Creating a bee-friendly garden — whether you have a big backyard, a balcony planter or a windowsill pot — is incredibly rewarding! And we have made it even simpler! Our NEW Flowers for Bees Collection has all the wildflowers you need to help. As populations of bees and other pollinators decline, giving them a helping […]
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Guest blog by Laurence at Black Mountain Honey At Black Mountain Honey, we love honey — but we love bees and pollinators even more. After all, no honey would exist without them. While honey bees are incredible pollinators, they are just one part of a diverse and beautiful ecosystem. To create great-tasting, ethically produced honey
June is here — and so is one of our favourite annual campaigns: 30 Days Wild, from our friends at The Wildlife Trust. If you’ve not come across it before, it’s beautifully simple: one wild thing a day, every day, for 30 days. Whether it’s planting wildflowers, watching bees, listening to birdsong, or walking barefoot
Show Wildlife Some Love And Grab your FREE Oddballs for Schools, Charities and Community Groups this February! This February, as the first hints of Spring can be seen peaking through, we’re excited to launch our “Love Your Garden, Love Wildlife” campaign by giving away FREE bags of our Oddballs to schools, charities, and community groups
Grab your FREE Oddballs for schools this Autumn, an important time in the wildflower calendar! Autumn is a great time to sow wildflowers, because it replicates the natural life-cycle of a seed. And so, to celebrate Seedball are giving away bags of Oddballs to schools (while stocks last). All you need to do is cover postage
As Summer’s vivid colours begin to transition to the rich, warm tones of Autumn, there’s a wildflower gardening secret that often goes unnoticed: in the UK Autumn is the perfect time to scatter wildflower seed balls (and sow your collected seed from this years wildflowers). In the UK, Autumn typically begins to make its presence felt
Provide a friendly home for bees and create a safe haven for them! Bees are an essential part of our ecosystem, and they need our help. By creating a safe haven for them, we can ensure they thrive in our environment and continue to provide valuable services like pollination of food crops. Help save the
Leave those leaves! In autumn leaves fall from deciduous trees, its okay to let them stay on the ground, we encourage you to! The leaves act as a mulch on flower beds, protecting the soil and when they break down they improve the structure. Worms pull leaves below ground where they rot down. Piles of
[The Hairy Footed Flower Bee (HFFB) gets the name from the male, who has long whiskers on his front legs. He uses these to stroke the female’s eyes in an attempt to becalm her long enough to mate. (Seedball)] Penny Metal (@penny.metal) blogs about the life in the bushes of Warwick Gardens, a small park
To highlight the plight of the Bumblebee, Seedball have launched three new tin designs focussed on our rarest bumblebees, and launched to celebrate the ten year anniversary of the first Seedball tin in 2013. The UK supports around 10% of the world’s species of bumblebee. These two dozen species play a vital role in pollinating
Christmas wildflowers for your school!! We’re now out of stock, but please do pop back in the Spring as we’re sure to have more! We’re not keen on waste, and given we have lots of wildflower odd balls at the moment we wanted to offer these to schools / parents of schools to use in
Get gardening for wildlife! The last 50 years have been witness to huge declines in native wildlife species. Together we can really do something to reverse this. British gardens combined, cover more land than all our nature reserves put together! Estimated at a whopping 10 million acres. Making our gardens a little more wildlife-friendly can
