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moonwalker sunflower


moonwalker sunflower

multi head sunflower



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Ooooo! There lovely, wish I had grown some this year:o)))

25 Aug, 2010

 

This looks identical to some we had growing down on the allotment this summer! I saved some of the seeds to plants next year.

We had many multi headed Sunflowers down there.

14 Dec, 2010

 

Ooh wow hope mind get like that lol, theyre just recovering from a slug attack. got some in the mini g.h doing well too fingers xd! :o)

7 Jul, 2012

 

There are loads of them growing down of the allotment - they are just as bad as weeds! I'm having to pull the things up all the time!!!

On the other hand I do let them grow where they don't interfere too much with what I've planted or plan to plant. Some have even started flowering during the last few days!

I have two beds planted up with dozens of plants in each row. These are for Gerry to harvest the seeds for his aviary birds over the winter.

Three years ago I won the 1st prize for the tallest Sunflower on the allotments field! Like the picture above it was multi-headed. In fact that's the one in my avatar photo!

8 Jul, 2012

 

OMGosh balc! i just had a closer look at your pic. thats amazing! i cant believe theyre just popping up, im having trouble! the ones that got eaten by slugs are perking up again now and i have four in the greenhouse only about 20cm so im worried the wont happen this year, esp. with the weather the way it is! i wanted them to attract some birds to my garden-they dont seem to bother with the feeder! :o)

8 Jul, 2012

 

Have a look at some of my allotment blogs & you will find photos of Sunflowers in some of them. Some self-sown are actually flowering at this moment on the allotment!

None of the Sunflowers I sowed have begun to flower as yet. But then they were sown in the middle of May while the self-sown ones have been growing since before May even began! Obviously they have to TLC but are left to do their "own thing" - while they don't bother me or my plantings!

I'll upload a photo to my Photos so you can see what I mean. In the photo I'm going to upload there are about 9 -10 Sunflowers. As they aren't in flower you will have to look carefully for them but as they are at least knee high you shouldn't have any trouble in find some of them!

8 Jul, 2012



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