PREMIER SEEDS DIRECT Sunflower - Autumn Beauty - 160 Finest Seeds

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A true miniature when it comes to growing sunflowers. This variety makes for the ultimate potted sunflower plant! Growing only about a foot high, the Junior sunflower has a dark inner circle and bright yellow outer petals. Not only does it stay compact in pots, it also make a great hedgerow or bed edging plant as well. Seed Link : Junior Sunflower Seeds Planting sunflowers in your landscape is like growing your own little slice of sunshine and happiness! It really is hard to beat the incredible beauty and elegance sunflowers bring to your landscape. From tall to small, big to large, and everything in between, the stately sunflower can be found in a vast variety of colors and sizes. From massive sunflowers that tower along a barn or fence row, to a myriad of mid-size and miniature varieties that can fill flowerbeds and containers with vibrant color, there is a sunflower to grow for every space and place. If you are looking for a sunflower variety to harvest large amounts of seed, this is certainly a top choice. They are perfect for growing along a fence row, or up against a barn or building. The stalks are fast growing and extremely woody and strong. Seed Link : Mammoth Grey Sunflower Seeds Skyscraper Sunflower But beyond their stunning beauty, sunflowers also lend a helping hand to other plants in your landscape. Their gorgeous big blooms are more than just eye-catching to humans, they also attract large numbers of honey bees and bumble bees.

Here is a multi-headed sunflower currently growing away on my allotment. The other flower heads haven’t quite opened yet but you can clearly see all of the flower buds. Sunflower On My Allotment With Multiple Heads I could get many more flowers off a plant like this and I imagine that the more I cut the more flowers the plant will produce. Not Giant!

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This alignment results from heliotropism in an earlier development stage, the young flower stage, before full maturity of flower heads ( anthesis). [8] Young sunflowers orient themselves in the direction of the sun. At dawn the head of the flower faces east and moves west throughout the day. When sunflowers reach full maturity they no longer follow the sun, and continuously face east. Young flowers reorient overnight to face east in anticipation of the morning. Their heliotropic motion is a circadian rhythm, synchronized by the sun, which continues if the sun disappears on cloudy days or if plants are moved to constant light. [9] They are able to regulate their circadian rhythm in response to the blue-light emitted by a light source. [9] If a sunflower plant in the bud stage is rotated 180°, the bud will be turning away from the sun for a few days, as resynchronization with the sun takes time. [10]

Well, the truth is that you have probably inadvertently grown a multi-headed sunflower. There are lots of varieties that are multi-headed. I must say that I do quite like it and if I was to grow sunflowers as a cut flower then this would definitely be a better choice over a standard giant sunflower. Autumn Beauty is a stunning mix of warm earthen shades of large multi-headed 4 to 8-inch blossoms on 6-8’ strong stemmed plants.Perhaps the best part of all to growing sunflowers is just how easy they are to plant and maintain. Sunflowers are fast growers that love warm soil. And because of that, they can be directly seeded into flowerbeds, gardens and containers. The big seed companies take lots of special steps to make sure that the hybrids they sell are only fertilised in a certain way so they remain the same as the parent plant. This is impossible when growing sunflowers out in your garden or allotment. Conclusion Multi-headed sunflower varieties do exist, if you are sure you were growing a single-headed giant sunflower variety then it is probably just a mix-up with the seed. Sunflowers grown from your own saved seed can also produce multi-headed sunflowers.