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Garden Gate:  What are your favorite varieties of sunflowers?  |
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csmartyonline
True Blue Farmgirl
247 Posts
Carole
Clarksville
TN
USA
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 Posted - Jan 25 2014 : 03:22:55 AM
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I plan to grow a lot of sunflowers this year. Here's a partial list. What are your favorites?
Mammoth
Peredovik (oil seed)
Autumn Beauty
Inca Jewels
Italian White
Teddy Bear
Evening Sun
Velvet Queen
Short Stuff
Hopi Dye
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
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Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
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Posted - Jan 25 2014 : 05:26:45 AM
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Not sure what they are called, but I love the smaller varieties that you can cut for the table. Love having them on my kitchen table, as they are so cheery.
just a girl farming in WI
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ddmashayekhi
True Blue Farmgirl
4738 Posts
Dawn
Naperville
Illinois
USA
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Posted - Jan 25 2014 : 05:43:43 AM
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I'm like Michele, I prefer the dwarf varieties so they can be put in flower arrangements. Sunflowers always make me smile, their used to be a sunflower farm in northwestern WI that we drove past when I was a kid on my way to Hayward. I always perked up when I saw the beautiful flowers & knew we wouldn't have too much further to go to get to our cabin.
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TexasJo
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jody
Berthoud
CO
USA
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Posted - Jan 26 2014 : 07:31:53 AM
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I love Vanilla and Lime varieties. I find the vanilla tones so soft and soothing and the lime ones scream with happiness. But the mammoth sunflowers are a must also. They are so amazing and provide the most food for backyard critter visitors. Sun flowers also provide great privacy fencing around fairy gardens.
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edlund33
True Blue Farmgirl
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Marilyn
Renton
WA
USA
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Posted - Jan 26 2014 : 11:54:26 AM
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I love just about any variety of sunflower as they are one of my favorite flowers. My favorites to grow are Mammoth, Helianthus Maximilianii, Valentine, Autumn Beauty, Incredible Dwarf, Italian White, Vanilla Ice and Dwarf Yellow Spray. I use the taller varieties against the fence around my garden and the smaller varieties in beds or containers. I took a train ride through the Netherlands during the summer once...they grow alot of sunflowers there and it was prime flowering season so the fields were full of happy smiling faces as far as they eye could see. It was like being in heaven.....
Cheers! ~ Marilyn
Farm Girl No. 1100
http://blueskyanddaisies.blogspot.com
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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csmartyonline
True Blue Farmgirl
247 Posts
Carole
Clarksville
TN
USA
247 Posts |
Posted - Jan 27 2014 : 05:53:55 AM
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| Thank you. I am ready for some sunflowers ... and some warm summer weather! The Netherlands must have been gorgeous in the summer. That country is so full of flowers. BTW I used to live in Renton. :) |
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edlund33
True Blue Farmgirl
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Marilyn
Renton
WA
USA
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Posted - Jan 27 2014 : 06:20:19 AM
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I visited several places in Europe that summer and the Netherlands was by far my favorite. How fun that you used to live in Renton! I've lived here in the Fairwood area my whole life.
Cheers! ~ Marilyn
Farm Girl No. 1100
http://blueskyanddaisies.blogspot.com
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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csmartyonline
True Blue Farmgirl
247 Posts
Carole
Clarksville
TN
USA
247 Posts |
Posted - Jan 27 2014 : 07:16:36 AM
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| That's where we lived - Fairwood. Gotta love it. |
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What are your favorite varieties of sunflowers?
