SUNFLOWER SEEDS
Helianthus annuus
Sunflowers belong in every garden where kids are present. It is marvelous to witness the amazement and sense of accomplishment children feel when watching the sunflower seeds grow in to 5-10 foot tall traffic stopping giants. For best results sow in spring (after the last frost) where they are to grow and provide plenty of water. Bloom season is from mid summer into fall. Excellent cut flowers.
NEW FOR 2012AN01231 AMERICAN GIANT HYBRID
Sunflower Seeds
The tallest sunflower variety, American Giant can grow to up to 16 feet tall, with stronger stalks than other tall types, and enormous leaves. Plants are topped by 10 inch golden-yellow sunflowers. It makes an excellent background plant or tall screen. To produce the tallest plants and largest flowerheads, plant in fertile soil and provide plenty of sun and water.
NEW FOR 2012AN01295 GOLDEN CHEER
Sunflower Seeds
Delightful, double yellow, 4-5 inch, chrysanthemum-like flowers open to reveal light hearts. Plants produce a larger main head, and typically 3-4 side branches. Try pinching when young for bushier, even heavier blooming plants, with smaller flowers. Golden Cheer carries its blooms on long, strong stems, and is a long-lasting cut flower. Grows 5-6 feet tall. A small percentage of this seed will produce single flowers, which is necessary for seed production.
NEW FOR 2012AN01277 ProCut BRILLIANCE
Sunflower Seeds
Large, single head, pollen-free sunflowers with dark centers and brilliant, uniquely colored petals. They are yellow at the tips, deepening to orange near the base. The orange and yellow hues combined on the same petal are an impressive sight, whether viewed in the garden, or seen in long-lasting cut flowers for your home. Grows 4-6 feet tall. 55-60 days.
NEW FOR 2012AN01214 LITTLE BECKA
Sunflower Seeds
From the same talented breeder that brought us our best selling sunflower of 2011 (Firecracker), we now offer its kindred spirit, Little Becka. She is a true cut flower powerhouse, putting out legions of early, large, fiery, copper-red, pollenless sunflowers. With a dark heart, yellow halo, and golden tips, Little Becka is bewitching. Mass in the garden, for a lively knee-high sunflower spectacle. Combine with 'Firecracker' to turn the volume of color up louder still. Little Becka grows to 2-3 feet tall and forms full, compact, branching plants, perfect for massing, or use as colorful low hedges and garden dividers, can even be used to add bold color to mixed borders.
NEW FOR 2012AN01213 STELLA GOLD
Sunflower Seeds
The pollenless flowers have long, spider-like yellow petals and dark brown centers. They are held on single stems. Stella Gold is an entirely unique sunflower which lends a light, open texture to bouquets while providing classic sunflower color. Grows 4-6 feet tall.
NEW FOR 2012AN01296 POSITANO
Sunflower Seeds
A high quality pollenless cut flower, Positano grows to 5 feet tall, producing striking, 5-7 inch orange sunflowers with dark centers. 55-65 days.
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NEW FOR 2012AN01230 SPARKY
Sunflower Seeds
Attractive quilled flowers in yellow, orange, and bronze shades. They make amazing cut flowers. Growing 4-5 feet tall, these multi-head plants bloom from July to September. At home at the back of mixed borders or in the cutting garden.
NEW FOR 2012AN01195 BUTTERCREAM
Sunflower Seeds
Primrose-yellow petals surround handsome, dark brown disks. The 4-6 inch flowers are long lasting, pollenfree cut flowers, which blend extremely well into mixed bouquets. Plants grow 4.5-5 feet tall, producing long side shoots, which continue to bloom for weeks. Early to flower, with blooms appearing in as little as 50-60 days.
AN11494 PRADO RED SHADES
Sunflower Seeds
Gorgeous, velvety chocolate-crimson 4-6 inch pollen-free flowers on bushy 4-6 foot tall plants. Pinched at the fifth set of true leaves, each plant can produce between 15 and 20 flowering stems. Quicker to bloom and slightly more sensitive to cold than other sunflowers. Our favorite red sunflower, for garden color and cut flowers.
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AN01141 CONSTELLATION
Sunflower Seeds
Dwarf, compact, branching plants freely produce showy, large 6 inch pollen-free flowers. Plants grow 12-20 inches tall in containers, and up to 3 feet tall in the ground.
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AN01140 CHOCOLATE
Sunflower Seeds
Rich, brown 4-6 inch sunflowers with yellow, striped reverses. Excellent cut. Grows to 5 feet tall. 60 days to flower.
AN01194 ProCut GOLD
Sunflower Seeds
Brilliant, golden-yellow, pollen-free blooms with yellow-green hearts. They are outstanding cut flowers. The single stem, day length neutral plants grow 5-6 feet tall. Matures in 50-60 days.
AN01198 MUNCHKIN
Sunflower Seeds
Long-lasting, pollen-free, bright yellow flowers with strking green disks. The branching, 2 foot plants, produce attractive, dark green leaves. Munchkin is an outstanding container plant, and also makes beautiful, dwarf hedges.
AN01192 GOLD RUSH
Sunflower Seeds
Branching, 4 to 6 foot tall plants, freely produce 4 to 5 inch pollen-free orange flowers with chocolate colored centers. They make long-lasting cut flowers.
