Mammoth Sunflowers

These sunflowers have been around since 1000BC. They face the east each morning waiting for the sun to come up. They follow the light all day, ending up facing the west. They spend all night going back to the direction that the light will begin again, facing the east. If you pull the leaves from the stem, they can no longer follow the light. Some of them grow to b 25 feet tall with a flower face of 3 inches. During the years of Malaria, they were plant to kill the germs that were in the air. After Chernobyl, the Russians planted them to soak up t;he radiation form the soil and water. It was determined that they soaked up as much as 95% of the radiation. If planted in a corn field, the ants will herd up all the aphids and push them toward the sunflower. The aphids then climb on the stalk of the sunflower but are unable to kill the p;ant because the stalk is so strong. This leaves the lady bugs free to protect the other plants. Wayne and Kathie