A homeowner outside Ipswich has managed to plant and cultivate a sunflower that has grown taller than their fence, measuring at more than six feet tall.
Keen gardener Brenda Cooke, who lives in Foxhall Road in Rushmere St Andrew, sowed a few seeds in her greenhouse in April and planted them outside in May.
The cheerful plant now towers above her fence.
It faces their next door neighbour's garden and has been described as like a "tree trunk" in appearance.
Ms Cooke said of her huge flower: "This sunflower I planted has decided it would rather face my neighbour’s garden, so I asked my neighbour to kindly take a photo so I could see the flower head.
"We took another photo yesterday, from their garden and it shows the flower has grown even bigger. The stalk is like a tree trunk."
Sunflowers bloom every year during summer and into the autumn.
The tallest ever sunflower was grown in Nordrhein Westfalen in Germany and measured a towering 9.17m or 30ft 1in tall, taking the Guinness World Record in that category.
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