Chocolate Cherry Ornamental Sunflower Flower Seeds

Sunflower - Chocolate Cherry - Helianthus annuus Annual - These delectable new sunflowers have rich chocolate-burgundy ray petals that surround dark chocolate center discs. With their beautifully shaped, velvety petals and mouthwatering rich colors, Chocolate Cherry sunflowers are a joy to behold. These special sunflowers are showy for indoor bouquets and they are standouts in the garden. Chocolate Cherry's beautiful flowers are also pollenless, so they have a longer, cleaner vase life. Soil & Water: Make several sowings 3 weeks apart to have a succession of bloom.

Variety Details

• Botanical name: Helianthus annuus
• Plant type: Annual
• Growth habit: Upright
• Crop category: Flower seed
• Flower character: Soil & Water: Make several sowings 3 weeks apart to have a succession of bloom.
• Recorded feature: Good Cut Flower
• Product format: Seed packet

Sowing & Growing

• Soil Temperature: above 50°F
• Planting Depth: 1/2"
• Germination: 8-10 Days
• Height At Maturity: 6-7 feet
• Sun/Shade: Full Sun
• Spacing After Thinning: 12"

Prepare a weed-reduced seedbed for Chocolate Cherry Ornamental Sunflower Flower and use the recorded planting season, depth, and light requirements. Press shallow-sown seed into good soil contact and keep the seed zone from drying during establishment. Thin or transplant only when the growth habit and spacing call for it. Leave enough room for mature width and air movement. Bloom timing and final height can shift with sowing date, climate, soil, moisture, and competition, so use listed figures as planning ranges.

Keep soil moist and well-weeded and protect seedlings from hungry birds with netting or plastic berry baskets, removing before plants get crowded.

Place Chocolate Cherry Ornamental Sunflower Flower where its recorded height and growth habit fit the surrounding planting. Shorter companions can be positioned toward bed edges, while taller stems need room where they will not shade small seedlings too early. If cutting flowers, harvest with clean tools at the stage appropriate to the bloom form. If leaving flowers in place, observe how bloom sequence changes through the season and record which sowing date performed best at the site.

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