And finally for today, an update on the crisis zone which is sunflower number one. His head still sits at an alarming angle, but doesn’t seem to be getting any worse. And even better news is that no less than four additional flowers are on the way! You can see three of them here:

He does look most peculiar - with his listing head now a foot below three new sprouts (the fourth is slightly lower down, just visible in the lower picture). There are also other blooms forming in some of the crevices between the trunk and the leaves - it’ll be interesting to see if any of them flower (most are tiny). Only sunflowers one and two (the ones which have had “issues") have these - three and four each only have the one flower. I presume therefore that trauma at the top can prompt interesting stuff lower down.

The temptation to cut off his head is greater than ever before!