{"id":849,"date":"2007-11-04T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2007\/11\/04\/the-sunflowers-survived\/"},"modified":"2010-10-09T16:24:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T20:24:22","slug":"the-sunflowers-survived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2007\/11\/04\/the-sunflowers-survived\/","title":{"rendered":"The sunflowers survived"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2006\/06\/23\/green-thumb-sunday\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/104\/306398715_49775ad925_o.gif\" alt=\"Join Green Thumb Sunday\" \/><\/a><\/center><center><a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2006\/06\/23\/green-thumb-sunday\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Join<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dragonden\/256211079\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/84\/256211079_9dabda3c06.jpg\" alt=\"hybridsunflower2\" height=\"341\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember all those sunflowers that I had to chop down to only three feet in early September because I got a citation from the city saying they were too tall?  <\/p>\n<div class=\"912745ff53504cd4aef8ff3ef7b9aa95\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* gardengrows_300x250inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4054669721\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Well, they lived after they were brutally chopped and they&#8217;ve continued to produce blooms.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>I really thought the sunflowers would die after having half their height or more chopped off, but they survived. 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