With lockdown restrictions easing, and overseas holidays looking unlikely, it is the perfect time to explore the best sights on the Isle of Wight.

Flowers are beginning to bloom, filling fields with vibrant colours and scrumptious scents.

Popular spots such as Newtown National Nature Reserve are always winners when it comes to flower displays, but there are lesser-known areas guaranteed to be covered in vibrant blooms this spring and summer.

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Here are five of the best flower fields on the Island:

Newtown National Nature Reserve

The meadows at Newtown National Nature Reserve are full of flowers. In good years, there's a mass of green-winged orchids in May. The muddy estuary is home to many salt marsh species.

Borthwood Copse

Isle of Wight County Press: Image: PA WIREImage: PA WIRE

Borthwood Copse comes alive with flowers before the leaves of the trees take up the light. Wood anemones and bluebells are especially good here. If you visit in late April and May, you'll find a carpet of blue beneath the ancient oak trees.

 St Helens Duver

St Helens Duver is renowned for its flowers, both in the grassland of the old golf links where you may find the rare autumn squill and around its marshy shore.

The unimproved open downland hosts a mass of spring and summer flowers, such as a carpet of bird's-foot trefoil on Bonchurch Down.

The sunflower field

Isle of Wight County Press: Amanda Fyles from Island Dance Wizards enjoys dancing in the Garlic Farm sunflowers.Picture by Graham Reading Photography at www.grahamreading.com Amanda Fyles from Island Dance Wizards enjoys dancing in the Garlic Farm sunflowers.Picture by Graham Reading Photography at www.grahamreading.com

It was one of the most photographed fields on the Isle fo Wight last year. The sunflower field near the Garlic Farm in Newchurch has been visited by hundreds of Islanders and visitors desperate to catch a glimpse of the sea of vibrant yellow.

Poppy fields in Yaverland

This island beauty spot is covered in a sea of red during the summer months, making a perfect spot for photographers to snap a picture.

Have we missed your favourite spot? Let us know below.