“These are one of the best types to grow if you want to eat your sunflower and harvest the seeds,” says Lucy. As the name suggests, giant sunflowers can grow extremely tall and usually have ...

For example, fast-growing sunflower varieties such as ‘ProCut Red’ and ‘Ruby Eclipse’, bloom just 55 days after planting. In comparison, giant sunflower types like ‘Mammoth Grey Stripe ...

The first thing to decide, when learning how to grow sunflowers in pots, is which variety you will be nurturing. 'From the Mongolian Giant, which can grow to over 4m tall, to the diminutive Teddy ...