Picture Connecticut: A Day In The Sun (Flowers)

MIDDLEFIELD, CT — This week, the Picture Connecticut tour takes us to Middlefield and the sunflower maze at Lyman Orchards.

Lyman Orchards has been a family-owned popular New England destination for more than 275 years and each summer offers the sunflower maze. It opened on July 27, and runs through Aug. 25.

This year, nearly a mile of paths surrounded by 350,000 yellow, orange, and red sunflowers make up a design based on "Chompers," the mascot for Hartford Yard Goats.

Lyman Orchards has once again partnered with Connecticut Children’s Foundation, donating $1 of each ticket purchase to the Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders.

The 3-acre maze takes about 30 minutes to complete and will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The maze offers visitors the opportunity to see butterflies, yellow finches and a scenic backdrop of the surrounding orchard hills.

Admission is $11 for adults and $6 for children ages 4 to 12. Children younger than 3 are admitted for free.

See more on the sunflower maze here.

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Picture Connecticut is a weekly series that features images of the state, past and present.

Here are past images:
2024

• A Bucket of UFC, Vernon
• The Bug Mailbox, Ellington-Somers
• The 1976 Gremlin, Enfield
• Hole 4, Fox Hopyard Golf Club, East Haddam
• That's A Tall Uncle Sam, Vernon
• A CT Olympic Connection, Manchester
• Fireworks, behind the scenes, Vernon
• A Riverside Stroll, Hockanum River
• The 29th Connecticut Monument, New Haven
• Hangin' in the Hangar, Windsor Locks
• The Little Drummer Boy, Bridgeport
• The 14th Connecticut, Gettysburg
• A sculpture for a Famous Sculptor, West Hartford
• The Attack of the Flamingos, anywhere
• Historic Tower Turns Red, Vernon
• Eagle Rock, Hebron

• The Cirque, Hartford
• The Amerbelle Spillway, Rockville
• The ECSU Gallery, Willimantic
• Great Captain Island, Greenwich
• Bobblehead Madness, Storrs
• Bobby Sands/Hunger Strike Memorial, Hartford
• Mr. Jonathan Goes To Hartford, Hartford
• The Latest Discount Airline, New Haven
• State Groundhog Gets Arrested, Manchester
• Historic Wartime Sutures, Willington
• Big Business Week In CT, statewide
• The Marketplace at Guilford Food Center Guilford
• Main Street at night, Middletown
• The Hide-and-Seek Bear, Tolland
• The MLK Mural, Manchester
• The Mount Southington Summit, Southington

2023

• All Faiths Gather At Town Park, Vernon
• Riverside Igloos, Milford
• The TPC Pro Shop, Cromwell
• The Santa House, North Pole, er, Northern Connecticut
• Mile 4 Funnel, Manchester Road Race, Manchester
• UConn Lacrosse Giving Back, Connecticut River Valley
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 3, Hartford
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 2, Hartford
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 1, Hartford
• The Doughboy, East Hartford
• The Walt Whitman Stone, West Hartford
• The indoor bush plane, Hartford County
• The Big Pink Chair, Ellington
• The Notch, Granby
• The CT 9/11 Monument, Westport
• Vintage Gas Pump, Somers
• Tobacco Harvest, East Windsor
• Late Afternoon, Lakeside, Coventry
• Fogarea, New Haven County
• Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens, Washington Depot
• Connecticut River Police Boat, Rocky Hill
• The first dentist, Windsor
• The Frog Bridge, Willimantic
• The World War Bridge Rapids, Putnam
• The Peeking Cow, Tolland County
• The Ivy Lacrosse Tournament, New Canaan
• The Bradley International Airport runway, Windsor Locks
• The Underground Railroad, Unionville
• The cow carousel, Ellington
• Charles Island, Milford
• State Veterans Cemetery, Middletown
• Glastonbury-Rocky Hill Ferry, Glastonbury/Rocky Hill
• The Old County Jailhouse, Tolland
• Agent Orange Monument, Andover
• The Sunken Garden, Farmington
• Lafayette Tour Monument, Vernon
• The Pinchot Sycamore, Simsbury
• Bob's Discount Furniture Studios, Manchester