This year’s sunflowers are really shooting up. So much so that I’ve had to replace the original support canes with longer ones, and tie four of them to the fence to stop them blowing around so much in the wind.
As you can see, they are six feet tall now – the height of the fence panel – and still showing very little sign of flowering:
If they don’t start flowering soon they could be a good seven or eight feet before the first blooms appear.
We don’t go much for growing flowers in the garden. It seems such a waste of productive space. We have some nice trees, and a few rose bushes that were planted before we came to the house, but the only flowers we grow ourselves are sunflowers and lavender.
Why? Because both have productive uses: you can eat the sunflower seeds (or give them to the chickens), and you can either bake with the lavender or use it for its scent.
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