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

It is almost time to start planting sunflowers, but if you want to ensure they grow strong stems capable of supporting their ...

As a beloved staple for summer gardens, typically in full bloom from August to September, now is the time to contemplate when ...

Choose plants that will help these cheerful flowers thrive. Whether it's a field of yellow or a bouquet of sunny blooms, a ...

Looking to add a burst of colour to your garden or balcony? Sunflowers are flamboyant, versatile plants that you can eat and use in a huge variety of ways. Here’s an expert guide on how to grow ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Does it make me some sort of botany geek if I admit to getting a little over-excited by the sight of the first Okanagan ...

And I put a lot of thought into it and she always liked sunflowers,” Lee told the station. “And I thought, this is the year to plant sunflowers so I planted her 80 acres of sunflowers.” ...

No such shrunken seeds were found in self-pollinated control plants. Read the paper: Haploid facultative parthenogenesis in sunflower sexual reproduction The authors noticed that shrunken seeds ...