My First Garden Ever

Beautiful big strong flowers although I like to compare them with butterflies because the plant leaves are not that handsome... The downside? once the flowers blossom it takes only 2 weeks for them to fade and never blossom again, in that sense you get stuck with an ugly stick and not so pretty plant leaves. Another negative?, they take more than 2 months to start flowering, once they do you get 2 weeks of nice flowers, then they turn brown(dying). You see the most part part of their lives are like caterpillars, at the very end is just glorious. The flower at the top of the plant is the biggest one, the one flowering first and the first to die, once that happens you know the rest will follow, that's the sunflower life. Citrus sunflower. Citrus sunflower. Hopefully my other sunflowers will grow this summer and I'll post in here once they flower.

Right now only one kind of sunflower is flowering(a citrus sunflower), another one died because of a fungus, but given that the next 5 months are practically frost free it makes sense to sow all my other sunflowers seeds types right now, that way I will see them growing and take a peek at their looks, so next year I'll know exactly which, how many and where to sow them. Basically this year is all about trial and error(and gaining practice and experience). 2 seeds of each.( Florenza , Chianti , Apricot twist , Lemon aura  and Starbust aura .

Only 16 inches tall. They named it "Junior" at Burpees seeds I suppose because is a small of a kind taking in concideration that other varieties grow from 4 ft to 6tf and some like the mammoth sunflower may even go 9-12 ft. This dwarf sunflower already got lots of flower buds, but none has not been opened yet. 4 days latter the first bud opened.