Lemon Queen Sunflower

I loved the tall branching plants. They produced LOADS of gorgeous blooms but along with that, SO MUCH POLLEN. So great for the bees but if you have any type of allergy to pollen and you plan on handling these blooms and bringing them in, be warned. I've never reacted to any other flower this way. Other than that, I loved them! I planted them in early spring and again in late summer. They produced beautifully both times.

After waiting a year or two (the seeds still survived) I planted 3 outside by the dog fence last year 2018. Every seed grew! 1 accidently got trampled, and the 2nd one got hit by wind pretty bad right when it was starting to grow flowers and it died since it snapped in half. But the 3rd one woot. That baby survived a few storms and serious heat strikes and grew to 8 feet! A couple flowers were the size of my opened hand. It had several beautiful flowers and kept going till late august. Only issue I had was that my dogs kept wanting to knaw on the small leafs lol. When growing a tall variety of sunflowers it is best to have them cloistered together, or against a fence, tree, or trellis of some form. Even letting them grow next to corn. And to make sure that it has some form of windbreaker so it doesn't get knocked over in a storm. I will try again this year 2019. Would love to see what types of seeds it'll have and how they will do next to the corn.Thanks again! Beautiful flowers!

I grow these in Phoenix, Arizona. They are more of a bush than a sunflower stalk, they grow 8 feet tall with hundreds of short branches that stick out from a huge main stalk, with small yellow flowers. They literally grow hundreds of flowers, and they just keep producing. Mine continued to bloom until December or so. The birds love them. Here in phoenix, Peach-Faced Lovebirds grow in the wild, and they really like these plants. They stop by every afternoon, make a lot of noise and eat the seeds. I don't know what you could do to keep these from growing well. I ignore them, don't water them regularly, don't really care for them at all and yet they grow huge with hundreds of flowers. One came up in the middle of the lawn, and I just mowed around it and let it grow. It bloomed until December.

These sunflowers were amazing!!! I had never grown sunflowers before, but these made it easy. They sprouted very quickly and grew to over 8 feet tall with blooms covering each plant. So gorgeous.

First time growing sunflowers and these were a hit with my kids. Even got shaded out by some vines in my yard and held on! Pollinator magnets and kept the wildlife busy as they matured. Going to try replanting next year in a different area for even better success (I managed to snag a single flower before the squirrels did!).