GRANDVIEW, Iowa — “If you build it, they will come.”

Grandview’s Nicole and Bryce Hoben hope so.

The owners of Barnyard Blooms have their cornfield maze just about ready to go, and they’re hoping it’s a home run with customers.

But they already know it is with movie star Kevin Costner.

The husband-and-wife team have carved out this year’s theme for the maze: “Baseball: America ’s Favorite pastime” — a theme which snagged them a meeting with Kevin Costner, star of the 1989 baseball fantasy movie, “Field of Dreams.”

“We love baseball and we wanted to do something related to Iowa,” said Nicole Hoben. She and her husband, Bryce, own and operate Barnyard Blooms Garden Center and Gift Shop and are huge St. Louis Cardinals fans.

So they cut and they mowed the outlines of a baseball diamond, the state, a barn, and the words “Is this Heaven” into a seven-acre maze that will be open in September. This is the third annual corn maze the Hobens have created.

Nicole was listening to the radio when she heard of a contest that listeners could enter to meet Kevin Costner, who starred in “Field of Dreams.” The movie is about an Iowa corn farmer who hears voices and interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his field. He does, and the Chicago Black Sox come, just as the movie’s famous line, “if you build it, they will come,” promised.

Costner, who now performs with the band Modern West, was coming to the Col Ballroom in Davenport to perform on July 28. For the radio contest, listeners had to write a brief story about why they’d like to meet the movie star and musician. Nicole wrote about the maze and a week later heard that she had won two free tickets and a personal meeting with Costner.

“They let us go on his tour bus and we met some of the band members,” she said. “He liked the maze and was appreciative that we came and took the time to show him a picture of it.”

Hoben said Costner was a “very nice guy” and though she had never listened to his music before the concert, “he was very good.”

She said she and Bryce love all of Costner’s movies, especially Dances with Wolves and Bull Durham. Bryce Hoben brought his copy of Field of Dreams to the concert for Costner to autograph and they also had him sign a picture of the maze.

“We like pretty much all of his movies; he’s just good,” Nicole said.

The Hobens’ maze was cut in late June when the corn was about six-inches tall. The corn was planted in a grid allowing them to follow a pattern to mow the shapes into the field. They have to keep mowing the pattern about every other week so that the maze doesn’t get overgrown.

Weather permitting; the maze will be open Tuesday, Sept. 8.

At A Glance

Details

What: Barnyard Blooms Corn Maze

Where: 337 Cemetery Lane, Grandview

Maze hours: Opens Tuesday, Sept. 8. 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Tuesday-Thursday;

Noon-9 p.m., Fridays; 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Saturdays; 1-6 p.m., Sundays

Phone: 319-729-2222

Cost: ages 3 and younger, free; ages 4-11, $5; ages 12 and older, $6. Tickets are sold until one hour prior to closing.

On the weekends, hayrack rides and campfires will be available for families.

Online

www.barnyardbloomsonline.com/