. Several locations can be found across England and Wales, with the sites increasingly being used for wedding and engagement photos. To help others enjoy get involved, they also listed some of their favourite spots to find the flowers. Garson Farm, Surrey Ga rson Farm in Esher, Surrey, has sunflower and dahlia fields for the photo opp, as well as PYO fruit and vegetables. Visitors have to buy a farm pass to visit, which costs £5 for an adult and £2 for a child. Rhossili Bay, Wales Eight acres of sunflowers are grown at Gower fresh Christmas Trees in Rhossili. They've installed sunflower arches and swings for the perfect Instagram moment, and you can also pick some flowers to take home. Entry to the fields costs from £3pp. Hitchin Lavender, Hertfordshire Hitchin Lavender , which made its name thanks to the purple blooms, also have plenty of sunflowers. who are offering both types of flower for their visitors. The Hertfordshire fields are also home to a lavender){kind=link}
FORGET strawberry picking – these days, British families are just as likely to pay money to visit a field of flowers.
Fuelled by the need for fresh selfies for social media, sunflower fields have become the hot UK attraction of the moment – joining lavender fields as the perfect Instagram backdrop.
While lavender and sunflowers have been grown in the UK for years, lavender in particular attracted a surge of interest trend during the pandemic, when people were only able to visit secluded places instead of typical tourist attractions.
The middle of summer is the best time to see sunflowers in bloom, from late July to August.
As a result, Instagram and TikTok is awash with pictures of people smiling blissfully as they pose among the yellow blooms.