Gorgeous flowering bush -- but what is it?

[Katzpur]

Originally Posted by TerraDown

I just edited your photo, and in my editor, it did in fact, open the picture sideways. I turned it and now uploaded.

You are SO nice! Thank you for doing that for me!

The crazy thing is that I had to use a photo editor, too. When I uploaded it to my computer, it was on its side, so I rotated it a quarter turn and clicked on "save." For some reason, though, it reverted back to the sideways picture when I copied it over to C-D. At any rate, since this is not the photography forum, I'll just thank you again and let it go at that.

Aren't these flowers gorgeous, though?!?!? You can see that they look kind of like miniature sunflowers, but I've never seen sunflowers growing in clumps up a stalk. I don't even like sunflowers, but I love these.

[uggabugga]

i'd like to try growing these. they're perennials, like sunchokes/jerusalem artichokes.

[Katzpur]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

i'd like to try growing these. they're perennials, like sunchokes/jerusalem artichokes.

They are super easy to grow and are absolutely stunning! Probably don't expect them to bloom the first year, though.

[gentlearts]

I just saw this post and I sent for some seeds from Amazon. I have a troublesome spot on the south side of my house that it might do well in.

[atadytic19]

Originally Posted by Katzpur

Here's a picture of the Maximillian Sunflower I saw in my neighborhood:

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Could somebody tell me what I did wrong? Why did the photo get rotated a quarter-turn? It it's upright in the file on my computer?

Maximilian sunflowers grow wild in my yard each spring but they are the wild type. Not a cultivar like your pictures. I spend weeks pulling them up and even up to summer I still end up pulling up stragglers.

The wild type is not as bushy and verrrrrrry weedy.

Looking at your pictures I am tempted by that cultivar though.

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