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Dreaming of a sea of sunflowers in your garden? You can grow your own right at home – all it takes is a single sunflower and ...
Want sunflowers that brighten up your garden with their tall, colorful blooms? Here are all the seed-sowing tips you need to know and what to look out for.
Looking to keep your sunflower garden full of color? Know when to deadhead spent sunflowers like a garden pro to encourage ...
Its scratchy, hairy stems are square, but it's not a mint relative.
What is your favorite flower? One common answer is the sunflower (Helianthus annuus). Although they are popular for ...
Gardeners often grow basil beneath tomato plants to protect the herb's tender leaves from sun damage. You can also plant basil beneath sunflowers to reduce sunscald in hot weather. This plant ...
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9 Fascinating Facts About Sunflowers
Most Heads on One SunflowerImpress your friends with these amazing facts about sunflowers. According to Guinness World records, a sunflower in Michigan had 837 heads on one plant!No Green Thumb ...
On Tuesday, we talked about gardening for birds, so today, let’s talk about one of our feathered friends’ favorites: sunflowers. More often than not, when we purchase bird seed from the store ...
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, ...