Growing sunflowers as a hobby is more fun and easy compare to other flowers planting. Its also inexpensive to maintain. Sunflowers (or Helianthus – the correct plant name) is one of the most popular summer flowers.Not just being beautiful to look at, the sunflower is also useful; the seeds grown in the flower’s head are good parrot and bird seed even a favourite for your squirrel too as well as being tasty for a hamster. The seeds are also can produced to cooking oil that a rich source of calcium plus 11 other minerals. The 50 percent fat composition is mostly polyunsaturated linoleic acid.