[mobilekat]

Thats a very unusual sunflower,  I love it!

[arugula]

A selection of my sunflower giant yellow single. I lost the tallest at 6 foot plus - that still wouldn't have won a prize..

The present tallest at about 5 foot 6...



A bit shy...



Training for the gurning competition...



I think it shows how the climatic conditions can cause such variation in one variety of flower in one garden in one year.

[Diddy Gardener]

I think Yorky needs to be the subject of a stewards enquiry... that's not a sunflower, that's a triffid in disguise!!! Shame on you Yorky 

Yours sincerely,

Not jealous at all about how tall and pretty some people's sunflowers are... (aka anonymous)

[mattwragg94]

heres my tallest i make it 7ft 1inch, again not the easiest to measure on my own!

oh and the second pic is of all 3 sunflowers!

[Kim50]

The tallest one made just over 9ft and faces into the next door neighbours garden  :blink:

[LilacSandy]

Never seen a sunflower like this - the packet was labelled 'French Marigold' - they were free!!  but isn't it gorgeous    Its not going to win the competition as its only about a foot high!

At a foot high and looking like a Marigold, are you sure it is not a French Marigold?

[Lulu]

the seeds looked like sunflower seeds and it has sunflower leaves. Its had a second flower a bit smaller than the first one. Whatever - its pretty 

[carlrmj]

I don't know what's going on with my sunflowers.

About 4 or 5 of them have fell over at the base,and when I had a look there was a load of

wasps at the point where it had snapped. 

[arugula]

 4 or 5 of them have fell over at the base,and when I had a look there was a load of

wasps at the point where it had snapped. 

Where my tallest one had snapped, I noticed loads of insects around the point of damage. They must have a tasty sap in the stem.

[DD.]

Mine have been abducted by aliens.

Either that or the slugs got them. 

[shoozie]

Just a tad over 6 and a half feet ..... So, we're out of the running

[GYO Girl]

Mine were pathetic this year.  Didn't even reach 1.5m.  The chooks enjoyed the seed heads though.

[DD.]

Just a reminder from the entry rules, page one, if you're going for the tallest.  I'm sure you've all read them, but in case you've forgotten........

Please show the measurement, with photo, by 31st October, when competition will end.

That means a photo of not just the sunflower alone, but a tape measure as well. Get those ladders out!

Best photo does not need a measurement.

[Yorkie]

As a single person it is physically impossible to climb a ladder, put a tape measure up against a sunflower and take a photo of the entire sunflower at the same time, so I'm out of that element of the competition I'm afraid!

[DD.]

Put your camera on timer - mine will give you 10 seconds!