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 ...

use a sharp knife to cut the sunflower heads from the plant. Leave about 6 to 12 inches of stem attached to each bloom. Loosely bundle 2 to 3 flowers together and tie their stems with a bit of twine.

Also known as an oxeye or false sunflower, it is an easy-to-grow perennial ... leaves are distributed evenly along these stems. The stem is rough to the touch and may contain a single flower ...

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

As long as your pup is leashed they can roam the yellow fields ... You can pick a wide variety of veggies, berries, and flowers at this Fredericksburg farm, including sunflowers by the stem. Admission ...

Sunflowers swing their heads by growing a little more on the east side of the stem -- pushing the head west -- during the day and a little more on the west side at night, so the head swings back ...