Growing Sunflowers

Sunflowers are such a cheerfulherbal flowerand the bee eff them !

Bees love them so much that many of my garden helianthus photos have ended up with bee in them as well ! There ’s seldom been a horticulture year that I do n’t raise a small or large dapple of sunflowers . There are many colors of sunflowers other than yellow like reddened sunflowers , there are also different type of sunflower heights .

How to Grow Sunflowers

Growing sunflowers is pretty sluttish . Sunflowers are prefer full sun and are drought tolerant . They will grow in any well - drained soil , although they do appreciate some compost . Some people add born to create big heads for seed , but I have n’t examine that yet . The main matter to pay off attention to it that sunflower are consideredallelopathic . This means they can actually reduce or preclude sprouting and growth in the surround plant because of toxin release in the roots . We often growuse sunflowers as a trellis for pole beans , too .

When to Grow Sunflowers

Certain sunflowers flower mid to late summer , others not until Sept or Oct. Your frost dates will be important to pay attention to as you want the blossom clock time to be before then . I wish growing a mix sunflower temporary hookup of banquet out blooming times , summit and colors .

Sunflowers come in many shapes and sizes

Some helianthus types like Giant sunflowers reach huge sizes , 14 feet is common .

These are great if you have sex sunflower seeds because they have the expectant sunflower school principal . You harvest the school principal at the goal of the season and dry out it to get the seed . The birds love them though , so you ’ll have to be quick or you may leave some in your garden for them .

Dwarf Sunflower Varieties for Smaller Backyards

alternatively of get super marvellous , nanus sunflower varieties are only 2 - 4 feet tall . They run to have smaller sunflower and sooner bloom time .

Although most sunflower are yellowed , others are red or orange .

you may even get ‘ teddy ’ bleary sunflower !

Growing sunflowers