9′ 8″ … this is how tall my daughter’s sunflower now is. It was about 2 inches tall when we bought it at the Lane County Extension plant sale in the spring for a quarter, and now it towers over my fence at over 10 feet off the ground. (The top of the garden bed it is in is about 18-24 inches from the ground.) I’m not sure what happens at this point — will it make seeds, fall over (it is sort of leaning), or just keep getting bigger? The one next to it is quite a bit smaller and not yet flowering.
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