As a beloved staple for summer gardens, typically in full bloom from August to September, now is the time to contemplate when to plant sunflower seeds to ensure they thrive and arrive on time.

Sunflowers are tall, cheerful blooms that bring bold color and pollinators to your garden. Most are golden yellow, but some varieties come in gorgeous shades of orange, red, or even burgundy.

If you planted your first sunflower seed in a paper Dixie cup in kindergarten and watched it grow, you're probably hooked on these easy-to-grow, showy flowers for the garden. Sunflowers are perfect ...

Sunflowers are obviously sun-loving plants and they don’t do well in the cold, so you’ll want to start prepping the soil for planting well after the temperature has stayed above 50 degrees during both ...

Many gardeners regard starting seeds indoors as the beginning of their gardening season. While sowing time for some early seeds has passed, March is typically a busy time for planting a large number ...

Q. I have a space of about 200 square feet that I want to plant with annual plants that are useful for food and cuttings, or are good pollinator plants. What do you recommend? A. I would begin with ...

Sunflowers are the exuberant darlings of the summer garden, and you can still plant them in August. No garden edible grows at a greater rate than the sunflower. Certain varieties take only two months ...