Win a Seedball mini wildflower meadow pot set

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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?

seedball mini meadow bamboo pots set

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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GIVEAWAY CLOSES: 27TH SEPTEMBER 2021 11:59PM

UK ENTRIES OVER 18 YEARS OLD ONLY

FULL T&C’s IN THE RAFFLECOPTER ABOVE

Collaborative post. Seedball are providing the Mini Meadow Pots for prize purposes.

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Catherine is a gardener, plant lover, writer, and award winning author of children’s nature books. Her blog is a Vuelio Top 5 gardening blog and her work has been featured in many online and print publications including Grow Your Own Magazine, House Beautiful, Daily Mail, Tesco Magazine, Suttons, Thompson & Morgan, and many more. She is also a member of the Garden Media Guild.

90 Comments

  1. 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.

  4. Gorgeous idea for gardens, would love to win this – it would really help me as I have very poor gardening skills!

  6. 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! )

  7. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. I’m lucky enough to have dragon flies, mice, squirrels, paragon falcons, frogs, toads, etc. I don’t have a hedgehog though.

  19. 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

  20. I’d love to attract bees, ladybirds and butterflies. I’ve hardly seen any ladybirds or butterflies in the last few years.

  25. We have lots of bees in our garden and i would love to attract lacewings and ladybirds in the wildlife garden.

  29. I do love seeing all the different colours of flowers and insects especially the butterflies that appear.

  33. 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.

  40. 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!

  42. Aww this is a lovely giveaway, I would love to attract all of the beautiful wildlife especially bee’s and butterflies.

  43. We planted some lavender to attract the bees but we would really like to attract some butterflies as well

  46. 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.

  47. I would love to attract beneficial insects into my garden to help me be organic and enjoy nature.

  48. 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 :-)

  49. What a wonderful product! I would love to to help see more butterflies. Monarchs come by sometimes, and I’d love to see more of them.

  53. This is such a clever idea, saves you from trying to see those tiny seeds! Hopefully, it will attract lots more pollinators to the garden as well as the colourful butterflies and busy bees.

  54. I’m turning my front lawn into a wild meadow for wildlife. It’s Taking ages to spread though but looks really pretty so we need more seeds xx

  56. Lots and lots of beautifully colored butterflies! I would be in heaven sitting in my garden then :)

  58. Get lots of bumble bees and honeybees visiting our garden. Would love to attract more butterflies, birds and other insects.

  60. More bees please! #saveourbees I love finding plants that attract them. We have a fuchsia on our patio that has had several bees on it in daylight hours for several weeks now whereas a different variety nearby that looks much prettier rarely has any!

  73. Anything that buzzes in and visit the garden is a bonus but for me more bees would keep me mesmerised in the garden …love seeing them visit each flower

  84. I have seen a Bullfinch in our front garden this summer feeding on the flowers. I would love to attract more of them. They are so colourful.

  86. We don’t get many birds at all in our garden. but I’d like to see to see some goldfinches, tits or starlings.

  89. I would love to tempt honeybees and butterflies into my garden with a mini wildflower meadow if I win.

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