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Your having a Giraffe...Green fingered grandmother reaches for the sky with her enormous blooms.<br />
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Gardener Janine Richter helps Victoria out in her Hampshire garden.<br />
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A new variety of sunflower that is guaranteed to grow to at least 17ft tall has been bred for British gardens by a pensioner Victoria Wakefield who has spent over 30 years developing it. <br />
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Green-fingered Victoria Wakefield has cultivated the towering species Helianthus Giraffe by selecting the seeds of the tallest sunflower from a crop and growing them on the following year.<br />
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She repeated the process over three decades until the sunflower consistently grew to a height of 17ft.<br />
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The seeds are available at garden centres now.

BNPS.co.uk (01202 558833)
Pic: PhilYeomans/BNPS

Your having a Giraffe...Green fingered grandmother reaches for the sky with her enormous blooms.

Gardener Janine Richter helps Victoria out in her Hampshire garden.

A new variety of sunflower that is guaranteed to grow to at least 17ft tall has been bred for British gardens by a pensioner Victoria Wakefield who has spent over 30 years developing it.

Green-fingered Victoria Wakefield has cultivated the towering species Helianthus Giraffe by selecting the seeds of the tallest sunflower from a crop and growing them on the following year.

She repeated the process over three decades until the sunflower consistently grew to a height of 17ft.

The seeds are available at garden centres now.