Biggest sunflower

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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.

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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.

In the end, this may be the most important thing about frost: Frost slows us down. In spring, it tempers our eagerness. In fall, it brings closure and rest. In our gotta-go world–where every nanosecond seems to count–slowness can be a great gift. So rather than see Jack Frost as an adversary, you could choose to greet him as a friend.

~Philip Harnden in A Gardener’s Guide to Frost: Outwit the Weather and Extend the Spring and Fall Seasons

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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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