Seedball Wildflower Tube

Every tube contains 20 seed balls, each packed with wildlife-friendly wildflower seeds. These make for lovely gardening gifts, bee and butterfly gifts, eco friendly gifts or mother’s day gifts. They will work well in window boxes, balcony pots, garden beds and wildlife gardens.  It’s time to rewild!

Each seed ball contains approximately 50 seeds. One tube of seed bombs will cover 1 square metre in a garden bed or 3-5 medium sized pots (leave at least 10cm between each ball). 

Choose from 5 varieties. Sold individually.

Forget-Me-Not Mix: 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.

Common Poppy Mix: 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.

Cornflower Mix: 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.

Red Campion Mix: 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.

Oxeye Daisy: 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.

H9.3 x W3.7 cm.