“That’s one of our goals; to create sunflowers that look like other flowers in bouquets.”— Dr. Tom Heaton, jesuithighschool.org
“Once our plant geneticists have finished the 5-7 years of research necessary to create a new ornamental sunflower variety, it is still 3 years before you, our valued customers, see it in catalogs and stores worldwide. First, breeder's source seeds are multiplied in bee isolation cages where we confi…”— Dr. Tom Heaton, nuflowersllc.com