Good morning Friends!
With a broken leg unfortunately still preventing me from visiting my friend’s farm fields, Paul Wegzyn from School Street Sunflower and Dahlia Fields writes that despite the pending storm, the fields are opening today!!!
School Street Sunflower Field and Dahlia Field
Open Saturday, August 21st – 9am until sunset.
16 School Street, Ipswich
With our sunflower field, we have lost over 50% of the field because of all the rain in July. With another 2.5 inches of rain yesterday, our sunflower field is very muddy right now. It looks like even more rain on Sunday and Monday with Tropical Storm Henri.
We still have thousands of beautiful sunflowers in bloom and there are some excellent spots for photos.
Usually we have an admission fee and don’t cut sunflowers in this field, but with the many sunflowers that were flooded, we will have no admission fee. We will be selling tickets for bunches of sunflowers.
Each ticket will get you one bunch of sunflowers (3 stems) and you can walk around and find the best spots to take photos.
You can buy tickets on: www.schoolstreetsunflowers.com
Our dahlia field is looking amazing and we will be open on Saturday. The location of the dahlia field is also on School Street. Almost across the street from the tennis courts at Ipswich High School.
There is no admission fee to the dahlia field and you can buy dahlias there.
We will have events throughout the summer and fall where Paul and award winning Dahlia grower, Bart Kellerman aka “Doc Dahlia” give talks about growing dahlias.
The hours for the dahlia field are still TBD, but you can find us there on the weekends and some weeknights.
For everyone that loves sunflowers, we have another sunflower field planted that will open up in Mid September! We are really excited to open up this field to the public for the first time and we will have more information in September.
See you Saturday!
Father and son School Street Sunflowers proprietors, Paul Wegzyn and Paul Wegzyn
Photo gallery from past years at School Street Sunflowers
Your sunflower gallery is spectacular. I gather you’re in MA – I’m in Eastern MA, too. Wishing you and yours safety from Henri. Also wishing you a recovery from your broken leg that is as smooth and pain-free aa possible. I’m recovering from a broken heel that has kept me away from my lake and camera since last autumn, and so i, too, post from the archives. Your videos are engaging and it’s good that you continue to produce even though you’re not out in the field yet. You do good work for good causes. Best, Babsje
Hello Babsje, so sorry its taken me more than two weeks to respond to your lovely comment. And very sorry to hear about your broken heel. Ughhh! No more broken bones please. Your blog is Beautiful!!! Love Great Blue Herons and Swans, all bird are such a joy to photograph and film actually 🙂 Take care.
Many thanks for 5he kind compliment, Kim. Your own films are a delight and I have shared them with at least a dozen friends. The monarch butterflies are befitting of their regal name. Take care, Best, Babsje