It has been a challenging year for many crops on the farm. When this first pictures was taken only 2 weeks before we opened I wondered if there would even be a maze.
But as the days grew closer, the sun began to shine and the sunflowers started growing at 2-3
inches each day. In the last days of July less than a week before the Lily festival on August Long, the sunflowers began to bloom. It has turned out to be one of the best years for yellow sunflowers in the maze due to the slow germination of half the crop at the beginning of the season. Typically all the seeds germinate at the same time and flower at the same time. This year there will be great colour throughout the field until the end of August.
With views and photo opps like these I have completely forgotten the slow start we had to the season. It is absolutely stunning in the maze & our U-pick gardens are full of flowers and vegetables as well.
John, we're on our way there this morning!
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