The Steinbach and Area Garden Club decided to have a friendly competition to see who could grow the tallest sunflower and the ...

A care home worker has been dubbed the "sunflower whisperer" for talking to his plants every day. Guy Tyers, 56, from March, ...

What kind of sunflowers should you plant? There are countless types of sunflowers, including branching types with multiple stems. Read the seed package or description to learn how tall each variety ...

Record readers will likely remember Scott Loewen from past years when he’s grown giant pumpkins – and then sailed one in ...

Perhaps it should be renamed Tall Stratton. A couple from Long Stratton have grown this summer's tallest recorded sunflower in Norfolk, with one reaching 11ft 2in in height. Karen and Malcolm Watkins ...

The flowers are insect pollinated, and various thistle species are widely known as important food sources for butterflies, as ...

It grows] wilde in pastures, medowes, woods, and marishes neare the sea, and among pot-herbs. - John Gerarde, The Herball, or ...

The largest sunflower varieties grow to over 16 feet in height, while smaller varieties have been developed for small spaces and containers and rarely grow larger than a foot tall. The flower ...

Thistles are a marvelous group of plants. Botanists place them all as members of the sunflower (or aster) family, which is a ...

These methods include producing sweet-smelling fragrances and sugary nectar. While some plants deliver on the promise of ...

The plant reached 9ft 6in ... The current record for the tallest sunflower in Britain is held by Richard Hope, of Wigan who set the record in 2012 with a whopping 26ft specimen.