So how tall are your sunflowers?

[Jenkeylovesdazzy]

My mum's partner is a real 'anything you can do, I can better' sort of person - I was showing him my sunflower which is just flowering now and just over 8ft (need to get dh and step-ladder for official measuring) - anyway, he reckons that he once grew a sunflower which reached the eaves of his house..!

So anyone else got a tall-as-a-house sunflower?

not this year, ours are 4ft having spent a week in a foot of floodwater, last year they were 10-12ft . They like sweet peas grown with them and allowed to grow up thm.

ds (aged 4) has grown them for the first time and they're over 6 ft. We're all very pleased for him!

Ours is about 5 foot but has no flower head. What's gone wrong?

Aprox 7cm. From this morning they are now in the bin. Embarrasingly mangy things they were, munched to death by some invisible predator.

Will try again next year.

Sadly dh is addicted to watching gardeners world and I seem to remember they had a "special" on record breaking sunflowers (there were some up to the eaves) But I would say 8ft is highly respectable (ours are 6ft had the 1st sunflower come out last week)

Mine are the same slubber, but they are planted in the garden, I can tell everyone they are miniture ones

Bit of a cheek - packet said they were giant ones.

My seeds came from the church. You think they would have recieved some sort of power blessing against infestation before being given out to the (hopeful) little children of the congregation.

Now I will have to invent some elaborate (un-Christian) lie to explain to the DD's why they are no longer on the window sill.

Mine are also about 5-6', but no flower head. Why no flowers?

Mine are flowering but I did plant them months and months ago, easter time I think. Mine was officially measured today - 8ft1 or 246cm. I'm a proud mummy.

About 5 foot but like PC no flowers yet.

ooh mine (ds's) are fab

will measure tomorrow

we have one with a flower on, the rest are coming. I would imagine it is because we have not had much sun and warmth as yet.

Slubber you won't be pushing for a MNWI sunflower comp then I take it?

I have buds! I have buds!