Have you ever grown sunflower??  

No I haven't yet but my mother had done this and it was very successful. Everyone was stopping by to have a look those giant beautiful flowers.

Yes, I have but I am not very successful with them. The more sunflower seeds I plant, the more the dogs eat and break them. Usually from twenty I plant only one or two make it and they do not grow well, they stay about four feet small and they never get ripe. It seems to be either dogs or sunflowers.

I love sunflowers! I have grown sunflowers in the past in California. Mine got to about 7-8 feet. I think they are very beautiful in a bouquet in a vase. I also love to eat sunflowers seeds. The bluejay birds are especially fond of sunflowrer seeds.


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I have never purposely planted them. The birds plant them for me by dropping seeds. I think 3 feet is the tallest mine have ever gotten. They're so pretty, and the birds eat the seeds out of them once they start to go by.

Your 10 feet ones must be gorgeous!

I did grown sunflowers years ago. They grew so fast, it seemed like, and were taller then I was at the time which was huge to me. LOL I have just started a few pots with sunflower seeds so I am crossing my fingers that I will have the same kind of luck again.