Sunflower Fields Near Midwest City
Oklahoma Tulips in Harrah, minutes east of Midwest City, is where to cut your own sunflowers: the spring tulip rows are resown with sunflowers and zinnias for a fall picking season. You can walk in during open hours and pay on arrival. Also in Harrah, Cross Timbers Christmas Tree Farm grows a sunflower patch too, but it is a place to book a photo session, not to pick.
That is the main divide in this set: four farms let you cut a bouquet, three sell time in the flowers with a camera, and Horn Canna Farm near Carnegie throws a week-long festival. Timing is the other. Most of these fields bloom in June and July, and in September the choices narrow to Oklahoma Tulips, Catoosa Sunflower Farm and Horn Canna's Sunflower Days.
Our picks
- Cutting sunflowers close to Midwest City: Oklahoma Tulips. A fall picking season minutes away in Harrah, with no advance ticket: walk in during open hours and pay per stem or bundle.
- A September day out: Horn Canna Farm Sunflower Days. $5 per person for rows open 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the third full week of September, with props among the flowers and the cannas at peak bloom.
- Early-summer family photos: Cross Timbers Christmas Tree Farm. Booked sessions in a patch that was open June 18 through July 5 in 2026, from $25 for thirty minutes on a rate card dated 2022.
- A bouquet and bedding plants in one trip: Flowers Farms. The you-pick field sits beside a garden center, with the first sunflower crop ready mid-July alongside giant zinnias and cosmos.
- Free entry to the flower rows: Growing Paynes. Free admission on the state tourism listing, plus a shaded self-serve bar with wrap, ribbon and water for finishing the bouquet.
At a glance
| Option | Address | Visit style | Sunflower season | Admission | Booking | Also at the farm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20844 SE 29th Street, Harrah, OK 73045source | U-pick flowerssource | Fallsource | Prices posted each season, paid on arrivalsource | Walk in during open hourssource | Spring u-pick tulip seasonsource | |
| 2161 Harrison Ave, Harrah, OK 73045source | Photo sessionssource | June 18 through July 5 in 2026source | $25.00 for a 30-minute mini session (rate card dated 2022)source | Appointment requiredsource | Pumpkin patch and cut-your-own Christmas treessource | |
| 6028 Newcastle Road, Oklahoma City, OKsource | U-pick flowerssource | First crop ready mid-Julysource | Call or text aheadsource | Garden center and landscaping business that grows its own plantssource | ||
| 12900 S Czech Hall Rd, Mustang, OK 73064source | U-pick flowerssource | Free admissionsource | Call or text aheadsource | Farm store with seasonal fruit and vegetablessource | ||
| 24155 Bryant Ave, Purcell, OK 73080source | U-pick flowerssource | Summersource | Appointment requiredsource | Nearly an acre of seasonal cut flowers, plus eggs and farm producesource | ||
| 3041 County Road 1240, Carnegie, OK 73015source | Seasonal festivalsource | The third full week of Septembersource | $5 per person, $35 for photographerssource | Cut stem flowers for sale and the farm's cannas at peak bloomsource | ||
| 11750 Highway 75, Okmulgee, OK 74447source | Photo sessionssource | Late June through mid-Julysource | $25 for a one-hour photography session, $45 for two hourssource | Appointment requiredsource | Farm tours and photo sessions with the ranch horses, cattle and sheepsource | |
| 9204 E 580 Rd, Catoosa, OK 74015source | Photo sessionssource | July through Septembersource | Appointment requiredsource | Pasture, mature trees, wildflowers, tall grass and a large pond to shoot insource |
U-pick sunflowers or a booked photo session
Of the four picking farms, only Oklahoma Tulips takes walk-ins. Flowers Farms and Growing Paynes both ask you to call or text before coming out, and Petal Pusher Farms in Purcell runs its u-pick as reservation events, with the state tourism listing noting Saturday mornings in season.
The photography venues price by the session. Cross Timbers starts at $25 for thirty minutes, The Prairie Patch in Okmulgee charges $25 for an hour or $45 for two, and Catoosa Sunflower Farm quotes prices only inside its booking scheduler. The Prairie Patch lets guests take phone photos freely; it is professional shoots that must be booked and paid ahead. Horn Canna splits the difference at $5 a head, or $35 for a photographer running sessions in the field.
When Oklahoma sunflowers are in bloom
The summer fields come and go quickly. Cross Timbers' 2026 patch ran June 18 through July 5, The Prairie Patch expects sunflowers late June through mid-July and says plainly they are not guaranteed, Flowers Farms has its first crop mid-July, and Petal Pusher lists summer.
As of September 2026, the live options are Catoosa (July through September), Oklahoma Tulips' fall season, and Horn Canna's Sunflower Days in the third full week of September. Growing Paynes publishes no sunflower dates at all, so ask when you call.
Nearby farms versus the long drives
Three of the eight are close: both Harrah farms and Flowers Farms on Newcastle Road in Oklahoma City. Growing Paynes is across the metro in Mustang and Petal Pusher about thirty miles south of Oklahoma City. Horn Canna near Carnegie is an hour and a half from Oklahoma City, The Prairie Patch roughly an hour and a half east of Midwest City, and Catoosa close to two hours northeast, the longest trip here and the only farm that exists mainly for its sunflowers.
