Sunflowers

Sunflower Seed

Helianthus (Sunflowers) are always customer favorites because of their beautiful color, large size and ease of growing. Easily create a beautiful border or field of sunflowers for everyone to marvel at.

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. Larger heads maximize the seed size. Harvest the seeds when dry, but protect them from the birds in the garden while you wait. Soak the cleaned seeds in salt water for a few hours, pat them dry, and roast them in the oven.

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.

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 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.

Junior is a miniature sunflower ideally suited for pots or as a front row flower in the garden. This sunflower rarely gets over knee high. Grow three plants in an 8 inch pot for a profusion of yellow sunflower color on these branching plants. Since its flowers are pollenless Junior is ideal for the coffee or dining table. They flower fast and easy. Flower are yellow with brown centers.

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! Ht. 12-24". Avg. 620 seeds/oz. Packet: 50 seeds.

The Dwarf Sungold Double Sunflower is easy to grow and produces unique, soft golden yellow blooms that are sure to grab your attention! This shorter variety is great for garden borders and makes an excellent cut flower.

The Lemon Queen Sunflower produces an abundance of bright, pale yellow blooms surrounding a dark chocolate brown center. This variety produces 4" blooms that look lovely in a bouquet or vase.

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.

The False Sunflower is a very beautiful, early blooming flower that will brighten up any landscape and can be enjoyed from June until August. This very hardy plant that can survive in most climates and soil types. The False Sunflower is an early variety that is aggressive and therefore may not be suitable for small landscape plantings. This variety is a short-lived perennial.

The Sunflower All Sorts Mix is a beautiful combination of some of the greatest different sunflower varieties that are absolutely stunning together! This mix is the perfect blend of size and beauty will make any landscape breathtaking! The All Sorts Mix includes Autumn Beauty, Grey Stripe, Lemon Queen, Sungold Tall, Sungold Dwarf (Teddy Bear), Sunspot Dwarf and Velvet Queen.

Mammoth Grey Stripe Sunflower is a tall plant with massive blooms that are easy to grow and can thrive in poor soil with little moisture. This large sunflower grows upwards of 12 feet tall and produces flower heads that will range from 6-15" inches.