A few years ago we had a bird feeder hanging outside our kitchen window. We would put sunflower seeds in it and watch the birds come and enjoy themselves. The children absolutely loved it and we would spend hours watching the birds come and go. Just below the bird feeder was a flower bed. We spent years trying to get things to grow there, but to no avail. It was always in the heat of the sun and everything we planted there scorched and ended up dying. The year we put out the bird feeder, we had something incredible happen. That summer we had a beautiful flower bed full of sunflowers grow... to our utter surprise. We were delighted and enjoyed watching those sunflowers flourish in the heat of the sun. We now have a saying in our family: "Bloom where you are planted",... even if it is in the heat of the sun!