Newly bought sunflowers are on their way out? 🌻

[OrchidLilly]

I bought two very cheerful sunflowers on Saturday but the petals are already drooping, are they only supposed to bloom for a few days or have a got unlucky?

I have been watering them well in this heat hoping it would peel them up but to no avail.

Perk them up!

Are they cut or planted in soil?

They’re in plant pots

They bloom for weeks, until the front flower centre bits drop off leaving the seeds in the heads. When you say the petals are drooping, what do you mean exactly?

Ours have bloomed for a couple of weeks each then began to drop.

Ok so I thought it was just the flower dropping but actually the leaves were so withered as well. I stuck them both in a bucket of water for an hour and the difference to the leaves was astonishing!!

sadly the bloom/petals are definitely wilted and gone but I think it might look as though there’s a new bud on each of them, if this is a thing?

I’ll keep on top of the watering and will see!

Yes, you can get flowers from the secondary buds in the leaf axils, especially if you cut of the main flower rather than let it develop seeds.

Actually, the flower isn’t a flower, it’s a whole head of flowers/florets, fertile ones in the centre, infertile “ray florets” round the edge. The fertile florets flower in succession, and the ray florets stay open during the whole process to attract pollinators, and so are quite long lasting. Sounds as if the plant got badly droughted.