GIANT SUNFLOWERS
While a diet of champagne was necessary to grow a giant , sunf lower in Sydney, featured in a New Zealand daily newspaper yesterday, Mr C. R. Watson of 34 Kiwi Street, Taupo, has fed his 10-week-old monster with a far simpler diet of liquid sheep manure. A world record is being claimed for the Sydney giant — it has reached a height of 13 feet IV2 inches. A gardening expert said that sunflowers are normally only seven feet dwarfs, but several of Mr Watson 's young plants are over 10 feet tall already. The stick in Mr Watson's hand is 1 1 feet long. mm 11 i * i 1 1 « i , ■ , —******»» k
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Taupo Times, Volume 20, Issue 5, 21 January 1971, Page 1
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113GIANT SUNFLOWERS Taupo Times, Volume 20, Issue 5, 21 January 1971, Page 1
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