Never too early for Christmas Shopping!

The website is running again! and you can now buy all our products online!

Closing 2012 season tomorrow

Its a nice day here to visit us and we close tomorrow so why not pop along if you're close by. Lots of gift ideas for Christmas in the barn - it will be here before you know it!

Harvesting!

Almost finished the harvesting now. There are still several rows left and will be until we close on for the season THIS SUNDAY!

We're still open!

The field is now half harvested and the display area is beginning to take shape!! We're still open! and there is plenty left to buy in the shop!!!!

Pick Me!!

Last few sunflowers and fresh lavender available to cut over the next few days!

We close on Sunday 16th September for the year so if you're looking for early Christmas presents....

Sunflower Shots

Pick your own lavender and 5 sunflowers for £4 - cracking day here at the farm!!

Sunflowers are blooming!

Sunflowers are up and there is still plenty of lavender out as well - make the most of the last of the summer and come and see something stunning!

View from above

Some photos taken yesterday afternoon from a light aircraft - incredible experience shared with Nick and Dad.

Sunflower season about to begin!

The sunflowers are slowly opening up in their tens and hundreds but still approx 100,000 left to open so there is some to pick but photographers need wait until probably the middle to end of next week - but the lavender is still very good and there are many still in bud with the flower to follow - so the purple will definitely clash with the yellow!

Sunflowers are almost here!

Later varieties are yet to bloom and the bulk of the field is looking great for another 3 weeks! Will definitely get the sunflower and lavender clash!!!

Full Bloom!!!

Lavender just now coming into full bloom - all of August looking good as we were so late flowering due all the rain. Thanks Geoff Robinson for these fantastic shots

Summer!

Summer is here at last!

Blog alert!

Have a look at this great site fellow lavender lovers! http://snazzybiscuits.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/lavender-shortbread/ Great blog Amy!

Noel & Camilo in Papers!

Lavender is beginning to pick up with every ounce of sun that we are gracious for! Over the last month between rain... we have had several papers publish shots of the farm. Camilo appeared in both The Express and The Mirror and was also on the Daily Mail Online whilst Maria Noel today featured on both The Telegraph Online and The Daily Mail

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9395764/Lavender-fields-bask-in-rare-sunshine.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2162406/Buttercup-invasion-topsy-turvy-summer.html

No rain today........

We've been told no rain today...... - it's a good day to visit us and pick fresh lavender from the field then! A reminder that we are also selling tickets for the Rachel Warne photography workshop on Friday 27th July (contact the farm)> If you havent heard of her - open her site and her work! www.rachelwarne.co.uk

Picking Season has Begun!

Pick your own has now started! so for a teeny weeny entrance fee you can now take away a bag of freshly cut and highly scented flowers - (which if dried properly can last years!) ......and it's not even raining here!

We're still free to visit!

Taken this morning!

A magnificent day!

We are still on cloud nine and will be for some time for having been privileged to have met The Queen! For us to have made Her Majesty a lavender bouquet from our fields was honour enough! After asking us about the farms history and showing real interest in what we do, The Queen smiled broadly and told us that they also grow lavender at Sandringham!

Bouquet for Her Majesty

Very proud indeed to be able to say that a Hitchin Lavender bouquet designed and created by Maria Noel will be presented to Her Majesty The Queen when she visits Hitchin tomorrow.

First purple!

It's stopped raining - so if you're close by its free for the time being to go into the fields as due to the recent poor weather some of the lavenders are a bit behind. However there are some rows beginning to blossom nicely! and the shop/restaurant is open!! Still a few weeks though until the bulk of the crop goes purple!!!! See you soon

How the lavender is looking!

Its a scorcher - why not get yourselves down to Hitchin Lavender! The fields are very green at the moment so you wont see the purple just yet! but we do a mean cream tea and there are plenty of smashing proucts too browse through and plenty of lavender plants as well. It's free to wander around for another few weeks as well.

Opening Today!

Hitchin Lavender is now OPEN but remember if you are coming from afar that the lavender WONT be in bloom until around MID-JUNE! The tea room is looking stunning and all our products and plants are available for purchase and it is free to wander around as we prepare for the flowering season!

Two weeks to go

Just two weeks to go now and we're busy rushing about attempting to get everything ready for 5th May - the barn is coming together nicely as are the plants that we're digging up from the nursery - the rain has been great for them..but... has also been a bit too nice for the weeds as well!

OPEN 5th MAY

Hitchin Lavender will be opening for the season this year on Saturday 5th May (that's just three weeks away!) Loads of new products, lots more lavender plants and still a lovely place for a cup of tea!