It's dead, Jim

[wraithfodder]

Remember my pretty sunflower (pictures at http://wraithfodder.livejournal.com/476361.html) ? Well, it got a little old.


and then....

I can only assume a deer did the evil deed, as it must have reached over the fencing, broke the stalk and then ate the flower down to this.

Comments

[monkey5s.livejournal.com]

Actually, the sunflower was merely ripening. If it hadn't been eaten by the damn deer, the big petals around the disc would have shriveled and dried out, as the seeds enlarged and darkened.

The one time I tried growing sunflowers (here in Ohio), the birds started in on them when they were only a little further along than your first picture. Which, dudes! The seeds weren't ripe yet!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I actually had this silly idea of maybe eating the seeds myself. Of course, I would have had to encase it in hardware cloth to make it last that long! ;)