I started with 24 seedlings, using seeds from my 10-foot sunflower of two years ago. Of those, one didn't escape the shell so it's tiny leaves died within and another got pulled out of the ground by something several days after it was planted. That leaves 22, two of which broke in heat and high winds yet they still thrive. I noted earlier that we had a hot spell, well, that hot spell has mostly continued for us the last few weeks.
It was a beautiful, sunny afternoon today so I decided to take some sunflower pictures to share an update, most of which will be after the break, if interested.
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| Starting in the corner by the house, porch and steps there are two clusters of three sunflowers. In the one on the left is one of the broken stems. It fell forward, but I leaned it back, and that is where it still is leaning on the cage but growing well nonetheless. |
