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??

AND PACKED WITH EARWIGS

They'd have to pay to get into the farm to have anywhere to park at the one near me. Useful source of income for the farm, I guess.

I don't think they'd be that keen on catching the bus that stops directly outside (I think the stop was specifically added about 5 years ago to give a more environmentally friendly method of getting there), as they'd then be preventing their own exit.

Well... Turns out I should have gone 4 weeks ago. The man selling tickets said it was end of season and a bit of a poor show... So I didn't part with my £8 and had some cake and coffee and wandered around the little lavender garden looking at past best lavender... Some of it smelled nice and we did see the biggest bee we've ever seen, it was probably an inch long 😱

Any way, I'll give it another go next year, not wholly convinced I will want to pay for the field walk, but not so put off I wouldn't return and see if it is better...

Jury's out tbh.

Worth it for the bees and cake then.

Sewage? Vomit? Something dead and rotting? All better than lavender?

That is unusual.

Never heard of them, but we have 3 massive lavender bushes?? , in our garden and can can spend hours just watching the bees collect pollen. There are 40/50 bees at any one time and I just love to watch them buzzing about from plant to plant, bush to bush. It's so relaxing and makes me feel all naturey lol.

Lots of mentions of sunflowers. Does anyone else hate them? Nothing to do with trypophobia, I just think they are the ugliest of flowers and just look like massive weeds.

They just are tall and loomy and creepy looking. Well the ones with the black seeds are.

I like sunflowers. Chldren love them!

Bought a bunch of sunflowers today, always have a vase of something on the dining table

There is a sign up at our local sunflower maze place asking people not to take their clothes off 😂 naked sunflower photos are def a thing!

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Perhaps I won't go then, I don't particularly want to see random people naked in fields, maybe it's just me?.

A sunflower farm on Hayley Island put up a plea for visitors to keep their clothes on last week!

IIRC, an appalled Irish farmer once evicted a topless Rihanna, mid-video shoot, from his field.

Was only lowly wheat, though, not lavender or sunflowers...

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They are generally in the countryside and look very beautiful.