WiseAcre Gardens

Whatever variety, these sunflowers are invasive. They’re sneaky and prolific with an underground network always working to expand the sunflower’s domain. These sunflowers can overwhelm a flower bed when new plants are allowed to spread. Constant vigilance is needed and harsh yoinking of trespassers necessary.

These are a variety I bought and while they’re not as invasive as Jerusalem Artichokes they’re close. I’m using them as a background but they keep insisting on a place up front and everywhere in between.

I don’t really think these are any more ‘work’ than other perennials, after all the bed needs to be kept weeded anyway. Besides a little work is worth the effort in order to have these bright yellow flowers the bees enjoy so much.

Helianthus

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Another visitor to the sunflower today was this hover-fly. I’m not going to try identifing either of these flower lovers. I made desktop wallpaper instead.

Hover-fly on Perennial Sunflower

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My time on Long Island is about up. Figures the heat and humidity has finally let up after 11 days of me doing a pretty good job of impersonating a puddle. The only good thing of having to change my sleeping habits  and getting up at 4:30 in the morning in order to beat the heat will be the early head start I get in the rat race tomorrow morning. I should be home for lunch