Sunflower Favourites 🌻

For my flower customers and clients, whether they have ordered a bouquet of flowers to be delivered on the Wirral, or if they have a wedding flowers package, Sunflowers are always a popular flower favourite. 

There are many reasons my customers love sunflowers in their flower deliveries. The bright color, solar disk-like shape, and radiant cheerful energy make sunflowers one of the most Instagrammable plants ever.

Sunflowers are also valued for their oil-rich seeds that are used in the production of food and cosmetics.

Sunflowers grow in a range of colours (not just yellow)! 

Sunflowers are commonly believed to be just vividly yellow. However, if you order a deliver of a bouquet of Sunflowers to birkenhead, wallasey, or prenton on the wirral the possibilities of a sunflower’s colours you receive in your delivery are much more wide. Some come in other lovely shades including red, brown, bi-colored, and even purple!

Yellow Sunflowers

Yellow species of this darling encompass Elegance, American Giant, and Zohar. These sunflower types are blessed with a quintessentially yellow hue, this often makes my clients feel happy, making them a common favourite for my wedding flower package clients! The American Giant variety can reach up to 14 feet tall, and their heads can be as large as 12 inches wide. It is quite a record among sunflowers because other varieties normally grow only up to 12 inches in height.

Red Sunflowers

These cuties can grow up to 6 feet tall, with quite large (5-6 inches wide) blooms. Each plant can bear 5 gorgeous red flowers. Such sunflowers are easy to cultivate, too. They easily grow from fresh seeds and require little TLC to produce beautiful and strong blooms. They will either not demand special soil conditions. Red sunflowers make a striking addition to floral arrangements, and also look mighty fine in single-flower variety bouquets.

Purple Sunflowers

The Chianti Hybrid is known to produce those mesmerizing purple sunflowers. Along with a charming color that is traditionally associated with royalty, this variety has another interesting peculiarity: the absence of pollen. For this reason, Chianti Hybrid sunflowers are great floral gifts for those suffering from allergies.

 Sunflowers are such a beautiful flowers, they have inspired several artists, not just my wirral wedding flowers couples and flower delivery customers! & Not Only Vincent Van Gogh, but Diego Rivera and Alfred Gockel 

Sunflowers Differ By Height, they arent always too tall for your wedding flowers or flower delivery!

Sunflowers dont always have to be huge, they can regularly fall into two categories: tall and dwarf. While many of us believe that these blooms are primarily lengthy and sturdy, there are also teeny-tiny varieties that barely reach two feet in height. It is worth remembering when choosing your wedding flowers, wether your deciding on wedding flower colour schemes or the price of wedding flowers, and also for your bouquet deliveries, some kinds of sun flowers may only be available during certain seasons. 

Tall Sunflowers

These guys are generally towering, vivaciously yellow, and stout. As a rule, tall sunflowers can grow up to 16 feet and even higher, if conditions are favorable. The popular varieties of tall sunflowers include Skyscraper, Sunforest Mix, and Russian Mammoth. These robust fellows are very attractive for birds as they offer plenty of seeds.

Dwarf Sunflowers

Dwarf sunflowers usually grow in clusters and are popular staples in home gardens and household pots. These beauties are classified as dwarfs because they usually do not reach more than 3 feet in height. Dwarf sunflower varieties comprise Little Becka, Suntastic Yellow, and Pacino. What dwarf and tall flowers have in common is that they both feel happy in full sunlight. These are best if youre hoping for a sunflower themed wedding, from our florist services in wirral, Liverpool and cheshire. 

How do the beautiful sunflowers grow ready for your wedding? Immature Sunflowers Follow the Sun

Young growing sunflowers display a behavior known as heliotropism, or a tendency to turn to the sun while it is making its journey through the sky. Sunflower heads face east in the morning and track the solar motion as our planet spins throughout the day. In a study conducted by ScienceMag, researchers discovered that these blooms have circadian rhythms that support this habit. The face of a young plant responds to the sun movement from sunrise to sunset every day and repeats this cycle until the flower matures.

Mature Sunflowers Seek East

As sunflowers get mature, their ability to demonstrate heliotropism gradually disappears. But it never means there is something wrong with the flowers. A ScienceMag study shows that adult lowers face east for several reasons:

·  Sunflowers are able to attract much more pollinators because they warm up faster than west-facing plants.

·  The eastward direction allows sunflowers to receive more sunlight, which eventually results in greater production of seeds.

Sunflower Habitat

 In order for a sunflower to thrive, various factors must be considered, including temperature, sunlight, soil, and water.

To be perky, a sunflower plant requires at least six hours of direct sunlight per day with the soil pH varying from 6 to 7.5. Air temperatures ranging from low to high 70 degrees Fahrenheit are optimal for sunflower health. Finally, mature flowers can easily withstand extreme heat because they are drought-resistant.

A Sunflower's Head Consists of Thousands of Individual Flowers

The head of the sunflower plant actually presents a combination of two thousand miniature flowers. In fact, the big impressive petals around the edge of the head are individual flowers that can’t transform into seeds. These fake petals are titled ray florets.

Sunflowers Are Autogamous Plants

Sunflowers are commonly pollinated by attracting bees, which carry the pollen they create on the stigma. But if the pollen does not fall on the stigma, the sunflower plant can self-pollinate for reproduction. The stigma can turn around to reach its own pollen. A curious fact about these sunny flowers is that self-pollinated seeds will grow to be identical to the original plant.

Sunflowers Demand Much Light and Room

Sunflowers not only look like the sun, they heavily rely on it. To grow their best, the flowers need to be exposed to direct sun beams for about six to eight hours a day, but more is even better. They can grow up to 16 feet tall, although many varieties have been bred to grow at different heights. Flowers planted too close together will compete against each other and will not bloom to their full potential.

Harvest Them in The Morning For A Longer Vase-Life

If you are planning to cut a few sunflower stems to make a dramatic display, do so in the morning. Harvesting flowers during the afternoon may result in flower wilting.

Are you a sunflower lover? Do you know a sunflower lover? Order your wirral flower delivery today, or book your sunflower themed wedding flowers package covering Wirral, Liverpool and Cheshire