[Baldy]

Maarten - yours is pretty darn fine - but I reckon totty (who has a magic 12ft wall to help!) is in the lead - at least from those that have posted on the thread so far... I'm out with a rather pathetic 5'10'

Cheers,
Balders

[sunshineband]

Here is my best offering. In fact it is the tallest sunflower we have had for many year so even though it will nt be the biggest by some way, I am sharing it with pride 

I am 5ft 10ins and the top part of the flower measures 10ft 4ins on Mr Sunny's tape measure (some performance that was too  ) but others will top that no doubt.


Also, my prettiest one is Goldy, also attached 

I hope you like them

[Baldy]

Goldy is very pretty...
must take a pic of my best looking ones - though I think yours will beat 'em.

Cheers,
Balders

[snowdrops]

Okay here's mine then, I had 3 germinate from the odds & sods of packets left over the years. The first,no photo, flowered weeks earlier than the other 2 survivors & was multi headed & small but pretty. The other 2 had/ have enormous heads, which I will measure, so loads of seeds now produced for next year & a tree trunk of a stem.

Oops forgot to attach pictures😀

[Aunt Sally]

Those pictures don't seem to have uploaded, Snowy.  I'think you'll need to try it again.

[shoozie]

Looks like we're out again this year, the tallest isn't flowering yet, but it's not going to top much over 7 feet now.  Caught these photos today on one of the 'dwarf' Russian giants.

[snowdrops]

Oops it's since the upgrade, I'll go back to photobox
Not sure how Mr S sneaks in on my competition entries



Is that acceptable for the measure?
Here's a close up of the flower

And  here's the flower on the 2nd plant that survived

[rosiecider]

Shoozie

Fantastic shot and sunflowers 

[Baldy]

When is the winner announced?

Pip pip,
Balders

[sunshineband]

When is the winner announced?

Pip pip,
Balders

The competition closes on 31st October. The voting will then be organised for the prettiest sunflower - running for a while I expect - then the results will be announced after that.  the tallest one will be known once the entries have been scrutinized of course 

[VegGirl7]

My one and only sunflower of 2014! 

At around 5 ft, it's not going to win the tallest... but it sure was pretty though 

[BabbyAnn]

Unfortunately I couldn't measure it (kept forgetting to bring along a tape measure) but this was the tallest I had growing right next to a standard blue barrel to the right.  Guessing the barrel is about 3 feet tall, I'd put the height at roughly 10 feet so not a winner.



These were starting off well, then the sheer weight of the flower heads reduced the height 





EDIT:  apparently blue barrels are 103cm tall, so it works out that the sunflower was possibly 13ft 7inch  (4.10 metres)  Realise it is not an official measurement but quite chuffed all the same 

[DD.]

Give me a few days to sort this one out and prepare a poll for the prettiest. Been away for a bit and then had the house ripped apart to have a new central heating installed!

No more entries please, as MoS said, the compy ran up until the 31st October.

[Fairy Plotmother]

Well done everyone! My sunflowers didn't grow at all. Maybe the seed was too old or I planted them too soon. I will try again next year.

[DD.]

Once again apologies for any delay.

I have consulted others regarding this and whilst there may be other sunflowers that are taller, there are only three entries that have abided by the rules and measured the precise height.

Of those three sunshineband is duly declared the winner. Well done to Snowdrop and Maarten as the runners up and of course well done to all for trying.