Sun Samba Ornamental Sunflower Flower Seeds

Sunflower - Sun Samba - Helianthus annuus Annual - A carefully formulated blend of scintillating color. You'll have strong branching stalks with free-flowering big blooms in a full array, including ringed and bicolored faces and fully double flowers. Shades include sunny yellow, deep gold, lemon, mahogany, bronze and golden-orange with many variations. Sun Samba provides long-season, strikingly beautiful bouquets and a glorious summer display that turns heads in the garden. Approximately 30 - 35 seeds per pack. Soil & Water: Make several sowings 3 weeks apart to have a succession of bloom.

Variety Details

• Botanical name: Helianthus annuus
• Plant type: Annual
• Growth habit: Upright
• Crop category: Flower seed
• Flower character: Annual - A carefully formulated blend of scintillating color.
• Recorded feature: Good Cut Flower
• Product format: Seed packet

Sowing & Growing

• Soil Temperature: above 50°F
• Planting Depth: 1/2"
• Germination: 8-10 Days
• Height At Maturity: 5-8 feet
• Sun/Shade: Full Sun
• Spacing After Thinning: 12-15"

Prepare a weed-reduced seedbed for Sun Samba Ornamental Sunflower Flower and use the recorded planting season, depth, and light requirements. Press shallow-sown seed into good soil contact and keep the seed zone from drying during establishment. Thin or transplant only when the growth habit and spacing call for it. Leave enough room for mature width and air movement. Bloom timing and final height can shift with sowing date, climate, soil, moisture, and competition, so use listed figures as planning ranges.

Keep soil moist and well-weeded and protect seedlings from hungry birds with netting or plastic berry baskets, removing before plants get crowded.

Place Sun Samba Ornamental Sunflower Flower where its recorded height and growth habit fit the surrounding planting. Shorter companions can be positioned toward bed edges, while taller stems need room where they will not shade small seedlings too early. If cutting flowers, harvest with clean tools at the stage appropriate to the bloom form. If leaving flowers in place, observe how bloom sequence changes through the season and record which sowing date performed best at the site.

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