The Meadow Patch

30/04/2025

Fancy picking yourself some riotously gorgeous flowers to celebrate the beginning of May/the end of our tulips? As a special bank holiday treat, we have decided to open up the patch for flower lovers to visit and snip themselves some beauty for the weekend. It’s been a while since we did this, but there have been so many requests that it seemed rude not to….. 😉

🌷Saturday 3rd May 3-6pm
🌷£1 entry, book via our website (link in bio) and then pay for what you cut on the day - £1 per stem.
🌷We provide snips, buckets and paper wrap for you to take your stems home either you, and tea/coffee/cakes are also available for a donation (as with our previous events, all refreshment donations will go to ).
🌷 wear sturdy shoes and please be mindful that this is a working space, so move around carefully - irrigation lines and plant supports are everywhere!
🌷Dogs on leads and well behaved children welcome.

It will be such a pleasure to welcome you to our little corner of flower magic ✨ (and dried mud, the occasional weedy bit, possibly an errant spaniel or two!)

11/04/2025

Just some April flowers…..

(Now could we please have a few April showers? Maybe overnight??!!)

04/04/2025

It’s been a week of bouquets, and Spring is only just getting started!

Come see us tomorrow as we kick off our flower season properly at Laxfield and Snape Farmer’s Markets.

Pam will be manning the Laxfield stall, 9.30 - 12, and Victoria will be at Snape Maltings, 10 - 1. All the pretty tulips and scented narcissus, and yet more fabulous sunshine!!!!

20/03/2025

Albert is here to jnform you that we have finally managed to get our Mother’s Day Bouquets up onto the website. 🌷✨🌷

Albert also requests that you swipe through the gallery to see the final picture, in which he is sporting a bin lid as a rather fetching hat. Simply can’t get the staff…..

13/02/2025

We have space for a few more bouquet deliveries tomorrow, so if you have been humming and ahhing about it, this is your last chance to grab some Valentine’s Day British Tulip Loveliness!! All
In capital letters to emphasise how lovely they are 😉 (they really are, properly bootiful ❤️✨🌷).

Give the gift of glorious British grown tulips, in all the jewel-toned colours of love, to the person that you love! Grown by our friends in lovely Lincolnshire, and presented in entirely compostable tissue and kraft paper packaging - a bunch of beauty that need not cost the earth in either cash or

08/02/2025

So last year, I used a picture of my own Valentine (long-suffering flower husband Jules!) to let you all know we had glorious, British grown tulips being delivered for our V day bouquets.
This year, unfortunately you get my gurning face instead and whilst it is not a competition, I can’t help but wonder whose face sells more flowers…… 😂

Get your order in with us and be smug in the knowledge that you have avoided the last minute, petrol station bunch of tragic half dead roses AND supported both my local business, and our fantastic British tulip growers up in Lincolnshire. Good work all round and definitely bound to get you all the brownie points! ❤️🌷❤️

Order here ⬇️

https://www.themeadowpatch.co.uk/shop/valentines-day

26/01/2025

January magic…..

So this last weekend was spent at the conference, held near Nottingham (yep, I left East Anglia, nearly went on a motorway and wore clean clothes for an entire weekend. Rare and exciting events!).

I could go on and on about how inspiring it was, how good to catch up with old friends and make new ones, but instead I will share the single point that has stuck most memorably with me:

We are all seeking to mitigate the challenges we face as growers. Most notably, those which stem from our changing climate, but also the economic pressures which affect all those who earn their living from the land. There is a wealth of fantastic experience, wisdom and knowledge out there to help us in each of these key areas, as we seek to grow and future proof our respective businesses and we were exceptionally fortunate to hear from some amazing speakers who shared their knowledge so generously at the conference. But, as observed by the amazing Roisin during her trip to New Zealand in the aftermath of the most catastrophic weather event, it was the relationships and community between neighbouring farmers which allowed them to support each other, in the most extreme of conditions. It is people helping people that is always our last line of defence against disaster.
So whilst we must and can invest in our knowledge, in our land and in ourselves as strategically necessary, we must also prioritise investing heavily in our communities. We must be generous with each other, supportive of each other, hold each other up and celebrate one another. We never know when it will be our turn to need help, so whilst we are fortunate enough to give it, we must give without reservation.

Huge thanks to all the speakers at the conference, and to the incredible team who worked so very hard to pull it all together. You were all so generous and our community benefits enormously as a result.

04/12/2024

PUPPY TIMELINE CLEANSE!

I know this is a flowery account for flowers BUT we are currently also in the midst of bringing up 6 adorable little spaniels 🐾, and 3 are still looking for homes! So I thought you would forgive my going off brand in order to introduce them:

🐾 currently 4 weeks old
🐾 1 girl (tricolour) and 2 boys (black with white markings, white with black ears.)
🐾 Working Cocker Spaniels. Mother is our sweet natured, steady and confident Nellie. Father is the absolute gentlemen that is Merlin, a fellow flower farmer dog who lives with the brilliant .
🐾Ready to leave January 1st - New Year Babies!
🐾 Will be microchipped, 1st vaccinations and vet checked.

Contact me directly on 07749 498 767 for any enquiries and please do share!

09/11/2024

WREATH SPAM (gets earlier every year right?!).

Come and get your wreath on (Get ur wreath on, getcha getcha getcha….With apologies to Missy Elliot there) with me this November, and let’s make some gorgeous, wild, festive magic together.

✨Thursday 21st Nov, Honey and Harvey Melton, 10.30-1.30 - wild and festive wreath making, accompanied by a selection of delicious festive goodies and a luxury hot drink (make mine a hot chocolate with lots of cream please!) ☕️
☕️£ 85pp OR £80pp when you book 2 places - what better excuse do you need to drag your mate/gran/dad/neighbour along for the fun!

✨Saturday 30th Nov, 10-3, The Food Hub Suffolk, Christmas Wreath and Foodie Treats Course. Spend the morning creating the most delicious gifts and treats, enjoy a light lunch and then craft away the afternoon creating a luxuriant festive wreath for your Christmas door🌲
🎁 £135 pp.

If you want to grab and spot and come wreath with me (let’s wreath, let’s wreath away… thanks Frank S) then you know where to go. Rhymes with “Mink in Ohio” 😉🎄💫

04/05/2024

We are doing the double market dance this morning!
Find us at Snape Maltings from 9.30-1, and Laxfield from 9.30-12 - bringing sweetly scented Spring blooms, glorious colour and definitely lots of beautiful sunshine and blue skies.
Bank holiday bliss!

19/04/2024

Good people of Aldeburgh and surrounding area!! We are coming to The Jubilee Hall Farmer’s Market tomorrow and we have an absolute bevy of fabulous, Suffolk grown flowers for you all - the last big haul of jewel toned double tulips and the first proper pick of delicate, tissue-paper petalled ranunculus.

9.30 - 1pm, come and see us and grab some petal power for your weekend 🌷

12/04/2024

Framlingham are you ready for all this gorgeousness?!! We will be back on market hill tomorrow bringing buckets and buckets of luscious tulips with us (and the first of the ranunculus and Icelandic poppies as well!), so for goodness sake come and buy yourself a bunch as we are getting into the last week of tulip availability. The most incredible selection of colours and forms (and one variety which looks more like a peony than many peonies!), and once they are gone that will be it for another year!
Come find us next to Over The Moon cafe, and pair your Saturday morning coffee with some Suffolk grown tulips, for maximum Springtime joy 🌷🩷☕️🌷