Stop and Smell the Tulips

In rural-exurban Northern Virginia, a look at true open space

In Tuesday’s piece, I mentioned a flower farm in Prince William County, Virginia, where my wife and I go twice a year to pick flowers (tulips in the spring, sunflowers in the summer.)

It’s 50 miles from Washington, D.C., and it’s in a pretty rural area. But over the last 20 years, and continuing to today, exurban sprawl has edged all the way out here. Ri…