Summer in Scotland means the return of world class soft fruit. Many fruit farms across the country offer a pick your own experience, and have done for years.
But more recently, some have expanded into pick your own sunflowers, with many also offering sunflower trails. It’s a fun day out for all the family. Here are some of the best places in Scotland to pick your own sunflowers.
This family-run farm has a sunflower maze and opens for pick your own flowers. Last year you could book to do this from late July, with the flower picking season running throughout August.
Visitors can walk through the sunflower maze, with activities for children also available. Sunflowers were priced at £1 per stem or six stems for £5.
The farm is also home to Scottish honeyberries, which are also available to pick. These small blue fruits are a member of the edible honeysuckle family and have great health benefits.
Find out more about the farm and pick your own on their Facebook page.
This popular farm, which opens every summer for fruit picking also has a maze, farm activities, a farm shop, a tea room and a holiday cottage.
As well as pick your own strawberries in the summer and pumpkins in the autumn, in late summer visitors can walk in the small field of sunflowers and pick their own blooms.
Find out more about all the activities at Cairnie Fruit Farm on their website.
This farm, located about two miles from North Berwick, is a hive of activity throughout the year being an arable farm.
You might know it as having a huge pumpkin patch, with pick your own pumpkins taking place in October. But in summer, there’s a seven acre field of sunflowers, which you can book to pick.
The team donate 10 percent of sunflower sales to Brain Power, an extension of Brain Tumour Research.
There’s a coffee shop on the farm, but during the pick your own season there’s street food available.
Find out more on the Balgone Estate website.
This fruit farm has been welcoming families to pick their own fruit over the summer season for years. There’s a cafe and deli and plenty of activities for kids.
Fruit picking includes strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants, brambles and cherries.
In late summer you can visit to also pick sunflowers.
Find out more on the Craigies website.
This popular farm shop, just off the A9 in Tibbermore near Perth, is owned and run by third generation farmers.
It has a busy deli, coffee shop, farm shop, in-house butchery and gift shop making it an ideal place to stop for a bite to eat.
You can make a day of it with the sunflower picking. Sadly the bad weather this year has meant that the crops aren’t great, but stick August 2025 in the diary for a sunflower trail day.
