Sunflowers

Sunflower ‘Autumn Beauty’ produces numerous long-stemmed flowers from summer to late autumn in a variety of solid and bi-colour bright warm colours including golden yellow, bronze, brown and burgundy. Each plant produces numerous long-stemmed flowers each with dark centres.

Helianthus annuus 'Cut Flower Mixture' offers a diverse range of sunflower varieties that are suited to outdoor cut flower production. In a wide range of shapes and colours, lemon, golds and reds. The heights range from 80 to 150cm (32 to 60in). They are lovely in borders or vases.

Helianthus annuus 'F1 Gemini Summer' is F1 hybrid tall cut flower variety with golden yellow, double flowers. This professional quality sunflower is a pollenless, uniflora type that grows 90 to 120cm tall. Cut the flowers when the petals begin to unfurl from the face.

Great big fluffy golden heads the size of a dinner plate. This whopper of a sunflower has the same stunning densely packed yellow petals as the beloved dwarf 'Teddy Bear' sunflower but on a far larger scale. They make excellent cut flowers, long lasting and are very impressive in a vase.

Helianthus ‘Ikarus’ is a fairly recent introduction, but one that has started to make huge waves. This premium pollenless sunflower has a unique habit, they are basal branching, starting near the bottom of the stem and going all the way to the top, resulting in masses of primrose-yellow blooms with a glorious dark chocolate-brown heart.

'Kong' is one of the most unique giant varieties on the market. This beautiful impressive sunflower reaches heights of 14 feet or more. Not only is 'Kong' very tall, but it has a branching habit, so that it produces numerous flowers over a period of time instead of just one flower per plant.

Looking a little like a solar eclipse, Helianthus ‘Ring of Fire’ is a dark centred sunflower that blooms with glowing red petals that gradually flare outwards to golden-yellow tips. Pollenless with a branching habit, it is considered one of the best varieties for use as a cut flower.

Helianthus ‘Solara’ is a professional quality sunflower and one of the longest lasting cut flower varieties available. A pollenless, uniflora type that grows to around 130 to 150cm tall. It has a dark centre, surrounded by a dense array of rich golden yellow petals that form large 15cm flowers.

A new introduction that can be grown for use as a patio plant or as a cut flower. Early blooming and growing to just 100cm with golden-orange petals and dark brown centres 'Sonja' produces a spray of flowering side branches that surround the main stem. Durable in the garden and long lived in the vase.

Sunflower 'Soraya' is an award-winning new arrival. It is the first Sunflower ever to win an AAS award. It produces lovely rich tangerine-orange flowers with dark brown centres. This branching sunflower is prized for cut flower arrangements, producing 20 to 25 flowers from each plant.

We advise that you plant plenty of this vivacious new sunflower. 'Starburst Lemon Aura' is the first sunflower to feature pure lemon flowers. There is no ‘dark eye’, the centres being a rather delicate lemon. As an added bonus, the flowers are completely pollenless and perfect for cutting

While technically a dwarf variety, Twilight Zone Sunflowers can reach heights up to 80cm (32in). This unique cultivar features a branching habit and blooms with lovely yellow flowers, shaded with red.

Velvet Queen is a branching sunflower in an opulent shade of rich crimson on strong stems. It is one of the earliest sunflowers to bloom and will grow to 150cm tall. They make excellent cut flowers, alternatively leave them on the plant for the birds to enjoy the seed-heads that follow.

Helianthus ‘Vanilla Ice’ is one of the prettiest sunflowers varieties available. With clusters of delicate pale creamy-yellow flowers with dark chocolate centres this compact variety is suitable for the border or can be left add a naturalised charm to a wildlife friendly garden.

Perennial sunflowers typically don’t grow quite as tall and large as their annual friends. However Helianthus maximiliani is a wonderful exception. It grows slowly through the summer months as a group of short stems, until late summer when the stems bolt and the flowers head for the sky.