The bears love sunflowers. Every year they each sow a seed into a small plant pot filled with compost in the greenhouse. They carefully write their name on a plant label and place it in the pot next to their seed. They are each then responsible for "their" plant - they water it and feed it, and plant it out into the garden (with its label!), and then continue to water and feed it regularly until it grows into a lovely plant with beautiful flowers.
Usually ALL of their seeds grow up and get planted out, but if for some reason, one doesn't make it, the other bears will offer to share their plants with each other. The challenge used to be to grow the tallest sunflower, as that was very easy to judge. But this year, the bears decided not to do that and instead, chose to plant a particular sunflower variety for three reasons:
