Autumn Beauty is a wonderful blend of many different colors and sizes of choice sunflower varieties that has been specially selected for Fall season colors. This Sunflower mix produces a gorgeous array of sunflowers ranging from a rich golden yellow to a stunning copper to a scarlet red and many colors in between including pinks, mahogany and chesnut colored.

Each sunflower head averages at least 7 inches across and makes for excellent cut flowers as well as for providing  food for beneficial songbirds in your garden.

Sunflowers of this type grow to 5 feet in height and can be planted to make an attractive, yet private barrier between you and your neighbors.

Dwarf Sunspot is a lovely dwarf sunflower variety reminiscent in form of many giant sunflower varieties due to its large 10 to 12 inch canary yellow flowers with dark centers. However, unlike the giant varieties, Dwarf Sunspot reaches only 1 to 1 1/2 feet in height which creates either for a lovely conversation piece in your garden or makes them excellent in a child's garden.

Dwarf Sunspot is an extremely fast blooming sunflower variety, producing marvellous blooms in only 55 days from being sown. The sunflower seeds produced by this variety are extremely large and may later be harvested for snacking on or left for food to attract a multitude of songbirds to your garden.

The Russian Mammoth Sunflower, also sometimes known as the "Russian Skyscraper Sunflower" is an old Russian heirloom sunflower variety introduced by Western seed companies in the 1880's. The variety has been popular ever since and many strains of this variety have since been developed for competitive purposes which have in recent years spawned an entire culture of Giant Sunflower growing competitions around the world. The Russian Mammoth Sunflower is highly prized for its huge flowers and its nutritious seeds. Blooms in 100 to 120 days after sowing.

How big can you grow them?

Red Sun is a gorgeous deep red colored sunflower variety with a dark colored center. These wonderful crimson blooms will create a stunning backdrop in your garden or privide you with a ready supply of wonderful cut flowers in the Fall months. Reaches up to 6 feet in height and blooms within 90 to 100 days of sowing.

Easy to grow.

Teddybear Sunflowers, also known as Sungold Dwarf Sunflowers, is a beautiful double headed, dwarf sunflower that grows to only one or two feet in height. The blossoms of this variety are quite amazing for they yield a large number of unique 5 inch, very ornamental, yellow blooms that resemble little "puffballs" that will add a cute touch to your garden.

This is a superb variety that is quite unique among sunflowers and deserves to be in every flower garden.

The Vanilla Ice Sunflower is an exciting new Sunflower featuring clusters of blooms of the palest cream color that is reminscent of vanilla ice cream with a deep chocolate colored center. The wonderful blooms of this sunflower variety are great for cut flowers or will add a particular beauty to your garden. When their spectacular blooms fade away, they provide an excellent source of food to attract many species of wild song birds to your garden.

Matures in 75 to 90 days and grows to a height of 5 or 6 feet.

Type: Actually a perennial, but grown almost everywhere as a quick-blooming annual—often if it survives the winter, it becomes rangy. However, sometimes it performs as a successful perennial in warm areas. 
Native to: Southern Europe 
Where to Grow it: All regions of North America 
Bloom time and height: early through mid-season, one foot 
Sun/Shade: full sun or light shade 
How to Grow it: Very easy to grow, when planted in spring after frosts. Germinates quickly and is in bloom in about 6 or 8 weeks. Best at front or edges of a meadow planting, due to this plant’s shortness. 
Etc: In mild areas, alyssum will bloom all season long. This is one reason this little European wildflower has been a garden favorite for centuries. While usually white, sweet alyssum sometimes blooms with a rose or violet blush, adding to its charm. 

Description: tender perennial, 8-16 inches; produces fragrant masses of white, pink or purple flowers,  plants tend to be spreading. Blooms quickly.

Synonyms: Alyssum maritimum 
Range/habitat: S. Europe (France, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Yugoslavia); naturalized in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Hungary, Holland, Great Britain, Norway, Czechoslovakia, and Romania. Rocky and sandy places, waste places, roadsides. 
Culture/uses: full to partial sun, dry to moist soils; excellent for fragrant, butterfly and old-fashioned gardens; highly adaptable, blooms all year round in warm climates. 
Germination information: State standard=60 : Seeds/lb.=l,ll5,000 
Planting rate: l lb./ l8,600 sq. ft., 2.3 lbs./acre (60) 

Description: annual, 4-6 inches tall; delicate, trailing plant with masses of bright, blue flowers, 1-2 inches across, with white centers.

