Check out these you-pick opportunities at local and regional farms and gardens (shown in order of distance from Dulles Airport):
Burnside Farms’s Festival of Spring
Haymarket, VA (~25 m from Dulles Airport)
Burnside Farms is an award-winning pick-your-own flower destination. Each spring, the community is invited to their Festival of Spring! Hand-cut flowers, including the iconic daffodil, from more than 5 acres of spring blooms.
• Open: Early Apr (approx)
• Always click/call (703-930-3052) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
Hope Flower Farm & Winery
Waterford, VA (~25 m from Dulles Airport)
Fresh flowers are good for your heart, soul, and home! Visit Hope Flower Farm and Winery for pick-your-own bouquets, shopping, and entertainment.
• Open: July-October (approx)
• Flower selections vary
• Always click/call ( 703-777-8227 ) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
Burnside Farms’ Summer of Sunflowers
Haymarket, VA (~25 m from Dulles Airport)
Burnside Farms is an award-winning pick-your-own flower destination. In late summer, families are invited to visit their acres and acres of sunflowers and cut their own bouquets! The farm plants more than 30 sunflower varieties to ensure weeks of beautiful visits!
• Open: Late Aug (approx)
• Always click/call (703-930-3052) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
Fields of Flowers
Purcellville, VA (~25 m from Dulles Airport)
Open late spring until the first frost, guests are invited to wander their acres of flower gardens and cut at their leisure. Then, after choosing just the right blooms, Fields of Flowers provides the buckets, scissors, and a workstation to clean your hand-picked bouquet.
• Open: Mid-April (approx)
• Always click/call (540-338-7231) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
Seven Oaks Lavender Farm
Catlett, VA (~30 m from Dulles Airport)
Seasonally, the community is invited to pick their own lavender and herbs! The farm also offers a little rest from the hustle and bustle of Northern Virginia — they have many spots perfect for a picnic, including a beautiful porch with rocking chairs or under their large shade trees. For kids, there are bunnies to pet and hold and a large playhouse to enjoy.
• Open: June (approx)
• Always click/call (540-272-7839) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
Rocky Point Creamery
Tuscarora, MD (~30 m from Dulles Airport)
This family farm, around since 1883, plants 2 acres of sunflowers each year as a fundraiser for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. 100% of donations go directly to them! Click here for the most up-to-date news on when they open and what to expect.
• Open: Sept (approx)
• Primarily Sunflowers
• Always click/call (301-874-5810) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
Great Country Farms
Bluemont, VA (~35 m from Dulles Airport)
Great Country Farms has been a family-friendly destination for all kinds of farm fun for decades. This 400-acre working farm offers a community-supported agriculture program in addition to pick-your-own fruit and flowers during their peak season. You’ll find sunflower-picking opportunities from mid-July to early August.
• Open: Mid-July (approx)
• Primarily Sunflowers
• Always click/call (540-554-2073) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
Homestead Farm
Poolesville, MD (~35 m from Dulles Airport)
Located on 230 acres, Homestead Farm was founded in 1763 and is one of the longest-operating, family-owned farms in Montgomery County. Open Spring through Fall, they have a variety of you-pick fruit and flower opportunities, including Zinnias and Sunflowers.
• Open: Late Aug (approx)
• Always click/call (540-554-2073) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
Messick’s Farm Market
Bealton, VA (~37 m from Dulles Airport)
This family farm, located in Fauquier County, is on a mission to provide freshly picked, healthy, local foods. Enjoy shopping at their market, or picking your own fruits, flowers, and more. Annually, in July, you’ll find sunflower picking at their annual Sunflower Festival too!
• Open: Mid-July (approx)
• Primarily Sunflowers
• Always click/call (540-439-8900) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
Hollin Farms
Delaplane, VA (~38 m from Dulles Airport)
A fourth-generation family farm located in Fauquier County, Hollin Farms specializes in a wide variety of agricultural products, including grass-fed, natural Angus beef, hay for livestock, and seasonal pick-your-own fruits and vegetables.
Pick-your-own opportunities to the community extend throughout the late spring, summer, and early fall. Available produce includes peaches, plums, potatoes, tomatoes, pumpkins, apples, and peanuts, to name just a few! Basil and flowers are also available on a cut-your-own basis.
• Open: Various seasons; click here to see what’s ready for picking
• Always click/call (540-623-8854) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
Butler’s Orchard
Germantown, MD (~38 m from Dulles Airport)
At the 100-acre, family-owned Butler’s Orchard, you can enjoy pick-your-own produce opportunities throughout the year. Seasonally they offer blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, apples, and more. Plus, they offer dig-your-own potatoes, pick-your-own herbs and tomatoes, and cut-your-own flowers.
They have a beautiful garden filled with a huge variety of flowers, including Blue Salvia, Jewels of Opar (talinum), Zinnias, Green Gold (bupleurum), Celosia, Statice, Strawflower (helichrysum), Globe Amaranth (gomphrena), and Sunflowers (helianthus)!
