Rustical

Tag: tall sunflower

  • Sunflower Down

    Disaster! Came home to find the 2015 giant sunflower on its side. It makes it a bit easier to measure though… so at 12’6″ it means there was a little bit of growth since the last measurement but I suspect that was mainly in the head opening up fully. The seed head of the sunflower measures…

  • The giant sunflower has flowered

    I don’t know if they stop growing once they have flowered so we thought it best to take a measurement…. 12′ 3″ (3.73 meters). Definitely a personal best but I suspect it won’t be enough to win the local competition. All the plants in the local competition were from the same source  so it was…