Gladioli

Availability: Late June - August

Gladioli update: a few are coming through, you may well find enough to pick now! Available in a myriad of colours.

When to pick: Our gladioli fields usually open in late June and last until August. We will also sell these colourful stems in the Farm Shop throughout this period.

How to pick: We supply secateurs for a £2 deposit in the farm shop or you can bring your own from home. Pick each individual stem from the bottom of the plant, we recommend picking just as the flowers are opening so you can see the colour. Display in clean water, changing everyday and they should last a week.

Ready picked: If picking is not for you then we have a skilled team of professionals in the fields who pick our best every single day. You can find our ready-picked flowers in the Farm Shop. If you would like to order a large volume of fruit or vegetables for an event, we’ll be happy to help. Please contact us using our contact form or call the shop on 01865 358 309.

What we grow: We grow lots of different colours of gladioli but all are the tall variety in a large range of colours from bold and bright to pretty two-tone pastels.

Plan your visit to Rectory Farm pick your own.

Book your PYO tickets for weekends in the summer.

farm shop

We sell all our own homegrown produce when in season - including several varieties of our own potatoes - picked and on the shelves within a few hours. We work hard to source the best quality local products from Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and The Cotswolds. In our fridges you’ll find local meat, pies and sausage rolls from Eadles Farm in neighbouring Beckley village,  award-winning cheeses from Oxford Cheese Company, and traditional farmhouse Cotswold Butter – plus all manner of condiments and cooking sauces, baking supplies, biscuits, pantry essentials, free range eggs and milk from Oxfordshire farms and dairies. Our bread arrives fresh each morning from The Cottage Bakery in Thame.

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help us to reduce waste

Please try wherever possible to bring your own containers and carrier bags when you visit our Farm Shop and PYO. We offer a discount on all our PYO fruit and vegetables when you bring your own container - do good and save money!

Lots of small containers for PYO are better than one large one, as soft fruit will easily bruise and squash at the bottom of a deep container.

Use our "bring your own weigh station" to weigh your containers before picking – we can then deduct these from the weight of your fruit when you come to pay at the end.

Remember to bring your own 1 litre bottle for milk or buy a Rectory Farm glass bottle in the shop.

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