Outdoor fun is in bloom across Connecticut! Photo courtesy of Gutt Family Farm

Pick-Your-Own Flowers Near Hartford

1. Gutt Family Farm - Glastonbury

Gutt is a family farm with an assortment of flowers available for picking. Pick and make an arrangement of sunflowers, zinnias, sunflowers, snapdragons, and Queen Anne's lace. You can also pick vegetables and fruits. Sunflowers cost $2 each. The farm is open daily.

2. Peterson's Flower Farms - South Windsor

Peterson Flower Farm is a fine place for children to pick sunflowers; they can snip tons of yellow beauties to bring home. Other flowers available for picking include zinnias, black-eyed Susans, Queen Anne's lace, hollyhocks, amaranth and more. Blooms cost $5 per pound. All you have to do is pick, weigh, and pay!

3. Easy Pickins Orchard - Enfield

Easy Pickins' is a popular orchard for families, and the flowers bloom in summer. The farm also runs a regular CSA and offers families the chance to cut their own flowers. Visitors can pick zinnias, marigolds, sunflowers, and more. EP asks guests to keep social distance when picking and paying for a harvest. Flower bunches by the cupful start at $4.99, and per stem for sunflowers.

4. Sweet Wind Farm - East Hartland ​

Find fruits and veggies and tons of flowers to pick! Children love the pink, purple, white, yellow, and orange flowers. And yes, sunflowers are in bloom during the month of August. Sweet Wind Farm is famous for Connecticut maple products, too, so make sure to grab some syrup on the way out!

5. Brown's Harvest - Windsor

Brown's Harvest is growing a beautiful field of sunflowers. There are so many that the farm is planning its own Sunflower Fair in August, with food trucks, local vendors, face painting, and hay rides. 

6. Walsh Farm - Manchester

Enjoy fields of sunflowers, pick your own, or pick up a pre-chosen bouquet. The farm will provide cutters/scissors, gloves, newspapers & bags, rubber bands for use.

 
You'll find plenty of fun in Connecticut's favorite sunflower fields! Photo by Ally Noel

Pick-Your-Own Flowers Near Litchfield

7. Freund's Farm Market - East Caanan

Freund's offers cut-your-own flowers every day from 10am to 6pm. Don't miss the tasty baked treats, including cookies, donuts, cupcakes, and biscuits; there are farm-fresh tomatoes, squash, and apples, too.

8. The Farm - Woodbury

One of the major draws for The Farm annually is their fields and fields of sunflowers. They grow over 20 varieties of sunflowers for you to choose one or a whole bouquet! Pack a picnic and stay for the day as you wander their property and take pictures of the beauty. Tickets required. 

Pick-Your-Own Flowers Near Windham

9. Raspberry Knoll Farm - Windham

Raspberry Knoll Farm invites guests to wander through the flower fields to pick blooms by the pound—both perennials and annuals such as cosmos, dahlia, salvia, strawflower, calendula, and bee balm and of course, sunflowers. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. 

10. Lapsley Orchard - Pomfret Center

Lapsley Orchard has an entire acre dedicated to beautiful flowers to cut mid-July through late September. The farm plants 3,000 flowers a year. 

Scott's Farms has a variety of flowers to fill your basket with. Photo by Ally Noel

Pick-Your-Own Flowers Near Middletown

11. Lyman Orchards - Middlefield ​

Lyman Orchards (which is also a huge pick-your-own produce location) has a massive Sesame Street maze carved out of tall sunflowers which opens on July 31. Children love wandering through acres of blooming fun! The maze's theme changes yearly.

12. Scott's Farms - Essex

So many flowers to pick from, including sunflowers. This is a long time family farm where you can pick nectarines, blueberries, raspberries, and peaches. Flowers are sold by the pound; bring your own flower bucket to keep them in water! Flower picking continues until the first frost.

Pick-Your-Own Flowers in the New London Area

13. Buttonwood Farm - Griswold

Probably the most famous and popular place in the state for sunflowers is Buttonwood Farm. The Farm plants 14-acres of sunflowers on an annual basis as part of a charity event, then leaves them up for visitors to enjoy. Visitors can pay $2 to cut their own sunflowers. Buttonwood also serves some yummy homemade ice cream on site to enjoy with the kids. Check the farm's sunflower status on Instagram closer to the end of July for details.

Originally published 2018; updated in 2025