Welcome to the 2025
VICTA Sunflower Race

The VICTA Sunflower Race 2025 has now closed for entries. Thank you to everyone who took part, we will soon be sending out certificates and a little treat to everyone who shared a photo, and will reveal the winner of our prize draw next week!

Enjoy all of  our 2025 entries…

Three small colorful pots filled with soil sit on a stone ledge in bright sunlight, with green plants and a wooden fence in the background.

Jasper (9) & siblings Alexa & Aiden

“Ready steady GO!!! The race begins! Thank you VICTA for our seeds.”

Child in a wheelchair wearing a red polo shirt and black harness, sitting at a blue tray with two small pots of soil and a clear plastic measuring jug.

Megan (15)

“I liked listening to the seeds in the packets.”

Young sunflower plants growing in soil with a sign reading 'As tall as a... clothes peg'.

Dayzie (17)

“Slightly taller than a peg. Not sure how these sunflowers will grow in a hanging basket as our dog keeps eating the sunflowers.”

The two boys hold up their sunflower plants in their pots with a clothes peg and a sign that reads 'as tall as a clothes peg'

Aiden & Jasper (9)

“Taller than a clothes peg!”

Willow's sign over her plant reading 'as tall as a clothes peg'

Willow (2)

“A tall as a peg. We are having a great year for sunflower growing!”

Girl in a red sweatshirt measuring sunflower seedlings against a clothes peg height marker indoors.

Daisy (6)

As tall as a clothes peg.

“I planted the whole pack of seeds. I can’t wait to see which one grows the tallest!”

Child wearing colourful leggings and a light blue sweatshirt kneeling outdoors with gardening gloves, holding a sign that reads 'As tall as a... clothes peg'.

Felicity (13)

As tall as a clothes peg!

A yellow sunflower

Quince Tree Day Nursery

“The children and teachers at Quince Tree Day Nursery in South Ockendon, Essex have grown a sunflower in support for the VICTA charity.”

Zinovia (12) & Ioanna (7)

“7cm, as tall as a clothes peg.”

Dayzie sits on a garden chair with the hanging basket on her lap. She holds a banana next to the plant for scale!

Dayzie (16)

“My sunflower is the same size as an average banana but I’ve had to try and grow them in a hanging basket as my dog still likes eating the sunflowers when he can reach them.”

Daisy holds up a doll with an 'as tall as an action figure sign'.

Daisy (6)

As tall as an action figure!

As tall as an action figure sign. A barbie stands next to the sunflower plant.

Willow (2)

As tall as an action figure.

“We don’t have action man so Barbie has had to step in!”

Luke crouches next to a large planter which has his sunflower growing in it. Next to the plant stands his action toy. He holds a sign above it reading 'as tall as an action figure'.

Luke (9)

As tall as an action figure.

“My sunflower is called Leefy!”

Ryan crouches next to his sunflower and holds a batman action figure next to it for scale.

Ryan (11)

As tall as an action figure.

“My sunflower’s name is Pie!”
A teenager holds up a plant in her kitchen - it's growing tall outwards over the sides. She holds a sign reading 'as tall as a comic book.'

Sakina (12)

“30 cm tall. 4 growing beautifully.”
Luke, his sunflower and a Beano comic. His dog sits proudly nearby for the photo.

Luke (9)

As tall as a comic book
“Dad’s is bigger than mine because he put it in the greenhouse. His is as big as a pillow case but mine is going to be taller. I hope.”
A princess pillow next to the sunflower for scale. Daisy holds a sign reading 'as tall as a pillowcase' and smiles brightly.

Daisy (6)

As tall as a pillowcase
“We put our sunflowers in a lovely sunflower pot.”
A measuring tape alongside a sunflower plant and a sign that reads 'as tall as a pillow case.'

Zinovia (12)

60cm tall!
“A bit slow this year!”
Isabel holding up a pillow case behind her five sunflowers with a sign that reads 'as tall as a sunflower'.

Isabel (11)

“Some are bigger than others. One has taken off and flowered. One is as small as a barbie. The majority were the size of a pillow case.”
Elena crouches down in her garden next to her sunflower plants. She points at the plant and holds up a sign reading 'as tall as a comic book'.

