2020 July 4: Flowering. August 28: A very nice display all summer, and no aphids.
2013 June 24: A couple of plants are growing beside the driveway and a few more in driveway cracks. September 23: Did well enough. 2011 September 19: Did well.
2010 July 2: Some flowers.
2009 August 3: Flowering and doing fine.
2008 June 24: Plants but no flowers yet. December 31: Did fine.
2007 May 1: Small plants in their spot. June 16: Flowering nicely now.
2006 April 26: Many sprouts. June 14: First flower. August 1: Doing ok.
2005 May 28: Coming up all over. June 28: Two flowers. July 27: A small patch of it is flowering nicely.
2004 June 23: There are a few shoots in its spot.
July 31: There are only small new plants in the garden,
but they are in flower along the fence.
2003 May 1: Several small plants can be seen in its bed.
June 12: First flower, along the fence.
July 21: The flowers are still good,
but I believe they are now past their prime and showing it.
October 19: The flowers along the fence lasted longer than I expected.
2002 April 13: New growth is visible in its bed.
May 20: New growth is visible in its bed.
The previous growth was not the r. f. sunflower.
July 24: There is a wonderful display along the fence!
September 7: Still flowering, although many of the flowers look tired.
2001 June 6: 3 leaves or so are showing.
June 18: First flowers on a plant I didn't notice before.
December 2: The plant or plants were small this year. They must have been very disturbed by the transplanting.
2000 April 24: New growth is quite evident today.
June 21: First flower. The plant is quite crowded by the gaillardia.
August 8: It still has a few flowers.
25: I dug the centre part of the north perennial bed, incorporating compost, marked a bed with boards set into the ground, and replaced several rough false sunflower plants there.
1999 May 24: Growing well.
June 9: First flower. Also, red aphids.
~15: I sprayed the aphids with detergent and water,
which seems to have killed most of them, then a few days later
with Safer's soap and water.
June 30: Flourishing with about 55 flowers.
There are some volunteers along the fence too.
August 3: The flowers are started to look brown.
There are many red aphids. I sprayed yesterday and today
with soap solution.
13: I sprayed with forceful hose water again today.
That's 3 days in a row.
It seems to be successful at substantially reducing the number of aphids,
and much easier than using the soap solution.
31: A small number of small often brownish flowers, and aphids.
September 23: Kyle dug the perennial bed today and added compost.
The existing false sunflower clump was rather severely damaged.
I think it will come back.
I gave some of the roots to General Byng School.
30: A cheerful show in the early summer,
but not so attractive later on.
1998 June 1: Flourishing. Tall.
June 17: A few flowers.
1997 June 1: 2 plants coming along fine. Many volunteers.
June 30: Many flowers.
1996 May 4: No new growth visible yet.
June 3: Well up.
July 7: Flowering nicely.
1995 May 9: These are just starting to show.
They may be in trouble;
unfortunately I sprayed this area yesterday with Round-up.
Didn't I do this last year too?
May 22: They appear to have recovered and are growing well.
June 19: Started to flower today.
July 29: Still flowering nicely.
1994 June 21: Doing well enough.
A little small, but first year in this spot.
1993 August 18: The yellow daisies are flowering.
October 18: I moved them from the east yard by the fence
to the garden's centre.
