Description
Autumn Beauty Sunflower
A beautiful sunflower with attractive 4-5″ flowers in colors of yellow, bronze and red on branching stems, 5 – 7′ tall. Autumn Beauty Sunflower is a great choice for decorating and cut flower arrangements. Thin the seedlings to 1′ apart. Plant growth will be stronger if planted with composted manure and slow release fertilizer.
Keep them deadheaded until the end of the season. If you deadhead your sunflowers, they will keep pumping out new blossoms in their will to create seeds and more sunflowers. Don’t cut the stalk way back, the next sunflower often forms just inches from the place you deadheaded.
Leave the very last batch of spent flowers for the birds and for next year’s flowers. When it seems like the sunflowers are slowing down, leave the last set of flower heads on the plant for the birds. Even if it is a little ugly going into Fall, birds like the seed heads right on the plant. Little finches especially like to sit on top of the old brown seed head and bend over and pluck seeds out.
Color: Red, Yellow, Bronze
Height: 5-7 feet
Type: Annual
Climate: Sun-Dry
Seeds/lb.: 20,000, Approx. 130 seeds/3 gm pkt
Zone: 4-10
Bloom time: Midsummer to fall
