When I first started farming I was only going to grow a few sunflowers but soon realized a “little bit” simply wasn’t an option.  There are 70 different species “cultivars” of these sunny beauties ranging from the mammoth huge to daisy sizes in colors of the classic yellow, oranges, reds, plums, and two-toned. A sunflower for everyone. Each year we grow some of the standard easy to design with varieties from the Procut series and a few tests. The majority of them do very well here in Alaska. It simply comes down to personal preference.  Speaking of Alaska, with our growing season gone in a blink I like to get ahead to make…

Not Sweet Peas you eat, but Sweetpea flowers is what we’re talking about here. Do you have a someone Sweetpea flowers remind you of? You probally do if you know of these frilly fragrant beauties.  I fell in love with them further when I started growing them for market. Now on any given year we grow 8-10 varities. I have my go to’s but pick a few different ones to try each season just for fun.  There are a few tricks to getting quality bushy plants with long stems I’ve learned over the years and now want to share them with you.  Click on button for all the tips. 

One of the questions I hear over and over from dahlia growers up here is how come my dahlias take forever to bloom?