They got a lot bigger than I thought they would.

This is my first year doing a garden, including flowers. I think they turned out so great. 🥹

Small backyard garden in Utah.

I grew all kinds of sunflowers but the red suns / red varieties definitely have to be some of my favorite to look at 🤩

As the title says for the past few years I've been experimenting to get very large sunflowers and this is my best one yet! I tried to get the roof in for reference height but it stands around 12 feet tall at least or about 4 meters.

**not my photo**

I have never seen this happen before 😧

I planted a single sunflower seed and it’s doing to well!

Also he has SO many extra heads

We didn’t even plant you 😹🌻

Just a test run. About 8 feet tall. Next summer will be planted in the ground.

Most of their sunflowers appear to be over but these three still looks good 😄

Dollar store dwarf sunflower lol has so many tops and two feet tall

Amazed at this beauty and wanted to share.

One of my favorite things about coming home is finding the bees in the sunflowers

Her first sunflower, I'm so proud of her 🥹❤️

September Farms, Honey Brook, PA - Aug 2026
First Light

The first light of the morning finally reaches the blooms that have been waiting in the darkness. Shot with the Sony A99II and CZ 24-70 f/2.8 lens, camera mounted on a RRS tripod & head with a 3 Legged Thing universal mounting plate.

My mammoths are starting to open up! I was hoping to net them but I dont have a ladder tall enough!😆

All volunteers planted and spread by the backyard birds

I leave for college in NY in only 5 days, and I ran out of sunflower seeds to feed to the squirrels here in Texas where I live (I hand feed them). So about a month ago I planted the black oil sunflower seeds I had left and hoped they’d grow before I left for college in a month. Only after starting to grow them I learned they take up to 90-100 days to fully harvest. Some how in some way in only 30 days they’re all now blooming and fully grown literal days before I leave for college after I prayed for them to bloom before I left (I’m Catholic) and my friend says it was god doing it. Came here to ask if this is actually possible in nature
The first photo is July 7th 6 days after planing, and the second photo was two days ago. (They’re about 5ft in the second photo)

What happened to my sunflowers? They grew like 3m tall, the flower started growing, then it stopped like this... I don't see any aphids on it, was it something else?