Lemon Queen - Sunflower

These guys are gigantic, ten feet up, they also have a million flowers, and both the finches and the bees adore them to pieces, literally in the finches' case. They are easy to grow and they volunteer like nothing else, they shield lots of fat seeds that will make squirrels and jays fight for the privilege to eat them. All in all great! Unfortunately, the tons of flowers and the gigantic stalks will make these guys very top heavy, and they will topple over eventually, long before being done. Mine did just that right now, narrowly missing my peppers, and it breaks your heart seeing the poor bees working as hard as possible on flowers that will be gone by tomorrow. If you can somehow bolster them, give them a go, they are great, otherwise do like I'm doing right now and look for a smaller variety!

Beautiful yellow clusters! So easy to grow. Plant, water, that’s it! The bees love them! Very pretty to have!

I received these as a free gift with my order and now plan to grow them regularly. These grew 10-12 feet with many flowers. The birds loved them and the best part is the squirrels didn't bother with them (I guess the seeds weren't big enough to warrant climbing that high). Beautiful plants! I did grow them on a wall and gave them a little support.

Received these as a free gift - THANK YOU! I was amazed by them! Tons of flowers all summer, and i mean the birds loved them, the bees too. I even watched chipmunks climb them to the top for the seeds! Several reached 10-12' tall and the big ones (the ones i planted earliest) must have produced 2 doz flowers each! The first flower heads were the biggest, by the end of the season the flowers were smaller but just as lovely. You have inspired me to triple my sunflower plantings this coming summer. Love your seeds!

I appreciate the free gift, but for the same time and effort spent I produced huge sunflowers to feed my birds and bees. I started them in peat pots and planted the pots into my garden. I have not seen one bird eat from this sunflower, but seeds have vanished so I'm sure they have. I plant sunflowers so that i don't have to hang a bird feeder. I also planted Moulin Rouge seeds and i have seen the Gold Finch eat from it. The deer ate the first (2) Moulin Rouge heads so luckily Moulin Rouge is a branching Sunflower so there were more heads coming. Lemon Queen produces a single head so if the deer had eaten it I would have been out of luck for the same time and effort spent on the branching sunflower.