The Meadow Patch

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!

04/03/2024

💓MOTHER’S DAY INCOMING!💓

Mother’s Day is THIS SUNDAY folks, I repeat, THIS SUNDAY!!

Whilst it seems early this year (and I can confirm, it really is quite an early one), I know that none of you will want to be caught on the hop and frantically perusing the Co-op shelves on Sunday morning! Fear not - we have it covered, and have ordered in some more incredible tulips from our Lincolnshire buddies (pics below).

We have two sizes of bouquets available to order now (link below) and will be out and about delivering on Saturday and Sunday (and very much looking forward to meeting some lovely Mum’s whilst we do it!)

We also have our gift subscriptions available in case you want to treat your Mum to not just 1 delivery of flowers, but 2 or 4 over the course of our Spring season. These subscriptions run from early April and signal the beginning of our meadow-grown flower season which is always such an exciting time.💐

I may be biased, but I can’t think of any better way to show our love and gratitude for our amazing Mother’s, than with the joy and scent and beauty and promise of beautiful, British flowers. And to my Mum, if you are reading this, then spoiler alert - there might well be some winging there way to you…. ❤️

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

01/03/2024

We are back at lovely Laxfield market tomorrow, 9.30 - 12pm, bringing with us some sunshine in flower form to celebrate the beginning of March, and brighten up everyone’s weekend. ☀️🌱

We will also be taking pre-orders for Mother’s day bouquets, so pop along and reserve one whilst we have availability. These will be up on the website as of Monday, so good to get in there early and avoid the last minute scramble! 💓

14/02/2024

Happy Valentine’s Day you splendid people and thank you for all the orders! We will be spending a happy day delivering them to your doors, and feeling privileged to be part of the love you all share for each other. ❤️♥️❤️

Also, apologies for having been silent on here for so long, January was busy but also somewhat viral (and not in a good way!). More to tell in a later post (and it’s all good!), but for now please have some tulips by way of apology 💐

Ps the lighting in this picture is absolutely dire - February is apparently NOT insta-ready. Suffolk is a near constant shade of murkiest, dishwater-grey at the moment, and largely made of mud and puddles 🫤🌧️