That's brilliant Alex.Lally! A lot of mine ended up like this too! At first I thought it was just one sunflower, but ended up being quite a few! I have had to keep cutting them off, because we have a really naughty squirrel who is causing a lot of destruction, breaking off the heads as they bloom, and dropping seeds everywhere - the garden is a complete mess with broken sunflower bits at the moment. I have a big job to clear it all this week. But it's really lovely to see so many mini sunflower heads on one plant. Excellent photos!
That explains it. It sounds like you have a multi headed sunflower. They tend to grow shorter than the ones that people grow for biggest sunflower competitions. More often they are grown as cut flowers. If you only have a couple I would just feed and water then and enjoy. The short ones don't need staking unless they are in a position where they are leaning towards the light.
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That's brilliant Alex.Lally! A lot of mine ended up like this too! At first I thought it was just one sunflower, but ended up being quite a few! I have had to keep cutting them off, because we have a really naughty squirrel who is causing a lot of destruction, breaking off the heads as they bloom, and dropping seeds everywhere - the garden is a complete mess with broken sunflower bits at the moment. I have a big job to clear it all this week. But it's really lovely to see so many mini sunflower heads on one plant. Excellent photos!
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I have a strange flower on my sunflower stalk I have cut back and left this little flower any ideas what it might be
I it's just the plants attempt to produce one more flower before the winter arrives.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have two sunflowers that grew out of one seed, one of which has eight buds, 2cm apart, at the top of the flower, NEAREST THE ACTUAL FLOWER!
Should I cut them? Should I get stakes for support? Should I dance?! Haaalp me please......
I'm 11. Don't hate. It's evil. It killed my Dad. Or was that my dog?? Eh. The point is, IT'S EVIL!
Yes, I did that to make this "reply" longer. I'm smart. ^-^ But seriously, please help me!
Isn't it time you were in bed?
What country are you in?
I'm in Australia!! I just woke up...
That explains it. It sounds like you have a multi headed sunflower. They tend to grow shorter than the ones that people grow for biggest sunflower competitions. More often they are grown as cut flowers. If you only have a couple I would just feed and water then and enjoy. The short ones don't need staking unless they are in a position where they are leaning towards the light.
maybe you have something like this.
http://seeds.suttons.co.uk/gardening/Multi-Headed-Sunflower-Seeds
Where in Australia are you?