AN01193 DAFNA
Sunflower Seeds
Professional cut flower growers love this new pollen-free sunflower, and we believe you will too. The 5-8 inch deep yellow-orange flowers with their handsome, dark hearts, make for gorgeous, long-lasting cut flowers. And, since their petals overlap there are no gaps in the blooms. Grows 5-5.5 feet tall. Flowers in 55-60 days.
AN06119 BALLAD
Sunflower Seeds
Dwarf 24 inch tall plants (shorter in containers) produce large (up to 6 inches across) bright golden-yellow flowers with dark disks. Mildew resistant, easy to grow, high performing plants.
AN01100 CHERRY ROSE
Sunflower Seeds
Flowering in only 40 days, Cherry Rose is quite possibly the fastest blooming sunflower. The dazzling 3-4 inch pollen-free, cherry-red flowers are tipped in lemon-yellow, and feature a handsome, chocolate-brown cone. An excellent variety for cutting, the flowers keep coming over a long season, on branching, 4-5 foot tall plants.
AN06120 FIRECRACKER
Sunflower Seeds
Compact, branching 24-36 inch tall plants produce masses of bright red and gold bicolor blooms. Excellent when used as a low hedge, or in borders or containers.
AN09071 FLORENZA
Sunflower Seeds
Loads of 5 inch Mahogany-red and yellow bicolor blooms on well-branched 4-4.5 foot plants. Grow it for cutting or to add color and height to large borders.
AN00434 GIGANTEUS
Sunflower Seeds
The sturdy 12-14 foot stalks (no staking) produce absolutely enormous flowers 1 foot or more across. Guaranteed to stop traffic, they can be planted below 2nd story windows for a close up show!
AN00437 IKARUS
Sunflower Seeds
A new introduction that is incredibly free branching starting from the very base of the plant. What that means to you is many, many more blooms than the average sunflower variety. The flowers are 5-6 inches across, light yellow with a dark heart. A great performer in the garden or in the vase. The bushy plants grow 4-5 feet tall. We highly recommend this superior variety.
AN00446 THE JOKER
Sunflower Seeds
Giant 6-8 inch extremely showy red and yellow bicolor semi-double to fully double blooms have fascinating curled petals around the disk. Well branched 6-7 foot plants. An excellent pollen-free cut flower. Combine with ProCut Bicolor to make truly memorable arrangements.
AN00449 KONG
Sunflower Seeds
These 12-14 foot tall giants produce yellow flower heads on short side stems. Plants are well proportioned and not top heavy, and are guaranteed to make a lasting impression on children.
AN00455 MAMMOTH RUSSIAN
Sunflower Seeds
Huge bright yellow 12-inch flowers and seed heads on heavy 10-foot stalks. A dramatic ornamental edible that is good for screening and/or edible seed production. Packet is 50 seeds.
AN00464 MOULIN ROUGE
Sunflower Seeds
The dark velvet burgundy 6-8 inch flowers shade to nearly black in the center. This is an exquisite, free branching and heavy blooming selection that we think you are going to love. An outstanding variety for cutting. Grows 5-7 feet tall.
AN00467 MUSIC BOX MIX DWARF
Sunflower Seeds
Uniform, well branched 2-2.5 foot plants produce showy 4-5 inch sunflowers in a beautiful range of colors from yellow-cream to mahogany-red in both solids and bicolors. Excellent in containers for the patio or balcony or use in borders. Long blooming.
AN05650 PEACH PASSION
Sunflower Seeds
Produces masses of gorgeous soft apricot 3-4 inch blooms on bushy 4 foot plants. They are exceptional cut flowers.
AN06123 ProCut BICOLOR
Sunflower Seeds
These large, stunning pollen-free flowers are mahogany and yellow with black centers. They are carried on long straight stems and are superb for cutting. Grows to 5 feet tall.
AN00497 SUNGOLD
Sunflower Seeds
Absolutely beautiful, extremely large double golden-yellow chrysanthemum-like flowers on sturdy 5 foot plants. A superb cut flower.
AN09073 SUNNY SMILE
Sunflower Seeds
Giant 5 inch blooms top dwarf plants which can be grown in 4-6 inch pots. In small pots Sunny Smile puts all its energy into producing a single jumbo bloom. Planted in large containers or in the ground Sunny Smile has room to branch and produces 4 or 5 gorgeous golden yellow beauties. 12-15 inches tall, day length neutral, pollen-free, blooms in 55 days.
AN09074 SUNRICH ORANGE SUMMER
Sunflower Seeds
Essentially an improved Sunrich Orange, blooming 5-10 days earlier and growing about 6 inches shorter. Day-length neutral 4.5 foot plants sport 5-6 inch blooms which are superb for cut-flower production. 50-60 days to maturity.
AN00512 VELVET QUEEN
Sunflower Seeds
Magnificent flowers with velvety crimson petals and black hearts. The well-branched plants grow to 5-feet tall. Highly recommended.
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AN00425 AUTUMN BEAUTY
Sunflower Seeds
An exquisite mix of autumn colors including, gold, yellow, rusty red, burgundy and bicolors.Classic sunflower form on 6-7 foot plants.
How to plant SUNFLOWER seeds
For tall varieties direct sow into prepared seed beds after all danger of frost 6 inches apart, 1/2 inch deep, and thin to 12-18 inches apart. Can be started indoors in peat pots or cell packs if planted out well before seedlings become rootbound. Dwarf varieties are direct sown 3 inches apart and thinned to 6-9 inches apart, are easy to start indoors.
Comments: Full sun. Soil which is moderately fertile and kept moist will produce the best flowerheads. Attracts bees, birds and butterflies.
