I wouldn't mind having a rough scratched out patch like that !!!
It figures, Terri always says 2 heads are better than one!
SUNFLOWER CONTEST..no rules, just post yours!
Blossom, did you colour that sunny green? Regardless it looks good!
I want sunnies next year!
My sunflower looks fabulous Blossom. Thank you!
Your patch is looking more like a Van Gogh everyday.. lol! Beautiful!!
Yours is the tallest flowering one on the right. Yardqueen's is still tallest but not flowering yet!
Blossom, number 20 hiding here!
Hehehe.. no SW - that ga-reen was aw-naterall!
Hey, we got a we tad bit of rain today. Last I looked, 3/10ths in the gauge and still drupping! Not enough to turn things ga-reen, but its a start. It will be hotter than neck tomorrow no doubt!
I will have to trot out to the sunny patch tomorrow to see what lurks in the realm of a Van Gogh! Thanks for the compliment terri! And terri, yours are lovely as ever too!
Well get snapping haighr, lets see them pre-bloom!
Hotter than heck eh? thats hot! And Blossom, Thank you for the compliment!!!
Well sadly, terri, I am thinking of beheading your big sunny today... its so heavy on that thin staulk, I best get it so I can dry the seeds for next year! Heres droopy before loping!
But dont worry dear, the multihead is still putting out! And you have two other plants in reserve there!
Yours even has a bee polinating it! Look at that lil dimple guy on that happy sunny face! (sorry about the blurrrr!)
La imitacion de sunny Van Gogh!
That's an entire field of blooms BB, what a lovely site to see, Van Gogh indeed! Careful there lopin off terri's head!
very nice Van Gogh feild Blossom! And I like that green one more now that I know its real :) I think my sunny is about 2 or 3 inches now!
I will haighr, theres a bee guarding her head and well.. he is gonna have to move along soon! I am hunting fo rthe machette!
Thanks SW! - Got another greenie coming on...
This one looks like a bad windy hair day! LO
This one looks like it is folded in half!
GA-reeen!
No artificial coloring, although I have been tempted to try spray painting some!!! LOL!
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Yikes! Have Mercy!!! Love my Sunny Blossom! here's a picture of yours today..
Beautiful Van Gogh btw. Did you buy spay paint???? Yay! Funky sunnys !!!
2-3 inches aint bad Steven, there's hope yet! .... lol!
Sounds like yours are nearly there Candee.
Blossom Honey! Been waiting for this jar to be empty for a while. LOL!
Aaaaawesome terri!
......um, whose Gale? LOL!
Love those hugeasaurus ga-reen beads of pollin you got there!!
hehehe!! The sunny Van Gogh for today.....
(Why do they all face the same way?....)
The sunny direction perhaps!
Well, they are always facing east.. perhaps the Sunny Mecca is there...
I had to sneak up behind them.
If geography and science have not completely elluded me, I believe that is the direction of the morning Sunny Mecca. Glad you were able to sneak up so close behind.
I did not want to disturb their sunworship!
However, I did notice a few unruly sunnies in the croud staring back at me.. they had mean looking eyes!
Well.......................I'm out of the contest some darn animal ate my sunny!!! It's just a little stub now :(
well, my DH knocked my over this morning while mowing...
There's always next year... stay tuned!!
Dont feel bad SW, I am probably out of the Kale contest... more damping off.
hi all
where my sun flower
sunny here
off today
day to run around
elle
Hi elle, good to see you!
I think we may be having more people coming here.. Come on in cottage gardeners!!
Hi, I just followed Blossom's link .
I have 9 sunflowers in my garden.
I have no idea what kind they are.
About 13 years ago I saw some multi headed sunflowers in the edge of a corn field they were so pretty so I collected a hand full of seed.
I haven't ''planted any sense. They just come up where ever they are happy. When they are about three feet tall I pull most of them for goat feed, and leave a few for the birds and to resow.
This one is over 12 foot tall and has not opened a bloom yet.
It has over 50 tip blossoms waiting for the top flower to send them the OK.
Question? I noticed this is in the cut flower form , Do you all grow them for inside ?
Hey, gus, link back to your pics on the other thread! You have some verrrrry nice sunnys there and I am sure everyone here would enjoy the cottage gardeners pics too, they really are quite beautiful!
My greater goal with all the sunflowers is to get a patch large enough going so I can just mow them down in the fall and leave the shreds and seed to the wild turkeys and other birds and have a stash to reseed in the spring!
I still do not have a large enough patch to satisfy our goal, but we are working on it.
We have a prairie that we are restoring some of the once was wildflowers there and it has been a great project! People have been sending us their excess seeds for both projects and it has been a great joy helping the wildlife!
This year we had some wonderful rare visitors of the feathered variety, some reddish egrets happened to our place and we have been seeing the trio quite reugularly! They are awesomely huge beautiful birds.
Well, anyway, gus, glad you could make it here and do bring your buddies and join the fun!
Some of us have greenhouses and some not! Most of us have cutting gardens and like to do floral arrangements! We enjoy getting creative here and showing off our arrangements and such to have fun with and often get critiqued by our friends here too! We also enjoy a lot of playful antics! So welcome agian! Enjoy your visits!
I have a small greenhouse that I use as what I call my GLORIFIED POTTING SHED and have a few threads going on that. I am up to link 5 there and do feel free to join me and the rest!
I started some of my sunnies in the GPS, but the majority we broadcasted out to a plot field out in our prairie!
Here is the link to my GPS5!
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1029096/
Nice to meet you and your sunnies gus - we love arranging and use all flowers and cuttings of all sorts. That is what makes this thread so unique there is no wrong way to arrange nor set of rules or standards to meet, we create what we enjoy and share it with friends. As BB said we do get sidetracked with other venues here and that keeps everything interesting right in one place.
Please browse around and look at our threads of arrangements, we have theme arrangements as well that must meet some criteria to follow the theme. We have two fab cafes where we meet to chat and take turns bringing in flowers to brighten up the place.
Hope to see you around with some of your creations.
Candee
Hi Gus! I love your sunnies and think they should win the contest for all those branches! I had 2 sunnies but they got eaten by a critter. So now I'm working on the theme for next years sunny contest. Hope to see you around!
And please come join the Kale Kontest we started although none of us actually has any kale yet! http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1022840/
Steven
Thanks for the invitation but I think it may be a bit late to start kale here our average first frost is Oct 15th only six weeks away.
How long to grow kale?
Well, gus, your date for frost and mine are about the same. I tried starting the kales, but had some damping off issues.. but SW came up with an idea so we are still going on with the contest! So do, everyone, come join us! hehehe!
Yipes, I went out to my sunny patch and OMG! The poor things look terrible! They are drooping and nodding and dropping seed...I guess I best start harvesting.
The thought of frost only 6 weeks away is such a gloomy one. Seems like summer just got here.
Hey BB I got sunnies finally and keep forgetting to get out there with the camera, thanks for the reminder, I'll do it this evening!