August 2020

Herbs have been cultivated since the birth of agriculture – as food, medicines and even dyes. In medieval England, herb gardens or physic gardens were an important feature of monasteries, where monks would grow plants to help heal the sick. Herbs also formed part of the earliest Botanic Gardens, founded to study the science of plants in 16th- and 17th-century...

The summer months on our sustainable Hampshire farm are packed with scent and colour. As well as our signature roses – grown with their scent genes intact, as nature intended, to ensure our bouquets have a glorious fragrance as well as spectacular beauty – we grow a wide variety of English garden flowers to add movement and texture to our...