Until Fiesta del Sol came along, we didn't really believe it was possible to get more blooms per plant on super-floriferous Mexican Sunflowers. This AAS-winning dwarf has proved us wrong! Instead of adding blooms (though it may have done a little of that, too!), Fiesta del Sol simply is a smaller plant, so the blooms arise even more thickly amid handsome dark green foliage!
Masses of 2- to 3-inch deep orange blooms arise all summer long on this workhorse. As they fade, they are quickly replaced by new blooms, so the plant always looks neat and freshly-blooming!
This plant is impervious to heat, humidity, drought, and even deer -- just about every nuisance of the summer garden you can imagine! A great choice for the South, where the humidity envelops many other plants, Fiesta del Sol is a butterfly magnet wherever it grows. Plant this sun-lover in the blazing-hot garden and enjoy the long summer show!
A vigorous annual for use in the back of the border and for summertime screening purposes as backgrounds, backdrops, and temporary hedges. Flowers cut well for fresh use. This large, from 4-8 feet tall, coarse, shrubby annual, is clothed in 12 inch, triangular, gray-green, velvety leaves. In the high heat of mid-summer to early fall the plants are covered in 3 inch diameter flowers that resemble the single-petaled forms of Dahlia. While both the disk and the ray florets are orange-red, the disk florets are lighter than the ray florets. These flowers are attractive to butterflies
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
Until Fiesta del Sol came along, we didn't really believe it was possible to get more blooms per plant on super-floriferous Mexican Sunflowers. This AAS-winning dwarf has proved us wrong! Instead of adding blooms (though it may have done a little of that, too!), Fiesta del Sol simply is a smaller plant, so the blooms arise even more thickly amid handsome dark green foliage!
Masses of 2- to 3-inch deep orange blooms arise all summer long on this workhorse. As they fade, they are quickly replaced by new blooms, so the plant always looks neat and freshly-blooming!
This plant is impervious to heat, humidity, drought, and even deer -- just about every nuisance of the summer garden you can imagine! A great choice for the South, where the humidity envelops many other plants, Fiesta del Sol is a butterfly magnet wherever it grows. Plant this sun-lover in the blazing-hot garden and enjoy the long summer show!
A vigorous annual for use in the back of the border and for summertime screening purposes as backgrounds, backdrops, and temporary hedges. Flowers cut well for fresh use. This large, from 4-8 feet tall, coarse, shrubby annual, is clothed in 12 inch, triangular, gray-green, velvety leaves. In the high heat of mid-summer to early fall the plants are covered in 3 inch diameter flowers that resemble the single-petaled forms of Dahlia. While both the disk and the ray florets are orange-red, the disk florets are lighter than the ray florets. These flowers are attractive to butterflies
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.