of the garden any worse than it was already.

I'm a ghoul am I? Well it always helps to see yourself as others see you, lol! Watch it Mouldy or I'll be coming round to haunt you, complete with a bucket of water...

I'll get my sunflower's ghost (and all the others I've lost) to chase you off, Stera. ;-)
I wonder how others see me?
Not a pretty picture, I'll warrant. Lol.

Charming. Something different anyway - can't be many peole who've been chased off by the ghost of a sunflower...
How do we see you - well, handsome and talented of course...

I never saw you as a fibber, Stera. Lol.
Flattery will get you anywhere.

A 7ft Helianthus did that just last week in this garden, it's a real shame when that happens, so I know how you feel.

It kind of leaves a gap deep inside of you, as well as in the garden, doesn't it, Helenium?
Plus the damage to surviving plants.
Note to self : Stop interweaving plants! Lol.

Yes Mouldy I know that feeling, it matters not a jot that it can be easily grown from seed next year or that the damage been done to other plants will probably help them regrow better because they've been cut down - no none of that matters it's still a case of loss now.

Stop it...you 'll have me sobbing like a big girl's blouse! Lol.

Aw man...there's nothing wrong we that! Lol

Gonna call you Helium...you're a gas! Lol.

I had sun flowers growing in my hanging baskets! must have been the birds. took them out and got rid of them. I have now found four more growing in the garden. only about 4 ft tall. do you think they will get any bigger if I leave them? have never grown them.

Te He He, I'll take that as a huge compliment - never been called a gas before!

Nor have I, Shandy.
I'm a 1st time gardener, so have been pretty lucky.
The one that got blown over was seven foot, seven inches tall, but I've heard of them growing to up to twelve feet tall.
My one had grown to it's max, I think, as it had produced the flower.
I've another at seven two & a third at six nine, then three smaller ones.
You'd have to ask the other goyers, but I think, once the flower begins to develop, the plant stops growing at that point.
Heliun, you're very welcome. ;-)