We’ve got 100,000 FREE wild flower seed packets to give away to people all over the country. Let’s grow the UK!

Simply go to https://sow.growwildseeds.com/ and fill in a one minute online form to receive a FREE Grow Wild seed packet, just in time for sowing this spring*. Be quick, registration closes 18th April 2016.

Anyone can sow and grow wild flowers – it’s quick, easy and fun. You don’t need to have green fingers, be a gardener or have your own green space. Just let your imagination grow wild.

Supported by the Big Lottery Fund, Grow Wild is the national outreach initiative of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Grow Wild brings people together to transform local spaces with native, pollinator-friendly wild flowers and plants.

Richard Deverell, Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew said: “British wild flowers are under threat, and therefore so are the pollinators they feed. Not only is it heartbreaking to lose the beauty and colour these native flowers provide the UK landscape, but the plight of pollinators has a very real impact on the food we eat ourselves. Grow Wild is giving people the power to take action, bringing colour and wildlife back into our lives all across the UK”

Notes to Editors:

Grow Wild: Supported by the Big Lottery Fund and led by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Grow Wild inspires communities, friends, neighbours and individuals across the UK to come together to transform local spaces, by sowing, growing and enjoying native wild flowers. We believe that this simple act of creativity can turn spaces into beautiful, inspiring and colourful wildlife havens; encouraging people to care for and delight in the nature around them. Any space can be transformed – from balconies to old boots, streets to shared spaces, boxes to buckets. Anything that will hold soil, water and seeds will do: just let your imagination grow wild.

The Big Lottery Fund supports the aspirations of people who want to make life better for their communities across the UK. They are responsible for giving out 40% of the money raised by the National Lottery and invest over £650 million a year in projects big and small in health, education, environment and charitable purposes. Since June 2004 they have awarded over £6.5billion to projects that make a difference to people and communities in need, from early years intervention to commemorative travel funding for World War Two veterans. Since the National Lottery began in 1994, £34 billion has been raised and more than 450,000 grants awarded.

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is internationally respected for its outstanding living collection of plants and world-class Herbarium as well as its scientific expertise in plant diversity, conservation and sustainable development. Kew Gardens is also a major international visitor attraction. Its landscaped 132 hectares and RBG Kew’s country estate, Wakehurst Place, attract nearly two million visitors every year. Wakehurst Place is home to Kew's Millennium Seed Bank, the largest wild plant seed bank in the world. RBG Kew and its partners have collected and conserved seed from 10% of the world's wild flowering plant species.

Lynne Gorman, seed recipient 2015: “The varieties that have blossomed are quite awesome and totally unexpected. They have attracted lots of friendly insect-life especially honey bees. I spend hours in my garden nurturing and tending lots of bedding plants but these lovely wild flowers need very little attention and give a much more rewarding experience.”