PlantFiles: Sunflower
Helianthus annuus 'Strawberry Blonde'

My seed packet says they need full light, 7-21 days to germinate, 18in of plant spacing and they grow to be 6 feet tall.

It also says to sow in average garden soil in spring after danger of frost. Sow seeds 9in apart and cover with 1/2in of fine soil. Thin seedlings when plants are 3in high.

I just planted these seeds a couple weeks ago and from the initial batch only four seeds germinated successfully but the seeds were a couple years old and they had been stored wherever they ended up so...

I don't know if they will end up being true to the picture on the seed packet but if you go to [HYPERLINK@www.flickr.com] and search for strawberry blonde sunflowers you will see some gorgeous sunflowers.

N.

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If I get a picture I'll upload one...... strawberry blonde is supposed to be a yellow and pink sunflower....... well the sunflower isn't really vaguely pink........ it's mostly maroon like many sunflowers....... there is a vague pink effect ........ and some flowers look more like dark cherry but no pink......... there is pale yellow so I guess this flower is not strawberry but blonde........ a better name might be black cherry blonde........ It is bicolored and looks like most of the bicolored with a dark ring around the center....... not pink and nothing special...... still pretty though........