For heaven's sake, it's enough bother shucking the seeds out of the
sunflowers and toasting them without counting the spirals too!!!!  Most
years I grow some giant sunflowers at the ends of the rows in the vegetable
garden but didn't do it last year.  They will get probably 8-10' tall
before they start to bend over.  One year I had one break in a windstorm
but it didn't break off completely so I staked it and taped and splinted
the break and it went on to mature.  A couple of years ago a lady stopped
out front and asked if she could take a photo of them, of course I said
yes.  Don't know if they ended up on postcards for the city folk or what.
Ruth




At 12:44 PM -0800 2/3/05, Cuyler Page wrote:
>Hi Bruce,
>
>Nice chart.   You are using the number series known as the Fibonacci Series,
>discovered by Middle Aged monk who loved matematics.   The Fibonacci Series
>features numbers in which each is the sum of the preceding two.   Therefore,
>you have to add another two units at the beginning, a "0" and a "1" to make
>the series perfect.   After all, the Universe had to begin with the big
>yawn, and then there was One, w
>To really make Ralph steam, go count the spiral rows of seeds in a
>sunflower.  Count both left and right spirals.   One will be 34 and the
>other will be 55.   Been there, done that.   It works.   Obviously you don't
>believe anything you can't do yourself.
>
>cp in bc
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