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 ...

Sunflowers can also be considered a “trap crop," meaning they may lure unwanted insects away from your vegetable crops.

The known insect pests of sunflowers don’t often hit economic thresholds in those crops, but certain diseases can do ...

Sure, they may look imposing, towering down at you over the other plants, but sunflowers are among the easiest annual flowers a gardener can grow. All you need, really, is a bright sunny space ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...