Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Raising Bordered Patch butterflies, 1 by konkreteblond

konkreteblond wrote:
This is something I did this summer, but haven't gotten around to sorting thru my pics. (because I have the worst software and it tortures me) Some are good and some aren't, but they are at least informative.

A few years ago a little birdy brought me a present and it has reseeded every year. It's a large native sunflower that will grow about 8ft tall! It branches out and looks more like a bush and produces flowers on every branch. I have a ton come up from seed and have to pull them out early or the trunk becomes too large and it has to be cut. I left 2 this year on opposite ends of the yard.

Here is a pic of the one in my son's garden. And he did refer to it as HIS sunflower. :)