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Seahorse Trust Charity Seed Packet Wedding Favour

£1.20 Inc VAT




Description

The Seahorse Trust is a charity very close to our hearts.  These extraordinary little creatures are killed in their millions every year to be part of jewellery or for Chinese medicine and for sale as pets.   And their death is not a pleasant one – they are hauled out of the ocean and left to suffocate on the beach in boiling heat and pain to dry them out. If things carry on the way they are, seahorses will be extinct in less than 30 years.  This is an awful thing to contemplate and we must do all we can to prevent this.  You can help by not buying jewellery or other trinkets containing real seahorses and by helping to support The Seahorse Trust in their fabulous work to help save these marvellous marine animals.

Seahorses enjoy a bit of romance and pair up as the perfect couple and so are an ideal symbol for true love.  The Seahorse Trust was set up in 1999 as an umbrella organisation to preserve and conserve the marine environment using Seahorses as their flagship species. They work in partnership with many organisations and people from all over the world.  The Seahorse Trust has also set up a worldwide database on seahorses to help record seahorse sightings around the world.

Seahorses are a unique fish species that occupy the coastal areas of most of the world and they are under threat, being vulnerable to human and natural interference they suffer badly and by working together we can make a difference to their future and the future of these fragile eco-systems.

Seahorse trust photo 3

The Seahorse Trust working with its partners at Boatfolk and the Studland Bay Marine Partnership have put a total of 100 Ecomoorings into Studland Bay

In August 2021, The Seahorse Trust with its partners at BOATFOLK boating and marina services, installed 10 ecomoorings as the start of an ambitious project to take pressure off this highly sensitive site, which is home to seagrass and seahorses. This was just the start and, in 2023, the Seahorse Trust fundraised and installed 100 ecomoorings.

Studland Bay was designated as a Marine Conservation Zone in 2019 after 11 years of studying, surveying and campaigning by The tSeahorse Trust and its partners at Southampton University. The site is very important for its seagrass meadow and its population of Spiny Seahorses both of which have been affected by an increase in the number of boats visiting the site.

These ecomoorings will take the pressure off the site and allow it to recover to favourable conditions, which was the intention of the Marine Conservation Zone.

The Seahorse Trust is a registered charity – number 1086027.  For every one of these seed packets sold, a donation of 20p will be made to them.

About the Seed Packets

The seed packets are made from recycled white paper and measure 9 x 12 cm.  The seeds inside are in a glassine paper sachet (not plastic and foil) and are a mix of British-grown British wildflower seeds – Cornflower, Corn Chamomile, Corn Marigold and Poppy.  All these flowers are perfect for butterflies, bees, moths, hoverflies and other little bugs!

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.

Not using the seeds for a while?  No problem!  Just store them somewhere cool and dry out of direct sunlight.

The seed packets are personalised with your wedding details – please advise these in the box above.

Seahorse photographed by the Seahorse Trust

By buying these charity seed packets you are helping nature in more ways than one!

About the Seeds

This seed packet contains a mix of cornfield annuals – Poppy, Cornflower, Corn Chamomile and Corn Marigold.

We use a seed grower registered with APHA and who is inspected annually, so you can be sure you are getting quality seeds.  The wildflower seeds are grown in the UK and are UK species only.

Plant Information

The Seed Mix

Find out more about the flowers in this mix here: Cornfield Annuals

Flowering Period

June to August

Flowering Period

June to August

Height

Up toaround 60 cm

Hardiness

Annual- so will be sown, flower, die and set seed in one year.

Postion

Full sun

Colours

White, yellow, red and blue

Please allow up to 14 days for delivery, particularly through busy spring and summer months. If you need your order urgently, please email or call - we can normally accommodate urgent requests. Please do not add any urgent delivery info to your order notes as this will not be read until we get to our order - and by then it might be too late!

Rainbow on maroon background with bees and flowers

Customer joy and happiness is what we strive for! Our happiness guarantee means that if, for some reason, you are not happy with your order, we will make it our goal to ensure happiness is achieved.

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Printed on recycled paper