Want a photo like the one at the right?
We took this photo just outside the Tuscan town of San Gimignano at the end of June, and got lucky that we found a full field of sunflowers blooming in their prime.
Sunflowers can decide to bloom anytime between mid-June and early August, in the regions of Tuscany, Umbria and Le Marche. So July is a good bet, but many of the fields last just a week so it may take some hunting.
They bloom earlier further south (in Le Marche around Rome) and later further north, as you get up into Tuscany.
The good news is that if you arrive early for the sunflowers, you may catch the fields of red poppies which I think are equally stunning.
