This is a collaborative post in partnership with Seedball
Welcome to a lovely new giveaway. If you’d like to explore a quick and easy way to make your garden more wildlife-friendly, this is perfect for you 🙂
I’m teaming up with the lovely people at Seedball to give away four sets of their Mini Meadow Pots, which are a super-simple way to grow wildflowers in even the smallest of spaces.
Why you should plant wildflowers
There are lots of great reasons why you should plant wildflowers in your garden.
For starters, wildflowers provide a rich source of nectar and pollen, so they’re perfect for helping pollinating insects to thrive. A patch of wildflowers will also provide shelter and food for other small creatures and wild birds.
Wildflowers are very easy to grow and low-effort to look after too. With Seedball’s wildflower seed balls, you literally chuck them onto your soil and let nature do the rest. A wildflower patch will also help to keep the weeds down, saving you time on garden maintenance.
And of course, wildflowers look gorgeous! A tin of seed balls or a packet of mixed seeds will create a beautiful, natural planting effect, with a variety of lovely native flowers for you and your local wildlife to enjoy.
It’s not hard to see why wildflowers are becoming more popular in our gardens, is it?
Easy to grow wildflower seeds from Seedball
Seedball is a non-profit company on a mission to increase the abundance of British wildflowers, and the wildlife that depend upon them. Their creators Emily & Ana developed the idea for wildflower seed balls after struggling to grow wildflowers themselves.
What is a seed ball?
A seed ball (or seed bomb) is a super-simple, reliable way to grow wildflowers from seed. Seedball call them mini ecosystems, because they provide the seeds with the nutrition and protection they need to germinate and grow. Each ball contains wildflower seeds, mixed with clay to protect them from predators and peat-free compost for nutrition. There’s also chilli powder in there, to deter slugs and snails from chomping on the young plants.
Planting your seed balls is ridiculously quick and easy. The clay and peat-free compost basically means the seeds are already planted; you simply scatter them onto bare soil, water them if it doesn’t rain, and leave them to grow. As the plants become established the balls disperse, leaving you with a beautiful wildflower display.
Seedball sell a wide range of seed mixes in their iconic tins (which make fab little gifts), so whether you’re aiming to attract a particular type of wildlife, go for a specific colour scheme, or tailor your wildflowers to the conditions in your garden, there’s a tin for you.
Seedball Mini Meadow Pots
Seedball’s Mini Meadow Pots are a new addition to the range, and a lovely way to grow wildflowers on a smaller scale.
Everything you need is in the box. There are three biodegradable and compostable bamboo plant pots and saucers, peat-free coir discs, 12 wildflower seed balls, and full instructions. You can plant up your pots at any time of the year, but spring and autumn are the best times to get things going. The Seedball website has more product details and a great little video showing you how it all works here.
If you’re limited on outdoor space or are into container gardening, Mini Meadow Pots are ideal. I also think they make a lovely gift, and the small scale means they’re a perfect way to encourage kids to embrace wildlife gardening too.
Seedball Mini Meadow Pots cost £25 each and there are three seed varieties to choose from. The prizes for this giveaway are the Garden Meadow variety, which includes a lovely mix of native wildflowers. If you’re a lucky winner, what creatures would you love to tempt into your garden with your mini wildflower meadow?
Win a Seedball Garden Meadow Pot
I’m giving away four Seedball Mini Meadow Pots (Garden Meadow variety) worth £25 each. To enter, follow the instructions in the Rafflecopter widget below. Good luck!
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Collaborative post. Seedball are providing the Mini Meadow Pots for prize purposes.
I would love to attract insects to my garden, in particular bees and ladybirds. I don’t recall seeing any ladybirds at all this year.
So easy to grow, with rewarding beautiful results!!
Looks good! Hopefully attract bees!
Gorgeous idea for gardens, would love to win this – it would really help me as I have very poor gardening skills!
The bees I try to do as much as I can to help them
I would love to encourage more bees and other pollinators and hedgehogs in my garden would be wonderful ( plenty of slugs for them to eat! )
We took up half our patio and planted wildflower seeds – we’ve had so many insects: bees, hoverflies, ladybirds, shieldbugs, butterflies. These pots would be great in the front yard.
Bees, butterflies and moths.
Bees,Birds and Butterflies
I really would like to attract more ladybirds and butterflies
These are so convenient for wildflower planting. I love to see and hear bees enjoying meadow flowers but get a kick out of seeing butterflies, too.
I’m lucky enough to have dragon flies, mice, squirrels, paragon falcons, frogs, toads, etc. I don’t have a hedgehog though.
We love butterflies and bees in our garden.
Butterflies, bees and ladybirds
Bees so than can pollinate the whole garden and hopefully some beautiful butterflies
I’d like to attract grasshoppers. I’m sure these wildflower seeds would!
I would like to attract bees and butterflies
ladybirds, bees and butterflies
I intend to change part of my garden into a wildflower section to encourage bees and insects, I will leave a pile of wood among it for the little critters
I’d love to attract bees, ladybirds and butterflies. I’ve hardly seen any ladybirds or butterflies in the last few years.
Love watching butterflies – would like to attract different types in x
All wildlife it’s fascinating to wTch
Wow, this is so gorgeous!
Bees and butterflies
We have lots of bees in our garden and i would love to attract lacewings and ladybirds in the wildlife garden.
I also love to attract butterflies into my garden!
lots of various insects!
I’d love attract bees, butterflies, ladybirds and birds
I do love seeing all the different colours of flowers and insects especially the butterflies that appear.
Bees,Birds and Butterflies
We would love to see more butterflies in our garden
Would love to attract more beautiful butterflies into my garden
I have bees that visit every year and set up home in our community compost bin. So I would like to look after them and encourage them to set up home again.
I would like to encourage bees, butterflies and all other insects that would love to visit.
All..of them ! Bees butterflies …. love them
Love these!
I’d like to tempt some ladybirds into my garden
It has got to be bees, they need all the help we can give them and I would like to do my little bit.
Butterflies and Bees
I’d love to tempt in more butterflies, we always get lots of the white ones but haven’t seen any others. We get so many bumblebees already and I love to sit out in the garden and watch them every morning – but the more the merrier!
Love to see more butterflies in our garden
Aww this is a lovely giveaway, I would love to attract all of the beautiful wildlife especially bee’s and butterflies.
We planted some lavender to attract the bees but we would really like to attract some butterflies as well
Bees and butterflies
id like to tempt ladybirds into the garden
We get lots of sparrows in our garden, in fact there is a group of about 8 of them that hatched here and seem to have stayed on. I love to see them fighting over the food we give them but they are not very exciting colours. I’d like to try and attract other birds such as gold finches and blue tits.
I would love to attract beneficial insects into my garden to help me be organic and enjoy nature.
definitely more butterflies and ladybirds as I dont see these much in my garden and they’re so beautiful. I get some bumblebees but I would always welcome more 🙂