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I’ve grown Sunflower Pan & loved it so I tried this one last year. This one is more lemon yellow with the same wonderful branching habit. The flower just keep coming. I plant these in my back border and they look wonderful. Everyone passing by comments how lovely they are. Easy to germinate. I start mine inside about 4 weeks before my last frost her in 7b.
2021-6-20 Helianthus debilis is the native southeast coastal PERENNIAL sunflower that grows in DRY SALTY SAND ON THE BEACHES with HIGH HUMIDITY. It has a taproot that allows it to burrow deep for moisture. I live near Tampa, Florida and the native wild form seldom gets more than a foot tall but it's blooms are abundant, about 2", and it's low and spreading. The wild species is a nonstop bloomer. The common name is the "Cucumber leafed sunflower". The Soluna Lemon form is the EXACT SAME SPECIES. HOWEVER, after years of selection this new plant won a coveted Fleuroselect Award, few plants achieve that. So last year I ordered a pkt. and started them in seed flats where they erupted and grew on strongly. I moved these seedlings into 4" pots using potting mix and grew them on and planted them out where they've continued strong growth on timed drip irrigation which I've since discontinued with the summer rains. Sewn in March, blooms started in April and they are now 4' to 5' tall and covered with blooms from ground to top. Every leaf node grows a new branch with new blooms! INCREDIBLE FLOWER POWER! The best of any sunflower I've ever grown. The flowers run about 4", maybe 5". AND I PURPOSELY GREW THEM IN AVERAGE TO POOR SANDY SOIL WITHOUT EXTRA FERTILIZER AND THEY ARE NOW ONE OF MY WIFE'S FAVORITE PLANTS. The seeds are cheap, easy, they flower like crazy, probably perennial south of Zone 8, and my wife wants me to plant a 100' border of them now....