A native of Ukraine in the USA grew the largest sunflower in the world and entered the Guinness Book of Records (video)
A man who was born in Ukraine, but has been living in the USA for many years, became a world record holder by growing the largest sunflower in history in his yard. This reported in Guinness World Records.
Aleks Babich, born in Ukraine, currently lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He works as a landscape gardener, sells seeds and designs garden equipment. Sunflowers are of special importance to him, because this flower is the national symbol of his homeland, which he left back in 1991.
At the beginning of September, the experts of the Guinness Book of Records recorded the achievement – the tallest sunflower in history, which Alex grew in his backyard. The height from the base of the stem to the top of the giant plant is 10.90 meters.
He received the seeds for the record sunflower during an exchange with the German farmer Burkhard Grendel. Last year, one of his plants reached 8.58 meters and became the second tallest sunflower in the world.
Grendel himself used seeds created by the American Brian Moore from New Jersey, who crossed a tall single-headed sunflower grown by the British Richard Hope with a wild multi-headed sunflower found in Nebraska, USA.
Thus, Alex surpassed the previous world record set in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany ten years ago, when a sunflower grew to 9.17 meters.
