Sunflowers Burst Onto Scene With New Personalities

CORVALLIS, Ore. – As a child Harry Olson tended sunflowers in his parents’ garden, watching them sprout and stretch twice as big as his small frame. 

In more than 65 years since, he’s not forgotten the experience. He loved the sunny yellow blossoms and still does. But these days his affection has expanded to include a whole bouquet of new sunflowers. 

“Back then sunflowers were all the same,” said Olson, an Oregon State University Extension master gardener. “Over the years, when I’d get seed catalogs and poke through them, I started to notice every year more and more kinds of sunflowers. They were glorious things.”

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