Carlsbad flowers

Had the day off today and decided to do a small road trip to see the flowers in Carlsbad. They usually bloom for about 6 weeks and I didn't want to miss out on it. There were lots of flowers, row upon row upon row.

Fields of flowers.

Some roses - there was a rose garden with a variety of roses. Most I've never heard of before and some of the colors were quite impressive.

Sunflower and a bee if you look close enough. There was a sweet pea area with many colors of sweet peas. I never knew they flowered with so many colors since I've only seen the white flowers. It was amazing. Plus, they had built a maze from the sweet pea fence.  

One of many roses - this is called 4th of July.

Yup, that one on the left is a flower although I'm not sure what it is. Some of the flowers looked like they were plastic and in the gift shop there were some plastic flowers that looked extremely real.

Even I turned into a flower...

It took a few moments to realize this was the huge flower flag that has been advertised as the largest US flag in the world made of flowers.

Here are the red and white stripes of the flag...

And here are the blue flowers in the flag...

This is an older picture I snagged from the internet of an aerial view of the flower bed flag. Quite amazing.

This is also an aerial view of the field of flowers. It's an older photo that was next to the history of Carlsbad flowers. Most of these flowers are cut and sold, some of the seedlings are sold off as well.