To wonder what the attraction is about lavender farms?

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Like coaches will drop off dozens of people...

What is the point?? Am I missing something??

Kardashian maybe.

She is up to all sorts.

The fields glow in the late afternoon. If your daily life involves a sea of grey, grey and grey concrete, traffic and takeaway litter, to go somewhere that starts off green and then is purple, mauve, violet, blue and with the change of angle in the sunlight, almost iridescent, it's a huge sensory difference. The scent is different from each variety of plant, the shapes and shades are different. The bees are all focused upon nectar, so just go past you without paying the slightest bit of attention.

Yes, it's a stunning backdrop for photos, but it is also so different from normal existence that it is somewhere special. And then they sell bunches, products, refreshments and the like for those who want them.

Sunflower fields cam fuck right off. Creepy fucking places

I’d never bought anything with that scent, but my Mum bought me a beautiful little tin containing hand cream and a scent that you are meant to roll on to your wrists to relieve stress. The latter actually works and the scent is subtle

There's lavender and sunflower places near me. Lots of pics on social media....everyone is fully clothed though, never seen anyone get their kit off there?

Don’t be tedious

Everyone gets old. The youth of tomorrow will sneer at our love for humous and trainers. Older people now associate lavender with nice things. Is that not ok?

They’re just beautiful. The one near us is acres & acres of rolling fields of lavender. Gorgeous colour, scent, bees & other insects loving it. Yes, there were lots of people but they mainly stayed near the ice-cream kiosk end or had picnics.

The far end was just peaceful. So glad I went.

I remember going to stay with my great aunt in Suffolk for a long weekend and going to visit the Lavender fields with my mum, who after giving up her first career, retrained as a horticulturist, this was back in the 80s. I believe the fields were started in the 30s.
My mum grew several different types of lavender, you'd smell it in the summer evenings, she dried it and made numerous lavender bags for all the cupboards and drawers to keep moths at bay, it seemed to work as woollens remained intact!
It's not a new phenomena!

Lavender?

I went to one once, because I wanted a load of lavender so that I could make some lavender mead. The lavender farm was lovely! The mead, on the other hand, was an acquired taste, which I was actually quite pleased about because I acquired it and nobody else did and I got to drink the lot. 😵

Because I grew up on a farm, though not a lavender one.
Because I've been growing herbs, including lavender since I was a child, and I find different varieties and uses interesting.
Because I like the scent and flavour.
Because I like to see all the insects.

I don't understand why anyone wants to go to a theme park, or a car show, but loads of people do go to such things. I'm not going to stop them. Life would be very dull if we were all the same.

We stumbled upon a lavender farm, but it was not open, the gift shop was though. I bought some biscuits and soap.
I love lavender, I have it growing outside the kitchen and under the bedroom window.

I guess I was born old, because I love the smell of lavender and always have. (Though to tell the truth, I do tend to gravitate towards old-fashioned objects, entertainment, and interests. Never knew lavender was one of those, though!)

Me too!

Cannot stand the smell of lavender, I have a terrible sense of smell but can pick out notes of lavender in perfume imstantly.

I love the smell of lavender and also vanilla. When I am a ghost I will waft about and people won’t know if it is a little old lady holding a cake has walked by.

A colleague of mine worked at a lavender farm - the daily litter pick involved plenty of condom picking up so clearly lots of folks enjoy getting it on between the flowers and bees. The bloke who got his end stung by a bee probs wouldn't make that mistake again though - apparently he had a severe swollen reaction and ended up needing her first aider training. How we cried with laughter at the story!

That's true! I remember 5yo dd getting about half a dozen times on her lower legs!

I've been to one.
They smell lovely, there was a little train to go through the fields that the kids loved, and a gift shop at the end that sold stuff such as lavender honey from the bees we saw earlier, lavender scented pillows etc

I’m getting an allotment in the autumn, might just grow a load of lavender. I won’t be getting my norks out, it would startle my fellow allotment owners and I don’t want to wither anyone’s courgettes.

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There's one in Norfolk and I have known a couple of people who went on a coach trip to it.

I absolutely love Norfolk and once while I was up there with family, I visited the lavender place. It was so boring! I can't imagine how anyone would want to spend hours there.

This thread is like MN of yore.

Gold.

Think of the pollution from the vehicles taking people to visit lavender farms.
Time for activists to glue themselves to the road outside lavender farms.
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Lavender is one of the best smells in the world to me and love the stunning flowers...saying that I live close to two such farms but not been as too many people and tbh it feels made up in UK. Only seen a lavender farm once in France and that felt right.