This is a collaborative post in partnership with Vivara.
Would you like to welcome more butterflies to your garden? This lovely giveaway from wildlife experts Vivara will help you do just that.
I’ve got one of their Beautiful Butterfly Border Kits packed with plants and wildlife-friendly products to give away to a lucky reader. Read on to find out more about Vivara and enter the giveaway.
Garden wildlife products from Vivara
Vivara is a team of passionate experts in garden wildlife who are on a mission to make nature accessible to everyone. Their products allow you to create wildlife habitats in a range of settings, from large green spaces to small urban gardens. The range includes plants and products that help to support wild birds, bees, butterflies and many more garden wildlife species.
Vivara and the Big Butterfly Count
As part of their commitment to support wildlife, Vivara are the official sponsors of the Big Butterfly Count, which runs from 15th July to 7th August.
This survey helps to assess the health of the environment and provide feedback on the number of butterflies found across the country. The campaign also aims to inspire people to help protect butterflies and other pollinators, which are declining in the UK. Recent research suggests half of all British butterflies are now on the UK Red List of endangered species.
To take part in the count, you simply spend fifteen minutes outdoors counting the amount and type of butterflies you see, then log your results via the free app or at www.bigbutterflycount.org. As well as being an important survey, this is a brilliant way to get a little bit more in touch with nature – and it’s a perfect nature play activity for kids too.
As part of the Big Butterfly Count launch day celebrations, Vivara are also planting up wildlife-friendly habitats in five Roadchef service stations. In addition to highlighting how it’s possible to encourage and support nature in unexpected places, these will provide visitors with somewhere to relax and enjoy nature while breaking up a long journey.
Supporting butterflies in your garden
We can all help butterflies thrive in our gardens by growing plants that provide a source of pollen and nectar, and installing a home where they can shelter and nest. The Vivara Beautiful Butterfly Border Kit is a super-easy way to do all of this.
Let’s take a look at what’s in the kit.
Vivara’s Beautiful Butterfly Border Kit
The Beautiful Butterfly Border Kit contains everything you need to welcome butterflies to your garden. It’s designed to occupy a one metre by three metre space.
There’s a selection of flowers that butterflies will love, including Lavender, Dwarf Buddleja, Coneflower, Catmint, Black-eyed Susan and Verbena Bonariensis. There are 29 plants in total, so you can easily create a stunning border full of flowers.
The kit also incudes a lovely wooden butterfly house, and a butterfly and bee box. Add these to your butterfly border and you’ve got the perfect habitat for butterflies and other pollinating insects.
Isn’t this a fantastic kit? It takes all the hard work out of creating a garden for wildlife, and fills your outdoor space with gorgeous flowers for months.
The Beautiful Butterfly Border Kit usually retails at £132.64, but it’s currently on offer at £66.32. Whereabouts would you plant it in your garden?
Win a Vivara Beautiful Butterfly Border Kit
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Vivara are providing the Beautiful Butterfly Border Kit for prize purposes.
The kit looks wonderful, would love to add it to the garden, I’ll be doing the butterfly count later looking forward to seeing how many different types there are!
Near the man cave out of the way in a peaceful spot
We have a little corner of the garden where the kids have named it the Fairy garden because we have grown a lot of wild flowers there. I think the butterfly house will go lovely there so the kids can see them
I would plant them along the side of my garden path
I would plant the kit in our wildlife corner.
I’ve got quite a few spots where there are butterfly favourite plants so I’d put my kit by one of those. I will probably take a while to decide and try all possible locations!
I would plant it right by the field next to my pond
I would put on the tree in my back garden
I would put it to the side of my big shed at the bottom of my garden.
I don’t have a garden, so I would give it my son
I have the perfect space down one side of my garden which needs some colour and would be perfect for planting the Butterfly border x
I would love an area to attract butterflies in my garden
Brilliant work with the Beautiful Butterfly Border Kit and great to see giveaways and projects like this actively working to encourage wildlife back into our gardens!
I’d plant this to the side of our shed, there’s space left that we haven’t decided what to do with yet. It would also be out of harm’s way here from the occasional football that gets kicked over the wall.
I would love to plant this along one side of my garden
I would plant at the bottom of the garden for a much needed splash of colour!
Id love to win this and gift to my wife sharon who has the green fingers in our family. I know she would love it and find a place near our shed or pond in the backgarden. Such a lovely idea for a prize x
I have the perfect spot in my border in the back garden
Love to plant some at side of our house, where there is plenty of sunlight
I have a very large corner planter which needs something planting in it. This would be wonderful and just the thing to take in all the colours and butterflies.
I would plant it to the side of my new greenhouse. My grandchildren love helping in the garden and love growing vegetables, and anything that encourages the butterflies to visit my ‘new build’ plot will be a welcome addition!
Love this giveaway would be great for my garden was I always got wild birds and bees in the garden a lot.
I’d love to plant this in our front garden, so we can appreciate the plants and butterflies 🙂
I’ve got some space near my shed that could do with some flowers to brighten it up! I’d love this to attract some more butterflies in my garden.
I’ve a border in my garden just waiting for these seeds
I would plant the kit along the left hand side of our garden because we haven’t got enough flowers for the insects in that flowerbeg.
I’d plant in my circular border that’s surrounded by a lavender hedge which attracts so many bees it would be great to have more butterflies too
I would plant the kit in my front garden. We’re in the process of making it more wildlife friendly. We have not long put a pond in and I’m currently planting it up with as many bee and butterfly friendly plants as I can do this would be a great help
This would be great for our garden, love spotting and watching the butterflies and all the other garden wildlife.
We love butterflies and would love to attract butterflies to our own garden
We have a wildlife corner of the garden and this would give us the opportunity to expand it
a new little unmown corner of my back garden
My grandchildren would love to see more butterflies in the garden, what a lovely idea!
I’d plant them along our rear garden fence.
We have, a border by the garden path which would take the plants. The butterfly and bee house would go on the fence in the sun.
It would be lovely to see more butterflies in the garden! It just seems so difficult in the city…
I’d plant the kit along the edge of my drab front lawn, which is in dire need of brightening up.
I’d plant these along my garden fence.
I’d plant them close to the new pond we are building
Perfect to plant along our rear garden wall.
This is such a wonderful idea, I have a raised bed that would be perfect for this!
I love this, I would put it in our memory garden that we have for our baby daughter who died 10 years ago, we have a brass plaque on her wooden bench that says ‘Martha, our little butterfly’. All the plants we have so far are butterfly/bee friendly.
In the border of our front garden.
I have borders on one side of my small garden that would appreciate these.
I’d put it in the area of my garden that I call my wildlife garden