However, there are many sunflower varieties, ranging in size and color, which make it feasible to grow sunflowers in pots in ...

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.

School had been canceled for weeks to come, and spirits were starting to sag. At home with her two young daughters, Rebecca Bromark of Carlisle wanted to find some way to offer assistance to those ...

Smaller portraits depict the artist at the most difficult time in her life, when she was hit by a car on her way back from ...

That's remarkable because in a sunflower, east and west sides aren't fixed, like having a right and a left hand. If you turn a plant, the stem has new east and west sides. So how could the sides ...

The sunflower has long been admired for its beauty ... from towering sunflowers with bright yellow fringes to multi-stemmed types that produce dozens of blooms throughout the summer and into ...

According to the group's research, a juvenile sunflower follows the sun by growing only one side of its stem depending on the time of day. When the sun is out, the plant's stem grows more on 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 are one of those happy plants many gardeners can’t resist planting. Kids love to watch the plants reach for the ...

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 toward ...

Harmer said that there appear to be two growth mechanisms at work in the sunflower stem. The first sets a basic rate of growth for the plant, based on available light. The second, controlled by the ...