Description
This old-fashioned sunflower is easy to maintain and offers long-lasting bloom performance. Velvet Queen Sunflower has tall, branched plants topped with large, dramatic blooms in rich, warm colors—stunning in garden displays and cut flower bouquets.
These sunflower seeds are easy to grow and provide a beautiful way to decorate your garden and home!
- Characteristics: Attracts butterflies, pollinators, songbirds, and specialized bees | Pet friendly
- Color: Red
- Fill Weight (grams): 1.1 g
- Approximate Seed Count: 7 - 13
- Plant Type: Flower
- Plant Lifecycle: Annual
- Days To Bloom: 65 - 70 Days
- Landscape Use: Bedding
- Resistance: Deer|Dry Soil|Poor Soil
- Tolerance: Drought|Heat
- Growing Season(s): Spring|Summer
- Harvest/Bloom Season(s): Summer
- Package Dimensions: 3.25 x 4.5"
Sow Info
Sow a few seeds evenly spaced in hills, 8 inches high and 12 inches across. Young vines should have a fence, trellis, or heavy cord on which to climb. When young vines are about 8 inches, thin to 3 plants per hill. Does not transplant well.
- Planting Depth: 0.5"
- Seed Spacing: Sow Velvet Queen Sunflower seeds roughly 6" apart.
- Nutrient Care Instructions: Apply SUPERthrive once per week. Soak in solution of 1/4 tsp per gal for 15 min. or longer depending on size and type.
Description
This old-fashioned sunflower is easy to maintain and offers long-lasting bloom performance. Velvet Queen Sunflower has tall, branched plants topped with large, dramatic blooms in rich, warm colors—stunning in garden displays and cut flower bouquets.
These sunflower seeds are easy to grow and provide a beautiful way to decorate your garden and home!
- Characteristics: Attracts butterflies, pollinators, songbirds, and specialized bees | Pet friendly
- Color: Red
- Fill Weight (grams): 1.1 g
- Approximate Seed Count: 7 - 13
- Plant Type: Flower
- Plant Lifecycle: Annual
- Days To Bloom: 65 - 70 Days
- Landscape Use: Bedding
- Resistance: Deer|Dry Soil|Poor Soil
- Tolerance: Drought|Heat
- Growing Season(s): Spring|Summer
- Harvest/Bloom Season(s): Summer
- Package Dimensions: 3.25 x 4.5"
Sow Info
Sow a few seeds evenly spaced in hills, 8 inches high and 12 inches across. Young vines should have a fence, trellis, or heavy cord on which to climb. When young vines are about 8 inches, thin to 3 plants per hill. Does not transplant well.
- Planting Depth: 0.5"
- Seed Spacing: Sow Velvet Queen Sunflower seeds roughly 6" apart.
- Nutrient Care Instructions: Apply SUPERthrive once per week. Soak in solution of 1/4 tsp per gal for 15 min. or longer depending on size and type.