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Sunflower 'Lemon Queen' deadhead?

prairiemoon2 z6b MA

10 years ago

I posted to the Annuals forum, but it's not very busy there right now. I have Sunflower 'Lemon Queen' blooming and I haven't grown the branching sunflowers before. The older blooms quickly seem to make seed and I'm wondering should I be deadheading them before they go to seed, so the plant will keep blooming, or will it keep blooming any way? Anyone grow this variety?

Comments (2)

akebono
10 years ago
'Lemon Queen' is fully perennial. I would consider it very tedious to deadhead a large 'LQ' and have not seen seedlings from letting seeds form.

Most importantly, the seeds are LOVED by goldfinches, and will provide a sort of second season of color by their numbers when they show up and feed heartily on the seeds.
prairiemoon2 z6b MA
Original Author
10 years ago
I do understand there is a perennial LQ sunflower. I looked up the images of it and mine doesn't look like that, mine looks very much like your usual annual sunflower, so maybe there are two different plants?
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