For the past 10 years, the two weeks before Christmas have seen Lyn and Ron Hussey at action stations.
The couple have a huge patch of Christmas lilies in their productive and well-ordered Wanganui East garden.
They have been selling the flowers from their garage since Saturday, and sent 7000 stems of lilies to flower auctions in the Hutt Valley the week before.
The scent from their patch wafts on to nearby Pauls Rd.
Mr Hussey is the former manager of Wanganui's Westpac bank, and Mrs Hussey has been a teacher at Kaitoke and Castlecliff schools. They moved to Wanganui in 1984 and are both now retired. Both of them enjoy growing plants.