Spring is here and it's time to practice random acts of gardening.
Pine Street Art Works is now carrying Seed Bombs made by VisuaLingual, a small design and print shop in Over-The-Rhine, Cincinatti. Seed bombs have an honorable history as part of the guerrilla gardening movement, and are now coming into vogue as a part of the Green retail movement.
It's a great idea, gorgeous packaging, economical, and hey--what fun to use! Throw some in a vacant lot, a barren patch on the roadside, or your own yard and make a neighborhood more beautiful. That's an idea I can get behind.
Seed Bombs by VisuaLingual.
In addition to making Seed Bombs, VisuaLingual makes wonderful screen prints and has a great blog.
The
bird-, bee- and butterfly-friendly wildflower mixture includes Baby
Blue Eyes, Baby’s Breath, Black Eye Susan, Blue Flax, California Poppy,
Cornflower, Dame’s Rocket, Gloriosa Daisy, Lance-Leaf Coreopsis,
Mexican Hat, None-so Pretty, Ox-Eye Daisy, Perennial Gaillardia,
Perennial Lupine, Plains Coreopsis, Purple Coneflower, Red Poppy, Rose
Mallow, Scarlet Flax, Shasta Daisy, Siberian Wallflower, Sulphur
Cosmos, Sweet William, Wild Annual Sunflower, Wild Cosmos, and Wild
Larkspur. These wildflowers were chosen because they're native to the
East Coast, but many are actually native to much of North America.
The muslin bags were made in the USA and screenprinted by hand by VisualLingual with the East Coast Seed Bombs design.
Inside each pouch is the full list of the seeds included. When you've used up the seed bombs, reuse the pouch or frame it!
Seed Bombs in production. From VisuaLingual blog. Click image to go to story.
Think about Seed Bombs for Mother's day, graduation, teacher gifts, birthdays, and random acts of kindness. Make your neighborhood a more beautiful place.
