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Digitalis
Acre
Posts: 329
Which Sunflowers To Grow in '10?
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December 13, 2009, 21:00:35 »
I am going to grow my very first sunflowers in 2010 and I'm currently looking through all the seed catalogues.
There are so many!
I'd like some HUGE ones for my allotment, and some standrard ones for my garden.
Any recommendations?
I like the look of those black ones....
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Flighty
Hectare
Posts: 2,680
Re: Which Sunflowers To Grow in '10?
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December 13, 2009, 21:15:53 »
Wonderful flowers, and as you can see I grow lots on my plot! :)
http://flightplot.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/sunflowers/
Next year I'll be growing Earthwalker, Pastiche, Sungold (tall) and Vanilla Ice.
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Digeroo
Hectare
Posts: 9,578
Cotswolds - Gravel - Alkaline
Re: Which Sunflowers To Grow in '10?
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December 13, 2009, 22:24:34 »
One of my plot neighbour had some super ones quite small with lots of dark flowers. Lovely.
Love the pictures Flighty.
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saddad
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Posts: 17,891
Derby, Derbyshire (Strange, but true!)
Re: Which Sunflowers To Grow in '10?
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December 13, 2009, 23:20:44 »
As many as you can fit in... :)
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chriscross1966
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Visionhairy
Re: Which Sunflowers To Grow in '10?
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December 13, 2009, 23:47:58 »
Spanish Giant... you can get them on ebay, they are ridiculously big.
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budgiebreeder
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West Yorkshire.
Re: Which Sunflowers To Grow in '10?
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December 14, 2009, 09:28:34 »
I got some dwarf ones from the £1 shop .What a huge success they were.Everone must have flowered and i had a bed full of beautiful happy smiling sunflowers all summer long.They grew to about 18".I will certainly look for some next year.
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lewic
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Posts: 944
Re: Which Sunflowers To Grow in '10?
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December 14, 2009, 09:49:43 »
I had some Velvet Queen from Realseeds.co.uk, they were lovely, late flowering, red-gold colour with loads of flowers, medium size.
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bridgehouse
Acre
Posts: 438
Re: Which Sunflowers To Grow in '10?
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December 14, 2009, 10:08:50 »
Next year I am going to grow a small sunflower called Tedddy bear,
its a lovely one I think,also may find room for a few larger ones,
These flowers really brighten up your day don't they.
June.
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manicscousers
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www.golborne-allotments.co.uk
Re: Which Sunflowers To Grow in '10?
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December 14, 2009, 15:54:49 »
the best ones we have grown were last year from a 19p pack from netto, lovely dark colours, plus a couple of the ones out of the bird seed, big yellow ones, this year, we used seed from them and had a lovely mix ;D
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Squash64
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Posts: 4,545
Re: Which Sunflowers To Grow in '10?
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December 14, 2009, 16:40:41 »
Irish Eyes are lovely, only about 18" high, flowers for ages.
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Walsall Road Allotments
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