Add cheer to your garden by growing low-maintenance sunflowers. After the flower petals fade, sunflower seeds feed hungry ...

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.

Growing plants from seeds is an easy, inexpensive and fun thing to do. When you learn how to start plants from seeds, the variety of plants that you can grow increases dramatically, but not the ...

Kids love to learn about how plants grow. Growing sunflowers or string beans is a great way to teach them about caring for plants. Planting a sunflower fort is an easy way to create a playhouse for ...

Witness the incredible journey of nature in "Sunflower Seed Sprouting Time Lapse." From seed to sprout, watch how sunflower ...

Janet, I’m told there’s some truth to that. In fact, hull-less sunflower seeds are preferred because black-oil sunflower seed hulls are allelopathic: they contain a chemical that inhibits seed ...

Gene flow from crop fields to wild populations produces hybrids that often differ from their wild counterparts in growth form, phenology, and life history characteristics. Germination and dormancy ...

We feed birds all summer long, and the grass and flowers near the feeder tend to look bad. The grass dies due to the broken seeds that fall and an ugly green leafy weed grows instead. Is there any ...

Seeds not only germinate and grow into a whole plant, but they can also keep you healthy. Sunflower seeds, among other seeds, are frequently consumed as a snack or incorporated into various cuisines, ...

Ukraine’s national flower, the sunflower, is being planted everywhere this spring. Ukraine is the world’s leading producer of sunflower seeds, an ironic twist when you consider that the sunflower is ...