Celebrate the sunflower in its many wonderful forms and colours

GARDENING and plants can be made to sound very highbrows — so today I want to give you a brief introduction to the Asteraceae family — also known as Compositae. 

It’s an extremely large family of plants comprising more than 1,600 genera with more than 26,500 species.

The flowers are nearly all composite in form and often surrounded by involucral bracts.