Do you need flowers that grow big and beautiful within weeks? Try easy-pleasy sunflowers.
Sunflowers are easy to grow and seeds are quite inexpensive for gardeners on a budget. Even small children and the disabled can be successful sunflower gardeners. (a sunflower was the very first plant I ever grew from seed before I ever started school) They make a great garden plant for both school kids and nursing homes.
Learning how to draw a sunflower is pretty easy, and it may be one of my very favorite flowers. Sunflowers are rustic, beautiful, and symbolic of summer – my favorite season of the year. Their seeds ...
Sunflowers to the rescue Massive numbers of sunflowers were planted in order to pull the radioactive isotopes out of these contaminated sites. This approach, known as phytoremediation, used plants to clean the environment. In scientific terms, they’re hyperaccumulators, meaning they can absorb much more of these contaminants than other plants.
Sunflowers have the unique ability to turn their flowers and keep them facing somewhat sideways and towards the sun. This is a great quality in a bloom that often towers over one's head.
A thread in the Beginner Gardening forum, titled Which way to sunflowers face?
Sunflowers have both nectar to feed the bees, and pollen for the bees to take back to the nest. (The bee larvae feed on the pollen.) I asked LeBuhn why this particular sunflower? She told me, “Lemon Queen has pollen, multiple flowers (it will bloom for longer), is not too large (grows in a pot) and is fairly inexpensive.
Has anyone successfully planted sunflowers in containers? I would like to plant some in half whiskey barrels. Do you wintersow, or directsow? How many plants per container? Do you grow other plants with the sunflower? I'm zone 4-5. Thanks Post #3101441 Quote marie_ West Central, WI (Zone 4a)