Sunflowers - frost hardy?

These are some of mine from last year. They produced loads of flowers per stem.

 

Lovely photos . Mum , do you get lots of birds in your garden I have been looking at all the tree's surrounding you

 

I do get my fair share!

In the first photo, those trees you see behind the fence, belong to the local council and are being taken down due to some sort of disease which is so, so sad. Mind you, they were going to be replaced by Ash - last year brought a rethink on that one

In the second photo, the tree behind the sunflowers is a pear tree and behind that, prunus of some kind (also seen in the first photo in front of the fence).

Last year, I planted some young fruit trees in that area of the garden (you might just spy a young pear in front of the left hand shed?) and of the 8 trees I planted, 5 have taken really well; I even have blossom on them this year

But, as most of us know, with trees come .... squirrels! Bliddy poachers they are too! They tried to eat all the sunflower heads before the birds could get a look in So, I had to 'deadhead' some of the sunflowers and reserve some seed (some for sharing, some for birds). They came in very useful this Winter, I can tell you!