The Sunflower

The garden bed in front of the house faces south and tends to be hot and dry. This year I decided to plant it with tall, heat tolerant things and installed a soaker hose. My hope was that enough plants would grow up to shade at least some of the front porch and (hopefully) keep the house cooler.

This is what happened:

Yes that is a sunflower that is nearly as tall as the porch roof. S is 6’4″ so that gives you an idea.