Measure To Be Sure

It's only 21 degrees C. today and 23 C inside the house. The weather temperature has been lowered that a 21 C feels like in between 16 to 19. It's nice when it's cooler, right? Most of the people I know hate hot weather condition especially the elderly. Those who are not complaining are people with air conditioning unit or with several fans inside their homes. Or people on vacation in hot tropical climate who favored lots of sunshine so that they go suntanning. As a matter of fact those humans would visit suntan parlor and had artificial suntan solution for their skin. Wow! People are all different with their choices. We all have to respect our individuality, choices and preferences.

Redundancy? Nobody likes redundant situations and repetitions. Okay I can understand your pleas and woes and many indifferences. However, there are group of people who love the repetition don't know why. Ask them not me.

So why have to post sunflowers again? Why post too many flowers? Maybe I love seeing flowers. Maybe gardening and gardens are the "in thing nowadays." God loves nature and what nature consist of ? It's the force of nature we have to watch out.

That thing of beauty is a joy forever. Allow me to post my sunflowers the plant that is above me now standing straight along the fence.

 OMG! The tallest sunflower plant is now 8 ft. in height. I think these sunflowers are the "Large Russian variety."

The plants have buds already and maybe its full bloom will be in August 2019.

The sunflowers just right there beside our home measure 7.5 ft. in height. Plants have buds and maybe the complete full bloom of its flowers on first week of August. Some of the sunflowers are shorter than the others but with buds already. The shortest plant is just 3.5 ft. tall. I should have not planted the sunflowers among the dahlias as they overcrowded each other. I should not have planted the sunflower and followed the instruction of  leaving a space of 24 inches (60 cm) from each other. However, I have different aim and purpose why I plant these sunflowers.

Note: Sunflower: Large Russian variety is native to North America. This variety is used throughout Russia for the production of cooking oil. Large Russian was used as the variety for bird seeds because of its large seed heads and their seeds according to farmers are compared to "nut seeds."

Large Russian Sunflowers Seeds are available at Campbell River Garden Centre & Mammoth Sunflower seeds 

fr. Superstore

Each seed from Large Russian variety produces one large flower the size of a big platter. 14 inches across on tall stems. Would you believe? To see is to believe and that's why I planted these sunflowers in the first place.

Whatever, those large russians could be from the MAMMOTH. Notice that the difference in petals between Large Russian and Mammoth. The other is pointy petals (mammoth) and Large Russians have circular edge petals just like daisy.

I had given 17 seedlings for my sister to plant in her garden but she said the seedlings died and few of the seedlings (she gave them to her daughter) had triumphantly grew up taller than expected because the plants didn't compete with each other on the ground space. Each seedling was in one meter gap or at least 3 -4 ft from each other.

You only follow the spacing of 24" from one sunflower to another if you are to plant in a 100 acre field where rows are arrange perfectly and machines do the manipulation and standardized spacing.