Retired schoolteacher who grows Sunflowers. I like it. The Night Bloomers are currently cycling, but my Sunflowers, who I have been thinking about growing for ten years are actually standing 5 ft tall.
June of 2020, first week of the month. I shot sunflowers in the Guatemalans yard. They grew them several years in a row and I'd admired them greatly, walking the dogs every morning. Really got serious. I had a ladder and various tools to reflect light, throw shade, split exposures for half a negative, then the other half. Every morning at 7:00AM. In their front yard working the row of spectacular Sunflowers.
Guatemaleans moved on. I had thought about growing Lindsey Lane Sunflowers for a decade or two. This year I ordered a mountain of dirt, got it installed, beds torn out, re-dirted. And planted. Early March.
90 days from planting to flowers. Here we are. First blooms showing their faces.
I'm in business. Though I may just be looking. 73 individual plants up and going.