Sunflower Seeds for Planting

Several sunflower options, easy to plant, but not all germinated. The value for the quantity I received was reasonable.

I planted probably 25-30 and looks like all or almost all came up - great value —- but now it’s mid July .. they’re HUGE.. all have bloomed or are about to bloom. But I only see yellow blooms .. they are different. Some have yellow centers.. some dark brown. But so far all are yellow. I only have 2 I can’t see the color yet. But no purple or red or pink .

This grab bag of sunflower seeds was a waste of my money. I have not tried to germinate them. I'm complaining about what I received. I'm not bothering to return these - I'm going to feed these seeds to my local fauna. 1. Ten of the seed packets are given names that aren't known species of sunflower, at least as far as I can tell; they are Tall, Falling Red, Long, Cut Flowers, Plush, Ornamental, Warm Yellow, Prosperous Wealth (really?), Lucky, and Colourful. It strikes me as if someone went to Google and typed in 'Sunflowers' and named these seeds whatever first popped up. Sloppy. 2. Four of the seed packets are - sort of - named for actual sunflower varieties; Teddy Bear, Dwarf, Red, and Purple. Not Chianti or Claret or SunFill or anything, just...Red and Purple. Honestly, though, I didn't know what I was expecting, as the picture showing what sunflower species come in the bag had a bright purple sunflower that is basically a Photoshopped picture of a plain ol' yellow sunflower. Lower right corner flower in the picture! This was my bad, as I should have looked harder at the cover picture for this listing. If I saw what they were offering, I probably wouldn't have bought this in the first place. 3. Half of the seed packets I got had a mishmash of many different kinds of seeds. I don't even know what each species is by name because the vast majority of these names are made up, and none of the seed packets were labeled as a specific mix of sunflowers. 4. One of the bags of seeds was labeled Rudbeckia. That's a coneflower. I don't want to split hairs here (yeah, I do), but despite echinacea being a very small genus of the sunflower family, I don't think the Rudbeckia seeds belong in a sunflower grab bag. This is just my opinion, be it ever so humble...and for the record, I know what Rudbeckia seeds look like, and these don't even look like them. 5. I was going to give these seeds as gifts in my friends' baskets this Xmas, as we all have greenish thumbs. Can you imagine giving these seeds to anyone you consider a loved one? The names given to these seeds alone are embarrassing...but my friends have a terrific sense of humor, and we would probably have had a laugh at these. I really don't like being taken for a ride. I also don't like it when others are duped into the same thing I was. I basically cheaped out when buying seeds for my friends, and this is what I got for my troubles. Do yourself a favor. Don't do what I did. Don't waste your money on these seeds. Go to Burpee or Gurney's or Park Seed or something for your sunflower seeds (or any seeds). You'll be guaranteed to get what's on the packet.

Excellent germination rate. I used these as sacrificial plants to guard my melon plants and they are working perfectly and beautiful to boot. A few of them are over 6 ft with no fertilizer/ treatments on soil that has for years been nothing but grass.

Beautiful, but as other reviewers stated, these are only yellow. NONE of the other colors described on listing, and seller should change to yellow sunflower seeds. This makes the listing “not as described”. I soaked my seeds for three days in water before planting them. This step really helps the seeds. I also used very good potting soil, which was already in my flower/garden boxes. NO VARIETY of colors, but they are healthy yellow sunflowers. The sunflowers which had more sun grew to 7’ to 8’ tall! The others, moreso in partial shade, grew 3’ to 5’ tall. The dwarf sunflowers grew exactly as they should and stayed smaller. Overall good seeds; other than the colors being extremely misleading.

I had a real hard time getting these to sprout. I'm not sure if it was my fault or bad seed

These are fantastic Four days after planting I had leaves I did research the typical height for each type so I could plant taller flowers in the back row Very pleased with this purchase

Great value for this pack of seeds, we used them to put in our favor bags for our wedding favors