3 Sunflowers
They have long tap roots that need to stretch out.
3 sunflowers. Tournesols is the name of two series of still life paintings by the dutch painter vincent van goghthe first series executed in paris in 1887 depicts the flowers lying on the ground while the second set made a year later in arles shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vasein the artists mind both sets were linked by the name of his friend paul gauguin. Sunflowers original title in french. The common names sunflower and common sunflower typically refer to the popular annual species helianthus annuus whose round flower heads in combination with the ligules look like the sun. Sunflowers arent picky but the soil cant be too compact.
Sunflowers thrive in slightly acidic to somewhat alkaline soil ph 60 to 75. While most sunflower varieties grow to be several feet tall some miniature varieties peak out at under three feet tall. The common sunflower h. Jerusalem artichoke jerusalem artichoke flowers helianthus tuberosus.
Heres a list of popular varieties large and small. Annuus is an annual herb with a rough hairy stem 145 metres 315 feet high and broad coarsely toothed rough leaves 7530 cm 312 inches long arranged in spirals. Theyre not too fussy when it comes to soil ph either. The tallest sunflower on record measured in at 30 feet and 1 inch tall dwarf sunflower types only grow to be about 3 feet tall and are perfect for small spaces such as garden boxes and planters.
The attractive heads of flowers are 7515 cm wide in wild specimens and often 30 cm or more in. In preparing a bed dig down 2 feet in depth and about 3 feet across. Their wooly namesakes may have gone extinct but mammoth sunflowers grow just as tall as the prehistoric beasts reaching a height of 9 to 12 feet 27 to 37 meters.