Flowers: June to frost

Height: 5 feet

Description: A basal branching sunflower in all shades from gold to red including some bicolours. Suitable for cut flower crops and good for pick your own operations.

Sowing Instructions: Sow direct in to open ground from March onwards. The rate and speed of germination will depend on the soil temperature and weather conditions and could be from 7 to 21days. Sow the seed 2cm deep in rows 60 to 90cm apart with a distance of 30cm between the plants. Alternatively raise the plants under glass late February for planting outdoors in May. If sown under cover sow one seed per cell in 240 cell plug tray or similar size unit and propagate at 15 to 20c. Germination should take place after approximately 7 days.

Growing Instructions: Keep weed free and water during dry periods