I love planting a row of sunflowers along my vegetable garden fence. Their tall stalks add another level to the garden, and ...

Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus), known for heralding the arrival of summer, are easy to grow. These flowers are heat-tolerant, pest-resistant, and can quickly grow to the height of an average adult. As ...

If you fertilize sunflowers once they have buds with a high-potassium feed, like a bloom booster or tomato feed, it helps ...

Companion planting with sunflowers can deter pests and provide shade for other plants while enhancing pollination. Sunflowers and marigolds make excellent companions as marigolds repel pests and add ...

Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) are annuals, meaning they must be planted each year. To ensure a continuous supply of blooms all season long, people often succession plant sunflowers. Additionally, to ...

Sunflowers are obviously sun-loving plants and they don’t do well in the cold, so you’ll want to start prepping the soil for planting well after the temperature has stayed above 50 degrees during both ...

Question: We would like to grow tall sunflowers. What varieties grow well here and what care is needed? Answer: Many sunflower varieties are available to grow 10 to 12 feet tall. Some claim to grow ...

Sunflowers love the sun, are heat-tolerant, and easy to grow. This common sunflower alternative checks all the same boxes, ...

Examining the structure of a sunflower stem as it matures can help both the plant scientist and biomaterials engineer. That's the premise that Anamika Prasad, an assistant professor in South Dakota ...