You can grow different varieties of sunflowers to support birds year-round, depending on when certain varieties bloom and develop their seeds. Dwarf varieties typically flower early, towards the ...

Dry, harvest, and prepare homegrown sunflower seeds with these quick tips Sunny yellow sunflowers are commonly grown as ornamentals and cut flowers, and their nectar-filled blooms attract ...

Sunflowers are beloved as summer annuals. Learn more about the different varieties of sunflowers, how to care for them, and when to plant sunflowers.

Although we might associate sunflowers with the archetypal tall, custard-coloured varieties, there are actually lots of different species – from dwarf sunflowers that grow to barely a foot tall ...

Syngenta Biotechnology China-led research, with partners in the U.S., France, the UK, Chile, the Netherlands, Argentina, and ...

The discovery that sunflower seeds can develop without fertilization reveals a pathway to accelerate improvement of this crop — and potentially others. When genetically different varieties of ...

Plants can be of different sizes, shapes and colours and they can grow in soil like sunflowers or in water like water lilies. But no matter what they look like or where they are, most plants grow ...

But it isn’t your stereotypical sunflower with cheery yellow petals. The so-called “woolly devil” is tiny, pale and well camouflaged amid limestone-rich rocks and look-alike plants in Texas ...

Dwarf sunflowers are 3 feet or less, mature in as few as 55 days, and work well as container plants. Pollenless cultivars produce no seeds and are grown as cut flowers. The heights can range from ...