Smiley sunflowers followed me home
The whole of July in UK, or at least where I am, has been pretty much a typical UK summer - miserable and rainy. I hosted a house warming party for my family the other weekend and all 23 of us ended up stuck indoors instead of out in the garden. You cannot imagine how much time I spent cleaning the house next day!!!
Come August, things are brightening up. The sun is out, and the sunflowers are blooming. We have a farm park nearby and this week they have just opened up their sunflower patch. They claim they have 200,000 sunflowers, that's a lot!!! I highly doubt this claim, I reckon they added a nought to the end by mistake, and even 20,000 seems like an over count.
Entry to the sunflower farm is free, and you can cut your own sunflower for £2 each. That's a very good deal as the sunflower farm is great for taking photos. Personally I thought it would be very reasonable if they charged £1 entry per person, I'd happily pay that.
I came here on the second day it opened, and surprisingly there wasn't many people, I thought with the summer holidays, it would be busier. That was great for me though, no one to photo bomb my pictures.
This is the first time I've seen so many sunflowers, and now I understand why sunflower emojis are always so happy. The bright yellow petals automatically brings a smile to one's face. And because they are so tall, you have to look up towards the sky to see them, how can one not be happy when you see so many smiley faces under the clear blue sky.
Some of the sunflowers were even bigger than my head, and I had a lot of fun going round to find the largest one to take a selfie with!!
Of course I had to take a few flowers back home with me. Happy sunflowers makes a happy home.
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They look gorgeous!
June was glorious and July and August are temperamental I shall say.
23 peeps inside, yes I can imagine that was a bit of a mess lol
23 people including 2 crawling babies under a year old, a 2.5 year old and a 6 year old with a massive bucket of popcorn in the newly carpeted living room 😅🥴😂🤪....
lol I should not laugh! A new carpet and then I had visions of red wine on a white carpet stains!
Hope you got all the popcorn up though.
Wow! thanks for sharing this content with us, have not seen such a late farm of flowers like that before. I guess the farmer really did great work and by allowing people to see how beautiful it's makes Ii t more lovely. I can't imagine visiting such a place without taking one home.
Nearly all the vistiors took at least one home with them, it's such a small price to pay for the visit, and realistically it does cost the farmer to plant and manage it, so it's only fair
How beautiful those sunflowers were for your centerpiece 😍♥️👍
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They really brighten up the room, but I think they may be staring to wilt a little, hopefully they will last a few more days
That sunflower farm park is beautiful the photos were great they followed you all the way to the house,
Thanks for dropping by
I hate house parties.. I don't like cleaning the next day haha..but we do it every town fiesta...so we have no choice..
Beautiful sunflowers even bigger than your head.. That's funny to see... I wish I couldd visit the sunflower farm here too..
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The house warming had to be done, because I have a big family, it's just very annoying we couldn't sit outside because of the bad weather. Cleaning is always the worse...
Your sunflower farm looking very beautiful. Glad to know Entry is free
I wish it was mine!!! Free entry is always very nice, and I plan to go again
So beautiful and lovely 😍. I am feeling like a collection of Vincent van Gogh imagination of sunflowers 🌻 art😍.
Now I have this vision of someone sitting in the fields painting 😊
Sights like these are exactly one of the reasons I want to live my country. I can only the kind of photos I would create in a field like this. Really amazing Sunflowers. We only have the tiny ones in Nigeria
If there are a lot of tiny ones, I think they will also make a nice view
Great pics ! They are such lovely flowers!
thanks, they make you so happy doesn't it,
Aye - we've been seeing quite a few here in France while on vacation - we saw the ones below in Versailles on Saturday !
love sunflowers majestic in height, and the small ones look cute too, the seeds keep the birds happy in autumn as well
very poetic @grindle 😄
LOL cheers
The photos look very beautiful, there are so many sunflowers there. I couldn't stop thinking if this field would make a HPUD guessing post XD
That's a good idea 💡
I plan to go back again to see if more flowers have bloomed, maybe I will use that for my next HPUD contest. Thanks for the inspiration!!!
You are welcome, I'm here to give inspiration always 😂
Beautiful Sunflower fields, I go on vacation this week and hope to see some as well. They are the variety that farmers plant for those sunflower seeds. Just hope they aren't harvested yet.
