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Helianthus annuus |
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| Common name |
sunflower |
| Family |
asteraceae |
| Life cycle |
annual |
| Flowers |
yellow (summer) |
| Size |
6' and taller |
| Light |
sun |
From seed  |
self-seeds in our garden. germinate warm.
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| The common sunflower. For all its ubiquity and overuse in country-style decorations, it remains a cool and intriguing plant. We don't remember to start them every year, but usually a few appear anyway, seeded either from the previous year's batch or from birdfood gone astray. Usually we wind up with the common varieties, such as giant Russian, although we've tried a few others through the years.
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| February - the stalk that once towered high above the rest of the garden is
losing its battle with gravity, its stark flowerhead bearing little resemblance to its
radiant summer face |
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| | Same scene, next day |
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| | 'Lemon Queen' |
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This plant used to grow in our garden, but it slipped away... About my plant portraits
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