Sunflowers

1. The sunflower variety was called, most appropriately, "Teddy Bear"!

2. The sunflowers wouldn't grow too tall, which meant that the bears could see the flowers better rather than have to get out stepladders to climb up and see them

3. This sunflower grows lots of flowers on each plant, rather than just one, so there would be many more to look at

The "Teddy Bear" sunflowers grow into plants with huge (to a bear) flowers whose petals grow very closely together and look like teddy bear fur.

See the close-up pictures here to see if you agree. The bears take lots of pictures of the plants they grow, and Tommy was very surprised when the flowers on his plant turned out to be even bigger than him! Because the petals on the flowers are so close together they make a very solid flower, which is lucky because James went round patting them all because he couldn't believe they were real! It was the first time he had grown sunflowers!