Sunflowers!

Don't you just love them?! :)

You can't get much more variety than the simple sunflower...

another pic

Oh my gosh... it just dawned on me I put Sunflowers in the wrong forum! Sorry! Maybe somebody can move it to annuals???

it may be in the wrong forumn but they are gorgeous!!!! I am glad I got to see them! Beautiful!!!!!

You can, of course, go for Helianthus maximiliani which is both a sunflower and a perennial!
(http://plantsdatabase.com/go/928/index.html)

yes you can and they are splendid! Thousands of blooms every summer!

something took a "bite" out of mine!

Never fear - the thread is now safely in Annual territory ;o)

Thanks so much Terry-

Thanks Terry! :)

Not real excited about mine this year - lots of small deformed flowers. Cultivar is Bohemian Rhapsody. Love your first picture!

Here's one more.

kooger...cool pics! Never seen one like that first one of yours!

It's kind of a sick red. lol The seed packet picture shows lovely blooms in shades of wine red and yellow, all very pretty! Hardly a single one looked like that. The best is probably the 2nd picture and it has a few funky petals. We're very dry here so that probably had something to do with the small size of flowers. Doubt if I'll try these again.

I grew two or three of the minis in pots and really not impressed with them in pots. I love the sunflowers too and next year it's back in the ground even for the minis.
cinemike, I have the maximilliani too and this year it is at least 12 feet tall and not blooming yet.

Kooger, your poor sunflower looks like 'Bill the Cat'! Sunflowers don't do very well here... too wet and cool. However, this year it was hot and dry... didn't plant any... sob!

never 'first guess' Mother Nature lol we always lose!

Sometimes, the way she behaves, I think we ought to call her 'Mother-In-Law' Nature!

LOL Weezingreens!

Kooger, I kinda like the red one even with the "bad hair", reminds me of my kids when they wake up in the morning.

Cottage Rose, your first picture is beautiful! What is it's name?

lol

clairelise...sorry forget which one that is. I don't keep track of my sunflowers names.
Just one of those pale yeller ones. ;)

Great name for a sunflower... Old Yeller!

Thanks, Weezingreens!

Here's a pic of one of mine, that horseshoe sent me the seed for. This picture just doesn't do it justice. It actually just "shimmers" beautifully in the sun.

Karrie...that is very pretty!
I just love sunflowers! :))

Can't resist posting this old fashioned giant one that's growing at the corner of my son's vegi garden.
to add - it's about a foot across

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I just went out and snapped this, My mailbox with the voluteer native sunflowers that are all over my property. I let the wind and birds do a lot of my planting for me.

Ooooo....TERRIFIC pics, everyone! Guess where I got *my* sunflowers this year? The BIRDS planted them. They dropped seeds from the feeder and I got the cutest little sunflowers out of the deal.

A related story is:
Last week I was planting some of my potted plants in the ground for the winter. In one of the pots, a *mouse* had been nesting. The nest was FILLED with bird seed. I didn't think anything about dumping the potting soil into the bed with the transplanted hosta. At least not until today. Back out planting and replanting stuff...I noticed some rather odd things growing. I really had to laugh at myself when I saw that ALL the seeds had germinated! The sunflowers were popping up all over the place. ...and they tell me that bird food is supposed to be *sterile* !!?!! :-D

Next year, I'm planting a handful of bird seed...who knows, maybe I'll get lucky and a BLUEBIRD will grow! ;-)

~julie~

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lol @ julie - who knows what you will grow! I hear there is marajuana seed in bird seed!

Blooms those are great pics! Love the big one. I noticed more blooming today...think I'll go snap some more pics. :)