Biggest sunflower

By Kathy Purdy September 15, 2008 – Posted in: Miscellaneous
2 comments

Eleven-year-old Owen grew this ‘Sunzilla’ sunflower and it towered over him. He recently cut it down to harvest the seeds, but many of the shells were empty. Seeds courtesy Renee’s Garden Seeds.

About the Author

Kathy Purdy is a colchicum evangelist, converting unsuspecting gardeners into colchicophiles. She gardens in rural upstate NY, which used to be USDA Hardiness Zone 4 but is now Zone 5. Kathy’s been writing since 4th grade, gardening since high school, and blogging since 2002. Find her on Instagram as kopurdy.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

~Albert Camus in Albert Camus quotations

2 Comments… add one

tom porter February 8, 2021, 5:14 pm

where can i but some of those seed for the largest sunflower

baeryl September 28, 2009, 7:21 pm

Wow thats huge! I’m sorta jealous, I see that this is from last year though, did Owen grow them again for 2009?

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