These strawberry blonde sunflowers look like mini sunsets

Sunflower is one of the loveliest and most popular flowers. Based on Stylecraze’s list of 50 Most Beautiful Flowers In The World – it is in number four. They also mentioned that it symbolizes the sun as well as warmth, happiness, adoration, and longevity.

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Who wouldn’t love sunflowers? Its vibrant yellow color can really brighten up someone’s day. No wonder why aside from roses, many people use sunflowers as gifts to their loved ones.

If you can’t get enough of the beauty of yellow sunflowers, get ready to see other varieties of this wonderful plant.

Sunflowers are also known as “Helianthus” and you know what? It has 70 varieties that will surely captivate your eyes. One of them is what they call Strawberry Blonde Sunflower – and it is popular online.


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Many people on Instagram have been posting photos of these beautiful blooms.

It looks like photographers love these flowers as a subject. Well, it’s a great choice because it appears beautifully in photos. What more in person?

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Lots of people are wanting these in their gardens and you might be one of them too! Its appearance is quite different from common sunflowers that we usually see as it has colors pink, burgundy, and yellow around the dark disk.

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They are perfect outdoors.

According to Best Products, this type of sunflowers require long periods of time in the sunlight. With that being said, it is ideal to grow it outdoors.

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Another incredible thing about these flowers is they provide food for birds and delicious seeds for people. How cool is that? No wonder why many people are getting interested in these flowers. A florist even shared a photo of strawberry blonde sunflowers and revealed that it is one of their amazing market buys.

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How much does it cost?

Burpee sells this type of sunflowers for $5.95 with 30 seeds already. So it is really affordable and easy to purchase online. One of their buyers even shared his experience. According to him, a cleaning crew who has seen it thought that it was a fake plant!

“These are such vibrantly colored beautiful flowers that the cleaning crew thought they were fake! With these sunflowers, the flowers do just keep coming, like other reviewers, I have had to steak a few just to keep them upright.”

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Aside from its beauty, it also grows quickly. This was also shared by one of the people who purchased seeds on Burpee.

“These beauties were quite the treat to have growing in my yard. Everyone that saw them absolutely fell in love with them, and the flowers just wouldn’t stop. In fact, I ended up having to stake a couple of them because they were so heavily-laden with flowers. I counted 15 on one stalk.”

According to Gardenia, strawberry blonde sunflowers produce big blossoms every summer. It can take up to 12-15 cm. This makes them attractive to bees and butterflies. I must say, even to people, am I right?

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These heavenly flowers are low-maintenance and it is suited to the cutting garden or even a cottage garden.

Strawberry blonde sunflower is truly a blessing to our mother nature. I hope many people will start planting them not only because they are beautiful but because they are also helpful to our nature.

Watch the video right below to see these strawberry blonde sunflowers up close!

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Source: Mystical Raven, Jay’s Nest, Diply, Best Products, Burpee, Stylecraze, Gardenia

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