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Tithonia diversifolia (Mexican Sunflower)
Well rooted Starter plants from 10" cuttings.***
Bring bold color and fast growth to your garden with Tithonia diversifolia, also known as the Mexican Sunflower. This stunning tropical perennial is prized for its bright orange-golden blooms that attract butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds all season long.
🌱 Fast Growing & Hardy – Reaching up to 6–12 feet tall in just a couple months! Our starter plants will blow you away! Perfect for hedges, borders, or as a vibrant backdrop plant.
🌸 Pollinator Magnet – Its nectar-rich flowers draw in beneficial insects, helping your entire garden thrive.
🌿 Low Maintenance – Thrives in full sun and well-drained soil with minimal care. Drought-tolerant once established.
🌎 Multi-Purpose Plant – Beyond beauty, Tithonia diversifolia is valued as a green manure/compost plant, improving soil fertility naturally.
Planting Tips:
• Full sun exposure for best flowering.
• Space plants 3–5 ft apart.
• Blooms late summer through fall.
✨ Add this fast-growing, fiery bloomer to your landscape and watch your garden come alive with color and wildlife!
Frequently Asked Questions
Care instructions
When planting for a privacy fence, depending on species and your own preference, space out every 3ft to 8ft apart. (Seabeeze Bamboo - Within 1 year you will have a privacy screen, in two you will have a privacy wall, in three you will have a privacy impenetrable barrier.)
You want to dig holes wide rather than deep. Bamboo likes to stay shallow in the soil, which is why mulch is very important. Bamboo will naturally drop its own mulch as a survival mechanism, shielding its valuable and vulnerable rhizomes from the intense heat of the sun as well as freezing cold temperatures.
My rhizome is not growing
There are many reasons and outcomes to this question. Here is how we troubleshoot, your bamboo/ it’s rhizome should be planted relatively shallow, as gently as possible excavate out the rhizome in question. Many times just under the surface you will find healthy beautiful growth, if so replant and continue as was.
Other times we may find the soil was not porous enough and the growing buds molded off or not enough water and the growing buds dried out.
Those are the most common errors.
Be sure soil is well draining.
Be sure to top off and around generously with mulch
Be sure you are planting these plants/ rhizomes just below ground level, utilizing mulch to add protection and coverage.
Be sure to water plenty, especially at first.