A tower of flower.Ever heard of flower power? Few flowers pack more punch than Helianthus Helianthus (hē'lēăn`thəs): see sunflower. (heel-ee-AN-thus), the sunflower sunflower, any plant of the genus Helianthus of the family Asteraceae (aster family), annual or perennial herbs native to the New World and common throughout the United States. . Some people say talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to their plants maker them grow. But that's not easy with a sunflower. Some can reach twenty feet. Katie Christian, eight, is finding that this sunflower it nearly nine feet tall with plenty of time left in the growing season growing season, period during which plant growth takes place. In temperate climates the growing season is limited by seasonal changes in temperature and is defined as the period between the last killing frost of spring and the first killing frost of autumn, at which . Surprise! The tightly-packed, sunflower on the left will produce nearly 2,000 individual seeds. Seeds develop from the tiny sunflower blooms jammed together on the face of the flower. Clayton and Joshua Christian, five and two, find that sunflowers up close are nothing to be sneezed at. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] More than sixty varieties of sunflowers grow all around the world. Not all are bright yellow like the noonday sun. Look carefully and you'll see pockets of yellow pollen bulging on the legs of this bumblebee bumblebee: see bee. bumblebee Any member of two genera constituting the insect tribe Bombini (family Apidae, order Hymenoptera), found almost worldwide but most common in temperate climates. Bumblebees are robust and hairy, average about 0. . "Bye-bye, sunflower," says Katie. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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