Giant Volunteer Sunflower: Natural Variation or Mutation? Save Seeds to Test

Possible but Rare

A 15-foot sunflower is unusual but can occur under ideal conditions. Natural height variation exists.

Experiment

Save seeds from this plant. If offspring are also tall, you may have a new genetic line. This is how new cultivars are discovered—observant gardeners saving oddities.

Joy in Gardening

May gardens always bring you wonder, even in Iraq.