Hot New Sunflowers to Grow
Article by: Yvonne Cunnington
In recent years, sunflowers have come into their own as cutting flowers. , Constructing a Rock Garden There are many exciting new cultivars in a variety of shapes - from standard ray flowers , A Guide for Servicing Your Chainsaw to pompoms or fuzzy disks.
The plant , How to Rid that Lawn of Thatch! sizes too range from dwarf to giant. As for colors, , Improvements in Robotic Lawn Mowers these too go well beyond the standard sunny yellow into white, , Know Your Bird Feeders; Part 2 lemon, bicolors, and even dusky burgundy.
Cut sunflowers are expensive to buy, so if you have the space, it's well worth the effort to grow , Soil, Drainage, and Water your own.
Unique sunflower cultivars to grow:
Many of the newer sunflower cultivars are pollenless, which makes them perfect for cutting and bringing into the house. , Landscaping Ideas and Landscaping Design
Here are some of my favorites:
- 'Ring of Fire': An AAS (All-America-Selections) winner with striking 5-inch wide pollenless flowers; bi-coloured petals in dark red around a chocolate brown center taper off to golden yellow tips. , Types Of Palm Trees Grows , Types Of Palm Trees 4 to 5 feet tall; late-blooming.
- Sunflower 'Claret': An excellent cutting sunflower that keeps its intense velvet burgundy color , Organic Gardening in the summer , Lazy Fish Worries sun. Main stem grows , Amaryllis Secrets 6 feet tall; produces side-shoots with lots of blooms.
- 'Eversun': A deep yellow, early-blooming pollenless type with big 10- to 12-inch ray flowers , Choosing the Perfect Landscape Painting around a dark brown disk; flowers , Some Great Ideas for Spring Patio Furniture produced on one main stem.
- Sunflower 'Teddy Bear': I'm generally not a fan of overbred flowers, , Do It Yourself Landscape Design - Where To Begin but I've fallen in love with the sheer zaniness of this one. Has soft, fluffy, pompom heads that make handsome cut flowers; 2 to 3 feet tall with lots of flowers , Fast, Biologically Active, Highly-Efficient, No-Turn Composting-Really! per plant. , Types Of Orchids A perfect plant , Herbal Medicine Chest in Your Backyard for a children's garden , Know Your Bird Feeders; Part 2 (and anyone who is young at heart). Does well in containers too.
- 'Giant Sungold' Sunflower: At 5 feet in height with lots of flower-bearing branches, this is a taller version of 'Teddy Bear'.
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