Titan Sunflower

What a great addition to the garden! Huge blooms and towering heights! The center of the flower has fascinating patterns that make it hard to look away.

I plant these directly in to the ground on Jan.1 and they growing pretty much all on there own with little help from me. My largest sunflower was 9'8!!! Yes almost 10 feet tall. These are the most amazing sunflowers I have ever grown!

I originally planted several sunlower varieties inluding Titan almost 7 years ago...The display was beautiful and even caused a few drivers to just stop in the middle of the road and stare. My largest Titan head was defintely 24" and atop a 14' stalk...it took a handheld tree pruner for me to harvets the heads and cut down the tree-like stalks. My yard is filled with birds and rusty-patch bumble bees. I wish I could share photos. The plants are easy to grow; I grow transplants and sink the hairy stems deep like my tomato plants...they grow tall thick stalks. This year I will plant them as a thick, privacy fence around my yard. tall plants in back and 2 foot plants around my front yard.

These sunflowers germinated very quickly and at a rate of nearly 100%. However, they did not reach the size that they should. I am willing to take the blame for that since I left them in the pots for too long before putting them out. By far the biggest downfall is the aphids that they attract!! I was unaware that this would happen and as a result, I lost half the sunflowers and also my nearby grapes!! I cut ever dang one of them down before they even seeded!!

The only bad thing about the Atlas sunflowers is that I should have bought more at the Seed Bank! The largest of tese truly massive flowers are now at least 12 feet tall, with beautiful big bright flowers. The kids are looking forward to getting some sunflower seeds out of them (if the birds don't get them first). Definitely will plant more of these next season.