If you’re as obsessed with flowers as much as we are, find an excuse to visit one of the many flower festivals this summer. For a head start, read on for four to consider:
Summer Days Event
Hope Flower Farm + Winery • Waterford • July 20–21
Explore the property’s fields of blooms, picnic areas, and gift shop. Plus, live music.
Summer of Sunflowers
Burnside Farms • Nokesville •
4–5 weeks, beginning in mid-July, dates TBA
With 70 mesmerizing acres of sunflowers, including a maze, this farm is just 40 miles west of D.C.
Blooms & Butterflies
Liberty Mills Farm • Somerset • July 26–28
Release your own butterfly and pick a beautiful bucket or bouquet of flowers, plus peruse local vendors.
4th Annual Sunflower Festival
Sinkland Farms • Christiansburg • Weekends of Aug. 2–18
Acres and acres filled with 200,000 blooms and 20 different varieties of flowers, plus activities, music, food, and fun.
This article originally appeared in the August 2024 issue.
