Where to pick your own flowers near Philly

Living in Philadelphia provides a delightful proximity to the Garden State and the agriculturally rich Delaware Valley. Just a short drive away, you can immerse yourself in the sweet, fragrant air of the countryside, offering a refreshing break from the city’s hustle and bustle.

If your soul is craving some florals, there are flower farms and festivals where you can take in vibrant bright colors from horizon to horizon, and pick a few bouquets to take home. From relaxing lavender and peony farms to endless tulip fields, the region’s flower farms and fields offer you picturesque scenes that are much cheaper than hopping on a plane to Holland.

Plus, many of these gardens offer more than just flower-picking. They provide a variety of family-friendly activities, host live music events, operate beer gardens, serve food, and even feature farm animals for visitors to meet.

Here are some pick-your-own flower farms and seasonal flower events that are easily accessible and just a few tolls away from Philadelphia:

Tulips and daffodils (late-April-May); sunflowers (August)

Established in 1868 as a dairy farm, Brown’s is now the largest tulip farm in Pennsylvania. With over 400,000 tulips over five acres, its fields are one of the more popular spring attractions in the region. They also have 25,000 daffodils you can pick in the spring months. Come August, you can spend time wandering through a 30-acre sunflower field.

405 E W. Avery Station Rd., Tunkhannock, Pa. 18657, 📞 570-241-8430, 🌐 brownhillfarms.com, 🎟️ $12 admission (ages 13+), free for children under 2

🌸 Tulips (Open through April 22); sunflowers (Aug. 24th to Oct. 15th)

Located just off Route 322 on a property that dates back to the 17th century, this 100-acre farm has a six-acre lake, 10 active beehives that produce honey (which is for sale at the farm), and 30 acres of tulips. The ticketed Festival of Tulips runs most weekends during tulips’ short blooming season in April (dependent on weather). These are the only weeks when you can fill your basket with tulips for $2 per stem or $10 for a bundle of 10. Dalton Farms also has sunflower fields for pick-your-own sunflower events in the late summer.

📍660 Oak Grove Rd., Swedesboro, N.J. 08085, 📞 856-628-7313, 🌐 daltonfarms.com, 📷 @daltonfarmsnj, 🎟️ $14 admission online, $20 at the gate (ages 3+), free for children under 3

🌸 Tulips (April); sunflowers (September-October)

Casey Jansen Sr. opened this huge family-run flower farm in Monmouth County, N.J., designed after Holland’s world-famous tulip farms. The 300-plus acre farm is full of seemingly endless fields of tulips and sunflowers; it’s the largest u-pick farm in the country and hosts two annual flower festivals each year — tulips in the spring and sunflowers in the late-summer/fall. The pick-your-own tulips fields, which is traditionally open in mid-April, have over eight million flowers. Tulip season is short and sweet — lasting only about three weeks, but the tulips cost just $1 per stem. When it comes to sunflowers, the fields usually open in September and also cost $1 per stem. The farm provides free buckets and the clippers with each ticket, which go on sale a week or so before the fields opening.

📍86 Rues Rd., Cream Ridge, N.J. 08514, 📞 609-448-7483, 🌐 hollandridgefarms.com, 📷 @hollandridgefarms, 🎟️ $15 admission (ages 3+), free for children under 3; pay-as-you-go flowers

🌸 Lavender (June-August)

Hope Hill Lavender Farm is the place to learn about the hand-harvested plant, view the fields, and tour the farm. Here you’ll see English lavender — which typically blooms in the middle of June into July — and French lavender, which is in full bloom by July. The family-run farm grows the English variety for culinary purposes, the French for dried bouquets, and essential oil products made on site with a steam distiller. Check out the drying shed, and pick from hanging rows of bundled bunches. Farm tours are available in June, July, and August starting at 11 a.m. on Saturdays. For just $5, you’ll learn the history of the farm, how to grow lavender, and when to harvest it.

📍2375 Panther Valley Rd., Pottsville, Pa. 17901, 📞 570-617-0851, 🌐 hopehilllavenderfarm.com, 📷 @hopehilllavendarfarm

🌸 Peonies (May-June)

Long Valley Peonies is a small, family-owned farm with more than 60 varieties of rare and standard-cut peonies. The short season for peonies usually starts during the last week of May and lasts until the first or second week of June. Walk around the fields, which are well away from the main road so you’re fully surrounded by nature. There’s also a farm stand that’s free to visit, which sells peony bunches of five blooms: $25 for coral, $27 for salmon pink, and $35 for yellow.

📍227 W. Mill Rd., Long Valley, N.J. 07853, 📞 908-867-8189, 🌐 longvalleypeonies.com, 📷 @longvalleypeonies, 🎟️ $10 per person, kids 5 and under are free

🌸 Zinnias (May); wildflowers (June-August); sunflowers (August-September)

Maple Acres Farm has sprawling fields of colorful pick-your-own zinnias, wildflowers, and sunflowers. Choose your own blooms, or head to their flower market and grab some fresh bouquets full of mums and azaleas, and buckets of pansies.

