Sunflowers are the exuberant darlings of the summer garden, and you can still plant them in August. No garden edible grows at a greater rate than the sunflower. Certain varieties take only two months ...

I have an idea: Why not grow some sunflowers? Annual sunflowers, Helianthus annuus, feed the bees, butterflies, birds and you. They are so easy to start from seed, that anyone who has never grown ...

Time lapse of growing a sunflower seed to blooming. The dwarf sunspot variety was chosen and sown into soil. The seed quickly ...

A garden wouldn't seem like a garden without the radiance of this beloved flower. The sunflower comes by its name simply, with "helios" meaning "sun" and "anthos" meaning "flowers." The plant: A ...