Synonyms: Nemophila insignis 
Range/habit: California; moist flats and slopes below 2,500 ft. elev., foothills, grasslands, coastal sage scrub, chaparral. 
Culture/uses: partial sun to shade, moist soils; excellent for shady borders 
Germination information: State standard=70 : Seeds/lb.=243,000 
Planting rate: l lb./ 4,000 sq. ft., 11 lbs./acre (60) 

Description: slender annual, 8-18 inches; produces graceful, open branches with clusters of l/2 inch white flower, blooms in 45 days.

Synonyms: Gypsophila muralis 
Range/habitat: S. Ukraine, Caucasus, e. Turkey, n. Iran; sandy places. Naturalized in eastern North America. 
Culture/uses: full to partial sun, dry soils; creates a misty effect in borders, rock gardens; prized for bouquets. 
Germination information: State standard=70 Seeds/lb.=378,000 
Planting rate: l lb./ 6,300 sq. ft., 7 lbs./acre (60) 

A semi-dwarf mixture of many brilliant colors: plum, red, blue, lavender, pink and white. Easy to grow, with a long blooming period.

Colorful blue, double flowers on tall 3' plants, bloom all season. Very easy to grow. It is a self-seeding annual, so you will not have to replant. Bachelor's Buttons were brought to America in the 17th century.

An old-fashioned mix of tall types. Many beautiful colors: purple, violet, light and dark blue, rose, white, lavender, pink and more! Very easy to grow.

(Gila tricolor) Attractive tricolored flowers, white with edges blushed in lilac--centers are purplish black! Very unique looking annual that likes a dry, sunny area.

Description: upright annual, 18-30 inches tall, flowers are in flat umbels, white, resembling Queen Anne's Lace. 

Synonyms: Bishop's Weed 
Range/habitat: Northeast Africa and Eurasia, naturalized in the United States. 
Culture/Uses: prefers sunny locations, dry to moist soils. Makes a great cutflower. 
Germination information: State standard=50 Seeds/lb.=867,000
 Planting rate: l lb./ 14,450 sq. ft., 3 lbs./acre (60) 

Description: coarse, much-branched annual, 1-2 feet tall; 2-3 inch wide flowers are pale yellow to deep orange; blooms all season, frost-tolerant. Foliage is      aromatic.

Synonyms: Pot Marigold, English Marigold 
Range/habitat: native to southern Europe, naturalized in parts of southern California. 
Culture/uses: easy to grow annual, prefers full sun and good drainage, dry to moist soils; good for flower beds, container gardening, flower mixes, bird mixes, and cutflowers.  Plant in early fall in mild-winter climates for late fall through spring bloom. Plant in spring in colder climates.  Petals can be used for flavoring in soups and salads. 
Germination information: State standard=55 : Seeds/lb.= 73,000 
Planting rate: l lb./ 2400 sq. ft., 18 lb./acre (30)

Description: Slender annual, 12-18 inches; produces dense clusters of small, white, pink or purple, 4-petalled flowers; blooms in 55 days.

Synonyms: Globe Candytuft 
Range/habitat: Mediterranean region, escaped in areas of California 
Culture/uses: full to partial sun, dry to moist soils 
Germination information: 65 degrees / Seeds per lb.=l95,000 
Planting rate: l lb./ 2,400 sq. ft., 18 lbs./acre (80) 

Description: slender annual or biennial, to 16 inches tall; produces bright lavender-pink flowers with 5 notched petals, in terminal clusters.

Synonyms: Sweet William Catchfly, Garden Catchfly, None-So-Pretty 
Range/habitat: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Holland, Norway, and Sweden; dry places, woods and cultivated ground. Naturalized in North America. 
Culture/uses: full to partial sun, dry soils. Attracts butterflies. 
Germination information: State standard=50, tends to have dormancy : Seeds/lb.=3,547,000 
Planting rate: l lb./ 35,000 sq. ft., 1.2 lb./acre (100) 

Description: biennial grown as an annual; 18-24 inches tall, has sprays of rich blue flowers resembling forget-me-nots, leaves are a grayish green and hairy.

Variety: Firmament (blue) 
Range/habitat: native to eastern Asia 
Culture/uses: full sun, water regularly if rainfall is limited; a true blue color to add to mixes, looks especially attractive with bright yellow, white, pink and coral colored flowers, a little weedy. 
Germination information: State standard : Seeds/lb. =85,000 
Planting rate: l lb./ 2000 sq. ft., 20 lbs./acre (40) 

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