The month of July brings with it colour, sunshine and gloriously long, golden days. We are also feeling the heat and with temperatures soaring making work in the garden challenging, early morning starts are the order of the day. There is something very special about the first few hours of the day.

From Lorfords, L-shaped: “July sees Thyme’s kitchen garden bursting at the seams with sweet, plump produce. Thyme’s founder Caryn and her son – Chef Director, Charlie Hibbert are deep in conversation about next year and what they want to add to their wide range of produce in Thyme’s kitchen gardens.”

A round up of press from June 2022

Orchids are one of the largest families of flowering plants and are the national flower of many exotic places, from Costa Rica to Guatemala, Singapore to Assam. Their glamorous blooms are brightly coloured and very long living, with bilateral symmetry and a highly modified petal called the labellum or ‘lip.’ The many different varieties are instantly recognisable as an orchid.

As high summer approaches and the days are warm and long, we can feel midsummer on the horizon. The summer solstice is on the 21st of June, the day when the northern hemisphere is bathed in more sunlight than any other day of the year with the sun highest in the sky. It is the first day of astronomical summer and one for celebration.

My dad didn't cut the lawn - or at least not often - he let it grow until it was knee-high and the neighbours muttered. Admittedly, my dad isn't much of a gardener and the lack of lawn-mowing was mostly because he never quite got around to it.

Although the mornings are still cold, the wind has shifted to blow from the south bringing with it a wave of migratory birds that have been spending the winter in southern Europe or across the Sahara in West Africa.

“I’m the very first guest whisked off to the bothy to experience its founding signature treatment. Inside, it’s reminiscent of a Roman bath or even a luxury hammam - all warm stone opening onto a tiled courtyard with a trickling fountain and an outdoor fireplace .” - By Rose Van Cutsem for Tatler Magazine

From Country Life magazine, a delicious dessert with a Mediterranean twist, Charlie's upside-down cake uses olive oil and orange in place of the pineapple you remember from childhood.

A collection of Easter Sunday recipes by Cher Director Charlie Hibbert published in The Sunday Times.

Here at Thyme, there is a flurry of action. The number of red kites seem to have doubled and a blackbird has made a nest in one of our potted Christmas trees, robustly exclaiming if anyone walks too near.

utside, it’s still the colour of winter - grey and brown (apart from the blooming daffodils) - but inside, the soil is a healthier, richer colour, striped with row after neat row of leaves in a myriad of green.

Water is drawn from the earth by simple osmosis; it literally runs up through their veins. This rising sap can be collected and gives us for instance, maple syrup, while at Thyme, we draw birch sap. Very slightly sweet, it can only be collected on a few early spring days.

Standing in solidarity with Ukraine.

The first step with the design of any of our bedrooms has been to select a herb or flower, inspiring our colour scheme and thematic of the room.