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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Is this the smallest sunflower you’ve ever seen?

Posted in Family, Garden, Photographs, Sunflower Club

No laughing!

We started off really well with Nurture Stores sunflower club, we even won the seeds.

We planted the seeds.

Planting the seeds 28 March 2010

The seedlings sprouted quickly,

Seeds sprout 8 April 2010

and were very healthy specimens.

Sunflower seedlings

We planted them out

The suspense must be killing you – what did we get…

13 July 2010

It’s really rather pathetic isn’t it?

That isn’t the worst though, look at the ones that didn’t make it:

We do have another which is ‘about’ to bloom, I’m sure:

If it isn’t eaten alive, first.

Then as if the mocking from Nurture Store on Twitter today, about her Jack and The Beanstalk sunflowers, wasn’t bad enough. I also have this laughing at me from my neighbour’s garden. A case of here’s what you could have won, eh?

Posted in Family, Garden, Photographs, Sunflower Club Tags: Family, Flowers, Garden, Parenting, Photographs, Sunflower Club

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Red Ted Art

- March 19, 2011 - 9:34 am

Oh dear… all that excitement of growing… and then… *sigh*

Cathy @ NurtureStore

- September 2, 2010 - 11:52 pm

Thanks for linking up with the Sunflower Club :)

Cara

- July 13, 2010 - 9:15 pm

@cosmicgirlie Pretty pathetic! I can’t tell you how I nurtured those babies, I am not green fingered.

jay (@cosmicgirlie)

- July 13, 2010 - 9:13 pm

I gotta confess…my mouth fell open in shock at the size of it.

And then I may have laughed a little. It’s..um…pretty?
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Mummy V

- July 13, 2010 - 9:09 pm

Awww, it is such a shame but also so cute! My niece has just asked for seeds and ‘gardening stuff’ for her sixth birthday next week. She has some sun flowers already, they also started fast and have done quite well, not like that giant one tho!
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Nova

- July 13, 2010 - 8:59 pm

Sorry, it did make me smile but …..my mother keeps planting things for us like lettace….then a week later just before she arrives I remember that we haven’t watered anything since she was last here….I am a terrible gardener!! Hence our crops aren’t doing very well. x
Nova´s last [type] ..It’s never too early…
Nova´s last [type] ..It’s never too early…

Cathy @ NurtureStore

- July 13, 2010 - 1:45 pm

Ahh, what a shame! It may be small but it's still so pretty. Last year all our sunflowers were eaten by slugs and we were so disappointed. This year however…! We have a great sunflower craft on the way for the Sunflower Club so hope you'll pop over to see it.

themadhouse

- July 13, 2010 - 1:40 pm

Oh it is such a relief to know that we are not alone! Ours are even smaller than yours and only one has survived being eaten alive by slugs and other bugs. I might even take a picture of it now!!

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