Seed Ball Making Activity Kit With Bee Friendly Wildflower Seeds

Name: Seed Ball Making Activity Kit With Bee Friendly Wildflower Seeds
Brand: Seedball
SKU: 1254771
Price: 14.4 GBP
Availability: InStock

Messy fun while helping bees and butterflies! Ideal activity for children who like nature, the outdoors and gardening.

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Description

If you're buying for kids, teenagers or adults who enjoy crafting, getting messy in nature or who love bees, butterflies, bugs and gardening, this is a top present!

The kit includes all the ingredients needed to make 50-60 wildflower seed balls - all that's needed is a mixing bowl, some water and a tray to dry the balls on. Making seed balls can take from approximately 20 minutes to an hour depending on dedication to rolling perfection!

Once dried, the balls can be scattered in garden beds, window boxes or balcony pots and with water, warmth and time, they will transform into beautiful British wildflowers that support bees, butterflies and other garden wildlife. 50-60 balls will cover 2 square metres in a garden bed or plenty of pots and planters.

The benefit of growing wildflowers from seed balls (sometimes called 'seed bombs') instead of loosely scattering seed is to protect the seeds from birds, ants and mice who all feed on seeds - providing an educational aspect to the product too.

Variations

We have three UK wildflower seed mixes to choose from, see image roll for pictures of how the plants look in flower :)

Flowers for bees: Poppy, Common toadflax, Cornflower, Cowslip, Meadow cranesbill, Musk mallow, Oxeye daisy and Red campion

Flowers for butterflies: Corn Marigold, Cornflower, Forget-Me-Not, Musk Mallow, Purple Loosestrife, Red Campion and Yarrow

Garden meadow flowers: Cornflower, Meadow Cranesbill, Musk Mallow, Oxeye Daisy and Red Campion

Made from

The kit includes:

1 x pack of UK native wildflower seeds

1 x pack of peat-free compost

1 x pack of powdered clay

1 x full instructions for how to make the balls

1 x leaflet on top tips for growing wildflower seed balls.

A QR code linking to a YouTube how-to video is also included on the back of the box.

Scatter anytime from early Autumn through to the end of Spring.

The kits are packaged at our Seedball workshop in London, using 100% paper pouches and an outer cardboard box - so the whole kit is fully recyclable or biodegradable with absolutely no plastic!

The outer clay of the seed balls protects the seeds from being eaten by ants, birds and mice, maximising the chance of the wildflowers growing. Once sufficient water has permeated the clay, the seeds inside begin to germinate - helped along by the nutrients and minerals contained within the ball.

Wildflowers are naturally slow to grow, and the balls can take 2-4 weeks to begin to sprout. Some will flower in the first year while the perennial species may not flower until the second year, but the display should keep getting better each year! The more they are initially watered, the quicker they will be to start to grow, although they will be ok to leave them to the rain to water them as well :)