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Growing seasonal flowers during the British growing season from April to October.

13/01/2025

Do you love fresh flowers? Sweet peas are sooo easy to grow, right? Well, truth be told it’s a mixed bag of yes and no!

After just 7 days on a warm windowsill in the house, my 2025 sweet peas have germinated. Now they go straight out to the brighter, natural light of the greenhouse before they grow tall and leggy. Super easy, huh? Well…

Sweet peas are so very joyful, but they do need work! They are hardy little plants, so can be planted out in March/April if you’re ready with the frost cloth for a chilly night. As they grow, they need support and will be happy winding their way up a bamboo wigwam, a fence or trellis. And be sure to site them in a sunny spot - not enough warmth and they can sulk.

Every few days, they need to be tied into their support so they don't flop. If you don’t stay on top of this, they quickly get unruly, with tendrils everywhere and shorter, wonky stems. This truly is a constant labour of love.

Sweet peas are hungry and thirsty little blighters! They need a lot of water and at least once a week, a feed with a weak seaweed solution.

Once they start to flower, they are the gift that keeps on giving - the more you cut, the more they give you! At least once a week, I cut every flower, and within a few days, more buds start blooming. What a joy! But forget to do this and they quickly set seed, meaning no more flowers.

So why grow these attention seeking divas? Their scent is like nothing else and their ruffled little petals come in so many colours. If you cut deeper, you can have the wiggly tendrils which I love.

You won’t find sweet peas in florists shops or supermarkets so I hope if you see someone selling them at a village shop, farm shop or farmers market, you appreciate the months of love, work and time they have given so you have a little bit of heaven to enjoy at home.

Wherever you live, please support your local flower growers 🥰

04/01/2025

The first arrivals from the 2025 seed order - always soooo exciting! Especially as I’ve just had a big sort through my seed boxes and binned anything old or out of date.

I love ordering from Higgledy Garden as the seeds always have good germination rates and the empty packets can go straight in the compost. Business owner, Ben, lives with his dog Flash on their canal boat named Casper. Give them a follow - it’s very entertaining!

There’s another seed order on the way from and I’m currently perusing the online shop of the lovely Melanie from

Seeds from are also excellent quality and she’s a brilliant teacher if you want to learn about growing from seed. Just give her a follow!

Are you growing flowers this year? Where do you buy your seeds from? If you have bought any yet, give one of my recommendations a try. Happy growing!

25/12/2024

Wishing you all a very happy and peaceful Christmas, full of love and appreciation.

It’s been an amazing year at Castle Combe Flower Patch, so to all those who have bought my flowers, given me the privilege of your wedding florals or attended a workshop with me, thank you 🙏🤩🥳

14/12/2024

And…that’s a wrap! is now closed for Christmas!

Finally, I’m feeling festive after a very jolly week, starting with a workshop at my home studio on Wednesday evening. Then Friday morning brought a session as part of the staff enrichment programme in which colleagues from every department came together to embrace their creativity. Today I rounded the year off with two more lovely ladies back at my home studio. They all made gorgeous wreaths with beautiful, British, seasonal foliage.

Thank you to everyone who has joined me at a workshop, ordered a bespoke wreath or bought one of my wreaths from . Together, we have produced over 85 wreaths in the last two weeks! Your support of my little business has been amazing and very much appreciated 🤩

Wishing you all a very happy and peaceful Christmas xx

Last orders, please! 🔔 Dm or email to tracey@castlecombeflowerpatch.co.uk to order by tomorrow lunchtime (12pm, Mon 9th ...

08/12/2024

Last orders, please! 🔔 Dm or email to [email protected] to order by tomorrow lunchtime (12pm, Mon 9th Dec)

Thanks so much to all who have ordered Christmas wreaths from me this year. You’re keeping me very busy! 🎄🥳🌲

04/12/2024

I always marvel at the creativity people display when they protest at the beginning that they “won’t be any good at this”! Well done, ladies and thank you for such a fun evening xx
and the wonderful Fi Dobson

26/11/2024

Phew - busy day!

