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Annual
20°C
Average layer vermiculite
Sow spring and summer pots, containers.
Can be sown into open ground
Keep well fed and watered. Grow in a sunny site.
Direct Sowing
Sow sunflowers April to late June, direct into the flowering position
when the ground has warmed up. Distance between rows depends on variety
but up to 40cm for larger varieties. Space plants average 12-15 cm apart.
Lightly cover the seeds and keep the seed bed moist. The optimum
temperature for germination is 20°C minimum 5°C Sowing to first
cutting approx 60 days in mid summer.
POLLEN FREE VARIETIES
Pollen free types are excellent for cut flowers, they are uniform and
vigorous in growth even under low temperature and short day conditions.
Dense planting will provide quality cut flowers. Pollen free varieties can
be sown September to March under glass and April to August outdoors.
Min night temp 8°C day max temp 25°C require little or no
fertilizer and water sparingly. |
Sunflower Pastiche
150cm
Beautiful flowers in shades of gold, yellow, buff and red with several
bi-colour and tri-colour heads. Medium sized flower heads up to 13cm. Basal
branching superb border plants and cut flowers lasting well in the
vase.
£0.95 pkt approx 30 seeds
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Sunflower Miss Sunshine 25-40cm
H.annus
Pollen free dwarf F1 variety suitable in mixed containers as secondary flowers will continue to bloom. Rich golden yellow flowers.
pkt approx 15 seeds
tpkt approx 45 seeds
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Sunflower Florenza
120-130cm
Light yellow petal tips form a lovely contrast to the distinct rusty red
ring. A versatile variety ideally suited to the annual border or centre
piece to large patio containers. Excellent cut flower variety.
pkt approx 30 seeds
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Sunflower
Tiffany 80-120cm
Bright orange with contrasting dark eyes. Single stemmed with short rounded
petals in several rows. Suitable for cut flower production.
pkt approx 16 seeds
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Sunflower
Sunspot
45cm
A new dwarf sunflower, produces giant single yellow flowers 8-10" across
with yellow centered that can last up to nine weeks, use as flowering pot
plant in 20cm pots or as patio and container plant.
pkt approx 16 seeds
pkt approx 32 seeds
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techniques for the same seed from different sources there does not seem to be a
standard. With this in mind you should use this website as a guide only, you
probably already have a tried and tested way of sowing different seeds. As a
rule of thumb the larger the seed size the more cover it requires, and fine seed
like Lobelia, Begonia etc requires no cover.
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