Sunflower

Don't let the name fool you! This is mainly an Eastern native plant. Known botanically as Helianthus occidentalis, the Western Sunflower has a distinctive growth habit that makes it easy to recognize. Most of its leaves cluster in a rosette at the plant’s base, while a slender stalk rises from the center and can reach about three feet tall. A brilliant yellow flower head appears at the top of the stem. Because the stalk bears very few leaves, the species is also commonly called the “naked-stemmed sunflower” or “few-leaved sunflower.”

The Velvet Queen Sunflower produces huge, beautiful velvety red blooms that are absolutely unforgettable in the garden or a vase. This variety can measure up to 8 inches across and will very freely bloom all summer long. The Velvet Queen is truly the queen of sunflowers!

The Vincent's® Fresh Sunflower is a beautiful, non nodding, pollen-free variety that is sure to be your new garden favorite! This long-lasting and eye-catching sunflower does not depend on daylength to grow, so you can start the seeds much earlier! Vincent's Fresh can reach about 5 feet high and produce large gold blooms with a pale green center. Enjoy Vincent's Fresh in your garden and in your home as a cut flower!

The Vincent's® Choice & Fresh Sunflower mix is a beautiful, non nodding, pollen-free variety that is sure to be your new garden favorite! This long-lasting and eye-catching sunflower does not depend on daylength to grow, so you can start the seeds much earlier! Vincent's Choice & Fresh can reach about 5-6 feet high and produce large gold blooms with dark brown & green centers. Enjoy Vincent's Choice in your garden and in your home as a cut flower!

The Vincent's® Choice Sunflower is a beautiful, non nodding, pollen-free variety that is sure to be your new garden favorite! This long-lasting and eye-catching sunflower does not depend on daylength to grow, so you can start the seeds much earlier! Vincent's Choice can reach about 5-6 feet high and produce large gold blooms with dark brown center. Enjoy Vincent's Choice in your garden and in your home as a cut flower!

Tinies is a perfect burst of mixed colors on short stature branching plants. Tinies is an early maturing sunflower and will bloom before other sunflowers. Think of handfuls of small flowers on 6-10" stems perfect for a small vase or hand bouquet. Tinies’ flowers have a range of pastel colors all with a splash of red. You can use Tinies in the foreground in any sunny location in your garden and enjoy the array of colors!

The soft, golden cushion-like blooms of the Teddy Bear Sunflower make for wonderful cut flowers that will brighten up any home! These smaller sunflowers are ideal to use as a border around larger flowers or in a patio container. Enjoy the Teddy Bear's blooms during the spring and into the summer! Popular among kids, this sun-loving annual sunflower is easy to grow.

The Sunspot Sunflower is a lovely, dwarf sunflower variety that produces big heads that are an easy to grow garden beauty! This sunflower's stalks only reach 2' feet high. Sunspot is ideal for borders and small gardens.

The Starburst F1 Sunflower is a full-faced, classic brown headed yellow variety that is perfect for any summer garden or windowsill. This 7-6 foot tall beauty is a pollen-less hybrid with long yellow petals that have a touch of orange at the base.

Skyscraper Sunflowers are a show stopper with their tall presence. They grow to over 12' tall with heads 14" wide. Thick 4" stalks support the heads. Pick a location where you, the neighbors, and wildlife will enjoy. If you watch close enough you can see it grow! This seed is certified organic.

The chocolatey brown and honey gold petals of the Shock-o-lat adds rich "shocking" shades to any bouquet, as this sunflower makes for a great cut flower! It is suitable for fresh and dried arrangements. This sunflower blooms in the summer and can reach up to 6 feet tall, so it might need staking to hold up its big heavy blooms. The Shock-o-lat is easy to grow and perfect for attracting birds away from other plants in the garden.

Salt N' Snack is one of the top snack sunflower hybrids used by commercial growers around the world. Now home gardeners and market growers can produce eating quality sunflowers, too. Sturdy plants produce large solitary heads loaded with large seeds filled with big kernels. Over plant and thin 6 inch plants to about 1 foot apart in rows 30 inches apart to promote large heads.

The Santa Fe Sunset F1 Sunflower is a gorgeous single bloom variety with light orange to deep burgundy petals resembling a sunset. This pollen-less variety grows to be 5 to 6 feet tall that is multi-heading so you can continue to cut the side branches up to a month. This stunning sunflower can be used for home gardening or market growing.

The Santa Fe Sunrise F1 Sunflower is an absolute stunner, as its bright, golden yellow petals resembles the colors of a sunrise. This beautiful sunflower reaches to be 5-6 feet tall and is pollen-less. Enjoy the blooms of the Santa Fe Sunrise all throughout the season!

SunFill™Purple is a perfect pre-bloom purple filler for any bouquet. Stems are cut when the buds are full before flowering to provide a fantastic new look to your arrangements. The window for cutting depends on the size of the bud you want. Cut early for small buds, wait a bit longer before flowering to have a larger bud. SunFill™Purple mixes perfectly with spring colors to provide a fresh look to your vase.

