Description
Children love to give their teachers presents, so how about a nice eco-friendly seed packet teacher gift for your child’s teacher to remember them by!
This is a recycled manilla seed packet measuring 9 x 12 cm and personalised with your teacher’s name and your child’s – please advise them in the box above.
The seeds inside will be in a glassine paper sachet (not foil and plastic) and will be wild Field Forget-me-not (myosotis arvensis). Field Forget-me-not seeds have been known to lay dormant in the soil for 30 years until suitable conditions arise for them to germinate. They are pollinated by flies, wasps, bees and ants. If you are not going to use your seed packets for a few months or so, store them somewhere cool and dry out of direct sunlight. The seeds are viable for a few years.
What is glassine paper? Glassine paper is an eco-friendly and plastic-free alternative to mass-produced heat-sealed plastic and foil/paper sachets. Unlike those sachets glassine paper can be recycled and is biodegradable. It is also resistant to moisture and will keep the seeds dry in the main packet.
You will get around 200 seeds.
About Forget-me-not Seeds
Our seeds are solely UK wildflower species, the seeds also having been grown in the UK.
Forget-me-nots are best sown in the Autumn so that they flower the following spring. They produce masses of tiny, delicate blue flowers with yellow centres. The plant’s Latin name – myosotis – derives from the Latin for mouse ear, which the leaves tend to resemble.
Forget-me-nots have been around since the late 1300’s when Henry IV took the plant as his emblem. It was known as Scorpion Grass, according to the herbalist Gerard (1633), because its flowerhead was thought to resemble a scorpion’s tail. Therefore it was also believed to cure the sting of a scorpion, and snake and dog bites.
In German folklore, a knight picked Forget-me-not for his love as they walked by a river. He tripped and fell in but before he drowned he threw his love the flowers and cried “Forget me not!”
In days of old, blacksmiths kept a bunch of Forget-me-nots in their forge to protect horses from injury. In the language of flowers, Forget-me-nots are symbolic of true love.
Field Forget-me-not seeds have been known to lay dormant in the soil for 30 years until suitable conditions arise for them to germinate. They are pollinated by flies, wasps, bees and ants. If you are not going to use your seed packets for a few months or so, store them somewhere cool and dry out of direct sunlight. The seeds are viable for a few years, just store them somewhere cool and dry out of direct sunlight.
