Easy-to grow Mexican sunflower is a pollinator champion. Boost your mood and support bees, butterflies and hummingbirds with ...

or a Tithonia meets a tiger, Nature bursts forth in all its glory. Such was the case when we spotted a Western tiger swallowtail, Papilio rutulus, foraging for nectar on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia ...

The happy blooms of sunflowers bring blazing hot color to the backyard from July into October. The three main types – annual helianthus, perennial helianthus, and tithonia – are all native to the ...

Also known as Mexican sunflower, tithonia is not a true sunflower, but it does produce loads of beautiful blooms that benefit ...

Sunflowers are superb but not always suited to every garden. Here are plenty of other options to introduce brilliant sunny ...

A migratory monarch butterfly fluttered into our Vacaville garden at noon today (Tuesday, Sept. 17) and nectared on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. Then she treated us to a butterfly ballet ...

My recommendation, if you get butterflies at all, or if you love bees: plant Mexican sunflowers (Tithonia)!!!! Oh, and hummingbirds adore them too, and on this morning, I watched one of our ...

Dancing in the sunlight: Yasmine Meroz inspects a sunflower plant. (Courtesy: Tel Aviv University) Sunflowers in a field can co-ordinate the circular motions of their growing stems to minimize the ...