2025 Festival of Spring

Field Report

The field report is updated daily (We aim to update it before 9 AM).

📢 Important Announcements:

Unfortunately, our spring season came to an abrupt and early end, due to unusually high winds and unseasonably warm temperatures this week.

In just 24 hours, we witnessed a dramatic decline in blooming flowers. In our thirteen years of welcoming guests to the farm, we've never seen our fields go from peak bloom to finished so quickly.

An email was sent to all end-of-season ticket holders on Saturday Morning. If you had tickets for Sunday, April 20th, or Monday, April 21st, please check your email inbox. A transcript of the email can be found here - https://www.burnsidefarms.com/4-20-21-2025

It was not easy to decide to close the farm early, and we truly share in your disappointment. We carefully plan every detail of our events, but in the end, Mother Nature sets the schedule—and sometimes, she throws us a curveball.

We appreciate your understanding and hope to see you this summer for our 2025 Summer of Sunflowers!

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Pictures on this page are always taken within 24 hours of posting.

Did you know [archive from 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 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 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 most significant 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 entirely depends 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 lose 3 days of our season.

  • April 4th, 2023, will be one of the earliest starts to the 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 different fields 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 us to dump hundreds of gallons of chemicals in the fields for a healthy crop. We’re not big fans of using chemicals on our crops, and we employ as many organic farming methods as possible. 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 that the absence of any chemical production will be worth protecting 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 soon to purchase the land we lease and eventually 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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