Gardening in the Trailer Park: A Heap of Sunflowers

Remember this planter? The tallest sunflower is now so tall that I have a hard time getting it into the picture.

And here is the planter in its full glory. Yes, it is ridiculously small, but the packet said the flowers were only supposed to get 5 feet tall. So, since we had multiples, we thought they’d be smaller. Well, we were wrong. Remember how we had to thin out the planter? What happened to the transplants, you ask?

Here they are. Amazingly enough, all survived. Yes, they are somewhat spindly, but the tallest ones are up to the rain gutter. No blooms yet, but they do have buds.

And this is our biggest bloom so far: One of the Aztec Gold out front. Some of those are approaching roof height.

Gardening in the Trailer Park: We Want More!

Just how big are our sunflowers? Tom is 6.4.

And I am 5.8.

And we took the pics when the blooms were new and not expanded yet to their full size.

And the leaves aren’t shabby either!

Gardening in the Trailer Park: Bloomin’ Sunday

Two days ago, our second sunflower bloomed fully. At first, I was not sure if it was part of the Autumn Beauty Mix or a Chianti Hybrid. I took this picture, but I had to reach up with the cell phone because they are that tall. So, I can’t study the blooms close up in person, unless we get out a ladder. With my dizziness, that ain’t gonna happen! Glory Lennon thought it was a Chianti.

And you know what? Glory was right as this pic shows. I took this picture in the evening when the blooms point differently, and it definitely looks like a Chianti Hybrid.What is so strange is that they are supposed to grow between 4 to 5 feet tall only, but this plant is definitely bigger than 5 feet. I thought it would be much smaller because I have 15 of them in a box that is only 48 by 12 inches in size. I guess we can thank the Miracle Grow that we put in when preparing the beds.

People are now slowing down in their cars when going by, pointing. One of our neighbor’s even asked for seeds!

And, Glory was also right about our first sunflower that bloomed, three days ago. In my prior post I thought it might be from the Autumn Beauty Mix collection, but it’s a Strawberry Blonde Hybrid. As you can see by this pic taken by Tom during its second day of blooming, it’s definitely the strawberry kind.

And here is what greeted us this fine Sunday morning: Aztec Gold!