The options in detail
Oklahoma Tulips
A turn-of-the-century dairy farm in Harrah, minutes east of Midwest City, replanted as Oklahoma's largest u-pick tulip field. Spring is tulips; the same rows are sown with sunflowers and zinnias for a second, fall picking season, so this is the closest place to Midwest City where you can cut sunflowers yourself. There is no advance ticket: admission is posted each season and you pay on arrival, then pay per stem or per bundle for what you cut. Hours move with the bloom and the weather, and the farm sends visitors to its Facebook page for the current bloom report before they drive out.
Cross Timbers Christmas Tree Farm
A 1940s-era Christmas tree and pumpkin farm in Harrah whose sunflower patch is run as a photography venue rather than a picking field. The 2026 patch was open June 18 through July 5, and sessions are booked in advance through the farm's booking link; the published rate card starts at $25 for a thirty-minute mini session and runs up to $175 for a ten-hour booking, though the card on the page is dated 2022, so confirm the current rate when you book. The rest of the year the same farm is a no-entry-fee pumpkin patch in October and a cut-your-own tree field in December, with a barrel train, farm animals and a corn pit for children. Owner Gary Eubanks lists a phone number on the photography page for anyone who wants current pricing or venue details.
Flowers Farms
A family-run Oklahoma City landscaping company on Newcastle Road that grows its own plants and opens a you-pick cut-flower field next to the greenhouse. Sunflowers are one of a dozen crops planted for picking: the farm says its first sunflower crop is ready mid-July, alongside five-foot giant zinnias, marigolds, cosmos and celosia. No admission price is published, and the farm asks you to call or text before coming out, with daily updates posted to Facebook. Because it doubles as a garden center, a visit can be a bouquet and bedding plants in one trip.
Petal Pusher Farms
Nearly an acre of seasonal cut flowers on a farm thirty miles south of Oklahoma City, where sunflowers come in over the summer alongside zinnias and dahlias. Picking is not a drop-in: the farm runs limited seasonal u-pick events by reservation, plus floral design classes and evening u-picks sold through its booking page, and state tourism lists it as open to the public on Saturday mornings in season. Guests borrow a bucket and shears, cut their own stems and get help tying the bouquet. Farm-fresh eggs and produce are sold alongside the flowers, and the farm also does wholesale and event floral design.
Horn Canna Farm Sunflower Days
The best-known sunflower event in Oklahoma, and the one place on this list built around a field rather than a photo backdrop. Horn Canna Farm is a working canna farm near Carnegie, an hour and a half from Oklahoma City, that started planting sunflowers as a cover crop in 2019 and now opens the rows for Sunflower Days in the third full week of September, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., with props such as a vintage door and a working piano set among the flowers. Admission is $5 per person, or $35 for photographers shooting sessions in the field, and cut stems are for sale; the farm's signature cannas are at peak bloom at the same time. The farm's own website no longer resolves, so check its Facebook page for this year's dates before making the drive.
The Prairie Patch
A 45-acre homestead and outdoor photography venue in Okmulgee, on the land that used to be J&B Flower Patch, roughly an hour and a half east of Midwest City. Sessions are booked and paid in advance and run $25 for an hour or $45 for two on the main property, with a wooden bridge and back 25 acres, a glass greenhouse and animal encounters priced separately. Flowers are seasonal and the owners are upfront that they are not guaranteed: zinnias and sunflowers typically bloom late June through mid-July, so ask what is in bloom before you book. Guests can take phone photos freely, but professional sessions must be booked and paid ahead.
Catoosa Sunflower Farm
A photography farm outside Tulsa built around its sunflowers, with pasture, mature trees, tall grass and a large pond to shoot in. Sunflower season runs July through September and appointments are required; sessions are booked through the farm's online scheduler, and the property is open year-round for other backdrops once the flowers are done. Pricing is not published on the county tourism listing, so ask when you book. It is the longest drive on this list, close to two hours northeast of Midwest City, and worth it mainly if you want a field that exists for sunflowers rather than a farm that happens to grow them.
How we researched this
A farm counts here when sunflowers are named on a page it controls or on a state or county tourism listing. Parkhurst Ranch in Arcadia and Jahn's Pumpkin Hill in Cyril appeared on a 2020 sunflower-fields list but their own sites now advertise pumpkin seasons and say nothing about sunflowers. P Bar Farms in Hydro, on nearly every Oklahoma sunflower roundup, closed after its 2025 season. Anderson Farms and Western Belle Farm show up in Oklahoma searches but are in Colorado and Texas. J&B Flower Patch is the same land as The Prairie Patch, so it appears once. Dark Water Ranch's sunflower page is gone, OK Cut Flower Co names no sunflowers, and Sweet Pea Farms is still a coming-soon page.
Admission is empty for Flowers Farms, Petal Pusher and Catoosa because none prints a price where it could be read, and Horn Canna never says whether you can simply turn up. Horn Canna's own website no longer loads, so its row relies on the state tourism listing. Bloom dates move with the weather: Oklahoma Tulips and Flowers Farms post bloom updates on Facebook, and Horn Canna's Facebook page is the place to check this year's dates.