As a professional gardener, I have grown sunflowers nearly every summer for as long as I can recall. While I love the traditional golden types, one of my all-time favorites is the ...

If you planted your first sunflower seed in a paper Dixie cup in kindergarten and watched it grow, you're probably hooked on these easy-to-grow, showy flowers for the garden. Sunflowers are perfect ...

If you're looking for a colorful flower to add to your yard that is fairly easy to maintain, a sunflower garden is a great option for you. Even though the flower is great for beginning gardeners, ...

Time lapse of growing a sunflower seed to blooming. The dwarf sunspot variety was chosen and sown into soil. The seed quickly sprouted and turned into a young plant. Flower bud appeared around the ...

Sunflowers have long been included in the typical Midwestern garden, but modern hybrids have greatly expanded the palette of choices for today’s garden. Whether you want short, medium or tall; yellow, ...

Tall, bright sunflowers make a beautiful summer garden border or background. Growing sunflowers is easy enough, but with over 80 species of sunflowers, choosing one or two varieties that you love can ...

Tall sunflowers make handy natural supports for climbing vegetables and flowers, and their pollen-rich blooms entice insects to pollinate crops. However, sunflowers don’t play nicely with all edible ...

We all know sunflowers (helianthus), as they are one of the most recognizable flowers. Their brilliant color and rustic charm endear them to young and old, gardener and painter. They grace gardens and ...

We all know sunflowers (helianthus), as they are one of the most recognizable flowers. Their brilliant color and rustic charm endear them to young and old, gardener and painter. They grace gardens and ...