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gja1000
05-09-2011, 02:50 PM
Gary and Brooke kept telling me this was a weed that came up in my garden. I just knew it wasn't. Here's what my "weed" looked like when we got home from Houston today.
lynne b
05-09-2011, 03:11 PM
OMG, I love sunflowers!! So glad your weed turned out so pretty. I have wanted to buy some dwarf sunflowers for years but just havn't done it.
Janet
05-09-2011, 03:16 PM
What a pretty sunflower! They sure make you feel like summer is here.
gja1000
05-09-2011, 03:27 PM
Summer IS HERE IN TEXAS! It was 97 today. It's not supposed to be nearly as hot the rest of the week though, thank goodness!
Lindsey
05-10-2011, 06:43 AM
What a beautiful sunflower! My parents have planted them in their garden at home for a few years :) I love them!
Blueyes
05-10-2011, 12:19 PM
Gorgeous! We had a stick growing in our back yard at a new house once. Turned out to be a Tulip tree, lol! LOVE sunflowers!
gja1000
05-10-2011, 02:22 PM
Oh Betsi! I would love to have a tulip tree! How beautiful!
lynne b
05-10-2011, 03:25 PM
Oh Betsi! I would love to have a tulip tree! How beautiful!

I have one i sell to you cheap lol!!! The one we have is right next to where we park and during the summer it drips sap on the cars, I wouldn't mind it if it wasn't for that. When they get ready to cut the trees across the road for the highway hubby is going to see if they will cut it also. They may not since it is close to wires.
gja1000
05-10-2011, 05:57 PM
Oh OH! At our other house we had a tree that dripped sap on our cars too - but it got old and we had it cut down. Someone told me it's not tree sap but aphid droppings that gets on the car. If you can control the aphids, no more sap. I don't know how to control aphids on a tree!
JJJ
05-11-2011, 10:21 AM
My back and front yard are dead but I'm going to buy those block grass so I can start gardening. Hopefully I will have a beautiful flowers like that sunflower. :D
judy
05-11-2011, 03:41 PM
I have to admit that I am afraid of sunflowers! They are so tall, and I always expect them to bite me.
DianaB
05-12-2011, 07:11 AM
What a beautiful weed!!! I'm so glad that you didn't get rid of it!!! Kansas is the sunflower state but it's not based on the large ones like that. We have loads of the smaller wild kind that are all along the road ways in the summer......they're so pretty even if they are truly weeds!!!
paula1961
05-12-2011, 09:46 AM
Beautiful sunflower!! I could use a weed or two like that in my yard.:)