Pennsylvania in bloom: 14 flower festivals to check out in 2025
Revel in color and natural beauty at these flower festivals coming to Pennsylvania in 2025.
With spring nearly upon us, flowers all over the state will soon be blossoming! What better way to mark the turn of seasons than by heading to a flower festival this year?
You can find Pennsylvania festivals celebrating cultivated flowers like tulips and lavender as well as native plants and wildflowers. Plus, you’ll be supporting your local flower farmers. Read on to learn about the flower festivals you can add to your calendar in 2025.
Philadelphia Flower Show – Philadelphia
Dates: March 1-9, 2025
Organized by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the Philadelphia Flower Show is the country’s largest and longest-running horticultural show. It’s not a typical outdoor flower festival, but it’s not to be missed; each year, renowned floral and garden designers craft exquisite exhibits based on a theme. The 2025 show’s theme is “Gardens of Tomorrow,” so expect a futuristic flair in the floral designs. If you missed this year’s show, as it is held before spring even gets here, make sure to be there in 2026!
Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival – Philadelphia
Dates: April 5-6, 2025
Philadelphia’s annual Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival, hosted by the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia, is a spring celebration not just of the beautiful cherry blossom, but also of Japanese art and culture. After all, the festival incorporates the Japanese tradition of hanami, which refers to enjoying the beauty of flowers, especially the pink and white cherry blossoms. The cherry blossom festival takes place in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park, where the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia has planted more than 1,000 cherry blossom trees. Alongside the blooms, there will be live music and entertainment, a vendor fair, family activities, food and drink, and even karaoke.
Tulip Festival – Hellam
Dates: April 9-29, 2025 (Tentative)
Flinchbaugh’s Orchard & Farm Market hosted its first Tulip Festival with 40,000 blooms in 2024, and this year’s spring festival is bound to be even lovelier with even more tulips! The festival centers around the farm’s U-Pick tulip field, where visitors can choose their own flowers to cut and take home. The farm market will also have children’s activities as well as photo opportunity stations throughout the tulip field.
Festival of the Peony – Chadds Ford
Dates: May 16-26, 2025
The Festival of the Peony is hosted each year by Styer’s Peonies in Chadds Ford. Styer’s is the farm that originally cultivated peonies to sell so that people could enjoy fresh peonies in their homes even if they didn’t have a garden. At the festival, you can both walk through the peony fields or drive around them to fully experience the glory of the peonies. Fresh-cut flowers will be sold at the festival gate—definitely don’t cut your own!
Celebration of the Roses Festival – Philadelphia
Date: May 24, 2025
A smaller one-day community festival, the Celebration of the Roses Festival is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy historic blooming roses while learning about the Wyck House in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia. You can take guided tours of the rose garden and the historic Wyck House, and you can also explore a vendor market with locally made crafts as well as food and drink.
Mountain Laurel Festivals
Pennsylvania State Laurel Festival – Wellsboro
Dates: June 14-22, 2025
The Pennsylvania State Laurel Festival is a community festival honoring the blooming of the state flower, the mountain laurel. Held in downtown Wellsboro, the festival has food, entertainment, and arts and crafts vendors. It’s a great reason to head to Wellsboro, because you can also visit the nearby Pennsylvania Grand Canyon and see mountain laurel in full bloom.
Brookville Laurel Festival – Brookville
Dates: June 14-21, 2025
The Brookville Laurel Festival takes place in Brookville’s town square and offers live entertainment, food, and a vendor marketplace, all to mark the annual blooming of the mountain laurel. Brookville is near many natural areas that will be covered with the pink and white blooms of the mountain laurel during its peak season in June. For instance, Clear Creek State Forest, just north of Brookville, has a driving loop through laurel fields.
Lavender Festivals
Hanover Lavender Festival – Hanover
Dates: June 21-22, 2025
The Hanover Lavender Festival is hosted by Swan Hollow Farms, home to expansive fields of lavender. At this homey festival, you can pick your own lavender, browse local artisan booths, have a photo shoot, listen to live music, enjoy kids’ activities, and even take a swim in the farm’s creek! You can even BYOB.
Pennsylvania Lavender Festival – Milton
Dates: June 28-29, 2025
The Pennsylvania Lavender Festival will be held at Blue Sparrow Farms with live music and entertainment, as well as vendors selling lavender-themed food, drink, and crafts. The festival is also planning kids’ activities alongside the best activity—frolicking in the lavender fields.
Lavender Festival at Maple Lawn Farms – Milton
Dates: June 2025 (Exact dates TBA)
Maple Lawn Farms’s Lavender Festival is two weekends full of the calming scent of lavender. Visitors take a wagon ride out to the lavender fields and can harvest their own bouquet while taking plenty of pictures. Meanwhile, back at the farm, festivalgoers can dance to live music, grab fresh food and drinks, and enjoy treats like lavender ice cream.
Wildflower Festival – Valencia
Dates: July 19-20, 2025 and July 26-27, 2025
Held at Freedom Farms near Pittsburgh, the Wildflower Festival is an annual event celebrating the farm’s blooming sunflowers, zinnias, snapdragons, and gomphrena. Visitors take a ride to the flower fields where they can pick their own bouquets. The festival also has food and drink, live music, and even a sunflower maze.
Sunflower Festivals
Sunflowers grow all across the state, and you need not limit yourself to just one sunflower festival! Pennsylvania is home to a number of festivals celebrating this tall, bright flower. We’ve highlighted sunflower festivals across the season.
Sunflower Festival at Smithmyer’s Farm – Patton
Date: July 26, 2025
You can celebrate summer at Smithmyer’s Farm Sunflower Festival, a one-day community event with live entertainment, art, food, wine and spirits, and of course, wide fields of sunflowers!
Sunflower Festival at The Wilds Sonshine Factory – Kane
Dates: Aug. 22-24, 2025
The Wilds Sonshine Factory is not a farm, but a distillery that makes spirits out of sunflower seeds! The Sunflower Festival takes place adjacent to the sunflower fields where The Wilds Sonshine Factory grows its sunflowers. Against a backdrop of blooms, the festival has live music, lots of local art and food vendors, kids’ activities, and a car and bike show.
Sunflower Festival at Meadowbrooke Gourds – Carlisle
Dates: September 2025 (Exact dates TBA)
Held at the start of fall, the Sunflower Festival at Meadowbrooke Gourds is a little different from most—it’s entirely free! You can pick sunflowers in the fields to bring home for free, and you can also enjoy gourd market sales, arts and crafts vendors, live music, food trucks, and more.
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