Saturday, July 11, 2009

Miniature Sunflowers



This summer we experimented with planting some seeds instead of spending $200+ in flowers from our favorite store, Home Depot. I was skeptical that anything would grow, but boy was I wrong! One type of seed I planted was supposed to be "miniature, multi-colored sun flowers." I thought that sounded nice, so I planted them between some hostas and petunias. I had NO idea that miniature sunflowers are 6+ feet tall! How tall are real sunflowers?? So far we have a standard yellow, a deep red and a light yellow, so multi-colored was accurate. Had I know they would be this big I would have planted them in a more appropriate spot, but instead we have a wall of sunflowers.




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