Sunflower maze beams into life in nation’s capital | Australian Markets

After years of promoting sunflowers the usual approach, a good friend of Anne McGrath advised she do one thing wonderful as an alternative.

And so started a much-anticipated annual quest to show a paddock into a maze of towering sunflowers that rapidly turned a social media spotlight and a drawcard for her neighborhood’s produce.

“The smiles are really worth more than anything,” Canberra’s Majura Valley Farm operator Ms McGrath instructed AAP.

“Last year … a woman with stage four cancer who loved sunflowers came along and ticked it off her bucket list.

“Folks do not realise there are farms within the ACT.

“By us doing what we are doing, it’s opened eyes of the community and of government.”

An absence of spring rain made growing more difficult this 12 months and scuppered hope of the two.4-metre flowers achieved in recent times.

However some arduous yakka to irrigate the sector in time for Saturday’s opening ensured travellers and visiting birds and bees had been delighting within the yellow-hued blooms.

Ms McGrath, who mentioned the occasion wouldn’t be what it was with out her youngsters’s involvement, mentioned it additionally showcased what small farms might do by pondering outdoors the box.

Whereas some tardy flowers had been nonetheless to bloom, she anticipated travellers had about a fortnight to absorb the sights earlier than the annual buds’ lights dimmed.

The flower maze is open seven days.