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Bird Mix: Wildflowers for attracting seed and insect-eating garden birds – common poppy, corn marigold, great knapweed, sheep sorrel, tufted vetch and wild carrot. View full product listing. This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article. ( October 2021) Hedgehog Box –A wildflower patch of is a super addition to creating a hedgehog friendly garden, not only in providing shelter but importantly to attract a whole range of tasty insects for hedgehogs to feed on. This mix includes yellow rattle, wild carrot, birdsfoot trefoil, tufted vetch, self heal and poppy. Seed Ball Story". YouTube. The Seed Ball Story, a video by Jim Bones about desert habitat restoration using seed balls in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Bee Box –A mix of native wildflowers that bees will just love! This carefully selected mix is designed specifically to attract solitary bees, honey bees and bumblebees. Includes birdsfoot trefoil, foxglove, red Clover, viper’s bugloss and wild marjoram.
Wildflowers are a stunning addition to any area, be it garden, balcony, windowsill or pots, not only do they look gorgeous, they are great for wildlife too. Here is a list of the top birds you may see in gardens at this time of year. You may be surprised to learn that both the Greenfinch and Starling are on the Red List: Only include birds that land, not those flying over. Count the highest number of each species you see at any one time, otherwise you could count the same bird twice. For example, if you saw a group of eight starlings, and towards the end of the hour you saw two starlings together, please record eight as your final count. This bumblebee was declared extinct in the UK in 2000, with its last reported sighting in Dungeness, thought to be due to loss of wildflowers. Paper/Seed-unified planting seed unit and preparation process thereof" (PDF). Masanobu Fukuoka's patent for advanced seedballsButterfly Box –This lovely collection of mostly purple, pink and blue flowers is designed to attract butterflies to our gardens, balconies and window boxes and uses only flowers recommended by Butterfly Conservation. Includes purple loosestrife, forget-me-not, musk mallow, red campion and yarrow. Autumn scattering has a number of advantages. For a sea of beautiful, pollinator-friendly plants to appear throughout spring, scattering wildflower seeds in autumn will give you a jump start on the year, allowing enough time for them to germinate and, and can often lead to bigger, healthier flowers than those sown in the spring.” The advantages of scattering Seedballs in the Autumn Beetle Box –The ideal mix to attract ladybirds and pollinating beetles, who are really important for our garden ecosystems (did you know that beetles pollinated the first flowers at the time of the dinosaurs!). The mix includes common knapweed, cornflower, cow parsley, field scabious, foxglove, great burnet and yarrow. To make a seed ball, generally about five measures of red clay by volume are combined with one measure of seeds. The balls are formed between 10mm and 80mm (about 1⁄ 2" to 3") in diameter. After the seed balls have been formed, they must dry for 24–48 hours before use. The UK supports around 10% of the world’s species of bumblebee. These two dozen species play a vital role in pollinating hundreds of millions of poundsof crops.
After the last frost you can sow your Seedballs in Spring (usually February to May, but the earlier the better to give them plenty of time to get established). Just pop on bare soil and keep well watered. We like to put a couple of Seedballs in pots as well as in situ just to see what loveliness comes up. If you do sow in pots make sure there are drainage holes, plants don’t like to sit in water anymore than they like to dry out completely. If you’re using compost, it’s best to use ‘seed compost’– this has the least nutrients of the bagged composts and so is the best type to use for wildflowers, which thrive in poorer soils, peat free of course! Bird Box –This careful selection of plants will boost the food supply for a wide range of birds including goldfinches, blue tits, chaffinches, greenfinches, robins, starlings, increasing the number of birds seen in your garden. Whilst in bloom the flowers will attract insects that many birds feed on, while birds will also feed directly on the plants and seeds themselves. Includes corn marigold, poppy, greater knapweed, sheep sorrel, tufted vetch, and wild carrot. What's a clay ball?" and "Clay Ball Method" advice derived directly from Fukuoka Masanobu by The RainMaker Project, a major project in Africa by Yokohama Art Project, Japanese NGO. Cornflower: Brilliantly blue British cornflowers. These iconic and distinctive flowers are fantastic for bees, beetles, butterflies and moths, and are a simply marvellous addition to any wildlife garden. They are also edible with a cucumber-like taste, and can be used in salads, as a garnish or infused as a tea! View full product listing. A little research goes a long way. Knowing which months a certain species is flying, in which part of the country they occur, what habitat they like, even what time of day they’re most active, can save you a wasted journey. And if it’s raining, or very overcast and windy, don’t bother! Ask for help!
During the autumn months, the soil will still be relatively warm, having stored up energy from the summer sun. There is usually extra moisture in the air too, and both of these conditions work together to aid germination, which provides seeds with the best possible start. Sowing in autumn also means that with increasingly likely rainfall, nature will take care of the watering for you, so very little effort is needed to keep the seeds thriving. Butterfly Mix: Super selection of butterfly-tastic plants – forget-me-not, musk mallow, purple loosestrife, red campion and yarrow. View full product listing. Bee Mix: Bees will adore this! Birdsfoot trefoil, foxglove, viper’s-bugloss, red clover and wild marjoram. View full product listing.
Shade Mix: A mix of British native wildflowers that are ideal for shadier gardens and balconies. Bellflower, forget-me-not, meadow buttercup, meadowsweet, oxeye daisy, ragged robin and red campion. View full product listing.Autumn is the very best time to scatter wildflower seeds as many species need exposure to a cold winter to help trigger germination in the Spring. Scattering in the Autumn therefore gives the best chance for the plants to come into flower over the following Spring and Summer … and so fits brilliantly into an academic year. The wildflower patch will also likely keep flowering year after year – we often find the displays get stronger over time! Each seed ball contains approximately 30 wildflower seeds from a mix of Common toadflax, Cornflower, Cowslip, Meadow cranesbill, Musk mallow, Oxeye daisy and Red campion, plus a sprinkling of pollinator-friendly annuals Chamomile, Cornflower, Corn marigold, and Night-flowering catchfly. Bumblebee Conservation set up a reintroduction programme with landowners across England from 2009 – 2022working with farmers, conservation groups, and smallholders to create flower-rich habitat within the release areas of Dungeness and Romney Marsh in Kent and East Sussex. Fukuoka (福岡), Masanobu (正信) (May 1978) [1st publ. in Japanese September 1975], Larry Korn (ed.), The One-Straw Revolution An Introduction to Natural Farming, translated by Chris Pearce; Tsune Kurosawa; Larry Korn, Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Press, ISBN 0878572201 So you’ve decided where you’re going to start your wildflower patch only to discover that the ground is now covered in fallen leaves. As they break down leaves release nutrients into the soil.
Each box (made from 100% recycled card) contains 6 seed balls, plus a little card insert to explain what the balls are and how to use them. Incredibly easy to use – simply scatter on top of soil or compost (no digging or expertise required!) and nature will do the rest! One box will cover 1-2 pots. Use 6 boxes per square metre in a garden. Best scattered in Spring or Autumn. dimensions:Adler, Margot (April 15, 2009). "Environmentalists Adopt New Weapon: Seed Balls". NPR . Retrieved November 9, 2011.
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