I got these black-eyed susans earlier this Spring as a sunflower substitute, in part, because my previous attempts at growing sunflowers have been unsuccessful. Despite the failures in years past, I tossed a few "mammoth" sunflower seeds on the ground this Spring...
I'm feeling pretty lucky right now because the black-eyed susans have been happily blooming for weeks now AND my sunflowers are on track to be HUGE! The flowers are not here yet and I don't want to be counting my chickens before they've hatched (or flowers before they've bloomed) but the buds are forming and the stalks are standing about 8 feet tall. We have had some extremely sunny days lately and the stalks just keep growing and growing...
Seeing them makes me feel like I am in some sort of magical garden forest. It really is amazing to look at these plants and realize that they've grown from a tiny little seed no bigger than my thumbnail! I'm going to have to plant many, many more of these next year...
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