Moulin Rouge sunflowers: These sunflowers sport beautiful burgundy-red flowers and are an excellent way to diversify your garden beds. Medium-sized, they'll reach 6 feet at maturity.

Plant sunflower seeds indoors, two weeks before the last frost. Push each seed 1 in (2.5cm) below the soil surface, keep at a temperature of around 50F (10C) and thin out seedlings after ten days.

Sunflowers need full sun, so check where in your yard gets 8 hours of sunlight before planting. You’ll want to till up your soil if these are going into new beds.

If you're growing sunflowers, find out what experts have to say about how long it takes for sunflowers to grow and when to harvest them.

Brighten the day — and help improve your diet, health — with sunflower seeds This seed is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, notably linoleic acid, which has been linked with health benefits.