Sam grew this sunflower from a seed with Lloyd in a pot. We replanted it in the front flower bed as soon as we could and it did really well until one storm when it split half way up the stem. It had a cane supporting it but the storm had been too much for the cane.
We thought it was going to die but we were so sad and we tried to keep it alive despite the damage to the stem - there was literally just threads of stem keeping it alive but the sunflower kept going and shockingly it kept going and it grew a head and flowered! It didn't get very tall and the flower didn't get very big - all the leaves died off but it STILL flowered and Sam is sooooooo happy :) He LOVES his flower - as sad and pathetic as it looks :)
I haven't dared touch any f the thistles or weeds around his sunflower lately for fear of knocking the poor thing and knocking the flower! None of our other sunflowers have flowered as early - they won't flower for at least another month yet!
