Fields of Sunflowers

Anellis01

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April 2025

• Yesterday at 4:02 PM

• #1

Planning my 1st Camino in 2025, when is the best time to see the field of sunflowers in full bloom?

 

trecile

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Various routes 2016 - 2024

• Yesterday at 4:33 PM

• #2

I saw the most sunflowers in July. May was too early for sunflowers, but there were fields of poppies and other wildflowers along with expanses of fields of green grain.
I started my first Camino the last week of August and most of the sunflowers had passed their full blooming stage by then.

 

davejsy

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Primitivo July 2024

• Yesterday at 8:11 PM

• #3

Its a tricky question as of course it depends very much on when they plant them which can differ from field to field, and of course the weather. I would suggest mid-July to end of August though is perhaps your best bet, but you can get fields of them well in to October in some places. My Camino (CF) which started end of September 2023 saw most of them very much past their best though.

 

Tincatinker

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2012

• Yesterday at 9:05 PM

• #4

davejsy said:

past their best though

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The best Sunflower, as far as the farmer that planted them is concerned, is when its head has drooped; all the petals have shrivelled to little brown wisps and the black and white seeds are just loosened in their sheaths. Perfect sunflowers; perfect time to harvest.

I appreciate that the friends of Vincent get their kicks from all that yellow and orange and the flicks of green and blue but the people what plant’em - they’re after brown, black and white