دوار الشمس 'عملاق روسي' (عضوي)

My kids were absolutely thrilled when these towers of yellow started blooming—the flower heads are genuinely as big as dinner plates. We'll definitely save some of the seeds for the chickens this fall.

Planted these in early May and by August the flower heads were bigger than dinner plates, easily the talk of the whole street. The seeds sprouted fast and the stalks were so sturdy they didn’t even need staking, and now the birds are having a feast off the dried heads.

My kids couldn't believe their eyes when the flower heads got as big as dinner plates. I’ll be saving plenty of seeds for the chickens this fall.