Mikey Naert, 5, and Jack Naert, 2, play on a giant chair, during the Sunflower Festival at Blake’s Orchard & Cider Mill in Armada, Michigan, on August 9, 2024. (Photo by Emily Elconin/Reuters)





Tourists walk amongst lavender fields on Castle Farm in Shoreham, Kent, southern Britain, 23 July 2024. Lavender is collected before being steamed to separate the oils. Lavender oil is commonly used in aromatherapy and to scent perfumes, oils and soaps. Lavender has benefits such as aiding sleep, calming stress, and relieving skin complaints. (Photo by Neil Hall/EPA/EFE)





Zhenya Dove, an activist and volunteer from Kherson, Ukraine, who is based in Edinburgh, explores the sunflower fields at Balgone in East Lothian on Friday, August 23, 2024. The sunflower is the national flower of Ukraine and a symbol of peace. August 24th is Independence Day of Ukraine where members of the Ukrainian community come together to commemorate those who have been killed in the most recent conflict and also celebrate the anniversary of signing the Declaration of Independence in 1991. (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)





A woman harvests blue-and-purple flower petals of saffron in a field of the village of Krokos, near Kozani, north-west Greece on November 1, 2024. Beneath the beautiful flowers, which can fetch five to nine euros ($5.45-9.8) for a single gram, the earth is cracked and parched after uncommonly long periods of drought. (Photo by Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP Photo)





Seven-year-old Ruby Macis explores the stunning sunflower field at Balgone Estate, East Lothian, UK on August 6 2024, which prepares to open to the public for the second year this week with quarter of a million sunflowers over seven acres. (Photo by South West News Service)





People visit a sunflower field in Abbotsford, Canada, August 4, 2024. Covering over 45 acres, this field is planted with 25 different varieties of sunflowers, attracting thousands of visitors in midsummer. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Thousands of people pick free tulips on national tulip day, which marked the opening of the 2025 tulip season, on Museum Square, in front of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Saturday, January 18, 2025. (Photo by Phil Nijhuis/AP Photo)





Carl Hamnett puts the finishing touches to the Northern Committee National Dahlia Society display ahead of the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show at Newby Hall and Gardens near Ripon, UK on Thursday, September 12, 2024. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images)





A farmer checks mustard flowers in a field on the outskirts of Ajmer, India on December 15, 2024. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/AFP Photo)





Declan Belcher, a gardener at Exbury Gardens in Southampton, UK inspects the opening panicles of the Hydrangea paniculata, known as “Phantom” early August 2024. The estate has a dedicated hydrangea walk, equivalent to the length of six Olympic-sized swimming pools. (Photo by Russell Sach/The Times)





A couple have their picture taken besides sunflower fields, at Becketts Farm in Wythall, Worcestershire, UK on Monday, August 26, 2024. (Photo by Jacob King/PA Images via Getty Images)





Children run at a lavender field in Tongliao, in northern China's Inner Mongolia region on July 22, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





An Ezo red fox is caught sunbathing under a bed of Ramanas roses in Hokkaido, Japan in the first decade of September 2024. Ezo is a Japanese word meaning “foreigner” and refers to the historical lands of the Ainu people to the north of Honshu, which the Japanese named Ezo-chi. Their habitat ranges widely from grassland to alpine belts in Hokkaido. (Photo by Ayami Kawai/Media Drum Images)





A rhinoceros snacks on water hyacinths beside a major road through the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India in the last decade of January 2024, unbothered by the hustle and bustle a few metres away. (Photo by Megh Roy Choudhury/Solent News)





Jake, a three-year-old Weimaraner, bounds through the fields at Cotswold Lavender, a family farm that grows 140 miles of the plant on the edge of Snowshill, UK on July 22, 2024. (Photo by Talvinder Chohan/Media Drum Images)