SunFill™ Green is a perfect pre-bloom green filler for any bouquet. Stems are cut when the buds are full before flowering to provide a fantastic new look to your arrangements. The window for cutting depends on the size of the bud you want. Cut early for small buds, wait a bit longer before flowering to have a larger bud. SunFill™ Green mixes perfectly with spring colors to provide a fresh look to your vase.

The Star Chaser F1 Sunflower is the ultimate classic tall, bright green faced and sunny-yellow petaled sunflower variety! This 8 foot variety is the perfect choice for planting along fences. The pollen-less sunflower is not quite big enough to be a giant variety, but it has the benefit of not shedding pollen in your house as a cut flower.

Starburst™ Panache produces very intense orange flowers with semi-double petals. It is loaded with flowers due to its branching habit. Try mixing Panache with ProCut Orange or BiColor to enjoy a very unique type of sunflower bouquet.

Starburst Lemon Éclair sunflower has a rich chocolate center with bursting lemon petals. It matures early and is one of the first to cut. Narrow plantings encourage plants with a dominant center flower that is perfect for cutting. Give it space and Lemon Éclair will develop branches bearing smaller flowers.

Now with Downy Mildew Resistance (DMR). Greenburst DMR has a yellow golden semi-double flower bursting around a green center. Provides a similar look to Gerberas, but of course, they have much longer stems. Flowers are profuse on branching plants. Give Greenburst DMR ample spacing and it branches abundantly over a long period. Is an excellent cutflower and blends well with other sunflowers. Pollen-less.

ProCut® White Nite is a one of a kind. It produces beautiful flowers that open with a creamy vanilla color quickly turning white in a few days of sunlight contrasted with a dark center. Flowers grow on a single stem making it great for cut arrangements.

Red Lemon BiColor is a beautiful sunflower with lemon petals that blend into a red center. This is a unique blend that hasn't been replicated. The red color on the petals diffuses over the lemon base giving a soft almost pinkish color to the flower as it opens.

Procut® Red is a breeding breakthrough with the world’s first single head sunflower with deep burgundy colored petals! ProCut® Red is the only red sunflower with long stems for vase bouquets. Procut® Red is great for Valentine’s Day and Thanksgiving Christmas Holiday flower markets. It mixes well with all the other ProCuts we offer.

ProCut® Plum is one of the most unique sunflowers bred. The plum color really blends well in arrangements of bronze and reddish flowers. ProCut® Plum produces a single pollenless flower on a strong stem. It is medium in maturity.

ProCut® Peach is a uniquely colored sunflower that really stands out. There is a color hue somewhere between yellow and orange – a soft peach color. The flowers pedals almost seem to glow, especially in the early morning and evening. This is a delicate pastel color for sunflower growers. The flower petals contrast with a pollenless dark center and are held upright on single stem. A florist dream for flower arrangements.

Classic variety, now with downy mildew resistance. ProCut® Orange is the original beauty. This is the perfect cutting sunflower that everyone should grow. Perfectly shaped overlapping orange petals that surround a pollenless dark brown center disc define the beauty of ProCut ®Orange. This is a true day neutral cultivar that flowers quickly at all latitudes, and we agree. ProCut® Orange is the first choice of professional and hobby growers everywhere who are looking for that traditional sunflower appearance.

ProCut® Orange is the original beauty. This is the perfect cutting sunflower that everyone should grow. Perfectly shaped overlapping orange petals that surround a pollenless dark brown center disc define the beauty of ProCut ®Orange. This is a true day neutral cultivar that flowers quickly at all latitudes, and we agree. ProCut® Orange is the first choice of professional and hobby growers everywhere who are looking for that traditional sunflower appearance.

ProCut® Horizon is perfectly named for it's upward facing blooms opening with rich overlapping orange petals surrounding a traditional dark disk. These flowers are sure to grab anyones attention. ProCut® Horizon is a cut flower grower’s dream hybrid with consistently high usable stem yields providing showy bunches in the market place and stunning bouquets. This sunflower is pollen-free and day length neutral. It consistently produces plants with strong stems at each planting.

High quality sunflower with erect heads and overlapping petals. Now includes downy mildew resistance. Produces a light green golden centers of this single head pollen free sunflower are surrounded with deep golden petals. This flower is perfect alone or in mixes with other light-centered sunflowers Starburst™ Greenburst or ProCut® White Lite. It also mixes very nicely with blue and purple flowers to give a light spring-like feeling to your bouquet!

ProCut® Brilliance is absolutely stunning. You won't be able to turn away the first time you see it. This single head pollen- free sunflower is perfect for cutting. Its petals are a unique combination of yellow on the outside that intensifies to orange near the dark center of the head. The result is a brilliant explosion of color that grabs your eye.

Classic bicolor variety, now with downy mildew resistance. A beautiful burst of bronzy red on orange tipped petals makes ProCut® BiColor unique. ProCut® BiColor is perfect for bouquets. Can be arranged by itself or with other flowers. When you think about autumn colors, you have to include ProCut® BiColor in your planting. These sunflowers are absolutely the best single stem cutting bicolor sunflower available to growers. Like all the ProCuts, it is pollenless.