I started Beebombs in the UK originally, back in 2018. The idea came from my long fascination with wild space and how we are losing it at such a terrifying rate.

Having lived all over Europe, I have seen how the issue has developed in my lifetime, with industrial farming and the human instinct to manage and control, destroying bio-diversity and habitat across huge swathes of our continent. The idea behind Beebombs was to promote the unkempt, to value the untidy, to let nature give us back what we have taken. We have a need for wild space, for ourselves as well as for the insects and wildlife that populate it. We need to be reminded of our own insignificance and wild space helps take us out of ourselves and back where we belong, into nature.

We now make and distribute Beebombs in Ireland, the UK, Poland, Germany and France. I love learning about and understanding the different species and challenges related to each country, but in the end. Northern Europe shares many of the same issues and same solutions. Every species we use is native to the country we sell them in and historically so. We have a benchmark of 3000 years to count as native. The seed stock that we use in our mixes is sourced from a range of areas across Ireland, the EU and the UK, depending on availability and quality of harvests.

What and why are Beebombs?  

Huge swathes of wildflower habitat has been lost over the last 100 years

This loss of traditional habitat is having a devastating effect on Bee and Butterfly populations throughout the developed world. Biodiversity is crucial for many reasons and wildflowers are crucial to biodiversity. 

With Beebombs you can re-create these lost habitats and to help bring the bees back.

Beebombs need no gardening skill and can be scattered straight onto open ground at any time of the year. 

Once scattered, you don't need to water or tend your Beebombs. I tend to say 'cleared ground' as wildflowers are hardy and adaptable but slow growers. This means that they can be out-competed by faster growing grasses and perennial weeds at the critical early stages, so straight onto soil is best if possible. 

The soil will help your Beebombs germinate and the clay will protect them as they dissipate.

Lots of sun and rain is of course important, as is time.