Helianthus, Annual Sunflower, Common Sunflower, Kansas Sunflower 'Mixed Hybrids, Noids'

Within 3 months the seeds I bought at Home Depot were 7 and 8ft tall with 12 in flowers. Something was eating through the leaves as they...Read More were coming up, but spraying with insecticide stopped it. The leaves half way down the plant are wilted or destroyed, the remainder to the top healthy and vibrant, if not for the BEETLES!! I do not want to spray more insecticide because these flowers are attracting everything in the neighborhood... though some of the flower heads have been eaten 1/2 through. Very pretty, but also unsightly. Don't think I will plant again. Deerfield Beach, Fl.

I grow the common 'wild' kind. I let them volunteer because they are superb bird-feeders. They attract House Finches and Lesser Goldfinch...Read Morees. The sunny yellow flowers look cheery hanging over my fences

I grew sunflowers for the first time this year and I was really pleased with the outcome. The advice that I have is to find the spot or s...Read Morepots in your garden that get the most FULL sun during the day and plant the seeds directly in the ground. Water them well in the beginning and they will grow. The seeds that I did not plant in these locations, were stunted and short and a disappointment.

If you want to wow your neighbors, this is the plant to have, especially the giant varieties (mammoth, American giant, Russian mammoth, paul bunyan). If you don't go for height, there are dwarf varieties (sunspot, teddy bear) that offer blooms on less than 3 foot stalks.

Bees buzzed my blooms and then later the cardinals, blue jays and others went wild over the seeds.

Note: the beetles also loved the heads and I had a time picking them off when the beetles were in season.

You can probably grow these plants almost year-round in the warm climates.

I LOVE Sunflowers! I seem to have a issue not growing them. They are all over my yard. Bad soil didn't seem to stop them.

...Read More I have over 30 types of sunflowers growing.

Many of them grow past to their full high. I have had them grow well over 12 ft, passing the base of my roof.

I have about 300 growing all over my yard thanks to my twins getting the seeds and putting them into the yard.

Getting seeds are easy and my kids love to pick the seeds out of the flower heads.

So far I have the normal yellow sunflowers, as well as black, green, blond, strawberry blond, red, and many more!