So tall!!!

These are wild sunflowers planted by the Museum. Each year they get cut to the ground, and each year they come back, eight, nine, ten feet tall.

Survives. Thrivers. Sun followers.

"Which makes it ironic my favourite flower isn't even indigenous to the British Isles, let alone Yorkshire. I don't think there's anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower. For me that's because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that's such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life."

~ Calendar Girls 2003 Movie