Isabel (11)

“Some are bigger than others. One has taken off and flowered. One is as small as a barbie. The majority were the size of a pillow case.”
Felicity sits on a raised planter, she wears a sun hat and sunglasses. She holds a sign ready 'as told as an action figure'. A Barbie sits next to the plant.

Felicity (13)

“As tall as a super hero (Barbie doll).”
A boy plants seeds into a planter

Oscar (9) – our 2025 winner!

Planting the seeds!
The sign next to the plant reads 'as tall as a clothes peg'

Oscar (9)

As tall as a clothes peg.
Standing next to the sunfllower plant a boy holds a sign reading 'as tall as a pillow case'

Oscar (9)

As tall as a pillow case.
A boy holds a sign in front of his face, it reads 'as tall as a broom'

Oscar (9)

As tall as a broom.
“I have loved taking care of my sunflower. It is growing so high, it might touch the clouds!”
A girl stands next to her sunflower plant which is a tall as her. She has a big smile on her face!

Daisy (6)

As tall as me!
A hand holds a peg next to a sunflower shoot for scale

Megan (15)

“Taller than a peg… we started to grow our sunflowers again after they died when we went on holiday.”
a boy stands next to a sunflower plant which is as tall as him

Luke (9)

“it’s as tall as me and I hope it gets bigger!”
A boy holds a broom next to his sunflower plant - the plant, himself and the broom are all the same size! There are two signs balanced in the leaves reading 'as tall as me' and 'as tall as a broom'

Luke (9)

As tall as me and as tall as a broom!
“Leafy the sunflower is beating Dad’s sunflower!!!”
Boy holds a broom next to a sunflower plant with a sign reading 'as tall as a broom'. His dog sits obediently next to him.

Ryan (11)

As tall as a broom.
“I have stolen Dad’s sunflower.”
A teenage girl sits on a raised flower bed with a big smile. She holds her braille missy comic next to her sunflower plant and in the other hand a sign reading 'as tall as a comic'

Felicity (13)

As tall as a comic book.
“Felicity used her braille Missy magazine instead of a comic book.”
A sunflower towers above the plants in the raised bed. A broom is propped next to it and a sign reading 'as tall as a broom'

Zinovia and Ioanna (12 & 7)

As tall as a broom.
A boy holds a broom and looks over two sunflowers which a bloomed bright yellow flowers. Two signs read 'as tall as a broom' and 'as tall as me'

Oscar (9)

As tall as a broom and me!
“It’s grown very fast, just like me! I love the yellow flower. The bees think it’s yummy.”
A sunflower shoot sits on a table on a sign reading 'as tall as an action figure'. Behind a girl rests her head on her hands on the table while smiling.

Molly (8)

As tall as an action figure.
Girl holds up a sunflower plant in one hand and a sign reading 'as tall as a clothes peg' in the other. She stands in front of an exposed brick wall with a pretty floral garland hanging from it.

Molly (8)

As tall as a clothes peg.
Girl sits on an armchair with a sunflower plant on her lap. One hand holds a comic and the other a sign reading 'as tall as a comic'.

Molly (8)

As tall as a comic book.
A girl holds a sign reading 'as tall as a pillow'. Behind her on the windowsill sits a sunflower plant next to a cushion for scale.

Molly (8)

As tall as a pillow.
Oscar faces his sunflower plant which has one large yellow flower and one small. On his back he has a sign that reads 'as tall as a garden fence'.

Oscar (9)

As tall as a a garden fence.
Isabel holds a broom and a height sign in the garden next to her tall sunflower. The sign reads 'as tall as a broom'.

Isabel (11)

As tall as a broom.

Isabel (11)

As tall as me.
A sunflower blooms a yellow flower against a wooden garden trellis.

Isabel (11)

The sunflower in bloom!
A plant tray full of sunflower plants - one has flowered. A sign reads 'as tall as a pillow case'.

Elena (10)

As tall as a pillow case.
“We have 1 flower so far!”
Willow sits on the grass holding a sign that reads 'as tall as a pillow case'. Behind her are two tall sunflower plants.

Willow (2)

As tall as a pillow case.

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