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Sunflowers in a field

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  • Don't forget they'll face the sun. I've only put them in my south facing bed because that way they look over the garden.
    Southampton 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I think a single row of sunflowers along that patch of grass would look a bit like a row of soldiers,  but then I don’t like any plants grown in a row.
    they look a bit exposed in middle like that,  they’ll need good stakes or the wind will blow them.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    They look lovely Dove, our farm shop grow them for PYO

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
    Sounds like a lovely idea. The squirrels nearby do cause a lot of destruction biting whole stems to get at the flower heads though
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    I think I would have gone for the dwarf types with multiple flowers, no staking required. but that might not have been what was requested of course!
  • RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
    Just using seeds I have from mine last year. Everything I do, trying to source for free or reuse/recycle.
    I guess a pack or seeds isn't much, it did cross my mind, but I've sown them now  :D
    There's always next year!
  • ShepherdsBarnShepherdsBarn Posts: 401
    I had a pack of free sunflowers seeds with the GW magazine (last year?) ... at the same time I decided to sow some sunflower kernels that I had in my larder. I had only one seed germinate from the free packet but all the kernels from the larder germinated and look very healthy. I await with interest to see what develops!
  • RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
    I sowed some in my garden and about 60% took. So I put 4 per pot at work, so hopefully I'll have 1 pet pot!
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