Dear Sunflowers Fields, I want to thank you for the festival of colors you gave us this year. I usually visit one field, but this year I actually ended up visiting three sunflowers fields in Massachusetts. I really enjoyed the bright yellow colors and I was even able to see some combination of orange sunflowers.
In Massachusetts, sunflowers fields are very common in late August and this year there were many farms that planted sunflowers for the first time, hence visitors have way more options than in previous years.
I visited Hanson Farm in Framingham, School Street Sunflowers Fields in Ipswich, and Summit Wynd Farms in Jefferson, and let me tell you that I enjoyed so much each and every moment of my visit.
School Street Sunflowers was first timers in plating sunflowers and they incorporated an existentialism theme in the farm with labels and motivational thoughts. Likewise, Summit Wynd planted sunflowers fields for the first time as well. This farm also plants lavender that are in full bloom in early July. The views from this farm are spectacular as well.
Thanks for helping me and every visitor enjoy the majesty of your colors!
Here some interesting facts about Sunflowers:
- They are native to North America; sunflowers were first grown by indigenous people about 4,500 year ago who actually shaped you as a single-stemmed plant ending with the big round flower that we all know as sunflower.
- The name in Latin is Helianthus
- They are known as “happy flowers”
- They provide energy as nourishments and vibrancy
- Young flowers (only) will follow the Sun. The young sunflowers follow a natural circadian rhythm to receive the most light for photosynthesis. However, as they become “adults” they will face east and bees will be looking for them.
- Ukraine is the number major producer of sunflowers. In 20019/2020 they cropped 16.5 million metrics of sunflower seeds.
