Plant Passport Registration Number: GB147173
Please read our notes before placing the order:
1. The pictures in this listing are examples of the available plant at maturity and do not indicate anything in regard to size of plant at the point of sale.  You will receive an organically produced young plant grown in a 9cm pot for planting immediately or to grow on (pot removed, when possible, to reduce plastic waste)
2. Seasonal difference in plants: Please be aware if you are new to gardening, that the plants we supply are mostly herbaceous perennials and many go dormant in winter. You may receive what looks like an empty pot or piece of root. This will produce new growth in spring.
3. The date the Royal mail label is bought (tracking number added as sent against your orders) is the date your order is lined up for picking.  It is likely to be put into the post a couple of days later. 
Thank you.
 
When stocks of H. atrorubens are of inadequate size we will send H.Annie which is of similar but slightly tidier habit and perhaps a fraction more lemony shade of yellow. Supplied in spring (later as an established plant) as usually a single growth point root.Set this with the bud just below the soil surface;it has the capacity to grow nearly as fast as the more familiar annual sunflower.If the top is nipped off when the plant reaches a foot or so tall it will normally branch into more stems making a good show in the first year.A vigorous grower so likely to need curbing after a few seasons. 
Common Names: Purple disc sunflower, Dark-eye Sunflower.
 
Helianthus atrorubens is a herbaceous perennial sunflower with a bushy upright shape. Tall and imposing it is native to North America and the leaves are medium green, ovate to lanceolate and have a serrated margin with medium-sized, yellow flowers with a brown-purple center. Flowers July to September at height but flowering height can be reduced if stems cut  back earlier in the season (a Chelsea chop).
 
Best grown in well drained soil in sun but will survive almost anywhere.
 
Foliage: deciduous
 
Height: 80- 180 cm in 2 to 5 years
Spread: 60 - 100 cm