Sunflowers in Kindergartens Final Submissions
Congratulations on reaching the end of the project! We hope you, your children, and their whānau enjoyed the journey and picked up some great gardening know-how along the way.
- The project officially ends at 6pm, Wednesday 10 December 2025. All submissions must be in by this time. Winners will be announced on Friday 12 December.
- Please submit your measurements and photos below - make sure you’ve looked over the checklist so you have everything on hand and ready to go.
- If you don’t have any sunflowers in bloom yet, please still enter the measurement for your tallest plant. When they grow taller or flower, you’re welcome to enter our Late Bloomers Competition.
✔ Your Final Checklist
What you need for your final online submission:
- Your kindergarten's Tallest Sunflower measurement AND verification photos.
- If applicable - your kindergarten's Widest Sunflower Head measurement (if applicable) AND verification photos.
- If applicable - your National Homegrown Award Tallest measurement and photo (only if children grew them at home). We know parents won’t have access to the official Daltons tape, so they can use a household measuring tape - just make sure the plant is measured correctly.
- Your photo entries for the National Best Photo Award.
- Photos of children with the tallest/widest sunflowers for local media. Please put their name and age.
- Your Daltons Best Little Gardener photos (if you awarded a child). Please put their name and age.
Measuring your tallest sunflower
(each region)
- Make sure your measurements were taken from the bottom of the plant (ground) to the base of the sunflower head or green bud using the Daltons measuring tape (see image). Do not include the sunflower head/bloom.
- Entrants must provide a close-up photo of the measurement taken as above.
- Entrants must provide a photo showing the plant in its entirety (ground to top of the plant).
- Follow the image examples.
Measuring your sunflower with the widest head
(each region)
- Measurements should be the width (taken from left to right) across the sunflower bloom “face” only and must not include the petals.
- Entrants must provide a photo of this using the Daltons measuring tape.
- Follow the image example.
Submit Final Photos and Measurements
Trouble Uploading?
Having problems uploading your photo? Please ensure you read through the Sunflower Top Photo Tips guide.
If you're still experiencing difficulties you can email your .jpg files to [email protected]
Thank you to our Sponsors
A huge thank you to our sponsors, Kings Seeds, The Warehouse and GARDENA who join us again this year and help make this project possible.
Kings Seeds have been a partner of the project since its inception and supply Sunflower Skyscraper Seeds - without them we have no project!
The Warehouse has been a valued project partner since 2013 and generously donate vouchers for our winner’s prize packs.
GARDENA kindly donate one of their fantastic watering nozzles into our winner’s prize packs.
*This Daltons Sunflowers in Kindergartens Project only runs in selected regions of New Zealand in participating kindergarten associations.
For more information, please review the project terms and conditions here.
