As a beloved staple for summer gardens, typically in full bloom from August to September, now is the time to contemplate when ...

Sunflowers can also be considered a “trap crop," meaning they may lure unwanted insects away from your vegetable crops.

The rising popularity of sunflowers among young adults is reshaping the floral industry, as these bright blooms symbolize ...

Genus-wide plant pangenome could inform next ... when using the most favourable genetic variety of sunflower, is about twice as efficient as similar processes for maize. Thus, we anticipate ...

The known insect pests of sunflowers don’t often hit economic thresholds in those crops, but certain diseases can do ...

They also tolerate the heat rather well and are tough enough to withstand most pests like aphids and ants. Sunflowers are heliotropic and direct their bright flower heads, before they're full of ...

All sunflower species have a strange trait in common: any one of their blooms, called a capitulum, is actually made up of two varieties of flowers—ray flowers, which make up the sunflower’s ...

Does it make me some sort of botany geek if I admit to getting a little over-excited by the sight of the first Okanagan ...