For the last several years, excluding 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, downtown Raleigh has had an 8-acre field of sunflowers every summer. It is part of a city park on the former grounds of Dorothea Dix Hospital. The parks and recreation department harvests the sunflower seeds at the end of the season to produce biofuel for their fleet. We've known about it, but today we finally visited the sunflowers ourselves. It was worth the wait even with the haze in the air!
