On Sun, 1 Oct 2017 01:17:34 +0100, David wrote:

On 30/09/2017 22:11, Bob Hobden wrote:
On 30 Sep 2017 20:16, Judith in England wrote:

I have grown some sunflowers either side of a patio door - facing south.

I was really quite cheesed off that instead of facing south and be visible -
the flower heads decided that they were going to face north : ie toward the
wall.

I then realised that when sunflower heads follow the sun: they don't actually
have "eyes" - they are following the source of the heat.

I think that my sunflower had realised that rather than waste energy following
the sun: it was much better to face the wall all day, and every day: and get
the heat from the brick wall !!




An interesting observation, I have always read that they follow the
sun. Wonder if any research has been done on this.


They are just Shy!

They're not just shy little flowers: one is almost as big as a dustbin lid ;-)