Plantable Greeting Card: Special Edition 'Safe to Bee.'

• Card size: A6 105mm x 148mm

• Handmade from 100% recycled 210gsm paper card.

• Embedded with swan river daisy, chamomile, alyssum, and pink ageratum seeds.

• Comes with 100% recycled beige envelope and compostable clear cellophane slip.

• A print of an original Laura Luke artwork on the front, blank inside for a personal message of your own choosing, with planting instructions on the back.

• Printed in Byron Bay.

LANT – soak the card in water until soft. Place in a pot or garden bed with soil, and lightly cover with a seed-raising mix.

LOVE – Keep moist with water and place in the sunshine.

WATCH – Germination takes time, usually between 7-21 days. Please be patient and watch for sprouts!

BLOOM – Enjoy your colourful wildflowers.

Swan River Daisies are indigenous to central Australia. They prefer light to medium soil in a sunny area yet can tolerate shade. They are a very hardy, annual (perennial) flowering plant, frost and drought resistant, and will grow to a height of 0.2m and spread to 0.3m. Their flowers bloom in white, blue, or pink.

Chamomile is a unique European herb that forms a pretty flower most known for making herbal tea. They are hardy, annual (perennial) plants that take around 10 weeks to bloom. They are best planted in the spring, prefer full sun or partial shade in well-drained soil, and are drought tolerant. They will grow up to 0.6m and spread to 0.3m wide. Chamomile boasts fragrant, daisy-like flowers with white petals surrounding a yellow centre.

Alyssum is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa. They are a very hardy annual (perennial) plant, tolerating heat and drought, however, they are not frost-tolerant. They will grow up to 0.1m producing clusters of tiny flowers and can bloom in pink, salmon, purple, white, and yellow. They are best planted in spring in well-drained soil with moderate moisture. Cut back spent flowers to encourage reblooming.

Pink Ageratum is native to Mexico and North America. They are a half-hardy annual (perennial) flowering plant. Best planted in spring with full sun to partial shade, in well-drained soil. They produce fluffy pink flowers that will bloom throughout summer and grow up to 0.3m tall. Keep well-watered and encourage bushy growth by pinching out the first buds. Deadhead spent flowers to prolong flowering.

Bees are an important part of our everyday life. They produce delicious honey for our pleasure that hosts antibacterial, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory qualities, and they pollinate approximately 30% of our food crops and 90% of our wild plants.

Bees play a vital role in preserving biodiversity and ecosystem health. Without bees, many ecosystems will be altered and no longer exist.

Unfortunately, bee diversity and populations are threatened due to the destruction of their natural habitats, bee disease and pests, agricultural chemicals, and a decline in commercial beekeeping.

How to help our bees from becoming extinct

· Stop using chemical insecticides & herbicides and replace them with natural alternatives.

· Plant ‘bee-friendly’ gardens with various native plants and pollen-rich flowers. Diversity is the key, aim for flowers to bloom at different times of the year.

· Let your garden get a little messy…A few weeds and wildflowers offer more biodiversity so our bees can forage.

· Only source local honey and support our important beekeeping industry.

Tasmania and Western Australia have strict quarantine rules and can incur fines upon inspection for anything that may pose a potential biosecurity threat. Seeded paper is prohibited.

We do not recommend sending seed products internationally, as customs and quarantine laws vary from country to country and seeds may pose an ecological threat to the importing country.

Laura Luke ships from New South Wales in Australia, so we do not recommend that customers from these states or outside Australia purchase seeded paper products. Laura Luke is not liable for quarantine fees or penalties customers may incur. You may prefer to purchase one of our standard greeting cards instead.

Orders are processed within 1–3 business days, with delivery taking 1–7 business days depending on your location (2–10 days total). Shipping is handled by Australia Post, and costs are calculated at checkout based on weight and parcel size.

We ship prints and ceramics worldwide, though plantable cards can’t be sent to the USA due to seed import restrictions.

If your order arrives damaged or faulty, please email hello@lauraluke.com.au within 7 days so we can help.

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