9 Popular Pollenless Sunflowers to Grow in Your Garden
Sometimes a business need drives the home garden market. That’s how it was with pollen-free sunflowers, certain varieties of Helianthus annuus.
These varieties first became popular with florists and wedding planners.
The idea was less about preventing allergic reactions and more about keeping cut sunflowers from leaving a bright yellow stain on white tablecloths, work shirts, wedding dresses, and such.
Plant hybridizers started to breed male-sterile sunflowers that don’t produce pollen as part of the process of developing new cultivars.
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Soon they began applying the same process to benefit the floral design industry. Next, the idea caught on with the home and garden consumer market.
Today there are so many varieties of pollenless sunflowers available that you can find cultivars in numerous colors, ones with a branching habit or that grow on a single stem, and types that bloom on various timetables.
I’ll guide you through some of the best varieties to choose for different scenarios in a minute, but first I want to answer an obvious question:
Why would you want to grow pollenless sunflowers in your home garden?
The reasons vary.
You may prefer growing these flowers to supply a local market, or if you’re making your own arrangements and bouquets for a wedding or celebration.
Maybe you just prefer to keep pollen off your furniture, or you want varieties that bloom quicker, which is usually (but not always) the case with pollenless cultivars.
These blooms also tend to last longer in cut flower arrangements than their open-pollinated counterparts.
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