Bolivian Sunflower is also referred to as "tree marigold". It's a tropical treelike plant that can grow to 10-15 feet in a year full of 6-8" sunflower like blooms from approx Sept - Feb/March. The best pictures of it are in the plant files section of this website. Just type in "Bolivian Sunflower" when you are doing a search.
Jon
SUNFLOWERS for 2010 - whose here?
Im lost too... someone put coffee in my cocoa.. aaaack!
Some how we got 3 SUNFLOWER threads going! LOL!
Too funny. "Guess what, I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more sunflower". LOL
I've had Sunflowers blooming for a few weeks, so I'll post these and some more later. I LOVE Sunflowers!
2nd shot.
Nice photos. I grow them yearround, but not to the extent compared to 2 or 3 years ago. Visiting family in NY State, at the moment, and was at a few nurseries looking at plants and seeds yesterday. I thought I had tried just about every Sunflower out there, but I guess not. Found some seed packs of a few varieties I had never heard of before. Looking forward to trying them out when back in Florida.
Chianti is still the only one up. I hope I'm not too late in sowing for the 20 other vars., lol.
Pom, I like that 2nd shot! Great angle!
~Daniel
Shoot, i still have some to plant....
Get em planted. I thought I had seeds for just about all of them until finding some new ones this weekend. At last count, there were seeds for 58 varieties in my Sunflower seed box. Now it's up to 62.
got dirt?
I was trying to find this thread, thought it was in Annuals. I finally gave up and decided to wait till a post showed up again. Here are some of my spring Sunflower pics in a collage.
And my favorite pic of Sunflowers so far. Just noticed the link above for the new thread. Sorry.
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I am planning to put the sunflower on the game "Plants vs Zoombies''...LOL
NICE!!! Love that big and little shot!
So ok, plants vs Zombies... got link? LOL!
I jjust noticed I got a sunny growing in a hanging basket. I wonder if it will bloom, it actually has a head on it!
Here's a look at Sunflower "Strawberry Blonde' today.
Most of my Sunflowers are Taiyo, mixed selfsowers, and Chianti. I have yet to get Aztec Sun in, needs to be planted!!!
BB, whoever heard of a sunnie in a basket?? Well, I'm growing MG's in baskets so I should not talk, lol.
~Daniel
Yum... I planted that one but nothing grew. Can you send it to me? Not really, the pic suffices. Thanks Jon for sharing!
~Daniel
Grown bunches of dwarf Sunflowers in a container before that looked nice. Just jammed a whole bunch of them in the container. My Strawberry Blonde doesn't have as much "strawberry" it in this year, but its still nice. Others are coming, but in various stages of growth so that they don't all bloom at the same time.
Verrry nice Jon.
LOL! The one I got in a basket is a volunteer, must have been a birdie!
The deer decided our sunny patch was a diner this season so dont know if any will bloom. Thats ok though, thats what the sunnies are there for for the wildlife. Just you would think they would wait untio they bloomed! LOL!
Well, it has been primo growing weather! Everythign is growing like weeds including the weeds! Ha!
Got rain up the kazoo today, but oh well, no complaints on that even though they are tlaking 3-5 inches and potential flooding. Like were not used to that stuff. Just can the big winds though, man, we do not need any more toadtwisters.
So ok, Im seeing germ on a few nasties, marigolds, cleomes, allysum, statice, violas, petunias, I cheated and got some white, pink and dark pink impatiens and some really prerry purple vinca, got a really pretty double impaiten in a basket that looks like a peppermint candy, got a couple hanging baskets, polka dot plants, asperagus ferns, licorice plants, blackie sweet potato plants, some varigated thing I dont know what it is , some purple creeper, a couple other misc.
Guess I am back to gardening.. well as I can. I go in spurts.. then I over do, then need a break.. this getting old stuff is fer the birdies.
Nothing wrong with cheating and buying some flowers instead of growing them. I wouldn't call it cheating. I'd call it smart. Last couple of years have decided to only grow from seed things that I'm almost 100% sure I won't find locally. Not likely to grow pansies or petunias from seed anymore, since there are many choices at some point during the winter here. Sometimes they sell dwarf sunflower plants, but not gonna spend $3 for a plant that's gonna bloom for a couple of weeks max. Those will always be grown from seed since they're short lived.
Glad to hear someone's getting rain. June is supposed to be wet here with an average of 8 inches of rain. Maybe an inch total so far this month. Temps are running 5 degrees above normal, which is a lot for here. Feels like temps are 105-110 practically every day and low temps at night are staying at 80 instead of low/mid 70's. Other than that everything is wonderful. LOL
No critter pests here although my brother in Sarasota, FL is having a battle between his Sunflowers and the lime green colored wild parrots. They have been swooping down, like kamikaze pilots, landing on and pecking at his sunflower heads. they completely trashed his last bunch of sunnies either pecking at them or snapping the stems when they land on them. He went to Home Depot and bought 2 large plastic owls and hammered them onto the top of the fence. LOL So far so good.
