Very easy to grow, Prairie Sunflower reaches 6 to 8 feet tall in the sun. It is trouble-free and very floriferous, beginning just as most of the summer color is winding down. What a great way to extend your season in the perennial border!
Excellent for cut flowers or for massed color in the back of the border, bed, or against an outdoor structure such as a shed or fence, Prairie Sunflower is one of the finest, most free-flowering sources of summer color we know! The blooms help carry the garden over the "in-between" season of late summer/early fall, and the tall, vigorous habit keeps the border looking full even as earlier bloomers begin to fade.
Direct-sow these seeds in any sunny spot. Not fussy about soil, Prairie Sunflower is hardy almost everywhere -- zones 4-9 -- in the contiguous U.S. We think it is a fine plant that should be part of everyone's garden! Packet is 50 seeds.
A giant for the back of the border and for cut flower use. Habit is upright from 10-12 tall by 3 feet wide. The 3-inch-diameter, daisy-like flowers heads are borne on spikes late in the season from August to October. The disk-shaped flowers are brown while the showy ray florets are yellow. Bees love the flowers and birds love the seeds. The coarse-textured leaves are medium green and lanceolate to 12 inches long
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.
Very easy to grow, Prairie Sunflower reaches 6 to 8 feet tall in the sun. It is trouble-free and very floriferous, beginning just as most of the summer color is winding down. What a great way to extend your season in the perennial border!
Excellent for cut flowers or for massed color in the back of the border, bed, or against an outdoor structure such as a shed or fence, Prairie Sunflower is one of the finest, most free-flowering sources of summer color we know! The blooms help carry the garden over the "in-between" season of late summer/early fall, and the tall, vigorous habit keeps the border looking full even as earlier bloomers begin to fade.
Direct-sow these seeds in any sunny spot. Not fussy about soil, Prairie Sunflower is hardy almost everywhere -- zones 4-9 -- in the contiguous U.S. We think it is a fine plant that should be part of everyone's garden! Packet is 50 seeds.
A giant for the back of the border and for cut flower use. Habit is upright from 10-12 tall by 3 feet wide. The 3-inch-diameter, daisy-like flowers heads are borne on spikes late in the season from August to October. The disk-shaped flowers are brown while the showy ray florets are yellow. Bees love the flowers and birds love the seeds. The coarse-textured leaves are medium green and lanceolate to 12 inches long
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.