Specialty Gardening: Join Us! Seed Swap Seed Starting & Conversation #4, 1 by Cordeledawg

Cordeledawg wrote:
Grampapa, I like using sunflower stalks too. They make sturdy poles especially for use out in the open where wind is a problem. Here's a picture of my mandevilla vine growing up a beheaded sunflower stalk in '06.

I've also used fishing line to connect cypress vines to all the sunflower stalks. Up close it looks like a big spider web until the vines cover it. Standing far away it looks like the vines are reaching for the sky with no support at all.