Tallest sunflower and largest head challenge 2017

Tallest is only 1.15m/3' 9" high, they just don't want to grow this year.

Might be a badger, you could re-home it here Badger Adoption Centre

 

Slugs had the ones in the garden and I got two on the allotment.. at the great height of about 3 ft

 

That gives me an idea, could I graft one sunflower on top of another and double the height?


EDIT: Googling suggests this is possible

 

Got these three beauties growing in the veg plot at the moment, all self-seeded ones which popped up from seeds dropped by last year's sunflowers. They reappear every year now and I always leave a few for the bees and birds.



The one in the foreground I transplanted to the corner of the plot when it was still just a few inches high, not really knowing if it would survive.

Just been outside and measured it - was pleasantly surprised to find it's an impressive 7ft 6ins (about 2·3m).

 

9 foot 2 inches

 

Bigger than me wheelbarrow

 

The various sunflowers which have popped up around the veg patch continue to put on a good show. This multi-headed monster is now my tallest - it's just started flowering and tops out at a fairly impressive 7ft 4ins (2·23m).
At a rough count it has over 30 flower heads forming, so it should look quite impressive when more of them open.
All with absolutely no input from me (apart from allowing last years sunflowers to seed at will)





This one's doing fine too. As an added bonus, a self seeded rudbeckia has grown right alongside the sunflower, giving an extra splash of colour around the base.

 

No giants here.. Flower behind my little ray of sunshine



Can I cheat and enter a hollyhock instead

 

7 Foot nine inches But still growing

 

I'll have to go out and mesure, will post back

 

Mine comes up to me collar bone

 

One on right 11 foot 1 inch and another one on left 10 foot 6 inches behind the pole