Scotia Seeds are pleased to be the very first sponsor of the Montrose Land & Sea Film Festival. We are going to be at the festival – we are having a drop in seed saving workshop and are sponsoring the…
Moth Breakfast!
On Saturday 17th June we will be looking at the moths who have visited the light traps at Mavisbank the night before. Come along and meet the moths and join in with making moth themed bunting for Buglife, the Invertebrate…
Mavisbank; spaces for nature – frogspawn!
It’s that time of year again…on Monday (13th) when we were down at Willow Pond (one of the ponds we made at Mavisbank), we saw a frog couple and the next day there was lots of frogspawn. Frogs lay eggs…
Wildflower seed testing at Scotia Seeds
After cleaning, the next part of our wildflower seed’s journey is seed testing. In the laboratory at Mavisbank our colleague Natasha tests seed of our 200 hundred odd species and, just as Jill has different methods of seed cleaning, Natasha…
A is for Agrimony
As well as its common English name ‘Agrimony’, the lovely wildflower Agrimonia eupatoria has lots of other names including Gaelic ones like ‘Geur-bhileach’ ‘Mirean’, & ‘Muir-dhroigh’ and more. If like me you are not a Gaelic speaker you might enjoy…
Wildflower Seed Cleaning
At this time of year our colleagues Jill and Matteo are finishing the vital job of cleaning seed from the 2022 wildflower and wild grass seed harvest at Mavisbank, home of Scotia Seeds. From September onwards Jill starts the process…
Yoga in our Meadow
On Saturday 20th August we are hosting another Buglife Scotland Strathmore People & Pollinators event, this time a yoga session with local teacher, Cheryl Lang The class begins at 10.30am and will be in one of our meadows next to…
An Introduction to Pollinating Insects workshop; come and find out about the beasties of Mavisbank with Buglife
Join Buglife Scotland and Scotia Seeds for an Introduction to Pollinators. Lean how to carry out a Flower Insect Timed Count as well as how to create wildflower habitats of all sizes, taking inspiration from Mavisbank, the home of Scotia…
Scotia Seeds winners in the 2021 RSPB Nature of Scotland Awards!
We are very happy to announce that Scotia Seeds has won the Business Award in the RSPB Nature of Scotland Awards The Nature of Scotland Awards recognise those individuals, businesses and organisations who work hard to make a difference within…
Can’t see the wood for the trees
It can be argued that a mature woodland isn’t just trees it is other plants as well – an understorey of things that grow below the tree canopy including native fungi and wildflowers. The presence of an understorey that includes…
Webshop closed this week on Tuesday
. We will be closing on Tuesday (11th May) and opening again on Wednesday at 9am… As spring has arrived we are getting very busy sending out seeds and getting on with growing wildflowers for you. Unfortunately we have fewer…
Harvest has started!
Our wildflower seed harvest has begun in earnest! We normally have some lovely student seasonal workers helping us with the harvest but as we won’t have as many people harvesting this year we may have to close the web shop…
May 12th update
We hope that you are all safe and well during the lockdown and thank you so much for your custom and interest in our wildflower seed. Just an update to say that we continue to work with the same minimum…
Webshop update
May 2020 update Our web shop is currently open from 9am until 5pm during the week and we are very happy that we can continue to safely send out wildflower seeds for your projects large and small… We have strict…
Happy Christmas to all our friends and customers
We would like to wish all our wonderful customers, colleagues, suppliers and other friends a very happy 2019 Christmas and a great 2020 New Year! We will now be waiting until New Year to send our deliveries but you can…
2019 Catalogue
Our 2019 catalogue is available now. Just ring us on 01356 626425 or email scotiaseeds@btconnect.com with your address and we will post you one!