Showing posts with label tall sunflowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tall sunflowers. Show all posts

Sunday, August 24, 2025

Midwest Gardens. 2025...Just watching it grow!

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Just a delicious hazy photo of vines and Sunflowers out my window...almost like a painting. Our Sunflowers have been plentiful and spectacular this year. And the goldfinches (middle of this shot) have been insatiable and almost violent while stripping the juicy heads of the flowers.

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See his little black wings and daunting stare..."MY SUNFLOWERS"

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Our fence is six-feet high on the East side, and that's the neighbor's house. This is about half of what was there earlier as so many were torn down with storms...Such a glorious way to celebrate summer with Yellow smiling faces in the morning sun.

Quick post...the garden is alive, we are only half alive and caught a bug this week but are recovering.  Anything at our age can be serious...but we are on the mend.

Hope to get some produce photos tomorrow! 

Midwest Gardening has been interesting this year, 
More to come soon!

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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Sunflowers Deux

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I love Sunflowers and a few years back I spent an entire month playing with watercolors and one of the prompts was sunflowers. 

With the mess this year, I'm behind with everything so I've been doing some Link Parties with some old posts. Our garden has been challenged, so how about some sharing some old sunflowers...from better gardening days.

These are some of my favorite sunflower posts!



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I love this color!



This was a bird 'planted' sunflower.


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We had some 12 footers by the flag pole in a raised bed. Crazy wind here also.


The weight of this one altered the shape.

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I planted some 12 footers in the garden one year and they went TO the telephone wires.



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Broken heads are great bird feeders.

Sun or shade we have luck with the bush ones. Goldfinches love these!!

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A smaller variety of Autumn Sunset.

This year I planted 6 foot Scarlet Sunflowers, but they are lost next to the neigbor's bamboo...which must love the humidity and the heat....for it is so thick and large this year.


Sunflowers are critter attractors...who of course need no help bending the flowers.

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Aftermath gigantic flower heads, the large one is sitting on a wood 16" bench and back.

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My sunflower painting...

I'm not sure if I worked from memory or photos...

I was featured here:


I Was Featured at I Made it Monday Link Party



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