Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) are annuals, meaning they must be planted each year. Typically, sunflower seeds are planted in early to late spring, depending on the temperature in your growing zone.

Many of us forget to deadhead our sunflowers to squeeze the last of the blooms from them, thinking somehow that they are programmed to create their great spinning plates of flower and that is it. But ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link This is Douglas Smith and his four-year-old son Stellan. Stellan asked his dad for a sunflower "as tall as the house," so on March 28, his dad ...