Wow 23 guests, I imagine you were busy preparing beforehand, during keeping them entertained, and of course afterwards.
BTW I missed your selfie with the big one 👀 haha. Have a great week ahead :)
you mean the one where I hid behind the sunflower 🙂
The guys here said the patch will probably open for 4 weeks, I plan to go again hopefully there will be more flowers blooming. Hope you get to see a lot on your vacation as well, and look forward to you sharing them on Pinmapple!
Haha I was looking for the selfie in front of. Those heads are huge though.
Hoping to see but if not there is a lot of other things. They are much different than yours and I don't know if there are fields your allowed to walk through here. Now I will web search and see :) Take care.
Nice selfie @livinguktaiwan! 😉
I really enjoyed reading your post about these amazing flowers (btw, the state flower where I was born), as they are a favorite around this part of the world as well. For similar reasons as those you cite ...
Hard to beat the benefits of simply getting outside (especially after your description of being cooped up inside ...) and enjoying the natural beauty of a place like this one!
I had to google that, Kansas!!! It's bang in the middle of the States, could you get more center than that 🤔 Then I had to google what Kansas is famous for. What a lovely and happy place to be.
Thanks for dropping by @roleerob.
Yep, the so-called "geocenter of the 48 contiguous states" of America, I have been there. I actually have a picture of me (somewhere in one of these boxes ... 🙄😏) by this memorial ...
Near Lebanon, Kansas - population 178 ... 😉
After every party, cleaning is the important thing.
It was really a good deal, i also love to enter sunflower field as i always see Denise enter in sunflower field and get some awesome click 🙂
Have a good day 💫
Do you have any sunflower fields near where you live? And who is Denise?
No i don't see any sunflower field, i live in city maybe it's present in village areas.
Denise is @dswigle who's initiate the #marketfriday on Hive
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It would be amazing to see a sea of green and yellow in person. Thanks for sharing those wonderful pictures.
You're welcome, glad you liked it
oops. I better don't imagine it then 😩
But wow, these sunflowers... they were super huge and tall 😲
And how beautiful they are!
It certainly was a very nice experience, first time I've been. Luckily its very near to me and I can go back again
Oh my… all inside the house… I can imagine the chaos the next day.
Here it is said July was the wettest month recorded.
Love the sunflowers 🌻 so beautiful and they are so tall. Awesome!
Have a nice evening 👋🏻😊
And the noise on the day, as we're a very noisy family!!!
I'm glad we're finally having a proper sunny summer. Hope you are in your neck of the woods as well Jackie
Hehehe oh my…
Summer, what is that. 😋 Haven’t seen it here yet. Today on a drive I found the first tree changing colour… it was half yellow already 😳 think we are skipping summer and are heading towards autumn.
Enjoy the summer ☀️
Wow this flowers look amazing. The are natural beautiful in nature. I love how colourful the flower is .
Thanks
Lovely farm. We used to have a sunflower plant. Just one but it was very prolific, having as much as 5 to 6 blooms at one time although the first one usually was the largest. And yes, they are tall plants, remembering they were taller than my 5'9" daughter. Just one plant but was the centerpiece of the garden for a while. A d now a whole farm of it!! What a joy. So great of you to have found these and share here. Thanks was indeed a sunny and bright post 🌞🌞🌞
Wow, so one grew into many more? I did hear they're pretty easy to grow, maybe that's why there are so many sunflower patches. It must be lovely to have them in your back yard to view all the time.
We only had one plant but would have been very easy to have more because each bloom had so many seeds. The problem was there wasn't much space to grow them. Here are some pics of that one plant.
In the last pic you can see the center of the flower which is color green. Those are actually the seeds which you can plant when the flower dies. No wonder sunflower seeds are sold everywhere as a snack like peanuts.
I don't think any other flower speaks of happiness like a sunflower does. They are gorgeous, and really the perfect backdrop for a photoshoot! A bargain for sure!
Sunflowers were my Mom's favourite, and for the last couple of years of her life, she would get a special sunflower arrangement for her birthday from my nephew. Lovely photos @livinguktaiwan!
Sunflower is magic. I like to buy them from time to time.🌻 I loved the photos. Greetings.