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Look how I've grown!

One flower on 13th July , now there are many more and the Bees are loving them. The darker Sunflower lower down is a different plant!



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I like the yellow ones.

14 Aug, 2024

 

Josie, it's hard to see on this photo but the edges of the outer petals have now faded to white. Very attractive.

14 Aug, 2024

 

Multi-headed Sunflowers look great + they last a lot longer than the single ones! This is a very good example of those that have many heads.

When I worked on the allotment a friend shared with me we had lots of Sunflowers & almost all of them had multiple heads as well. In fact the one that won me a bottle of wine for being the tallest on the allotment field was also multi-headed.

19 Aug, 2024

 

David, I remember well your blogs and photos from the allotment. The Bees are loving these Sunflowers ... :o)

20 Aug, 2024

 

Our local council gardeners have been sowing "wild flower" seeds in some very long narrow winding beds in the l-o-n-g park we have alongside the river here. (Riverside Park!) This year among the "wild flowers" they have sown 100s of sunflowers which are flowering now. Yet though I walked very close to them last Friday I hardly saw a bee! The previous Saturday I did the same when there were fewer flowers open but saw a few more bees & managed to get a few close up photos (Macros) of them feeding & pollinating - doing what bees do best!

When we grew them on the allotments 15 years ago they were full of the buzz of bees all the time.

20 Aug, 2024

 

Well done to the Council for sowing wild flower seeds. I'm sure doing this will help the pollinators.

22 Aug, 2024

 

I hope you are right, Shirley! After we have damaged the environment they have lived in for uncountable generations they need all the help they can get to increase their numbers again!

22 Aug, 2024

 

That's so true. I am delighted to see this Sunflower plant is still upright today, dreadful wind and rain yesterday and overnight.

23 Aug, 2024



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