The Mammoth Grey Striped sunflower is an heirloom variety that produces very large flowers (up to 14 inches) on one stalk. (NDSU photo)
“This is huge, it’s taller than the garage!”The plant in question was a sunflower.And it was, in fact, taller than the garage. What started as a pack of seeds I had gotten for 50% off at a local garden store and just tossed into a bare spot of my garden was now the first thing people noticed.The sunflower variety was not an ornamental variety, like the ones I had grow...