I live in France in the countryside and see miles of sunflowers every year
and I have also noticed that they no longer follow the sun. It seems that
they all face east - to where the sun rises. I wonder if it's the EU who
have restricted the varieties and the only one they use now does not tourne
vers le soleil?

Roy

"Mike" wrote in message
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:16:00 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 2009-09-24 16:45:12 +0100, Mike said:

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:45:56 +0100, "alan.holmes"
wrote:


I was under the impression that sunflowers followed the sun, with their
heads turning so they were always looking at the sun.

I have one in the front garden which totally ignores the sun and seems
to
look in the other direction!

Is this normal?

Alan




Now I know this is absolutely how NOTt to spell it .. but ... in
France they are called something like Turneysol ... they turn to the
sun.

I think yours is happy picking up the light reflection off the wall.

Mike P

Tournesol. And it could be the light reflection or it could be the
strength of the sun. ;-)) In fact, could it be because they're
starting to 'go over' now? Is the whatever-it-is that makes them turn
to the sun still active as the days shorten?

Perhaps .. like us with old age, they just stiffen up and lose
flexibility ?

Mike P