Description
Enticing, buttercream yellow blooms on slender branching stems. Vanilla Ice is hands down our favorite sunflower for bouquet making on the farm. If regularly harvested, each 6’ tall plant will produce around a dozen 3-5” blooms that add lightness, whimsy and bounce to arrangements. Pollinators are also fans of these unique plants which bloom all season long.
Days to Maturity: 90
Latin name: Helianthus annuus
Life cycle for seed saving: Annual
Planting Instructions:
Direct seed Vanilla Ice Sunflower after final frost or start transplants 2-3 weeks beforehand. Seed depth: 1″. Plant spacing: 2-3′. Keep harvesting for on-going blooms.
For more tips on when to plant flower seed, check out our NW Flower Planting Calendar!
All of our seed is Non-GMO and Certified Organic by Washington State Department of Agriculture. We grow the majority of our varieties here at Deep Harvest Farm on Whidbey Island while we purchase the rest from other small, organic Northwest seed growers. Finally, all of our offerings are open-pollinated (OP) so that you too can save and share seed from these plants!
