Flowers are in bloom in the Boston area — their beauty is abundant everywhere you look! If you’re searching for the perfect photo opportunity, a beautiful decoration for your home, or the chance to surprise someone you love with a gorgeous hand-picked bouquet, head to one of Boston Moms’ favorite pick-your-own flower farms!
Langwater Farm
209 Washington Street, North Easton :: (508) 205-9665
Langwater Farm is a family-run business on 80 acres of land. In addition to offering beautiful tulips and seasonal flowers for picking (tulips open in May, dahlias peak in September), they offer a wide variety of freshly picked, certified organic fruits and vegetables! Visit the farm stand to buy vegetable plants for home growing, honey from local bee keepers, locally made maple syrup, and marinara sauce and diced tomatoes made from Langwater Farm’s very own award-winning tomatoes.
Cross Street Flower Farm
4 Jacobs Lane, Norwell
This beautiful flower farm sits on seven acres of land in Norwell. Not only can you choose from a gorgeous array of fresh flowers, you can also participate in a variety of flower-themed workshops, including grow-your-own instruction and floral design! You can also participate in a flower share CSA to keep the fresh blooms coming all season long!
Cordelia’s Farm
228 Pleasant Street, Berlin :: (978) 838-2942
Cordelia’s is a working farm, owned by the same family for the past 175 years! Guests are invited to pick their own flowers — or strawberries, blueberries, or raspberries — each year. Cordelia’s also has an expansive array of beautiful flowers, planters, and hanging baskets available in their greenhouse!
Land’s Sake Farm
90 Wellesley Street, Weston :: (781) 893-1162
Over 100 varieties of flowers and fillers are grown at Land’s Sake Farm! Enjoy a relaxing day picking flowers from their bountiful gardens from mid-June through early-October, or join their flower CSA to receive fresh bouquets all season long!
Small Farm
Aptly named, Small Farm is, in fact, a small farm in Stow! In addition to a yearly plant sale, their pick-your-own flower fields open in mid-July and give guests the opportunity to create their own gorgeous bouquets! All are invited to visit and stay around whenever the farm stand is open. The Stow Conversation Trust maintains a short walking trail around the farm as well.
Nicewicz Family Farm
116 Sawyer Road, Bolton :: (978) 779-6423
Growing more than 100 varieties, it is no surprise that peonies are the stars of the show at Nicewicz Family Farm in late May and June! August and September bring a wide variety of other seasonal flowers, including dahlias, sunflowers, zinnias, celosia, snapdragons, and straw flowers.
Golden Hour Tulip Farm
5 Myricks Street, Lakeville
Opening in late April and early May for more than 200,000 tulip blooms, Golden Hour Tulip Farm transforms to the sunshiney face of a sunflower farm in late summer! Photography is more than welcome, so be ready to catch that perfect shot among the blooms!
Cider Hill Farm
45 Fern Avenue, Amesbury :: (978) 388-5525
With more than 25 varieties of blooms between April and October, Cider Hill Farm is the place for cut-your-own farmhouse bouquets! Don’t miss the farm’s many festivals all year long — from the tulip fest to pollinator week to the sweet Halloween event!
Colby Farm
50 Scotland Road, Newbury :: (978) 465-8818
If you are looking for the perfect photo opportunity, here it is! The sunflower fields at Colby Farm peak each August, and they are nothing short of extraordinary! While you cannot pick the sunflowers, there are plenty of other things you can “pick up” at Colby Farmstand. Check out their produce, pork and beef products, delicious baked goods, and local dairy products. And don’t forget to save room for ice cream!
Lanni Orchard
294 Chase Road, Lunenburg :: (978) 582-6246
The Lanni Orchard Sunflower Festival in late August is nothing short of an experience! Wander the fields of sunflowers, take some gorgeous keepsake pictures, and take home a few beautiful blooms as a souvenir. Don’t forget to visit the farm stand and the orchards while you are there!
Parlee Farms
95 Farwell Road, Tyngsboro :: (978) 649-3854
In addition to their popular pick-your-own fruit orchards, Parlee Farms also offers cut-your-own flowers and fresh-picked flowers! From late July through early October, guests can view nearly three acres of gorgeous blossoms, including 10 shades of zinnias, many different shades of gorgeous dahlias and gladiolus, and five different varieties of sunflowers! Don’t forget to stop and visit the animals at Annie’s Animal Barns while you are there!
Ward’s Berry Farm
614 South Main Street, Sharon :: (781) 784-3600
This family farm has been offering the finest quality fruits and veggies — and flowers! — since 1982. Each spring and summer, bedding plants, hanging baskets, and perennials fill their greenhouses, and the pick-your-own fields have beautiful flowers ready to cut from early April to October!
Ferjulian’s Farm
7 Lewis Street, Hudson :: 978.562.3447
Wander through the fields as you pick flower to fill a Mason jar or a bucket — or purchase a subscription to cut your own flowers every week! Ferjulian’s grows more than 200 plant varieties, including 200,000 tulip bulbs, 20 types of lisianthus, 50 varieties of dahlias, and other specialty flowers, like asiatic lilies, oriental lilies, calla lilies, gladioulas, and sunflowers.
Wicked Tulips Flower Farm
400 Hog House Hill Road, Exeter, RI
90 Brown Avenue, Johnston, RI
382 Route 164, Preston, CT
New England’s largest tulip farm now offers cut-your-own flowers in three locations. Started by a husband-and-wife team who hand planted 60,000 tulips, Wicked Tulips now plants 1.5 million tulips with a tractor each year! This farm prides itself on its eco-friendly practices as it grows more than 100 varieties of tulips for visitors to ooh and ahh over!
Bringing cut flowers into the home can instantly transform your space. While it’s easy to grab a nice bouquet from the local market, it is even more satisfying picking the flowers yourself.