Bring your camera: 3 sunflower fields bloom in June near Anderson, South Carolina

Sarah Sheridan, Anderson Independent Mail
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Sunflower season is right around the corner as the bright yellow flower blooms in June.

Here are three places in the Upstate to pick flowers or visit and photograph:

Sol Flowers field on Bradley Road

Danielle Roberts was always a backyard gardener and started a sunflower patch for her daughters make extra money in the summer.

When they went to college, Roberts kept on what they started and gave the money back to the community.

That eventually expanded into a 10-acre larger plot with the help of a farmer.

"Every year has just seemed to have grown exponentially," she said. "Over the six years, we are beyond $100,000 in the donations that we've brought in for Sol Flowers."

Roberts sends donations to Foothills Community Foundation. The past two years, the funds have been allocated to different organizations with three at the top:

  • Area 14 Special Olympics

  • Free Clinic

  • Bridge Center Recovery

To visit the field at 150 Bradley Road and take photos is free, but visitors can purchase sunflowers after they bloom in June and July.

"Everything lined up just perfectly for us to be able to do this," Roberts said. "We do now consider ourselves farmers but at the time we did not. We learned everything really from scratch."

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Denver Downs sunflower festival

Denver Downs Farm hosts an annual sunflower festival featuring dozens of varieties.

Because of the rain, the festival will be pushed back a week later than they were planning, owner Catherine Garrison Davis said.

The event will run from the last weekend of June till the second weekend of July.

The field of sunflowers has been sprouting up for a decade now and this year marks the second festival complete with vendors and food.

Visitors play and take photographs in the fields during the South Carolina Sunflower Festival at Denver Downs Farm in Anderson Saturday, June 19, 2021.
Visitors play and take photographs in the fields during the South Carolina Sunflower Festival at Denver Downs Farm in Anderson Saturday, June 19, 2021.

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Visitors can make bouquets and pick or just come for the photos.

Garrison Davis never gets tired of the awe she feels standing in the field. "We just love how beautiful the sunflowers are," she said.

The festival takes place June 25-26, July 2-3 and July 9-10 Saturdays 10am – 6pm and Sundays 10am – 6pm.

Tickets can be purchased online for $25.00 for adults and $17.50 for children. Three sunflowers are included with each ticket.

The festival takes place around the same time a 250-foot tubing slide is finished on the property.

Beechwood Farms in Marietta

Beechwood Farms started in 1963 with a small field of crops. The farm has grown into providing vegetables and fruit in farmers markets and hosting visitors at the Marietta farm.

Beechwood Farms has two sunflower fields that bloom in July and September. The fields are open to the public to visit and take amateur photos or can be privately booked for professional photographers.

For more information on the sunflower fields, follow their Facebook page.

Know of another sunflower field near Anderson, SC? Contact community reporter Sarah Sheridan at ssheridan@gannett.com to get it added. 

This article originally appeared on Anderson Independent Mail: Sunflower Fields: Best photo shoot locations in Anderson County