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Follow Monty Don's video advice for sowing sunflower seeds in a fine tilth, for a summer display.summerMore flowers to grow from seedBluebellsExoticsCyclamenDahlias

astonished and somewhat confused. I decided this year to have some fun in my garden and took a handful of sunflower seeds from my parrots food and scattered them randomly in the garden, mainly for my grandchildren to watch grow. well we had a stunning array

can i put my sunflower seeds in peat pots and then transfer to final position so i dont disturb the roots Yes. The roots will grow through the pot so you don't have to disturb them re planting. Loo roll tubes are just as good and free (kinda

gardenersworld.com team Hi Gary, You could try teasels grown in pots and also sunflowers Thanks ,Emma and Botticewoman Sunflowers are well worth growing and Teasel as Botticelliwoman says. When the birds, usually Goldfinch have eaten the teasel seeds you can

. It will be interesting to see which ones grow best.I know Kate Bradbury, my fellow blogger, likes to think she's in with a chance to grow a taller sunflower than David Hurrion and me, but I'm feeling confident mine will top hers. That's not to say expect to beat

they grow? When I grew them in pots they kept blowing over on windy days, so I would suggest you weight the pots. If they are tall ones I would want the pot to be at least 50cm wide. I would plant them up now. This year I have sown Dwarf sunflowers as I want

can a sunflower change from yellow to pink ?  or can any flower change from one colouer to another colouer? please andser Basically no-the colours might fade as the flower gets older but yellow to pink -no. Why do you ask? because i have some Can

, you don't have to worry about them in winter. Thankyou, we have started on the sunflowers. This year we are growing black sunflowers too which should be interesting. Think he would love growing a wigwam out of peas. Will give it a go.

Personally I'd stay away from Nigella which now come up all over my allotment every year! im growing sun russain gaint sunflowers up and down mt plot on the borders there great massive bin lid heads plus great for the birds when they go to waste

Hi All, new to the forum and new to gardening. Planted out some sunflower seeds at the beginning of the summer, and have had these spring up, me thinking they were sunlowers at first, now I'm not so sure?I planted some orange multi stemmed ones