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tessa Garden Sherpa
Posts : 378 Join date : 2009-03-15 Location : Dangling from the planet's bottom
| Subject: the sunflower that had sunflowers Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:41 am | |
| do you remember my sunflower that had sunflowers? well...all the baby flowers went to seed as well. *cool* aren't they beautiful? but the problem is this: not a single seed in any one of those casings. completely empty. doh! | |
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Little Miss The Estate Unionized Gardener
Posts : 2542 Join date : 2009-03-14 Age : 63 Location : The Garden State
| Subject: Re: the sunflower that had sunflowers Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:43 am | |
| Who cares they look great close up | |
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Pitta Gardener
Posts : 1868 Join date : 2009-03-16 Age : 89 Location : Cooktown Qld
| Subject: Re: the sunflower that had sunflowers Sat Apr 04, 2009 10:20 am | |
| Tessa It makes such an interesting pattern in the close up. | |
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Daniel Dirt Poker
Posts : 44 Join date : 2009-04-03
| Subject: Re: the sunflower that had sunflowers Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:25 pm | |
| Tessa, I never get to see them like that; sulpher crested cockatoos and others get stuck about them and often break them below flower. I mainly grow them for the birds anyway so doesn't matter to me really. | |
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Mary-Anne Unionized Gardener
Posts : 3783 Join date : 2009-03-14 Location : The Sunshine State.
| Subject: Re: the sunflower that had sunflowers Sat Apr 04, 2009 2:35 pm | |
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Gail Gardener
Posts : 1693 Join date : 2009-03-14 Location : near Gympie, Qld
| Subject: Re: the sunflower that had sunflowers Sun Apr 05, 2009 5:33 am | |
| A shame if you grew them for the seed but a pretty plant and great photographic subject | |
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tessa Garden Sherpa
Posts : 378 Join date : 2009-03-15 Location : Dangling from the planet's bottom
| Subject: Re: the sunflower that had sunflowers Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:28 am | |
| i DID grow them for seed!!!!
if anyone can help me with australian sunflowers i would really appreciate it. at home...the flowers were regularly dinner plate sized. here...they are so small. i have bought 'giant' and 'king' and every large name in the name in the book...and these were the biggest so far, barely bread plate sized.
what variety am i supposed to be growing? or better yet...does anyone have seeds for a truly large variety? | |
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Betty Gardener
Posts : 1067 Join date : 2009-03-17 Location : North west Victoria
| Subject: Re: the sunflower that had sunflowers Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:38 am | |
| That photo of the whole plant - more or less - is terrific, Tessa. Do you know what sort that was. My Yellow Empress did that to a minor degree, an extra flower here and there, but not like that. Gee, I cut the seed heads off, assuming the seeds are fine, now I'd better check that they aren't like yours. I also had Giant Russian and Sunfola, neither of which was huge, which makes me wonder if it was just a bad year for them. Am I imagining it or not. Did Richard grow some huge sunflowers? | |
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tessa Garden Sherpa
Posts : 378 Join date : 2009-03-15 Location : Dangling from the planet's bottom
| Subject: Re: the sunflower that had sunflowers Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:06 am | |
| actually betty, yes, it was an emporess! good one! i think the empty seeds may be a result of no bees, or poor weather conditions at the time of pollination. i have been trying every year for 5 years and this is the same old story. i think it's the seed stock, or rather, the varieties. i think richard grew smaller blossomed sunflowers that grew in clumps. but if he's got biggies...i'll be for seeds! | |
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Gail Gardener
Posts : 1693 Join date : 2009-03-14 Location : near Gympie, Qld
| Subject: Re: the sunflower that had sunflowers Mon Apr 06, 2009 5:04 am | |
| I'll have a look later and see if I have any giant sunflower seeds left. They are getting old and I gave a lot of them to the school so not sure what's left. | |
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