24/11/2024

🎄 Christmas Wreath Workshops🎄

Sat 30th Nov - 2 places
Wed 3 Dec - 2 places
Sat 7 Dec - SOLD OUT
Tues 10 Dec - private event
Wed 11 Dec - 2 places
Fri 13 Dec - private event
Sat 14 Dec - 2 places

£50pp - includes wreath making demo and tutoring, all materials, festive drinks and nibbles and a lot of fun!
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🌲Place an order 🌲

If you’re busy, and/or you can’t be arsed to make a wreath 😂, you can just place an order and I will make one to order for you!

30cm £35
40cm £50
50cm £65

Message me to order:
[email protected]

Thank you for supporting my little business. The response has been awesome this year 🤩xx

17/11/2024

🌲Christmas wreath pre-ordering is OPEN🌲

30cm - £35
40cm - £50
50cm - £65

Choice of satin or velvet ribbon in seasonal colours.

Let me know the size and style you like and I will make you a beautiful, unique wreath, ready for delivery to you from 1st December.

Reply below or email me to place your order: [email protected]

🌲 ‘Tis the season to be busy
🌲 Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la

15/10/2024

Look at this beautiful box of gorgeousness I’ve received from for this week’s wedding florals. Thank you Kate!

21/09/2024

Having only bought packets of double cosmos seeds this year, quite a lot have turned out to be singles - annoying! Still pretty, but not what I ordered 😕

29/08/2024

What a cracking afternoon for a wander around the gardens with lovely people, followed by afternoon tea and cakes. Thank you 🥳

26/05/2024

Remember these Sweet Williams I was testing for vase life? 16 days and they are just starting to go over. Great value for money! 💰🥳👏

05/05/2024

It’s exciting that my autumn sown annuals like the Snapdragons, Cornflowers, Salvia Viridis are starting to bud up! The Sweet Williams are on their way too, along with the Roses, Peonies and Lupins (must sort out the slugs - beer traps incoming!)

The roses in the front garden are wearing their chicken wire hats so that the local deer don’t pay a visit and munch ALL the rosebuds like they did a few years ago! Once they start to flower, the deer don’t seem as interested, but the buds are like sweeties for them - irresistible!

The roses I have are mainly David Austin varieties and it’s so hard to pick a favourite, but if pushed, it might just be Queen of Sweden 💕 But of course I love them all!
🌷 Olivia Rose
🌺 Gertrude Jekyll
🌼 Golden Celebration
🌸 Queen of Sweden
🌹Princess Alexandra
🌼 Roald Dahl
🌸 Dannahue
🌺 Iceberg
🌼 William and Catherine

21/04/2024

Busy old weekend, but so happy for the Spring sunshine! Harvested the last of the tulips, but the first of the ranunculus. Saying goodbye and thank you to my workhorse hellebores and hello to the spring perennials arriving on the scene, such as Aquilegia, Persicaria, Centaurea Montana, Bluebells and apple blossom, along with the zingy foliage of Physocarpus Darts Gold. Spring absolutely rocks 🫶🏻

12/04/2024

The Flower Bar will be open every Friday and Saturday from now until the first frosts in October, selling flowers grown organically at home by me.
Collect your flowers from SN14 7LF. You can post cash through the door or pay by bank transfer🌷💐🌷

30/03/2024

I have flowers! These beauties went out yesterday:
* Mixed double tulips Peach Blossom and Verona
* Double narcissi Obdam
* Double tulip Showcase (these grew short, so went for half price) 😭

Plenty more on the way, so DM me to order xx

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Waiting impatiently for the 2025 British growing season to start! Here’s a few beautiful flowers, grown last in my paddock here in Castle Combe. Follow along to join me through the seasons. #britishflowers #buylocal #buybritish #castlecombe #flowersfromthefarm

Spring feels just around the corner and the thought of starting to sow seeds for this year’s cutting garden is so exciting … but hang fire! We need to wait for the daylight levels to return to at least 10 hours. An easy way to remember is to sow after Valentine’s Day. If you sow too early, you may still get some seeds to germinate, but the likelihood is they will be weak, and sickly little seedlings. By holding fire just another few weeks, your germination rates should be higher and the health and success of your seedlings will be much better.

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