Helianthus, Small Wood Sunflower, Small-Headed Sunflower 'Lemon Queen'

I grew these for the first time this year. They did wonderfully! The blooms are a soft butter yellow and the bees love them. One plant...Read More reached a height of 8 feet and the shortest was a little over 4 feet. The others were in between. Very easy to grow. I did put supports up for them, but I'm not sure if they really need them.

This clump-former does spread rapidly, but not in any sneaky way. The clump just gets larger every year. Knowing that, you can divide i...Read Moret when you need to. I love it for its clear, soft yellow color and its time of bloom. It looks smashing with white phlox, another colonizer that needs regular division. Ours has never needed staking, but it's in sandy, sandy soil in full sun.

I planted this last July from a nursery's gallon container. It grew to a managable 5'. I suspected it would be bigger this year so in May...Read More I staked out its territory.

However, I wasn't prepared for this 8' monster (see uploaded photo) that looks more like a huge shrub. Fortunately, it's at the very back of the garden. Despite its spread, the stalks have remained reasonably compact.

Great plant! Ordered two last year from Roots and Rhizomes. They were cutting propagated and arrived in a 4-inch pot. Planted it in a "dr...Read Moreyish" spot and watered it irregularly for the first few weeks. By August, they have reached 5 ft high and 2 ft wide with a profusion of blooms. No staking. Will try propagating it by stem cutting next year. It bloomed from August to October. I highly recommend it.

This is my favorite perennial sunflower of all the ones I've tried, and I've tried a bunch - I love sunflowers! I grew it with tremendous...Read More success on the east side of a fairly tall wood fence (a couple feet taller than this plant) in fairly dry soil with only occasional supplemental water. Mine never needed staking, didn't spread very much beyond the 3 ft. x 3 ft. clump it formed its first year, and was reliably smothered in blooms for at least a month, often more. Bees and butterflies LOVED the blooms. For some reason it's been very difficult to find this cultivar (or even the species!) in local nurseries in recent years, which I think is a real shame. This is a great plant to plant at the transition between a meadow area and a loosely canopied tree, doing better with partial shade than most sunflowers.

This vigorous growing plant does very well on the south wall of our house, although it needs staking when it gets a good supply of water....Read More I have heard that if it gets less water, it will not require staking. Each year produces many more baby plants which I have transplanted all over my yard. It is a beautiful, prolific flowering plant which flowers from early to late summer. It also does well in part sun and part shade.

This plant spreads very rapidly. I had to move it from one flowerbed where it was to overcome the more subdued plants there and planted i...Read Moret next to the barn where it holds its own with other vigourous plants like Nepeta "Infinity', Hydrangea "Annabelle", various daylilies and asiatic lilies. It is a nice plant if you have a suitable spot for it.