James Griffeth, who is six feet tall, stands on a six foot tall ladder to be able to cut one of the mammoth sunflowers from his family garden off of Williams Road.
Griffeth said she and her husband have been planting a row of sunflowers in their family garden for 10 of the 30-plus years they have lived in LaGrange, but never before “have we ever had any this tall. It was like they just took off on their own.”
Both Griffeths are retired, though Bernice Griffeth does do some part-time work a few days a week. They “love to garden. I guess you could say it is our hobby.”
The couple plants a garden full of vegetables and “then my husband saves me a row, the last row, so I can plant them.”
Griffeth said her husband “didn’t really do anything different this time. We used mammoth sunflower seeds this spring, and he put Miracle Gro on them, but other than that, nothign really out of the ordinary … unless it was because of all the rain we had in the spring.”
She smiled looking at photo of her husband with the flowers. “They just shot up like crazy.”
“I plant the sunflowers because I enjoy feeding the birds. The flower puts out 100 seeds as it matures and this helps feed the birds.”
She said that she has always enjoyed sunflowers because “well, I love them. They follow the sun, facing east and then end up facing west.”
Griffeth shrugged and said, “It’s what sunflowers do.”
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