Kurt is holding the 3 gallon bucket, QUinn has the glass vase, and Ledger has the 22 oz stadium cup.

  • Think of how you will transport your buckets home: Ingles milk boxes are great for the 3 gallon buckets. Flowers like air conditioning, but don’t like open air/wind in their hair (haha), so no riding in the back of your truck please :)

  • Wear proper shoes/sandals. The rows are grass/dirt and the ground has some uneven places.

  • Some of the flowers are supported with a white plastic netting, PLEASE be careful and try not to cut this netting. Keep an eye on your children when they are using pruners.

  • Bathroom on site

Enjoy the blue ridge parkway views.

How to prepare for your visit:

  • Flowers have the best vase life if cut in the morning (before 11am) or late evening (after 6pm). If you cut during the heat of the day they will not last as long.

  • We have a few pairs of pruners, but if you have a pair go ahead and bring them.

  • There is a sink for you to fill your container with water before you start picking flowers. If your container spills while your in the flower field make sure you add water back into your container before you leave. The flowers need water at all times.

  • We have 3 different containers to chose from for cutting. You take these container home with you. Our You-Pick is Honor System, this means we are putting our faith & trust in you to pay for your purchase. We accept Cash, PayPal, Venmo & Cash App.

  • PayPal - Lorettaball828@gmail.com - Kurt Ball

  • VENMO @Neverending-flower

  • Cash App - Loretta Ball $Neverendingflower

    - 22oz Stadium Cup $25

    - 8” Glass Vase $28

    - 3 Gallon Buckets $75

When you arrive you will enter our little check in shed at the parking area. this is where you pay, read instructions, pick out your container and pruners. We also have bottled water for sale and our resin JEWELRY & trinkets. the restroom is also located in this building.


A few rules:

  • The greenhouse and potting shed are off limits, so please don’t venture up there ;)

  • NO DOG PLEASE! We have our own friendly dogs as well as cats, cows, donkeys and chickens. If you have a service dog just tell us and we will put our dogs up.

  • PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL OF OUR PROPERTY. This is our home so please be respectful of our property. Please do not leave trash or cigarette butts (we prefer no smoking) in our field. Keep your children close and please do not let them destroy the flowers. We have electric fences to keep the cows & donkeys out of our flowers so make sure your kiddos know that the fences will shock them.

if you are purchasing the black stadium cups, don’t forget to grab a metal cup holder to place your cup in while you pick. this keeps your cup of flowers from tipping over in the field. these cup holders are located at the check in shed.

Don’t forget to add water to your container before you start picking flowers. the flowers need fresh water to soak up as soon as you pick them.

What is in bloom?

(Please remember we are at the mercy of the weather and the deer…so some blooms may not be available.)

MAY
poppies, snapdragons, bachelor buttons, ammi majus, agrostemma, campanula, larkspur, nigella, yarrow, orlaya, chocolate lace.

JUNE
Larkspur, bachelor buttons, snapdragons, ammi, nigella, yarrow, rudbeckia, chocolate lace flower, Late June - Cosmos, zinnias, sunflowers, marigold, amaranth.

JULY - SEPTEMBER
Zinnias, cosmos, rudbeckia, sunflowers, ammi, snapdragons, strawflower, scabosia, dahlias, gompherna, marigolds, celosia, Mexican bush sage, amaranth.


Frequently Asked Questions

  • Great question, we’re glad you asked! Well, you know how those you-pick strawberry & blueberry & apple farms work - you pay a certain price for your container, walk through the rows of fruit, pick what you want and fill up your container - That’s how a you-pick flower farm works! You pay for your vase $25 or a bucket $75 (we provide the vases & buckets and you take these home with you), get your pruners (we provide those also, but you have to return them), walk through the rows of flowers, cut the stems you want and place in your vase/bucket. Fill it up and your done! There’s no digging the plants, its cutting the stems only :)

  • This season we are changing things up just a bit - we have a $25 32oz Plastic Cup & $75 3 gallon bucket. We also have the glass vases (same as last year) but these will be an additional $3 to purchase the vase. We ate the cost last year on these but cannot do it this year. So if you want a fancier you-pick experience or gifting the flowers to a friend you can pay $28 and get the glass vase.

