I tend to say 'cleared soil' as wildflowers are slow growers compared to grasses and perennial weeds. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Beebombs are handmade, wildflower seedballs packed with thousands of seeds from native wildflower species. Each presented in a Hessian bag, they are the perfect eco gift for birthdays, Christmas, special occasions and as wedding favours.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It’s was fantastic so beautiful a great selection of flowers beautiful poppies attracted a lot of bees and wildlife.Some mention that it's a great product and excellent idea, while others say that it is a complete waste of money, not good for the purpose, and not worth the money. Will give months of pleasure from sowing, waiting in anticipation and eventually enjoying the display hopefully Year after year. Using seed balls protects the seeds from predators and provides a nurturing environment for the seeds to germinate from, making it easier for you to create the wildflower habitat Britain needs. As you can imagine as aromatherapists we love growing herbs and fragrant plants in our garden, but so many gardens do not contain the types of plants that our native pollinators need. The image doesn't do it much justice but they're all coming up after throwing them down 6 weeks ago.

goes towards a real beehive, helping the honeybee population recover and supporting honeybee related initiatives around the UK. Each bag contains 1000s of seeds from 18 native wildflower species, mixed with local, protective clay and sifted, nurturing top soil. We handmake our seedballs from sheltering local clay and sifted compost, packed with a range of native wildflower species' seeds. A personalised flower themed gift card containing your personalised message, written, packed and sent for you direct to your loved one. The plant species include: corn chamomile, cornflower, common poppy, red campion, white campion, salad burnet, common sorrel, yellow rattle, corn marigold, self heal, cowslip, ribwort plantain, oxeye daisy, rough hawkbit, lady’s bedstraw, wild carrot, common knapweed, yarrow.of seeds from 18 native wildflower species, mixed with local protective clay and sifted, nurturing top soil. As requested by many of you, we have increased the volume of annual seed - giving you more poppies, cornflower, marigolds etc - to ensure a beautiful patch that also supports our pollinators! Once the Beebomb becomes moist and the sun starts to shine, your seeds will germinate and the bees will be buzzing! From experience, it doesn't seem to make a lot of difference in the long run, although I am still testing. They are amazed at how quickly and beautifully the bee bombs grew into clumps of mixed wildflowers, and that it is easy to wrap as a gift.

Beebombs need no gardening skill and can be scattered straight onto open ground at any time of the year. This means that they can be out-competed by faster growing lawn grasses and perennial weeds at the critical early stages, so straight onto soil is best if possible. A very nice inexpensive eco friendly gift that can be appreciated by anyone with a garden or patio pot.Just scatter them straight onto open ground at any time of the year (although spring and autumn are optimum times). Your seedballs can be scattered anywhere, such as garden beds, pots, or even abandoned patches of land.