Growing sunflowers in pots: easy step-by-step guide

If you’re looking for easy seeds to grow with children, it’s hard to beat growing sunflowers in pots. If you’re not gardening with children, sunflowers are still fantastic plants to grow, and they make wonderful cut sunflowers too.

This step-by-step guide shows you how to grow sunflowers in pots and get the best results. It covers which seeds to choose, tips on planting sunflower seeds, and advice on caring for sunflowers. I’ve also included some fun sunflower themed activities for kids to try.

Make sure you take a look at my 100 quotes about sunflowers and 70 sunflower puns for lots of floral inspiration too.

As well as producing seriously impressive blooms, growing sunflowers from seed is a perfect gardening project for kids.

Sunflower seeds are a decent size, so they’re easy for little hands to deal with, and sunflower plants are pretty low maintenance to grow. And if you’re looking for drought tolerant plants, sunflowers are a good option.

Planting sunflowers in the garden is also brilliant for local wildlife; the flowers are great for bees and other beneficial insects, and birds love to eat the seeds.

People often ask “Do sunflowers grow well in pots?”. The answer to this question is yes, sunflowers make great container plants.

Sunflowers (also known by their Latin name Helianthus Annuus) will be perfectly happy growing in a pot. You do need to provide them with a container that’s the right size for the plant. Some taller varieties of sunflower grow much bigger than others, so check the height information on your packet of seeds.

To give you a rough idea on size of the pot, we use pots with approximately 15-20cm diameter to grow our biggest sunflowers, and pots with approximately 10-15cm diameter to grow our smaller