Wildflower Memorial Seed Balls - SHORTER Varieties

Wildflower Memorial Seed Balls – Grow Flowers from Your Loved One’s Ashes

Create a beautiful living wildflower memorial for someone you love with our handmade memorial seed balls.

Our bespoke wildflower memorial seed balls are made using a small amount of your loved one’s cremation ashes, combined with UK native wildflower seeds, clay, chilli powder and peat-free compost.

Once planted, the seed balls can grow into a beautiful display of native wildflowers – creating a natural place to remember someone special and a living memorial that can return year after year.

Handmade Memorial Seed Balls Using Your Loved One’s Ashes

Each order is individually handmade using our specially developed combination of:

• Your loved one’s cremation ashes
• UK native wildflower seeds
• Peat-free compost
• Natural clay powder
• Chilli powder, used to help discourage birds and other wildlife from disturbing the seed balls while they establish

The peat-free compost and clay help provide the seeds with suitable growing conditions as they begin to germinate.

We aim to make and dispatch your memorial seed balls within 7 days of receiving your loved one’s ashes.

What You Receive

Each natural cotton bag comes in a decorated cardboard tube and contains 10 handmade memorial seed balls.

Each bag also includes instructions explaining how and when to plant and care for your wildflower seed balls.

UK Native Wildflowers for a Lasting Memorial

This memorial seed ball mix contains a beautiful selection of shorter UK native wildflowers suitable for smaller spaces, planters, balconies and windowsills.

The seed balls can be planted between March and November.

Given suitable growing conditions, your wildflowers should begin establishing during their first year, with perennial varieties becoming more established in subsequent years. A wildflower memorial can therefore develop and change over time, creating an ongoing and natural way to remember someone you love.

Your flowers may also provide a valuable source of food and habitat for bees, butterflies and other wildlife.

Wildflowers Included

Depending on seed availability, this mix typically includes:

• Myosotis (“Forget Me Nots”) 
• Love-in-a-Mist (“Nigella Damascene” or “Devil in the Bush”) 
• California Poppy (“Eschscholzia Californica” “Golden Poppy”) 
• Red, White & Blue Poppies 
• Aquilegia (“Granny’s Bonnet” or “Columbine”) 
• Guizotia Abyssinica (“Niger” plant or “Thisle” seed)
• Blanket Flower (“Gaillardia”) 

Seed varieties are subject to availability and may occasionally vary.

Each seed ball contains sufficient seed for up to around 1m² of potential coverage, although actual coverage and growth will depend on planting location, soil, weather and other growing conditions.

How Our Ashes to Wildflowers Service Works

We understand that sending a loved one’s ashes to someone else requires trust. We therefore aim to make the process as simple and reassuring as possible.

1. Place Your Order

Choose the number of bags of memorial seed balls you would like and place your order through our website.

2. We Send Your Ashes Postal Pack

We will send you a postal pack containing everything you need to safely prepare your loved one’s ashes for sending to us.

3. Send Us a Small Amount of Ashes

Using the postal pack provided, send us up to 50g of your loved one’s cremation ashes.

We recommend using an appropriate Royal Mail tracked and signed-for service, such as Special Delivery.

Please see our “Posting Ashes – What Are the Rules?” page for full information about sending cremation ashes to us.

If we are making seed balls with your loved one's complete ashes, we will contact you to arrange.

4. We Handmake Your Memorial Seed Balls

When your loved one’s ashes arrive, we carefully use them to make your bespoke wildflower seed balls.

Every order is handled individually and with care.

We aim to dispatch your completed memorial seed balls within 7 days of receiving the ashes.

A Living Memorial That Can Grow Year After Year

Unlike a conventional memorial, wildflowers change with the seasons.

Some varieties may flower during the first year, while others can take longer to establish. Perennial flowers can return in subsequent years and, in suitable conditions, some varieties may naturally self-seed.

This means your wildflower memorial can develop and become more established over time.

Planting, watering and tending the flowers can also become a simple, ongoing act of remembrance – particularly fitting for someone who loved their garden, wildlife, countryside or the outdoors.

From a small amount of their ashes, you can create somewhere beautiful to remember them.

A living memorial, created with love and allowed to grow naturally.

Important Growing Information

Wildflowers are living plants and their success depends on factors including soil, weather, light, moisture, planting location and aftercare.

For this reason, germination, flower growth and final coverage cannot be guaranteed.

Following the planting and care instructions supplied with your memorial seed balls will give your wildflowers the best opportunity to establish.

Safety: Seed balls are small objects and may present a choking hazard, particularly to babies and young children. Please keep unplanted seed balls safely out of reach.