FOLLOWING a story of floral grandeur in last week’s Bordon Herald, which shared photos of reader Mercy Bolus’ “spectacular sunflowers”, another green-fingered town resident thinks they might have the tallest in the town.

The gargantuan flower was grown by seven-year-old Samuel Barker, who was given the seed, along with other children in his class, by his teacher at Bordon’s The Holme Church of England Primary School.

Samuel is pictured in his garden, at Broxhead Farm, with his grandfather and co-grower Peter Musselwhite.

His mum, Tina Barker, explained that sunflowers were a sentimental sight for the family during the summer.

“We grow sunflowers every year in memory of my brother Richard Barker who died in an aeroplane accident in 1998,” she said.