Radiance and a reluctant sunflower

I hope I won't inadvertently jinx anything if I say that this year, for the first time ever, I am on the brink of growing some sunflowers. Having sown them just over three months ago, watered and nurtured them, I had hoped by now to be enjoying the flowering of at least one, but... not yet... Instead, I must learn to be patient! Of the original eighteen seedlings, all growing at different speeds,…