Ranunculus Flower Seeds Packet
Ranunculus seeds for the garden that has decided it deserves better than the garden centre allows. Ranunculus looks like the sort of flower that costs considerably more at the florist than it does to grow from seed.
Ranunculus is multi-layered blooms in brilliant colours that look expensive and grow with very little fuss. Each packet is hermetically vacuum-sealed -- removing the oxygen that causes standard paper seed packets to lose germination viability within approximately one year. State law requires a 3-year viability label on sealed packaging. NASA research on hermetic seed storage indicates viability of up to 10 years under proper conditions. Every packet is non-GMO and germination-tested at independent third-party labs before it earns its Japanese woodblock print artwork.
How to Grow Ranunculus from Seed
Sowing and Germination
Sow indoors 12 weeks before last frost. Cool conditions preferred -- 50-60F for germination.
Care and Harvest
Multi-petalled blooms in brilliant colours. Excellent cut flower. Cool season.
Why Vacuum-Sealed Seeds Last Longer
Standard paper seed packets are permeable to oxygen and moisture -- the two primary causes of seed degradation. Most paper-packaged seeds begin losing germination viability after approximately one year, contributing to significant garden-industry waste: packets purchased, not planted, expired, discarded. Shido Seeds are hermetically vacuum-sealed. The packet does not expire quietly in a drawer. It waits.
About the Packaging
Every Shido seed packet is illustrated in the style of Japanese 1910s woodblock printing -- designed and drawn in-house by Chive, the Toronto ceramics studio that has been exhibiting at the Chelsea Flower Show in London every year and does not, as a matter of principle, sell to big-box retailers. Customers collect the packets as a series. This was not the original plan.
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Ranunculus seeds for the garden that has decided it deserves better than the garden centre allows. Ranunculus looks like the sort of flower that costs considerably more at the florist than it does to grow from seed.
Ranunculus is multi-layered blooms in brilliant colours that look expensive and grow with very little fuss. Each packet is hermetically vacuum-sealed -- removing the oxygen that causes standard paper seed packets to lose germination viability within approximately one year. State law requires a 3-year viability label on sealed packaging. NASA research on hermetic seed storage indicates viability of up to 10 years under proper conditions. Every packet is non-GMO and germination-tested at independent third-party labs before it earns its Japanese woodblock print artwork.
How to Grow Ranunculus from Seed
Sowing and Germination
Sow indoors 12 weeks before last frost. Cool conditions preferred -- 50-60F for germination.
Care and Harvest
Multi-petalled blooms in brilliant colours. Excellent cut flower. Cool season.
Why Vacuum-Sealed Seeds Last Longer
Standard paper seed packets are permeable to oxygen and moisture -- the two primary causes of seed degradation. Most paper-packaged seeds begin losing germination viability after approximately one year, contributing to significant garden-industry waste: packets purchased, not planted, expired, discarded. Shido Seeds are hermetically vacuum-sealed. The packet does not expire quietly in a drawer. It waits.
About the Packaging
Every Shido seed packet is illustrated in the style of Japanese 1910s woodblock printing -- designed and drawn in-house by Chive, the Toronto ceramics studio that has been exhibiting at the Chelsea Flower Show in London every year and does not, as a matter of principle, sell to big-box retailers. Customers collect the packets as a series. This was not the original plan.
