2024 Summer of Sunflowers

Field Report

Field Report updated daily (once the season gets under way).

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  • Opening mid-July

  • Planting sunflowers!

📢 Important Announcements:

The 2024 Festival of Spring is now CLOSED.

The Summer of Sunflowers begins mid-July and runs through mid-August. Exact dates are still TBD.

70 acres of sunflowers just 40 miles from DC!

Sunflower sunsets this summer!

One of the most beautiful times on the farm during summer! Sunflower Sunsets are offered daily mid-July through mid-August.

The summer of sunflowers begins mid-July!

Exact dates are still TBD

Did you know [archive from spring 2023]:

  • We plant more than 150 varieties of tulips and 30+ varieties of daffodils.

  • Each of our tulip beds/rows contains 6,500 or more tulips!

  • We import and plant brand new tulip and daffodil bulbs each and every year? A little over 2.5 million bulbs are imported from Holland and planted in our fields each Fall for the following spring!

  • We start planting our tulips in early November just after they arrive from Holland. Once we start planting, we plant seven days a week for an average of six straight weeks! Talk about a labor of love!

  • Our 2023 tulip field covers about 15 planted acres. Our daffodil field covers about five planted acres. This is the largest number of acres we’ve ever planted for our spring season!

  • Tulips and daffodils only bloom for a short time. The length of our season averages about 21 days and it’s entirely dependent on the weather. A cool grey April provides us a longer season, while a warm sunny April dramatically shortens our season. We estimate that for every sunny 80 degree day while the flowers are blooming, we loose 3 days of our season.

  • We carefully choreograph our daffodil plantings so that they bloom at almost the exact same time as our tulips! We don’t always hit the mark, but this year we think we got the timing perfect! Our daffodils should bloom for about the same time as our tulips this spring. You won’t likely see a daffodil planting like ours anywhere else!

  • April 4th, 2023 will be one of the earliest starts to our spring season we’ve ever had.

  • Tulips and daffodils prefer 60 degrees, cool and grey. They bloom very quickly when temperatures exceed 70 degrees and sunny.

  • As stewards of this land, we practice crop rotation with our tulips and daffodils. Our tulips are planted in a different field each year to reduce the risk of plant diseases affecting the tulip. We could keep them in the same field every year, but that would require that we dump hundreds of gallons of chemicals on the fields for a healthy crop. We’re not big fans of using chemicals on our crops and we employ organic farming methods as much as we possibly can. Crop rotation means some years the fields will be a little farther of a walk, and other years, the flowers will be right up front. We promise that a little walk will always be worth the view and the absence of any chemical production is worth the protection of the environment we all share! 🌷

  • We don’t own the land we farm here in Nokesville, VA. We lease about 120 of this sprawling 270 acre farm. We hope to have an opportunity in the near future to purchase the land we lease and call the Nokesville farm our permanent home.

  • 2023 marks our 11th year opening our tulip and sunflower fields to the public. We thank you for your support over the years! Without YOU, we wouldn’t have anyone to share our beautiful flower fields with! Thank you for being a friend of the farm.

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