Choco Sun Sunflower Seeds

Choco Sun Sunflower is a unique ornamental sunflower prized for its rich chocolate-burgundy petals surrounding a dark central disk. This striking selection of Helianthus annuus offers an elegant departure from traditional yellow sunflowers, bringing dramatic color, excellent branching, and exceptional garden performance to borders, cutting gardens, and pollinator plantings.

Garden Uses

Choco Sun is ideal for cutting gardens, mixed borders, cottage gardens, pollinator plantings, wildlife gardens, and seasonal flower displays. The deep chocolate-red blooms provide a sophisticated color palette that blends beautifully with ornamental grasses, zinnias, celosia, cosmos, gomphrena, rudbeckias, and salvias.

The dark flowers create stunning contrast when planted alongside yellow, orange, white, or silver-foliaged plants. Their unusual coloration makes them especially valuable as focal points in mixed annual plantings.

Choco Sun is also highly prized as a cut flower, where its rich tones add depth and elegance to summer and autumn floral arrangements.

Growing Information

Choco Sun grows best in full sun and fertile, well-drained soil. Sow seeds directly outdoors after danger of frost has passed and soil temperatures have warmed.

Plant seeds approximately 1 inch deep and keep the soil evenly moist until germination. Young plants establish quickly and develop strong stems capable of supporting multiple blooms.

Regular watering during periods of active growth promotes vigorous flowering, although established plants tolerate moderate dry conditions. Fertile soil and full sunlight produce the richest flower color and strongest growth.

Branching plants often continue producing flowers over an extended season, providing weeks of color and cutting material.

• Botanical Name: Helianthus annuus
• Common Name: Choco Sun Sunflower
• Plant Type: Annual
• Bloom Color: Chocolate-burgundy to deep mahogany red
• Bloom Season: Summer through early fall
• Height: 4 to 6 feet
• Spread: 18 to 24 inches
• Light: Full sun
• Soil: Fertile, well-drained soil
• Drought Tolerance: Moderate once established
• Best Uses: Borders, cutting gardens, pollinator gardens, cottage gardens, wildlife plantings
• Attracts: Bees, butterflies, hoverflies, beneficial insects, seed-eating birds
• Special Feature: Rich chocolate-red blooms rarely seen in traditional sunflowers