“So what season are sunflowers?” he asked.
One morning in , the tight green bud at the top of Sunny’s stem began to unfurl. One by one, bright yellow petals—each one like a drop of liquid sunshine—burst open. Sunny had become a "flower head," a giant platform made of hundreds of tiny individual flowers that buzzed with the gossip of visiting bees.
They are annuals , meaning they complete their entire life cycle in just one season.