THE LATEST FROM THE FIELD

After a scorcher of a summer September has arrived with a clap of thunder and a torrential downpour! Much needed I might say.

I’m ready for autumn, it’s my favourite time of year. Perhaps not so much for the flowers - in my eyes nothing beats those tulips and peonies of spring, but I do love the misty mornings of autumn and usually we still get some decent weather.

We are drawing close to the end of the ‘2025 British flower season’. Whilst the dahlias have a last hurrah in October and still look great in the field I tend to find they lose some vase life as a result of the chillier nights. We will still have some flowers such as chrysanthemums, sunflowers and nerines going into early October but each week we will play it by ear and I’d expect by the second week of October we will be done for the year.

At that point you would think we could take a break but that’s when the work for 2026 starts. To some degree it already has. We started sowing biennials in June, hardy annuals in July and August and we have the ranunculus pre sprouting now. Then we have more foliage to plant in October, tulips to plant in early November and then it’s back to all things Christmas! More on that in November.

Thankyou for all the support this year. I’ve lost count of the number of buckets for events we have done and the flower shed has excelled itself, selling way more bouquets than I could ever have hoped for. Every year teaches me something new, there is always a flower to master, or a horticultural challenge to solve and it’s a great way of life.

I hope if you’ve managed to grab a bunch or two of our home grown Rymans Farm Flowers over the year and that they have brought you or the recipient much joy!

Thanks again

Rymans Farm Flowers

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