Mutant heads

[watergazer]

The rest of the sunflower heads are flowering now. A pity they weren’t all out with the main flowerhead.

Have a lovely day everyone x

[sassy59]

Very nice, good to see. Enjoy your day Dickinson. Xxxxx

[skischool]

Brickworks still looking nice Anita,shame about the drain pipe theft though,these Sunflowers have a tendency to just up root and go where they please lol......

Cheeky Ski's and the sleeping one xx

[watergazer in reply to skischool]

🤣 I wondered if you’d notice the missing drainpipe skis. The flowerheads have told me they prefer their new home No more unexpected showers !

[megshafer]

Beautiful sunflower....one of my favorite flowers.

Meg🌻

[watergazer]

Something about a sunflower makes me feel happy. Maybe it’s all that yellow 🙂

[Phil40]

I saw that title ‘Mutant Heads’ and thought ‘wow! This COPD is getting ridiculous!’

Last time I grew sunflowers a gang of delinquent squirrels beheaded them one by one until I had 1 left.

It started to lean over so I had to support it, unfortunately I put some twine round it and nailed the other end of the twine to the shed roof.

As soon as I had gone upstairs I looked down to see a lone squirrel pulling the head off the sunflower and smashing it up. Didn’t even eat it, just looked at me whilst ripping the lovely yellow flower apart.

Then it ran off.

I cried a small tear

[soul-123 in reply to Phil40]

My strawberries were nicked by squirrels !

[watergazer in reply to Phil40]

Oh dear 🤦‍♀️

[Yatzy in reply to Phil40]

Sorry, but I had to laugh! 🤣 Wouldn’t have done if they were mine though....how disappointing after nurturing the sunflowers for so long 🌻🌻🌻🌻

[Phil40 in reply to Yatzy]

It was really funny actually! I started out with probably 8 or so and one by one the squirrels took them out until there was just the one left.

Which I helped them get to by fastening it to the shed 😂😂

Grew 12 or so next year to 11 feet tall. All squirrel proof

[Yatzy in reply to Phil40]

Ha! Sometimes hard to see the funny side, so I like your approach!!

So glad you eventually had success. I’ve never had much luck with sunflowers, don’t know why, grow other flowers reasonably well. There must be a secret!

[Phil40 in reply to Yatzy]

And I took pictures of the completed sunflowers complete with my then 38gg topless girlfriend showing them off. The sunflowers that is. As well.

If I find that photo I will post it on here as evidence. Of a couple of things, really.

[Phil40]

Serial theives. Stinkers

[Phil40]

It would be worse if COPD did cause Mutant Heads though. It doesn’t, right?

I am not really upsetting someone somehow without knowing?

[HungryHufflepuff in reply to Phil40]

It speaks volumes that we’re even entertaining the notion that COPD might cause mutant heads. You wake up one morning and find you’ve sprouted a mutant head, you go to the doctor and he looks stoically at your 2 heads and says, well yes it is to be expected, you’ll just have get used to these symptoms of lung disease. It doesn’t really cause mutant heads though, right? 🤔

[watergazer in reply to HungryHufflepuff]

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[Phil40]

I just had 2 enormous blisters in each heel which were a bit sci-fi they were soooo big!

I got a large bucket of water, then pushed a needle through them both, in turn.

Well, talk about spraying blood all over the place!

Think I drained them so see if I can walk tomorrow.....

Stupid D.M boots which I knew were awful. Never again...,.,

[watergazer in reply to Phil40]

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