Add companion plants: As Warner mentioned, companion planting can create a mutually beneficial relationship between your sunflowers and the other fruits, veggies, or flowers you plant near them.

Peppers and sunflowers both crave rich soil and full sun, but that’s not the only reason these plants are good companions.Tall sunflowers provide light shade to lower-growing crops, which can ...

Branching sunflowers produce more flower heads on larger plants, but there are still varieties suitable for containers. The likes of 'Autumn Beauty', 'Sonja', and 'Firecracker' are all branching ...

From jazz on the lawn to centuries-old bonsai trees, Brooklyn Botanic Garden is offering a vibrant lineup of events and ...

Here’s how to plant sunflower seeds to get them blooming in time for summer. Skip to main content. ... Water well and transfer — Once your plants have reached 12 inches in height, ...

The annual sunflower (Helianthus annus) has a long history in North America, with evidence of its cultivation for food, ceremonial and medical use by Native Americans dating back to at least 1,000 … ...

Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky. But how do sunflowers “see” the sun to follow it? New work from plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Sunflowers serve a purpose that goes beyond their looks. The plants can produce food for both humans and animals, and they do it in a cost-effective way for farmers.

Hundreds of native North American plants, often dismissed as weeds, deserve a lot more respect, according to a new study.These plants, distant cousins of foods like cranberries and pumpkins ...

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