Sunflower reaches dizzying heights

Mal with her skyscraping sunflower

There must be something in the Rochdale soil as another sunflower has reached dizzying heights.

Following the Rochdale Online article about an enormous sunflower on Regent Street, another reader contacted us about his wife’s equally-impressive plant at their home on Brotherod Hall Road.

Planted in May, Marie Howarth, known as Mal, has also grown a sunflower of skyscraper proportions.

Husband Allen estimates it to be between 12 and 15 foot in height, although daughter Ann-Marie Farley has put the flower’s height at a whopping 17 feet.

Standard sunflowers are usually between 6 to 10 feet in height, although some giant varieties can grow even taller.

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