Mowed Down Maximilian Sunflowers?

[GardenGeisha]

An idiot mowed down my lovely Maximilian sunflowers that were doing so well and that I had been watering every day. He got almost all of them except for a few coming up on the other side of the fence? How should I proceed? Will they come back this year and bloom late? Will this kill out the plant entirely? Is there a way I could encourage the plant to grow to the other side, so the idiot doesn't whack them when they are on the other side of the fence, thinking them weeds? They are so beautiful in bloom. I am just sick. I hate living with idiots on the property here.

 

[GardenGeisha]

I found this: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/928/

 

[Nyboy]

Once when my parents where visiting, my father decide to cut my grass, without asking. He mowed down a whole flower bed, when I not so calmly pointed this out he told I was crazy they where weeds

 

[Nyboy]

If you share the property you might want to mark your plants. I use a wide circle of mulch. If you don't want to spend money, pound some twigs into ground around planting and run string to twigs or put up cheap wire fence.. You might go to destroyer and ask he pay to replace what he killed but that could make a enemy of him

 

[GardenGeisha]

Oh, she knows they are there. She just doesn't like them. She made a comment to me a few years ago that her friend so-and-so likes those flowers, with the implication being that she, herself, does not. I tie them back, but they weren't quite tall enough yet to tie. But she is my hubby's boss's wife, so what can I do? LOL. Another person on the property has taken up much of her yard with his rig parked there, so she is sick of having neighbors, I'm sure, as am I. But thanks for the ideas, Nyboy.

 

[GardenGeisha]

When should I dig up the Maximilian sunflower roots for replanting elsewhere? Should I wait until they send up new growth and it is cooler? Or now?

 

[GardenGeisha]

They came back, after having been mowed down, and I dug them up and transplanted 4 sections of them, and they seem to be doing well in their new locations.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I bought one plant several years ago and now I have 3 large clumps. I do not even remember how this happened. I guess I just dug some up and transplanted, but I sure think it is pretty. I hope yours lives.

 

[GardenGeisha]

Thank you so much, Gardeningwithrabbits. I love this plant, too!

 

[Nenebynature]

The first year I moved to the country my neighbor mowed around my barn for me. He mowed down a long line of sunflower starts. Ever since then I spray paint sticks with hot pink to mark my plants