Flower Pressing with JamJar Flowers

A special exhibition of pressed botanicals will be hosted at Thyme, during Wild Meadow season, by JamJar Flowers. Founder, Melissa Richardson, shares her wisdom on the do’s and don’ts of wildflower picking

The Wonderment of Wildflowers

In one square meter of wild flower meadow the diversity of plants which in turn support the wildlife is astonishing, meadowlands being arguably Britain’s most biodiverse habitat.

Co-founder of JamJar Flowers, Melissa Richardson, shares her wisdom on the do’s and don’ts of wildflower picking.

Thyme x Plantlife

Thyme is proud to announce that we are a Patron of Plantlife, the conservation charity which helps landowners to restore and create their own meadows and owns and manages meadow reserves across Britain.

Tusk is delighted to partner with Thyme in promoting the conservation of wild spaces at a time when biodiversity needs protecting more than ever. Tusk was founded 30 years ago to safeguard the wildlife and habitats of Africa.

In 1823 John Keble (of Fairford) became Vicar of Southrop and Eastleach. and lived at The Lodge (then called Southrop Parsonage) from 1823 to 1827.

Towards the end of September there was a palpable change in the weather, the air was cooler and the summery days where we basked in warm sunshine and were surrounded by butterflies at Thyme, seemed to be over.

Southrop Manor Farm House was built in 1623, and its Tithe Barn would have been built around this time too.

Since the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536 (Southrop Manor being one until then), the English population had lived quietly for fifty years.

There is much evidence of medieval farming around Southrop. Farming techniques then involved piling up the soil in long rows known as ‘ridge and furrow’.

In 43AD the Emperor Claudius's troops invaded Britain and the conquest had properly begun.

Every year we plan very carefully what we are going to grow in the kitchen garden.

One of our most magnificent spaces is our Grade 2 listed Tithe Barn. Dating back to the early 17th century, its purpose was to serve the farm, for flail threshing and the storing of grain or pulse crops and would have been filled right up to the eaves, or even higher.