The sunflowers are truly huge…fantastic. And you are beautifully in tone with the purple coneflowers, which are also a lot longer than I know them 🙂
Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever seen sunflowers that large, although I do remember fields of them in Turkey in 1976 that were high. What struck me at that time and I DO remember, is the farmers moving around in old horse and carts and I remember their old hats and clothes reminded me of farming back a hundred years ago. (I was on a 9 week camping tour of Europe at the time and only wish I had better photos OR, they hadn’t faded and yellowed so as to be now, almost useless to view).
Your memories sound wonderful. The strains from Eastern Europe are the tallest. ‘Russian Mammoth’ is often sold here. This one’s parent was a German hybrid I grew last year.
Eliza Waters 
Good thing you don’t need to ‘deadhead’ the Sunflowers!
Hehe, nope! 😉
WOW!!!
Amazing, right? 🙂
The sunflowers are truly huge…fantastic. And you are beautifully in tone with the purple coneflowers, which are also a lot longer than I know them 🙂
Thank you, Noortje. Not planned, but an impulsive photo in my ‘gardening’ clothes. 😉
Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever seen sunflowers that large, although I do remember fields of them in Turkey in 1976 that were high. What struck me at that time and I DO remember, is the farmers moving around in old horse and carts and I remember their old hats and clothes reminded me of farming back a hundred years ago. (I was on a 9 week camping tour of Europe at the time and only wish I had better photos OR, they hadn’t faded and yellowed so as to be now, almost useless to view).
Your memories sound wonderful. The strains from Eastern Europe are the tallest. ‘Russian Mammoth’ is often sold here. This one’s parent was a German hybrid I grew last year.