Wildlife Seedball Tubes

£6.50

What's Inside?

Every tube contains 20 seed balls, each packed with wildlife-friendly wildflower seeds (see below for plant details). These make for lovely gardening gifts, bee gifts or eco friendly stocking fillers, and will work well in window boxes, balcony pots, garden beds and wildlife gardens.

One tube of seed balls will cover 1 square metre in a garden bed or 3-5 medium sized pots (leave at least 10cm between each ball). Best scattered in Spring or Autumn.

Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)

  • Annual

  • Height: 90cm

  • Flowers: June to August

  • Cornflowers are edible. They have a cucumber-like taste. Flowers can be consumed in the form of salad and tea, or used as a garnish

 Common Poppy (Papaver rhoeas)

  • A bright red flowering annual - hugely popular and often used as a symbol of remembrance

  • Height: 30-60cm

  • Flowers: May to July

  • The remembrance poppy is the common field poppy, one of the first wildflowers to colonise disturbed ground or fallow cornfields. It became identified with the battle zones of the First World War, or Flanders Fields, which were originally corn fields

 Oxeye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)

  • Perennial

  • Height: 30-90cm

  • Flowers: May to September

  • In Austria and Germany oxeye daisies were hung inside the house as it was believed they would repel lightning

 Red Campion (Silene dioica)

  • A perennial with rose pink petals

  • Height: 20-60cm

  • Flowers: March to November

  • Silenus the merry god of the woodlands in Greek mythology, gave his name to Silene dioica. The second part of its scientific name, dioica, means 'two houses', and refers to the fact that each Red Campion plant has flowers of one sex only, so that two plants are needed to make seeds

Forget-me-not (Myosotis arvensis)

  • Short annual with blue-grey flowers occasionally interspersed with pink flowers

  • Height: 10-40cm

  • Flowers: April to October

  • Forget me nots have been used in the past for their astringent properties. The name Myosotis is derivation of the Latin and Greek for mouse and ears

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What's Inside?

Every tube contains 20 seed balls, each packed with wildlife-friendly wildflower seeds (see below for plant details). These make for lovely gardening gifts, bee gifts or eco friendly stocking fillers, and will work well in window boxes, balcony pots, garden beds and wildlife gardens.

One tube of seed balls will cover 1 square metre in a garden bed or 3-5 medium sized pots (leave at least 10cm between each ball). Best scattered in Spring or Autumn.

Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)

  • Annual

  • Height: 90cm

  • Flowers: June to August

  • Cornflowers are edible. They have a cucumber-like taste. Flowers can be consumed in the form of salad and tea, or used as a garnish

 Common Poppy (Papaver rhoeas)

  • A bright red flowering annual - hugely popular and often used as a symbol of remembrance

  • Height: 30-60cm

  • Flowers: May to July

  • The remembrance poppy is the common field poppy, one of the first wildflowers to colonise disturbed ground or fallow cornfields. It became identified with the battle zones of the First World War, or Flanders Fields, which were originally corn fields

 Oxeye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)

  • Perennial

  • Height: 30-90cm

  • Flowers: May to September

  • In Austria and Germany oxeye daisies were hung inside the house as it was believed they would repel lightning

 Red Campion (Silene dioica)

  • A perennial with rose pink petals

  • Height: 20-60cm

  • Flowers: March to November

  • Silenus the merry god of the woodlands in Greek mythology, gave his name to Silene dioica. The second part of its scientific name, dioica, means 'two houses', and refers to the fact that each Red Campion plant has flowers of one sex only, so that two plants are needed to make seeds

Forget-me-not (Myosotis arvensis)

  • Short annual with blue-grey flowers occasionally interspersed with pink flowers

  • Height: 10-40cm

  • Flowers: April to October

  • Forget me nots have been used in the past for their astringent properties. The name Myosotis is derivation of the Latin and Greek for mouse and ears