    We provide the vases and buckets, please don’t bring your own. Yes, you take the vase/bucket home with you :)

  • Yes, sorry the flowers are not free. If you don’t want the vase that’s OK, but here’s how this works - use our vase we provide while picking your flowers, the flowers need to go in water ASAP, don’t leave them out of water or they will wilt and not recover. When you have the vase filled with flowers simply take the flowers out, place them in your container, place our vase back on the blue table, we will fill back up with water. When you pay knock off $1 for no vase, so your total is $24

  • This is a great question too! Think of you-picks like this - you have the choice to eat wherever you want- fast food, diner, or a nice sit down restaurant. We have created a space that (we think) is a nice outdoor restaurant, that’s clean, with well maintained pathways through the flowers that are free of weeds and tall grass, nice rows of flowers that are weeded (mostly), we even provide all the materials you need to cut your flowers: pruners, vases (3”x8”) and buckets (3 gallon) filled with water, we even provide bug spray, because we know how bad the gnats can be in the field and we want your experience to be pleasant. We also invested in a bonafide restroom for you…no more porta-potty!!! There are tables and umbrellas for you to enjoy at the field and we also have donkeys and cows for your viewing pleasure.

  • Sure, that’s fine too! We charge $5 per person for this….sorry ya’ll, but we cannot provide this beautiful space for your “selfies” for free. So please be considerate and pay the $5 so we can keep doing what we love.

  • Goodness, NO! The main reason we had to start charging the “$5 cellphone selfie customers” is because we were having people spend hours in the flower field taking 1,000’s (ok, dozens) of selfies and then just leave. If your family is paying to pick flowers then we do not expect you to pay the $5 per each family member ;)

  • We LOVE professional photographers!! For this we charge a $25 Venue Fee for 1 hour sessions. NO PHOTO SESSIONS ON SATURDAYS - this is our busiest day for flower picking. Pay when you get here and we are no longer taking reservations for this due to having to keep up with so many photographers reaching out and I just couldn’t keep up and keep up with all the rain-reschedules. So come out whenever (except Saturdays) and just work around others in the field. The $25 venue fee does not include flower picking, if you want to pick flowers you need to purchase the $25 vase.

  • Sure! Picnics are welcome. If your already paying to pick flowers there’s no additional fee to have a picnic, but If your coming out with a group of friends and just want to have a picnic on the property and not pick flowers we ask that you pay the $25 Venue fee for this. Please clean up ALL trash and take the trash with you. We do not provide trash cans.

  • Sorry, but the answer is NO. In the past we were ok with dogs, but now that our business has grown and we have more customers, dogs are just to much and those sweet male dogs love to pee on the flowers and the owners were not picking up the poo. We LOVE dogs and you will probably meet our dogs down at the flower field, but please do not bring your dogs.

  • Absolutely, we are family friendly and love to see families in the flower field! However, please do not let your small children have the pruners and keep them with you at all times. Our flower field is not a playground, so please don’t let them run freely. If we see unsupervised children that are destroying the flowers or property we will kindly ask you to leave.

  • We use the HONOR SYSTEM and appreciate you paying. We accept Cash, Venmo and PayPal, we can take checks as long as you write your phone number and address on them. There is the little flower shed by the parking lot, this is where you enter to purchase your cup/vase/bucket and pay. We also have additional items for sale in here to purchase.

we accept cash, vemno, paypal & cash app. we operate our you-pick on the honor system, this means we are trusting you and have faith in you to pay for your purchases. we do not accept credit cards.

 

*Photos by: Lynsey Coates Photography & Sara Lashell Turner