Our English farm is looking splendid and although the shorter days in the lead up to autumn mean that our yield of scented garden roses is starting to slow down we're still picking lots of fresh roses and wonderful foliage and herbs. This weeks best selling bouquet has freshly harvested pink and white snowberries included in it and we've started picking our seasonal red rose hips which we're currently designing into our range.

So what else is happening on the farm?

Well, all of the chick's and duck's born this summer are almost fully grown now. There are lots of small birds feasting on the rubrifolia hips and the blackberries, which we no longer pick for bouquets as they have become soft.

The Bees from the hives are making good use of the open sedum, which we are picking for bouquets, and some late summer flowers on the rose hips.

Around the open fields on our farm we have planted Bee strips consisting of wild flowers which are now teeming with Bees - a truly spectacular sight.

I'm delighted to report that our farm manager has also been harvesting potatoes, sweet corn and two very large pumpkins from one of our empty beds which he's made excellent use of before the bed is planted up with next years herbs!