The Meadow Patch

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” 😉🎄💫

28/10/2024

Everlasting Wreath Workshop

Saturday 2nd November, 1.30-4.30, Orford Town Hall, £70 pp.

We have a few spots left on our upcoming workshop at the fabulous Slow Living Market this coming Saturday in Orford.

Come along and join me as we celebrate the turning of the seasons by creating a gorgeously rustic, everlasting wreath using materials grown and foraged throughout the year. We have so much incredible bounty to bring along, and are really looking forward to what should be a beautiful, mindful and creative afternoon! 🌿✨🍂

To book your place, follow the link below and I will look forward to welcoming you on Saturday (and ps, it is the most incredible market full of amazing crafters and artists, so you might want to head over early in time for a good browse!).

https://www.themeadowpatch.co.uk/shop/p/everlasting-wreath-workshop

30/08/2024

Special offer £15 bunches for pick up from Patch!

We were due to be at market tomorrow but market has been cancelled, so get in quick to reserve your bunch for collection tomorrow - we’re £20 now reduced to £15 for quick sale.

Drop a comment below to grab yours, only a few remaining so be quick!!

13/08/2024

A cool, soft, delicate mix of high summer flowers to adorn the altar of this perfectly simple, perfectly heavenly church at Ramsholt, Suffolk.

We (Lucy and I) spent a day working here in mid-July, building this alongside a font billowing with clouds of gentlest green and white, windowsills of rose meadows and a church entrance bedecked with wild and asymmetric churns to match the glorious wildflowers which envelope the steadfast, flintwork walls.

It is a place of perfect peace, looking out across gently curving fields towards the river Deben as it rolls towards the sea. It is also one of only a few remaining, round tower churches in Suffolk, and as such is a real place for hikers, ramblers and visitors of all kinds - as we worked we had at least ten visitors who all dropped in to see the church, and to whom we had to apologise for having strewn flowers everywhere!

It is one of the loveliest aspects of this work, to be given the opportunity to create beauty in places already so beautiful, and that hang heavy with the weight of human history, human love and longing and hope and fear and celebration and grief.

What an honour this job is, and thank you to the lovely Jess and James for allowing me to flower up your beautiful wedding ✨

06/07/2024

06/07/2024

We are all set up at Laxfield market this morning, with the most gorgeous of the mid summer blooms 🌸🌻
Not in our usual spot, but near the shop with some beautiful crafts and jewellery -
here till 12, come grab some sunshine for your weekend!!

08/06/2024

After a full on week of wedding excitement, we will be bringing our flowers along to Kenton Hall’s Open Farm Sunday tomorrow, 10-3!

Come grab yourself some incredible peonies, take a tour of the farm, enjoy some incredible food and meet some delightful animals (and the people who care for them!). A brilliant day out all round - see you there!

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 🌷🩷☕️🌷

05/04/2024

Laxfield market, tomorrow morning, 9.30-12, get down EARLY to pick up some of our incredible tulips whilst we still have a good selection. 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

We will be bringing the first of the parrot varieties in all their utter show-off splendour, and the unbelievably chic and sought after La Belle Epoque (google her. She is a QUEEN).

We also have the last of a few of my favourite varieties which we have nearly finished pulling: Foxtrot ( a gloriously icecream-toned pastel pink), Verona (all slender bendy stems and opulent lemon ruffles) and Colombus (richest raspberry). After tomorrow these will be finished for the year as new varieties come through, so if they tickle your fancy then for goodness sake don’t miss out!

02/04/2024

It is official, we are now in a total tulip frenzy over here!!! Earlier than they were last year, the season will only last a few weeks, so if you want to grab yourself a bunch of these glorious, super special blooms, then head over to the website and have a look through the varieties we are currently harvesting ⬇️🌷❤️

https://www.themeadowpatch.co.uk/shop

It is always an absolute joy to be pulling these beauties, and they are quite unlike any other tulip available in shops or supermarkets - so much bigger, blowsier and long lasting as to be almost incomparable. We love them so much and we want them gracing as many kitchen tables throughout Suffolk as is possible - every penny we earn from these will go towards financing bulbs for next year, so if you buy a bunch you are supporting our little flower farm to keep going and keep growing! And we promise a big, slightly weather beaten but deeply enthusiastic smile upon delivery as well - how’s that for some excellent marketing?!!

30/03/2024

All set up at Snape Maltings for this morning’s Easter farmers market, 9.30 - 1.30pm.
Lots of wonderful producers as always, glorious chocolate and cheese and meats and bread and booze and more!