• Open: Various seasons; click here to see what’s ready for picking
• Always click/call (301-972-3299) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
Valley View Acres
Middletown, MD (~45 m from Dulles Airport)
Originally a dairy farm, Valley View Acres is now a crop farm. In 2018, they planted a field of sunflowers as a “trial run.” The response from the community was so encouraging, the concept of the Sunflower Festival was born!
• Open: Late Aug (approx)
• Primarily Sunflowers
• Always click and check to see what’s in season and the quality/quantity of the fields.
Mackintosh Fruit Farm
Berryville, VA (~45 m from Dulles Airport)
Mackintosh Fruit Farm is open seasonally for pick-your-own fruit, vegetable, and flower opportunities! In mid-summer, visit them to pick-your-own Zinnias.
• Open: Mid-July (approx)
• Always click/call (540-955-6225) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
Rock Hill Orchard
Mount Airy, MD (~46 m from Dulles Airport)
Rock Hill Orchard offers a huge variety of pick-your-own produce opportunities throughout the year, including peaches, apples, eggplant, herbs, and more! Plus, don’t miss their opportunity to cut your own flowers. From about June until mid-October, the community is invited to pick seasonal flowers from their garden bed, where almost 2 dozen varieties of flowers are grown!
• Open: Various seasons; click here to see what’s ready for picking
• Always click/call (301-831-7427) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
Mary’s Land Farm
Ellicott City, MD (~50 m from Dulles Airport)
Mary’s Land Farm is the proud host of the annual Clarksville Sunflower Festival. This farm, which raises food and animals in a regenerative ecosystem, plants an annual 5-acre patch of sunflowers. Enjoy walking through it, getting food and drink from food trucks, listening to live music, and having the chance to pick-your-own sunflower bloom to take home!
• Open: Mid-Aug (approx)
• Primarily Sunflowers
• Always click/call (410-849-4314) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
The Homestead Farm at Fruit Hill Orchard
Winchester, VA (~57 m from Dulles Airport)
The family behind The Homestead Farm at Fruit Hill Orchard are fifth-generation farmers. They grow their food without the use of chemicals and follow organic practices — all of their plants are Heirloom/non-GMO. In mid-to-late-July, sunflowers are available in their market, while pick-your-own opportunities are available in the fall (plus, their annual Sunflower Festival).
• Open: Early Sept (approx)
• Primarily Sunflowers
• Always click/call (540-323-0221) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
Catoctin Mountain Orchard
Thurmont, MD (~60 m from Dulles Airport)
With a strong history dating back to the 1950s in Frederick County, MD, Catoctin Mountain Orchard offers visitors the chance to enjoy picking cherries, pears, apples, and much more as they are seasonally available. Plus, they also offer a popular you-pick flower garden!
• Open: Various seasons; click here to see what’s ready for picking
• Always click/call (301-271-2737) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
Braehead Farm
Fredericksburg, VA (~60 m from Dulles Airport)
As the last remaining farm within the Historic City of Fredericksburg, Braehead Farm is open year-round and offers a variety of you-pick opportunities. At select times throughout the year, you can pick your own flowers, including sunflowers, gladiolas, zinnias, and more!
• Open: Year-round; click here to see what’s ready for picking
• Always click/call (540-899-9848) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
Marker-Miller Orchards
Winchester, VA (~63 m from Dulles Airport)
Marker-Miller Orchards is open to the public for special events and pick-your-own opportunities throughout the year, including cut-your-own flowers (sold by the jar).
• Open: Various seasons; click here to see what’s ready for picking
• Always click/call (540-662-1980) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
Center For Maryland Agriculture & Farm Park
Cockeysville, MD (~72 m from Dulles Airport)
Dedicated to promoting agricultural sustainability, the Center for Maryland Agriculture and Farm Park in Baltimore County is home to many national and state resources for agricultural support. In late summer, the public is invited to enjoy their bounty of sunflowers! Enjoy a picnic, pick a bouquet, and explore all that the farm has to offer — trails, demonstration gardens, animals, history, and more.
• Open: Mid-Sept (approx)
• Primarily Sunflowers
• Always click/call (410-887-8973) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
The Sunflower Garden
Westminster, MD (~72 m from Dulles Airport)
Visitors will find more than just sunflowers at The Sunflower Garden! Operating for two decades, you can pick your own bouquets, wedding flowers, and more while stocking up on seasonal vegetables and other fresh market goodies!
• Open: Early Sept (approx)
• Primarily Sunflowers
• Always click/call (443-865-2566) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
Goldpetal Farms
Chaptico, MD (~80 m from Dulles Airport)
Since 2015, Goldpetal Farms (formerly Ladybugs Alive!) has been creating mazes that provide education and plenty of memories to thousands of visitors each year. They also offer pick-your-own flower opportunities during their peak season. You’ll find sunflowers and zinnias among the gorgeous landscape!
• Open: Mid-July (approx)
• Primarily Sunflowers
• Always click/call (240-587-7312) before visiting to confirm hours/offerings.
Disclaimer: Events/opportunities are curated from public sources and are subject to changes/cancelations that might not be reflected on DullesMoms.com.
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