Ready, Set, Grow!
April is here! I am so looking forward to the beautiful Spring weather and warmer days, and I desperately want to feel the sun on my face. Spring always makes me feel a little lighter and more hopeful!
April is always the month where I venture out into my garden to start tidying up, after neglecting it over winter. It's a time for revival after a cold winter season. Although Spring officially starts in March, we always have lots of rain and grey days (especially this year!), so it's always April, when I step outside the back door and feel like being there!
April is full of energy in the air — out with the old and in with the new!
Actually, April is the first full month of Spring and it's National Garden month .So time to get your hands dirty and indulge in the many joys and benefits of gardening.
I love being in the garden, but I'm more of a have-a-go gardener. I love pretty flowers and pots and I like it to feel like it's an extra room of our house, with pretty decor and a feeling of relaxation and peace. But I then have to remember that I have a 9 year old who loves being out there too, on her trampoline, with a football or playing horses. So the garden doesn't always match my expectations!
When I was at the trade fair at the beginning of this year, I came across a fab company called Seedball. There mission is "to help and inspire more people to grow native wildflowers so that we can increase our bee, butterfly and other garden wildlife populations". I had a good long chat with the ladies on the stall and they were so passionate about our ecosystem. Conservation is in their heart and soul.
So after listening to their mission and about the huge declines in pollinators and other garden wildlife, over the last 50 years, I thought I needed to do my bit to spread the word and encourage more wildflower gardeners. Whether a back garden, balcony, window box, little patio etc, we can together have a hugely beneficial impact on our local ecosystems.
Seedballs are little balls which contain between 30 and 50 wildflower seeds and are encased in clay. You simply place them on bare soil in spring or Autumn. Water them well in the first few weeks to get them going, and after 2-4 weeks you should start to see little sprouts in your seedball. Voila! Wildflowers that our bees and butterflies will love!
Obviously I am attracted to the gifting element and have chosen some beautiful little gifts of seedballs. They can be either popped into a card, given as a gift or to add to a gift such as gardening gloves or a garden journal. The packaging is bright and beautiful with a picture of a bee, and are reasonably priced from £3.50-£6.50 which makes them easy to gift.
I also have some lovely new additions to the gardening gifts that I hope you'll love. I especially like the Garden String Tin, a must-have for any gardener to keep string and twine tangle-free. And there's a new design of Garden Kneeler that is beautiful too
I think that a pair of gardening gloves, seedballs and a hand cream, all wrapped up pretty, make the perfect gift for a gardener. If you'd like some ideas, just pop in the shop and we'll put something together.
Keep an eye on social media for more information on the Seedballs and for some fabulous gift ideas.