I planted sunflowers seeds early this spring in the tiny spot of dirt that gets full sun in our front yard. By mid-April the buds were coming up fast.

Another week later one was blooming and we were heading to south Florida for a few days and I was afraid I would miss the peak blooming.

I didn’t miss anything. Days after we got back from our trip the sunflowers were in full bloom and the few plants had a ton of blooms on them. I was thinking deer would come by and eat them all. Last year deer came by and ate half the plants right before they started to bloom and then squirrels started eating the sunflowers as they started to droop but this year we didn’t have anything bothering them except bees.

The sun comes up behind the house so most of the blooms did not face the street.

Buds kept popping up.

One of the stalks got top heavy and leaned over, almost to the ground so I got an old stick we had in the garage and tied it up to keep it standing. Luckily the stalk didn’t break off and continued to bloom.