Mid June is when the garden is at its most heaving with flowers, and also when the team is busiest.

It was with great delight this week that I picked for the first time the delicate little polyantha roses

It's always a treat when we're visited by the vibrant and incredibly organised Florence Fox, who is responsible for the charming video on the home page of our website.

All the established perennials - we have been here for seven years now…

There have been a lot of very pretty flowers going out from the garden these last few weeks…

Having always disliked the very overbred large yellow trumpets of the daffodils planted under the fluffy pink cherry blossoms next to the cricket ground in the Yorkshire village where I grew up…

On a sunny day, the Flower Garden looks truly springlike now, with blossom billowing from the branches of trees and primroses starring the ground at their feet…

Almost before we know where we are, the bulbs are flowering and we are delivering to our florist customers again.

Last week we moved three established bushes of the beautiful old bourbon rose 'Variegata di Bolonga'.

Well it may be a little overcast and chilly this afternoon…

In the cold and fog, we still have to carry on working: planting the new roses, clearing weeds, taking out old annuals to make way for new plants.

In go the tulips…

The first hard frosts have arrived, blackening our dahlias and bringing an end to our flower deliveries for the year…

As Henry rattled off with his trolley for collecting leaves this morning, taking the dog out…

After a wet dash around the garden to pick flowers on Friday morning, it was the perfect day for putting on the kettle and the radio, and settling down with some bulb catalogues.

The blankety mist this morning, followed by rich golden sunshine lighting up the fallen apples in the orchard and picking out the white sheep on the hills, is powerfully autumnal.

What fun last week to fill the bothy up with buckets of  interesting things from the garden…

The leaves are beginning to turn golden and we feel the change of season in the garden, but we have still been picking buckets and buckets of flowers.

It's taken me a long time to feel confident enough to use things like fully blown roses and things going to seed in our floristry, even though I've often used mature seed heads…

For a wedding in Wales this week we created foamy, frothy flowers in soft shades of pink and cream, with generous foliages in the form of fronds and tendrils.