I love sunflowers.  I love watching them as they grow from alien looking buds to big, beautiful yellow flowers.  I baby them as they grow….keeping the area around the roots weed free….making sure they have enough water.  Our drought has been hard on them this year but they seem to be doing alright.  Maybe not as large as last year, but doing well all the same. This is my second year growing sunflowers.  Last year I discovered The Great Sunflower Project.  A project led by Gretchen LeBuhn, an associate professor at San Francisco State University, they are looking at bee populations.  From their site ~ What scientists had not studied on a large…