Description
Calling all elephant lovers! This is the perfect wedding favour to give your guests if you love elephants – or perhaps are honeymooning in the Far East and might be intending to visit an elephant sanctuary. The seed packet is recycled and measures 9 x 12 cm. It is personalised with your wedding details – please advise those in the Personalisation box above. Sowing instructions are printed on the back and the seeds are in the packet in a paper sachet (not plastic and foil). Available in rustic manilla or white – please choose from the drop-down menu above.
The wildflower seeds are easy to sow and grow and are perfect for attracting butterflies, bees and other insects. Once your guests have grown wildflowers, hopefully they will want to grow more and create new habitats in their gardens for the local insect populations!
About the Seeds
Cornflower
This pretty wildflower was once common in the wild in cornfields but is now very rare in the wild, having been eradicated by farmers. The flowers are blue and “fluffy” and much loved by bumblebees, honeybees and solitary bees. All members of the centaurea family are rich in nectar.
Latin name – centaurea cyanus
Height – 60 cm
Habitat – sun
Annual
Flowering time – June to August
Corn Marigold
Corn Marigold is popular with butterflies, bees and other bugs. Its vibrant yellow flowers are fabulous
Latin name – chrysanthemum segetum
Height – 60 cm
Flowering time – June to August
Annual
Habitat – sunny
Poppy
Familiar red flowers sometimes seen in field margins in the wild, or, rarely, abundant in fields. Poppies are also wild grassland and meadow flowers.
Latin name – papaver rhoeas
Height – up to 60 cm
Habitat – sunny
Flowering time – June to September
Hardy annual.
Poppies produce abundant pollen, which is generally very dark in colour. Bumblebees and honeybees in particular seem to like it. Some reports suggest that poppies may have a bit of a narcotic effect on bees, someone in Germany noting that when his honeybees had been on poppies, they had trouble finding the entrance to their hive! Hoverflies also really like poppies.
Corn Chamomile
As the name suggests, this wildflower has yellow and white chamomile-like flowers. Common in fields, meadows and grassland.
Latin name – anthemis arvensis
Height – 40 cm
Hardy annual
Habitat – sunny
Flowering time – May to September
Corn Chamomile provides nectar for butterflies, bees and other pollinating insects.
