What a beautiful week we had. This gradual warming is nice. We finally get a chance to enjoy spring rather than going right into the hot summer. Get out and take a walk in your area and see all that ...

MacCubbin gives gardening advice for Central Florida residents about sunflowers, fan flowers, poinsettias, sod and cocktail citrus trees along with controlling tea scale.

The sunflower has a rich history as a North American native plant. Records show that as early as 3000 B.C., Native Americans cultivated sunflowers as food and pressed seeds to make oil. Although still ...

Growing sunflowers in pots is easy, but you have to follow specific care requirements. Plant sunflower seeds in a pot that can handle your full-grown sunflowers, so you don't have to repot them.

A crack in the weather, so here comes the sun. When the garden dries out and the days warm up, it is time to start sunflowers. With a little planning and a sprinkling of seeds you can have cheerful ...

Sunflowers (Helianthus annua) are among the easiest flowers to grow, and they thrive in the heat of our summers. Helianthus, the scientific name, means “sunflower” in Latin. Not only do sunflower ...

The National Garden Bureau has designated 2021 as The Year of the Sunflower. If you choose to participate, I have the plant for you: Suncredible Yellow, a new everblooming bush variety. Everblooming ...

If you want some fast-growing flowers to add bright color and interest to flower borders this summer, it is not too late. June is an excellent time to sow lots of annual flower seeds that can ...

During such a dreich summer as this, we should bring cheer to our patch and take our cue from 18th-century London gardeners, who fought the city’s smog-riddled air with sunflowers, one of the few ...

Feel free to stop and admire the container garden that enlivens Rich West’s 1904 bungalow on Shore Road in Cape Elizabeth. He creates it as much to please passersby as himself. Clay crocks of silver ...

Editor's note: Chronicle staffer Jane Tunks, a novice gardener, is using The Chronicle's rooftop garden as her classroom, with Fred Bové and Kevin Bayuk from the San Francisco Permaculture Guild as ...