Texas Gardening: Spring Has Sprung! .... at least i hope so!!, 0 by Elphaba

Elphaba wrote:
I just drove down a street where they allow the wildflowers to bloom and there were bluebonnets everywhere! I forgot that it's that time of year. You country folk should post some pictures. Maybe you already have. I should just go look!

Anyway, here is a sunflower called Cherry Rose that is a total disappointment so far. It's the first to bloom as advertised, but it's about a foot tall when it's supposed to get to five feet, and the flowers are half the size they're supposed to be (2" instead of 4"). Maybe it will keep growing? The only sunflowers that I've grown in the past have been volunteers from fallen bird seed which seem to grow a heck of a lot better!