Go Go Godzilla Sunflowers!

Late summer is officially here.  We heard the first crickets on August 3, and now their chirps signal the coming end of summer.

No flower says "summer" more than sunflowers do.  I'd like to show you some pictures taken at our community garden plot yesterday. 

My loving spouse puts the vast majority of work into our plots.  I sometimes join him on weekends.  But our plot has been a bit neglected this summer.

These sunflowers don't care.  They have come up for us year after year.  I've called these "Godzilla sunflowers"in past years.  They are at least seven feet (a bit more than two meters) tall.

Here are some of our other sunflowers.

 Not all sunflowers are yellow.  In fact, they are available in shades ranging from orange, to creamy white, to red.

Here's an orange and yellow specimen.

And a final volunteer Godzilla, bowing under its own weight, paying tribute to a beautiful, sunny day in the Southern Tier of upstate New York.

I'm not the only person who grows as many flowers as veggies at the community garden. Here's a nearby plot.

We don't grow sunflowers for seeds - we just can't beat the birds to them. But I don't mind my feathered friends.  Their pleasure, and my use of sunflowers as cut flowers, is enough for me.

Tomorrow - some veggies of our community garden.