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As far as I can tell they are over 9 feet tall... What the hell did they bury in their front yard?!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Those look like good old "mammoth" sunflowers. I tried to grow 16 sunflowers this season from different varieties, and only 6 of those survived. They all became monsters.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah wow. Those seem easy to have as a statement piece. I might try to ask them for some seeds since that article undersells them as a statement piece

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You sure? That link mentions single large heads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm growing half a dozen mammoth sunflowers that all have multi heads right now. They look exactly like OPs picture.

They may be a variant, but that's what they were called on the seed packet I used.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Biblically accurate sunflower.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@[email protected]

Those are pretty common in Amsterdam. Both in public spaces and even street gardens

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

lol sunflowers are common here too, just usually you don't enjoy them from a 2nd floor window.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] yeah I meant that size of the sunflower, not the plant itself

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Looks like mammoth Russian sunflowers to me. We grow these every year along my driveway and the neighbors love them because they attract gold finches and red-headed house finches :-)