Well, my cheating heart got a deal on some $2 flats for pink petunias, purple vinca, polka dot plants, white with lav eye dianthus, pink, white and dark pink imps, mixed small head marigolds and a couple baskets at $2@ (one was a pretty peppermint double imp, then 2 were combos of chenille plant, lantana, some purple plant I have know idea and some others crammed in and some 25c 3 inch pots that got a nice selection of stuff for making more baskets. the 25cers were asperagus plants, licorace, blackie sweet tater vines, somvarigated creepy thing, some creepy purple plant all that I will have to note what they are on their lables. 18 of those in all. WHat a bargain!
I potted some 35 baskets this morning mixing the pink petunias, vinca, polka dot plants, purpl vincas and the white/lave dianthus, then poked in a couple flats of the dark pink and light pink imps in the cutting garden for border plants and moved around a bunch of pots. I absolutely need to get going and get my tomatoes situated and the zukes and cukes. I think my cukes are where they will be for the summer, they already wrapped their tendrils on the fence so they are gonna stay in the big pots and go for it. I will have to fertilze them.. My Loofas are needing their space to go to too...
I directed sowed the cantalopes,watermelons and punkins to those patches.. they were a wee weedy but in done.. no way we can culitvate them now so what comes comes.
Got out on the prairie and took some more pix...
Hope its not too humid tomorrow so I can do more work outdoors. I think I finally got hte bug to finally get gardening...been a tough start.
Man , now I have a ton of work and we just got a little over an inch of rain, so there goes mowing.
Soo , this gardening stuff, am I now overdoing it? I go in spurts...as I am able!
Heres that sunny in a basket.. go figure, it partnered with some strawberries!
So in other words....... you got a lot of stuff Blossom. Maybe its a Strawberry Blonde Sunflower with the strawberries. They'd get along well I'm sure......like family. LOL
Speaking of dianthus. About 6 weeks ago my Super Raspberry Parfait Dianthus looked like they were dying. I got lazy and just cut them to the ground and covered them over with mulch instead of yanking them out. Would have never guessed those 4 plants would all reemerge and start blooming again like brand new plants.
Awesome! Yano, I still have dianthus from last spring that is now gettign going again too.
Where did I put the new pix? Oh yea.. on the Dianthus thread.!
A few Sunflower photos from today. This is "Apricot Twist"
Sunflower "Velvet Queen"
And this last one is Sunflower "Sunburst Aura"
Jon
Jon, those are lovely! I have not been to the sunny patch here for quite some time...with all the rain who knows what lurks out there! LOL!
Im starting to sprout scales and gills.....gurgle gurgle!
Hmm, when you go out there to check on them just put a sign saying "Gone Fishin" on the front door.
LOL! Well, I snuck out there this AM and got past the lil pond bog...
Hate ta say it but last nites weather was hell, and today its higher water! LOL!
Then I was a sneaking off to the prairie...and got attacked by a fun
guy on the manure pile......
Got out of that mess, then got attacked by another fungi on a log...
The anuther.. and man....them funguys kept coming at me Jon, they were every where!
And I kept snapping at them..
(GO HERE....cuz I was getting really A noid with them....)
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1104709/
And while I was tussling with them to try to get their names, it struck!
Gee, maybe you should just stay inside and lock the door. It's too "high risk" outside with the fungi and high water. Turn around, don't drown.
But Jon, I cant, I made it to the sunny bed and.......EUREKA!
Up through the ground came a bbbbbbunch of.......
Awww crud, this is gonna get me canned..
a bunch of dang BBBBLACK . (__-__-__) sunflowers...
NO KIDDING, thats the name.
And I planted a ton of them and they are every where...
Give ya a hint second word sounds like EARL!
So anyways, thar she be....shes immature, but give her a bit of time and she willl be a horse of a different color in the center in no time!
(Oh God I am trying soooo hard to not say the O word!)
Ok, moving on...
The Giants out there that I had got topped of by deer... Yup, ate the heads clean off. SO I do not know if there will be any of them left. Its hard telling because there is a patch that looks like the big ones, but they are no taller than the Black - - - ones. So the patch can go either way since the seeds was mixed up a bit.
(I best go back to my corner in the GARAGE.. I hear theres some good eating thar!)
And we dint think the burd seed wood germ! HAH!
This from last year's seeds... 7' 9"....5 blooms, 7 buds to go
its been pretty dry here and the sunny patch is a tad wilted, but the birds are having a field day with our little patch. Im glad they are starting to enjoy them. The finches are so beautiful and we get some blue birds and orieles out there too so it is nice to see the pretty birds.
I think I will do the Black Earl ones again next year..
We have the "Beach Sunflowers" down here. They're like a low growing ground cover that grows in the sand with 2-3 inch sunflower like blooms....mostly year round. Kind of ignored them for years and have now taken a liking to them.
I sowed some wild sunflwoers our on the prairie, but dint see any germ.. maybe thay have to scarcify and will show up eventually...
ok... the infamous sunny in a hanging basket...guys I need to put a cap on my strawberry baskets to keep the burds from doing this to me... their littering seeds every where! They will be popping up next season I am sure.
LOL Stop complaining and enjoy the view. The birds are only trying to help you out.