Sunday 9 August 2020

bring me sunshine........

On what turned out to be the fifth hottest day ever recorded in the UK we drove over to Eastwood Hall, Ashover to pick sunflowers on Friday morning.

The farm there grows two crops which celebrate the seasons perfectly, sunflowers for Summer and pumpkins for Autumn.


It’s a PYO enterprise, you pay an entrance fee and then are free to explore several acres of sunflowers of all shapes and sizes cutting as many as you wish, paying for them when you leave.
The views across the fields are breath taking.


As I wandered off to capture some of these beauties to share with you today the Senior Partner armed with a pair of sharp secateurs borrowed from a very nice lady at the fields entrance (we forgot to take our own) chose some wonderful specimens to take home with us.


As we left families were starting to arrive armed with picnic baskets, secateurs and of course cameras, all looking forward to enjoying a lovely, perfectly instagrammable time.




Linking to Mosaic Monday # 92
hosted by Angie
@ Letting Go of the Bay Leaf


17 comments:

  1. Fields of sunflowers bring back so many memories - the ones in Provence were amazing, the ones over here often good. The row in my garden is great some years, lousy others - like this one. Not a single one survived due to deer and squirrels munching on the young shoots!

    Glad you braved the heat to visit and harvest. Add another 8-10 degrees F and you know what we are going through every day here! Far too hot and 'buggy'- they are so bad this year.

    Enjoying your golden photos - thanks Maggie.

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  2. I do love sunflowers - your photos are wonderful

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  3. The sunflowers are wonderful ...I haven’t heard of the PYO concept, but it’s a great one. Was there a limit to what you could pick? (One of our grandsons had an outdoor wedding and decorated the large covered shelter with sunflowers ...they could have picked a boatload! ). I like the painting effect n your last picture !

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  4. Maggie - so, so beautiful. I especially like the pictures that show the sunflowers in the field - reaching as far as the eye can see! What a wonderful business concept! Thanks for sharing this SUNSHINE with everyone at Mosaic Monday!

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  5. sunflowers are a nice subject for photography and this seems to be the perfect place to do it. You did a great job.

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  6. Hello, I love the sunflowers, It is lovely to see a field of these bright and cheery flowers. We have a farm near us, that lets people walk and cut a flower for a dollar each. The photos are beautiful. Take care! Have a happy day and a great week!

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  7. Gorgeous sunflowers. Happy Monday

    Much🌻love

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  8. Oh my goodness! They are gorgeous! It makes me wonder about the field I found in the Spring. Those flowers are probably all drooped down now at the end of the growing season. You took some amazing photos and have pretty flowers to enjoy too! Hugs!

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  9. Lovely! Could any bloom BE more appropriately named than a "sunflower"?

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  10. The sunflowers are summer... wonderful captures, they are amazing. I love to put them in a vase on the table.
    Thank you for sharing this, it brings sunny spells in my sad time...

    ...stay healthy and well.

    Happy MosaicMonday

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  11. Sunflowers are so cheerful! I was always delighted by them. Your photos are lovely, Maggie. It has been overly hot here lately and very dry. I am getting tired of summer and look forward to autumn.

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  12. ...there are few things that beat sunflowers!!!

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  13. Beautiful sunflowers. They are such cheery things.

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  15. I love that you could not only photograph but take some home! They are gorgeous, Maggie and you can relive your day when you look at your beautiful blooms.

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  16. Maggie, Sunflowers are my favorite. What a wonderful idea to be able to cut your own. Thanks for sharing. Have a great week. Sylvia D.

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  17. Maggie, I feel like someone who suddenly got a Christmas card delivered in the summer, full of excitement for now being able to catch up with all your news. Woah big change but how exciting, I've come in to sunflowers and sunshine how gorgeous! I've got some reading back to do!
    Wren x

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