The Wildflower Honey Gift Box has been created for anyone who loves honey, wildflowers and bees.
In each Wildflower Honey Gift Box, you will receive:
1 x Spring honey (pale) jar 257g, 8oz
1 x Summer honey (golden) jar 257g, 8oz
1 x Wooden honey dipper
1 x Wildflower seed balls
1 x Cute bee. Knitted by Kirsty’s mum!
The Honey
Our bees have been busy this spring and summer collecting nectar taken from a diverse mix of wildflowers and hedgerows around the Lincolnshire Wolds and have made two very different honey’s.
During the spring months honey bees collect nectar from a huge variety of bushes, trees and flowers. Our spring honey is very light in colour, and it is set, so it is not runny. The bees may have collected nectar from Rapeseed, Gorse, Blackthorn, Cherry blossom, Hawthorn and even Dandelion heads.
In the summer, honey bees are also busy collecting nectar from a huge variety of flowers. The golden floral honey could include nectar collected from Bramble flowers, Borage, Daisies, Evening Primrose, Linden Tree Blossom, Mullein, Poppies, Verbena and Yarrow to name a few!
Item Overview: Our honey is collected in small batches from us (very proud beekeepers) and taken direct from the hive. Only dispatched to the United Kingdom from Lincolnshire.
Ingredients: 100% unpasteurised raw Lincolnshire honey.
Please note: Natural and raw honey can sometimes turn cloudy or crystallize, this is because it has only been coarse strained so still contains remnants of the different pollens the bees visited throughout the seasons. Our honey may contain pollen particles, but this only helps to show how natural and wonderful our honey is!
Our summer honey is likely to stay runny for longer than our spring honey, due to the nectar collected by the bees. However, if you do need to make your honey runny again, you can heat the jar, but try to keep the temperature of the honey to less than 40 degrees to preserve its gorgeousness.
Wildflower Seed Balls
Item Details: Wildflower Seed Balls are lovingly created to help save our UK bees. The Wildflower Seed Balls include a huge variety of wildflower seeds also known to attract our butterflies as well as our beautiful bees.
Item Contents: Each recyclable tin contains 30 Wildflower Seed Balls. The sizes of the balls will range slightly due to them being handmade.
Ingredients: A variety of wildflower seeds, peat-free compost, natural powder clay.
Contained seed examples (but not limited to): Paper Daisy, Pheasant’s Eye, Pot Marigold, Cornflower, Dwarf Morning Glory, Corn Marigold, Evening Primrose, Forget-me-not, Four O’clock, Baby’s Breath, Corncockle, Love-in-a-Mist, Corn Poppy, Golden Tickseed, Blue Lupin, Borage, Purple Tansy, Blanket Flower, Clarkia, Mixed Cosmos, Marsh Mallow and Clover. There are NO grasses. Due to the number of seeds in each Wildflower Seed Ball we are unable to guarantee the exact ratio or seed mix. It will be fun to see which wildflowers grow from your seed balls.
Item Overview: The seed balls are handmade in Lincolnshire using RHS plant pollinator seeds native to the United Kingdom. These Wildflower Seeds are selected to attract bees and butterflies and help to maintain and encourage the UK bee population. They are 100% natural, plastic free, peat free and eco-friendly. Perfect!
How to use:
- Throw your Wildflower Seeds Balls into soil or compost in a garden bed or pot.
- The Wildflower Seed Balls can be sown from April to October
- Your Wildflower Seed Ball has everything it needs to grow. Once the seed ball becomes moist and is happy with the temperature, it will start to germinate.
- You will see these gorgeous seeds start to grow within 4 to 8 weeks.
We love our bees and are ethical beekeepers who always leave enough honey for our bees to enjoy.
Our packaging is recyclable, and no plastic packaging is used.
If you would like any further information, please contact me directly.
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Wildflower Honey Bee Gift Box
We’re very lucky to live in the Lincolnshire Wolds and are surrounded by rolling hills and an abundance of nature. We have dogs, chickens and grow lots of flowers, vegetables and herbs. It seemed only natural the next step into our countryside journey was to become beekeepers.
Although relatively new to beekeeping, we have been guided by an expert who has well over 20 years’ experience keeping bees. Our bees are kept close by surrounded by hedgerows and farmers fields, which gives them an abundance of gorgeous flowers to collect their nectar from and turn it into fragrant, natural honey.
As an aromatherapist I will also be using the beeswax to create more aromatic and plant powered products to help heal and bring a little bit of happiness, thanks to our beautiful bees.