A garden-centre fall festival in Davie that runs seven days a week for roughly six weeks — the most flexible and lowest-commitment pumpkin stop in Broward, and the right choice for toddlers rather than for a full day out.
Sources conflict and no 2026 pricing is published. Mommy Poppins lists free admission with fees for some activities. An older listing showed $15.00 and up, which appears to cover activity packages rather than gate entry.
Rough cost for a family of four: about $60.00 in admission alone at the posted starting rate, before pumpkins, food, parking or any add-on listed above. Most families end up well north of that once they are through the gate.
Free to walk in. Your spend here is whatever you choose — pumpkins, food, and any paid activities. That makes it a low-risk stop if you are not sure how long the kids will last.
Flamingo Road Nursery is a garden centre, not a farm, and that distinction explains almost everything about how the fall festival feels. There is no acreage to cross, no tractor ride around a working field, no crop. There is a retail nursery in Davie that spends six weeks each autumn filling its display space with pumpkins, cornstalks, hay bales, scarecrows and mums, and running hayrides behind an antique tractor for the children.
Judged as a farm, that is thin. Judged as what it is — a 45-minute fall outing in western Broward that costs you nothing to walk into — it is one of the more sensibly designed things on our South Florida list.
Most Florida patches open Friday to Sunday for three or four weekends, which forces an entire county’s families through the same handful of Saturdays. Flamingo Road runs seven days a week from the end of September into the first week of November, opening at 8am, because it is a shop that is open anyway.
The practical effect is that you can go on a Tuesday morning in early October, take your photographs in reasonable light, let a toddler paint a pumpkin without a queue, and be gone before the heat arrives. Nothing about the day requires planning, tickets or a chosen weekend. In a state where the pumpkin-patch calendar is otherwise a scramble, that is worth a lot.
The weekends are a different product: live music, BBQ and food vendors, weekly themes, and the Creative Scarecrow Contest. If you want the event version rather than the quiet version, that is when to come — and the nursery’s own page is the only reliable source for what is on which weekend.
Two Florida realities work in this place’s favour. The first is rain. Afternoon thunderstorms run well into October, and a farm’s parking field turns to mud; a garden centre has a proper lot and made paths. The second is heat. Nurseries are built around shade structures and plants that need protection, which makes them meaningfully more tolerable in September than an open pasture with a corn maze in it.
Neither of those is a detail the nursery advertises, and we are inferring both from what a retail garden centre physically is rather than from anything published. But if a Saturday looks stormy, this is the South Florida patch most likely to still be pleasant.
This is the honest gap in the record. One family-guide listing describes free admission with fees for individual activities. An older listing showed $15 and up, which reads like an activity package rather than a gate charge. The nursery itself published no 2026 pricing when we checked.
The free-to-browse model is the more consistently reported and the one that fits a retail business, and we would plan around it — but plan around the activities too. Hayrides, paint-a-pumpkin and the kids’ crafts are the things that carry fees, and they are also the things your children will want. Decide in the car.
A weekday morning. The nursery opens at 8am and the festival runs every day for about six weeks, which is a longer and looser window than almost any farm in South Florida — there is no reason to fight a Saturday crowd here. If a specific themed weekend or the scarecrow contest is what you want, that is the one case for going at the weekend, and the nursery's own page is the only place those are announced.
Forty-five minutes to an hour and a half. This is a garden centre with a seasonal display, a maze, hayrides and a craft table, not a park you can spend a day in. Treating it as a stop rather than a destination is how it earns its reputation.
Six weeks, seven days a week, in a garden centre that has other customers to serve — that combination spreads the crowd better than the three-weekend farm model. Weekends with live music, food vendors and a themed event will be the exception.
A garden centre lot rather than a farm field, which is a genuine advantage in a Florida October. It means a hard surface between the car and the pumpkins on a day when a farm patch would have you walking through mud.
Not documented, but a retail nursery is structurally more navigable than a farm: paved or compacted paths between beds, permanent restrooms, and a shop you can retreat into. Anything off the main paths, such as the maze or the hayride, is a different matter — call if that is the deciding factor.
You want a big festival with rides, mazes on a farm scale and a whole afternoon of programming. It is also the wrong venue for older children — a paint-a-pumpkin table and a photo garden will not hold a ten-year-old for long.
Bedner's Farm Fresh Market in Boynton Beach is the paid, full-scale working-farm version of this outing, about an hour north up the Turnpike. The two work well as a contrast rather than a same-day pair: Flamingo Road for a cheap morning close to home, Bedner's when you want to make a day of it.
Sources conflict and the nursery published no 2026 pricing when we last checked. One listing describes free admission with fees for individual activities; an older listing showed $15 and up, which appears to describe activity packages rather than gate entry. The free-to-browse-with-paid-activities model is the more consistently reported one, but confirm before you budget.
The nursery's own site says only that it runs from the end of September to the first week of November and had not published exact 2026 dates when we checked. Roughly six weeks, seven days a week.
It is one of the better options in Broward for that age. Small site, no haunted attractions, a craft table, hayrides and a photo garden, and no gate fee if the visit is short.
No, and nowhere in Florida are they. The state's climate cannot support a commercial fall pumpkin crop, so pumpkins at every Florida patch are trucked in and arranged.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Open 7 days a week. Check with the farm before driving out.
Admission is free. Sources conflict and no 2026 pricing is published. Mommy Poppins lists free admission with fees for some activities. An older listing showed $15.00 and up, which appears to cover activity packages rather than gate entry.
1655 S Flamingo Road, Davie, FL 33325, in Broward County. It is one of 10 patches we track in South Florida.
We track 10 patches in South Florida, 4 of which are free to walk into. At $15 a head this one sits below the regional median of $20.99, undercutting 4 of the 4 paid patches we track here. Entry here costs nothing, which puts it in the minority even in a region with several free options.
What sets it apart locally: it has hayrides, a market, bakery or taproom, which most South Florida patches on our list do not.
One caveat worth repeating: this farm had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 4 of the 10 patches we track in South Florida had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the farm confirms it.
There are 2 other patches we track in Broward County. All South Florida patches →
flamingoroadnursery.com · mommypoppins.com · thekidonthego.com
Checked August 2026.