Summer Of Sunflowers - How Tall is your Sunflower?

It’s the ‘height’ of summer and it’s time to find out ‘how tall’ your Sunflowers have grown in our SUMMER OF SUNFLOWERS competition!

Remember - the TALLEST Sunflower will win your family a brand-new balance or child’s bike subject to age 

If you’ve planted seeds from one of our official packs, then send in your sunflower’s height in cm -  (measured to the highest petal) - using the form BELOW  - and no cheating, because we’ll be coming to check the tallest 3 in the week beginning the 19th August
Check all the T’s & C’s below and get measuring!

The Sunshine Summer of Sunflowers with The Farm Patch, formerly Country pumpkins, pick your own flowers, sunflowers, and pumpkins! fun for the whole family – 1 min from Ledbury ….thefarmpatch.co.uk

The Sunshine Summer of Wye Valley Butterfly Zoo – walk with butterflies from around the world, it’s a great day out for the whole family butterflyzoo.co.uk

With thanks to our sponsors The Farm Patch, Ledbury and Wye Valley Butterfly Zoo, Symonds Yat. Find out more about these great local businesses BELOW:

Starting in 2020… The Farm Patch – formerly Country Pumpkins – is a family-run PYO business, based 1 minute from Ledbury, just around the corner from the Heineken* factory. 

In summer we grow a huge variety of cut flowers (Zinnias, Larkspur, Malope, Marigolds, and many more!) and several varieties of Sunflowers too. The Patch is the perfect spot for a summer picnic or a picturesque escape to the countryside. We offer food and beverages, including our delicious Pizzas – which are always a hit! There is also a Giant Sunflower Maze and Bee Trail to explore (and learn more about bees and their importance: You will find every kind of bee at the Patch, as there is an abundance of food for them). Guests can pick flowers and make their own beautiful bouquets. 

In Autumn the pumpkins are ready for Harvest! We don’t just plant a single variety like the traditional Harvest Moon either! We also grow several special spooky pumpkins – like Knuckleheads, Crown Prince, Spitfire, Zombie, and Chucky. There are also the extremely popular mini-pumpkins! Such as Jill be Little, Casperita, and Sweet Lightening. These are perfect miniature pumpkins for decorations and seasonal displays around the home. All our pumpkins are edible and very delicious too! Like the Summer season, we offer a range of beverages and our delicious pizza! 

At the end of the Halloween season, we allow gleaming charities to collect the remaining Pumpkins and we leave the Sunflowers for the wild birds and rodents to enjoy over winter. Visit their website HERE

You can walk with butterflies from around the world. Wye Valley Butterfly Zoo is indoors, it’s tropical and it’s teeming with exotic butterflies.

Living butterflies fly around as you discover their fascinating lives in close-up. They’re amazing.

See for yourself every stage of their life-cycle: Egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and some of the world’s most beautiful butterflies.
The butterfly farm is within walking distance of Forest Holidays in the Forest of Dean between Monmouth and Ross on Wye at Symonds Yat in the Wye Valley.

Visit their website HERE

SUMMER OF SUNFLOWER – CONTEST RULES
1.    The Summer of Sunflowers contest is open from April 26th 2024 and is open to participants living within the Sunshine Radio transmission area for the duration of 6 weeks or until all seed envelopes have been collected.
2.    You can be young at heart to enter, but you must be up to 16 years old to win.
3.    Official seed packets are available from the locations listed above.
4.    Only seeds provided by Sunshine Radio are to be used in the contest.
5.    Retain seed packet as proof of entry as this will be required for the final.
6.    Final measuring for the entrants must take place in the week of August 5th to the 9th. 
7.    Judging will take place at the locations of the 3 tallest sunflowers on August 19th to 23rd .
8.    Participants must make themselves available for judging on the above dates or risk forfeiting their place in the final. 
9.    Participants are encouraged to send in photos as part of their entry into the final.
10.     The final prize will be awarded to the tallest sunflower as measured from soil point to the highest possible stem point by the judges and only the judges.
11.     The judge’s decision is final.
12.     Sunshine Radio retains the right to substitute the prize in the event of problems with the supplier.
13.     Multiple entrants from the same address will be disqualified.
14.     Sunshine Radio reserves the right to disqualify any entrant deemed to have cheated in line with the Stations’ general contest T’s & C’s found here: https://www.sunshineradio.co.uk/general-contest-rules/ 
15.    Prize is a brand new Childrens’ Bicycle or Balance Bike, which must be collected from Chris’s Cycles, Evenjobb.