My longed-for “wall of sunflowers” is coming along nicely, but I’ve revised my description a bit.

Three sunflower seedlings survived the first planting but the squirrels pilfered the rest.  The second crop did much better after I engineered a screen saver, but the plants are shorter.  I thought they would catch up in height, but since they are also setting buds, I think they’ll remain vertically challenged.  So…here are my…sunflowers, minus the flowers.  They’ll be along shortly.

Sunflower Bud

Sunflowers Line the Upper Deck
Lavender grazes below