Summer at Gather Mountain Blooms, a family-owned flower farm southeast of Colorado Springs, means idyllic days picking bouquets during You-Pick Flowers from 8 a.m. to noon on Fridays, $5 admission, $25 for 20 stems. And for the first time, they’re opening their zinnia fields for flower cutting during Zinnia Days on Saturday and Aug. 1, $10 admission, $25 cup of flowers.

You can listen to a variety of musicians during Music & Blooms from 5:30-8 p.m. Tuesdays through July, $10; and Sunflower Days awaits you from 8 a.m. to noon Aug. 15, 22 and 29, $10, 5210 S. U.S. 85; gathermountainblooms.com. — Jennifer Mulson, The Gazette