Seed Revolution, The Rare and the Beautiful: picture the scene of striking beauty, rarity and sweet fragrance you can add to your own garden of earthly delights! Sow these seeds and the bees, butterflies, pollinators and all Nature will love you for ever
Original price was: £71.95.£49.00Current price is: £49.00.
We love to garden. We take pride in it. Our garden is looking just how we want it. But something’s missing. How about something a little bit wild. Irregular. Something to add rare, wild beauty to our garden—and our lives—while doing our bit for the bees. Picture the scene of wild beauty and fragrance:
Few flowers can achieve the delicate beauty of Maiden’s Tears and Night Flowering Catchfly, and fewer gardeners will have Ragged Robin, Betony and Meadow Cranesbill on their patch, let alone all three!
We all have a patch which would look even more beautiful if Nature were given a helping hand. Seed Revolution’s The Rare and the Beautiful collection is the Garden of Eden we and our bees need!
The Rare and the Beautiful: 20g Maiden’s Tears, 20g Night Flowering Catchfly, 3 packets Ragged Robin, 3 packets Betony, 3 packets Meadow Cranesbill. 20g is for 20 sq metres.
Maiden’s Tears: Silene Vulgaris. Other names: bladder campion, cowbell, common bladder catchfly.
Symbolic of love, purity and innocence, but with name vulgaris, Bladder campion looks exactly as you’d imagine. White delicate flowers sprouting from a sack-like base, the flower also produces a sweet scent. Consumed in many Mediterranean countries, so much so it can be found in the food shops and markets of Crete, bladder campion is the gateway to southern Europe you never knew.
Night Flowering Catchfly: Silene noctiflora: Other names: clammy cockle, night scented catchfly.
Night flowering catchfly is a big deal in the moth world. Studio 54, Moulin Rouge and Noma rolled into one, all whilst smelling like the inner sanctum of Coco Chanel’s laboratoire in Paris. As night descends the flower opens its leaves and releases a fragrance calling all moths to the party, a party that lasts till dawn. Featured in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and used in love spells, a plant endangered in many countries will bring more than just magic to your garden, encouraging butterflies and moths aplenty with the promise of sweet, sweet nectar. Rare, low maintenance and strikingly beautiful, do yourself a favour and add this clammy cockle to your garden.
Ragged Robin: Silene flos-cuculi. Other names: crownflower, cuckoo flower.
Ragged Robbin, a true classic of British wild flowers, but sadly in decline as Britain’s wild wet habitats continue to disappear. Beautiful starlike pink flowers that can grow in a variety of conditions, but ragged robin really thrives where it’s a bit damp. Previously known as crownflower, ragged robin makes an appearance in Shakespeare’s Hamlet as one on the flowers in Ophelia’s crown. Rare and strikingly beautiful, a jewel just waiting to be added your garden.
Betony: Stachys officinalis/ Other names: bishopwort; word betony: If you love beauty and simplicity, I imagine you’re a fan of reality tv. But beauty and simplicity doesn’t have to mean six packs and tight trousers. Think French cuisine, think of an evening sunset, think betony. Small, bright, orchid like leaves, betony is a great addition to any garden, it’s needs little care and even grows successfully in the darker spaces. Traditionally used to aid digestion, circulation and alleviate symptoms of depression and anxiety, whenever you need a lift, go look at your new flowers.
Meadow Cranesbill: Geranium pratense. Other names: thunder flowers
Depending on where you are in the world, meadow cranesbill is known to foster friendship, conceal secrets and symbolise trust. Used in many love potions around the world, it’s also known as thunder flowers due to its ability to bring rain and thunder storms. Now, who wouldn’t want a beautiful flower that wields so much power? Suitable to most soils and flowering throughout summer, this really is a must-have addition to all revolutionary’s gardens. Limited supply so grab it whilst you can!
For more about Seed Revolution, and growing details, please read on . . .
Seed Revolution:
Seed Revolution is a campaign to save Britain’s natural beauty and our food supply by planting native wild flowers to bring back the bees, butterflies and other pollinators. Rex Fisher—currently rowing across the Atlantic to raise funds for a wonderful charity called Tackling Minds, which through fishing supports mental health—and Max Mancroft (whose father is our host at the House of Lords) are spreading the seeds of this benign revolution. Young countrymen both, through their fast-growing company Seed Revolution they are applying a light-hearted new approach to an issue which they hold dear—and know to be of serious importance. As they say,
‘Since the 1930s we have lost 97% of our wild flower meadows in the UK. Meadows which provide essential habitats for pollinators. No pollinators, no us. Without wild flowers, we have no bees. No bees, we have no food. No food and we’re all doomed. But the solution is easy, and full of beauty. Grow wild flowers. Save bees. Rescue humanity. Welcome to the revolution . . . ‘
You can sow wild flowers almost anywhere—we all have a place we can transform into a magical floral scene, a pleasure for us and an important haven for the bees: an area of garden, around a pond or bog, an orchard, meadow, hedgerow, woodland, river and canal bank—even a plant pot. Or do some guerrilla gardening by lobbying to plant on verges, sports fields or parks.
Success comes easy. The only two rules are that wild flowers need sunlight and they prefer the poorest quality soil you can think of.
The Rare and the Beautiful: 20g Maiden’s Tears, 20g Night Flowering Catchfly, 3 packets Ragged Robin, 3 packets Betony, 3 packets Meadow Cranesbill. 20g is for 20 sq metres.
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