📍2656 Narcissa Rd., Plymouth Meeting, Pa. 19462, 📞 610-828-7395, 🌐 facebook.com/MapleAcresFarm, 📷 @mapleacresfarmmarket, 🎟️ Prices vary depending on the flower

🌸 Lavender (June-July)

Come see more than 3,000 lavender plants growing on a sprawling field, across from Lake Galena and Peace Valley Park in Doylestown. Walk through the grounds and cut your own bundle for $8 to $12. Peace Valley also makes a wide variety of products from their lavender, including lotions and soaps, which you can get in the gift shop. Tour the fields, then relax for a picnic on the property’s benches and oversized garden chairs.

📍802 New Galena Rd., Doylestown, Pa. 18901, 📞 215-249-8462, 🌐 peacevalleylavendar.com, 📷 @peavevalleylavendarfarm

🌸 Lavender (May-July); sunflowers and zinnias (July-September)

Princeton Lavender is a spacious and interactive family-friendly farm that has four varieties of lavender. Visit the farm and see the chicken coops, honey-producing beehives, then stroll through the lavender fields, or pick sunflowers and zinnias in the later summer months.

📍3741 Lawrenceville Rd., Princeton, N.J. 08540, 📞 973-978-8311, 🌐 princetonlavender.com, 📷 @princeton_lavendar, 🎟️ $5 for ages 3+

🌸 Wildflowers, lavender (June-August); sunflowers (August)

Shady Brook Farm has 20 varieties of cut-your-own flowers each year starting around mid-June. At this centuries-old farm, you can walk the fields, and fill your metal bucket with blooms. Flowers are $3 per stem, $10 for five blooms, or $15 for a dozen. Get to the flowers by a wagon ride that takes you to various stops around the farm. During the first three weekends of August, the farm also hosts a peach and sunflower festival, with peach-picking, a sunflower stroll, live music, and family-friendly activities.

📍931 Stony Hill Rd., Yardley, Pa. 19067, 📞 215-968-1670, 🌐 shadybrookfarm.com, 📷 @shadybrookfarm, 🎟️ $12 per person (ages 2+) free for children under 2

🌸 Peonies (May 17-27)

At Chester County’s annual Styer’s Festival of the Peony, you can walk through 25 acres containing more than 55,000 peonies and a large selection of precut flowers to take home. There are more than 100 peony varieties, such as coral charm, glowing candle, sally, and red charm. While the peony fields are beautiful on foot, Styer’s also has a drive-through option for anyone who wants to keep their walking to a minimum. During the festival, you can also order fresh-cut flowers and bulbs for delivery.

📍4313 S. Creek Rd., Chadds Ford, Pa. 19317, 📞 610-616-3839, 🌐 styerspeonies.com, 📷 @styerspeonies, 🎟️ $15 per person or $50 a car with up to five passengers

🌸 Sunflowers (July-September), zinnias, snapdragons, scabiosa (July-October), dahlias (August-October)

Andy and Loni Snyder bought a once-abandoned farm and turned it into the 48-acre Terra Farms pick-your-own flower field. It has dozens of varieties of dahlias (the largest dahlia field in all of York County). “We have folks that go wild for our prized dahlias. They’ll drive hours just to see them at their peak in September. We also have die-hards that come nearly every weekend just to pick the latest varieties in bloom,” says Loni. The farm also has snapdragons, sunflowers, zinnias, and more.

📍2605 Buffalo Valley Rd., Spring Grove, Pa. 17362, 📞 717-515-4145, 🌐 terrafarmsandfield.com, 📷 @terrafarmsandfield, 🎟️ $25, $45 and $75 depending on the bucket size

🌸 Multiple. Spring Blooms festival runs through May 5

What started off as Pierre du Pont’s 1906 vision to save cherished trees from being sold for lumber has become one of the country’s most celebrated horticultural grounds. Longwood Gardens includes 1,100 acres of dazzling gardens, woodlands, meadows, fountains, and has a 10,010-pipe Aeolian organ and grand conservatory on the botanical gardens’ property. During Spring Blooms, you can walk among magnolias, cherry blossoms, tulips, and more in both their indoor and outdoor locations. Longwood’s 600-foot-long Flower Garden Walk boasts more than 200,000 tulips and other seasonal blooms in a patchwork of color. In the Ornamental Kitchen Garden and Herb Garden, beds of tulips and other spring favorites grow alongside cool-season vegetables and herbs that begin to emerge from the soil. The Combination Garden has yellow daffodils mixed with pockets of white tulips, purple alliums and blue camassia.

📍1001 Longwood Rd., Kennett Square, 19348, 📞 610-388-1000, 🌐 longwoodgardens.org, 📷 @longwoodgarden, 🎟️ $25 for adults; $22 for seniors (ages 62+); $13 for youth (ages 5–18); free ages 4 and under

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