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I'd like this group to be made up of people who like vegetable gardens and who will discuss their successes and their failures. Also we could exchange recipes using the produce from our back yards.
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Zil said:
on November 2, 2009 09:44 PM ET
edited on November 2, 2009 09:46 PM ET

Miss Sunshine Helianthus

   
     

Scientific Name : Helianthus annuus
 
Common Name : Sunflower
 
Hardiness Degree : 32°F (0.0°C)
 
Blooming Season : Summer
 
Plant Habit : Upright
 
Spacing : 6 - 10" (15 - 25cm)
 
Height : 10 - 16" (25 - 41cm)
 
Width : 6 - 8" (15 - 20cm)
 
Exposure : Sun
 
Grower Information : 

A PanAmerican Seed product. This delightful new dwarf sunflower offers an array of benefits to growers, retailers and gardeners. Easy and economical to produce, mildew-tolerant Miss Sunshine needs fewer PGRs and will flower at a shorter height under short days than other commercial varieties. These pollen-free plants do not aggravate allergies and there is no messy pollen drop. The 3 to 4-in. (7 to 10-cm), sunny golden-colored blooms "face up" for big retail impact, and produce long-lasting color for the consumer, with a fast flush of secondary flowers. Miss Sunshine is perfect for containers and  mixed pots; it also makes a great indoor lifestyle plant or florist gift item, and fits well into some warm-weather landscape markets like Florida.


 

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joyinky
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joyinky replied to johnnya1935's Post #1 :
on November 5, 2009 08:56 PM ET

Here in KY Violets are considered a major weed!  Still, I don't have the heart to do anything to volunteers in my flower beds; my lawn however is another story.  I do pull with abandon volunteer Rose of Sharon; a shrub that I babied and tried to cultivate when I lived in MI.  Here, I think every seed germinates!  Joy


johnnya1935
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johnnya1935 said:
on November 5, 2009 12:39 AM ET

This may sound strange, but I was raised in a part of Colorado where sunflowers grew wild. For a long time I considered them a weed because they grew everywhere, along ditch banks, fences and in my aunt's yard. My mother, born and bred in Kansas, took me aside and explained to me that just because something grows wild, doesn't make it a weed