Baron Desert to Floral Carpet!

From baron desert to a glorious carpet of floral colours!  For a few weeks a year typically late July to September the Arid landscape in South Africa is transformed after rains hit. The seeds, lying dormant on the desert floor, grow into full bloom leaving the landscape awash with amazing wildflowers and colours in an area that was once a desert landscape.

Once the flowers die off and their seeds fall, waiting until the following year when the rainy season hits the region to re-spawn the floral beauty once more.  Photographer Tommy Trenchard caught this beauty on a recent trip to South Africa to come across the amazing colours by chance.  You can see more of his photos here..

Where have our British wildflowers gone!?

Looking closer to home the once colourful countryside in our green and pleasant land, is just that…green.  The beauty of wildflowers and colours of our amazing countryside is all but gone and not seen in its natural beauty but instead seen of floral shows and gardens.  This is also aiding the decline of the Bee population as where there once was plenty of food is now grass and shrubs from farmed land and housing estates helped on by local councils not maintaining our colourful wildflowers but instead taking mowers to cut down grasses and flowers as its easier to maintain.  This is interrupting the seeding process and the following year there are no flowers, just grass and weeds.

What can I do to help??

If everyone grabbed a pack of seeds of British wildflowers and scattered them on grassland, sides of roads where the council are letting weeds overgrow, or anywhere like spare ground.  Then we too could be having fields of colours in streets and fields.  We too could look at the bright fresh colours and bring our country back to life from dull city landscapes and derelict land.  To give them a better chance of survival you could use products like ‘Seedballs’ which have a mixture of ingredients to deter animals eating the seeds and gives them the nutrition they need to give them a fighting start.  The balls can also sit dormant for 2 years and once scattered and the rain comes the spring into life and start the growing process to help bring flowers back to our countryside!

We have a range of seedballs in stock which benefit various animals from bees to butterflies and beetles to bats.  If everyone scattered just one pack of seeds each, just think what it would do, not only for our countryside but for the planet as a whole.  Start the Floral Revolution.  Start it with you.