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

There is still time to plant sunflowers. Just check the seed packet for the number of days from planting seed until bloom. You’ll find varieties that mature in as few as 55 days while others ...

Oxeye (or false) sunflower is a native plant that's easy to grow, versatile, and blooms from June to October. ... The stems are light green to reddish-green and slightly angular.

Plant sunflower seeds in a pot that can handle your full-grown sunflowers, so you don't have to repot them. Sunflowers grow best in a full-sun spot on a south-facing windowsill, patio, or porch.

While most single-stem or branching sunflowers average 5 to 7 feet tall, knee-high or window box varieties grow to about half that size. Personally, I think single-stem dwarf varieties look a ...

Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky. But how do sunflowers “see” the sun to follow it? New work from plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, ...

Dancing in the sunlight: Yasmine Meroz inspects a sunflower plant. (Courtesy: Tel Aviv University) Sunflowers in a field can co-ordinate the circular motions of their growing stems to minimize the ...

The Plant Doctor Tom MacCubbin shares advice about how to encourage sunflower growth, when to prune tibouchina and how to get better blooms from bird of paradise.

A ‘Sea of Sunflowers' is adding flair to the final week of The Flower Fields in Carlsbad The Giant Tecolote Ranunculus blossoms are still popping, but the tall and stately specimens are now ...

Now the plants are taller than I ... The stems tend to be square in cross-section, with rather sharp angles. I know what some of you are ... this is yet another member of the sunflower family.