Texas Master Florist Lisa Wright, flower manager at Central Market in Houston, offers these tips on how to corral long-stemmed sunflowers with the wide burgundy foliage and bottlebrush plumes of ...

This will prevent the stems from getting too long and weak ... pinching out the soft tips at the end of each stem will encourage your sunflowers to produce more side shoots and flowers.

Quick to bloom, in just 60 days. ‘Chocolate’ is a branching sunflower that produces dramatic long-stemmed Hershey-brown blooms on plants that grow 4 to 5 feet tall. Blooms 65 to 75 days from ...

Sunflowers are one of those happy plants many gardeners can’t resist planting. Kids love to watch the plants reach for the ...