In recent years new sunflowers have been appearing regularly. Some, especially the excellent pollen-free types like ‘Prado Red' and ‘Prado Gold' , were originally bred as top class cut flowers while some of the most dwarf types, including ‘Pacino' , have been created for containers. Many... Read more..

Sunflowers are fast becoming one of our most popular annuals - for borders, for cutting, for containers, for being big and beautiful, and for wildlife. At the forefront of the creation of new sunflower varieties is Norfolk breeder Peter Denney. Some of his varieties are available through the familiar... Read more..

Flowers continue to take centre stage in September at Wisley. If you've not been down recently, this is the perfect time to stroll around the Trials Field to enjoy a myriad of colour. If you're in need of cheering up, I promise the sunflowers will help your smile spread across your face. It's... Read more..

Rainbows, Brownies and Guides across the country planted sunflower seeds a few weeks ago with the hope that their flower will be included in Girlguiding UK's Hampton Court Garden. As the girls start to report back on their progress it seems there has been varying levels of success! 1 st Oatlands... Read more..

One Guide from 1 st Oatlands Guides has been giving her sunflowers lots of care and attention in the hope they are perfect for the garden. She first planted the seeds in a plastic cup and put them on the kitchen windowsill. When they started to grow leaves and longer stems she put them in a larger pot... Read more..

The 2nd Worcester Brownies have grown some amazing sunflowers for the Girlguiding UK Hampton Court Garden. The Brownies planted the seeds and they were all looked after in one place, with weekly photos taken to Brownie meetings so the girls could see their progress. The sunflowers are now 165cm tall... Read more..

Girlguiding UK invited Units across the country to grow a container of flowers for the Hampton Court Flower Show. The girls had to come up with ideas and the more unusual the container the better. The 3rd and 4th Newport Pagnell Brownies wanted something really unusual to plant their flowers in, and... Read more..

Anna from 6th Teddington Guides' sunflower growing story: Volunteers were needed to grow sunflowers which might be good enough to go to the Hampton Court Flower Show. Mum said we could volunteer as we plant lots of seeds anyway. We took the seeds away with us during the Easter Holidays and planted... Read more..

The 32nd All Saints Kettering Rainbows delivered their flower display to Hampton Court - it survived the rough ride very well in the van! All the Rainbows were really delighted to be having a day off school to go and visit the flower show. There are 3 flower colours: blue for Guides, yellow for Brownies... Read more..