For now is peak time for Mid-South sunflowers. The wild sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is native to North America before its commercialization took place in Russia, but those who hunt doves in the ...

As the sun moves, so will the sunflower heads to follow it. But as summer turns to autumn and the sunflowers get big and ripe and heavy with seeds, they will stop moving. Until they are harvested ...

I remember one year when I was teaching third grade the grandfather of one of my student’s gave us the head of a ripe sunflower so we could do some estimating for our math lesson. The students ...

I have spent all summer watching my giant sunflowers grow to amazing heights, and they have been crowned with stunning blooms, and those blooms are beginning to turn into heavy seed crops.

Sunflowers, with their ripe stores of seeds and pollen drawing honey bees, have almost come to symbolize this time of year in Bakersfield — and naturally, Murray Family Farms hopes to make the ...