Bee Blooms
Restoring bee habitats through education and creative design
Bee Blooms Party Boxes
Bee Blooms Party Boxes are a simple and positive way to give gifts or party favors while giving back to the environment and building habitat for bees. Each box contains 1 cow pot, 2 soil pellets (not peat), plantable seed confetti, 1 nutrient pellet, planting instructions, and a personalized label (if desired). Everything you need to grow a healthy seedling is enclosed in a single box. Planting and transplanting your seedling is easy and once that plant is outside, you have created a new habitat for the pollinators that are responsible for one in every three bites you eat.
How to Plant Your Seeds
Step One: Take cow pot, soil pellets, nutrients ball, and seed confetti out of the box.
Step Two: Place your cow pot into a bowl or curved plate.
Step Three: Put the soil pellets into the cow pot.
Step Four: Add one cup of water to the cow pot gradually and watch the soil expand.
Step Five: Once soil has expanded, stir to aerate the soil(chopsticks or pencils work well).
Step Six: Place the nutrients ball in the center of your soil and push down into the soil for the length of your pinkie.
Step Seven: Place your seed confetti on the surface of the soil, then push down into the soil until it is covered.
Step Eight: Keep your cow pot on some kind of tray and put in a place with good lighting.
Step Nine: Water or mist soil enough to keep the soil moist but not soggy.
Step Ten: Once your seed has sprouted and grown into a seedling, gradually introduce them to the great outdoors by leaving them outside for the day and bringing them inside for the night.
Step Eleven: Finally your seedling is ready to go out into the world and start helping bees. Plant your seedling and the cowpot in the ground in an open area(preferably with good sun) and sprinkle extra seed confetti pieces or other seeds around it to create the kind of habitat a bee loves!
Within a few weeks, your seedlings will be strong enough to transplant anywhere that has soil to grow beautiful California native wildflowers that make a perfect habitat for bees.