Hazel Bristlebarb’s Wild Strawberry & White Clover GrowTub

Grow a cosy, hedgehog-friendly patch with Hazel Bristlebarb — your Growimal hedgehog friend. Perfect for kids, families, eco-heroes and anyone who loves wildlife, wildflowers and mess-free planting fun.

Meet Hazel Bristlebarb

Hazel Bristlebarb is ready to snuffle into your world. This prickly little explorer loves night-time foraging, rustling through leaves and finding safe, quiet corners to curl up in. By day Hazel keeps a low profile. By night, Hazel is out hunting for beetles, worms and tasty snacks in hedgerows and gardens.

Now Hazel needs your help to grow a patch of wild strawberry and clover that supports insects, wildlife and hedgehog-friendly habitats — starting from your windowsill.

Each GrowTub includes a personal message from Hazel, inviting you to become a Habitat Hero and help replant the world, one wildlife-friendly patch at a time.

What is a GrowTub?

GrowTubs are character-themed growing kits designed to be fun, mess-free and completely zero-waste. Every component is reusable, recyclable or home-compostable, so once your plants are grown there’s nothing harmful left behind — no plastic pots, no rubbish, no plastic waste.

Each GrowTub features a different Growimal with seeds specifically chosen to support that creature’s world and the habitats they rely on.

What’s Inside

• Seeds
• Peat-free soil (coir)
• Certified home-compostable inner pot
• Simple growing guide
• Character pot insert
• Celebration sticker

Everything is packed inside a beautifully illustrated cardboard GrowTub. Once your seeds are planted, you can reuse the tub in all sorts of creative ways.

What You’ll Grow: Wild Strawberry and White Clover

Your Super Seed Pack contains two types of tiny seeds:

• White clover — quick to sprout and form soft, low-growing patches.
• Wild strawberry — slower to appear but eventually growing into plants with small, sweet berries that people and wildlife can enjoy.

The mix is chosen so that something will germinate on a windowsill year-round, with white clover usually appearing first and wild strawberry following on more slowly. Later, when the plants are bigger and the weather is mild, you can move them outside to keep your mini wildlife patch growing.

Why These Plants Help Hedgehogs (and Wildlife)

Wild strawberries and white clover create a rich, low-growing patch that benefits lots of creatures:

• White clover helps feed bees and enrich the soil, supporting healthier, more diverse garden spaces.
• Wild strawberries grow into tasty treats that wildlife and people both enjoy, and the plants offer cover for insects and small creatures.
• More insects and ground-level plants mean better foraging and shelter opportunities in hedgehog-friendly gardens.

Together, wild strawberry and clover help turn bare ground into a softer, more inviting space that fits perfectly into wildlife corridors for hedgehogs and other garden visitors.

Why Children and Adults Love This GrowTub

• Encourages curiosity, responsibility and hands-on learning
• Connects children to real wildlife-friendly gardening practices
• Completely plastic-free and home-compostable
• Designed for small spaces such as windowsills or balconies
• Seed combinations chosen so that something will germinate indoors all year round
• Supports pollinators and wider garden ecosystems when planted outside
• Sparks conversations about hedgehogs, wildlife corridors and garden habitats
• Includes a QR code to learn more about your plants and Growimal

Simple Planting Steps

A Grow Guide is included with each GrowTub, with clear, child-friendly instructions. The process of planting a GrowTub is designed for simplicity, joy and circularity — so that each component can be composted, recycled or reused afterwards.

1. Add water to the soil (coir) disc.
2. Sprinkle the wild strawberry and white clover seeds evenly over the surface and lightly cover with soil.
3. Wait while the seeds germinate — and use the QR code to learn what the seeds are doing under the soil.
4. Look for shoots after a few days to a week. White clover usually appears first; wild strawberry takes longer to show.
5. Keep the soil moist but not soggy and turn the pot occasionally for even growth.
6. Once the plants outgrow the GrowTub, plant them outside in spring or summer in a sunny or partly sunny spot and let your wildlife patch spread.

Eco Impact

Wild strawberry and white clover are excellent plants for pollinators and soil health. Clover helps fix nitrogen in the soil, while both plants offer nectar, shelter and ground cover for insects.

Planting even a small patch of wildlife-friendly plants helps create stepping stones of habitat across gardens and green spaces. For hedgehogs, birds and insects, these patches add up to safer, richer places to explore, feed and hide.

Why Hedgehog-Friendly Gardens Matter

Hedgehogs have become much less common in the UK, with busy roads, tidy fences and reduced wild spaces all making life harder for them. They need connected gardens, wild corners and plenty of insects to forage for at night.

Wildflower patches, low-growing plants and clover-rich lawns all help support the insects and shelter hedgehogs depend on. By growing a little pocket of wild strawberry and clover with Hazel, children can see how their actions help make gardens friendlier for hedgehogs and other wildlife.

How You Grow Matters

GrowTubs are fully compostable, so they return to the soil with nothing wasted. Plastic pots, by contrast, are made from fossil fuels and can last 200–500 years. They outlive the plant that grew in them many times over and shed persistent pollution and microplastics as they break down.

By choosing a compostable pot, you’re creating habitat — not waste. It’s a far better choice for wildlife, soil health and the planet.

Ideal as a Gift

This GrowTub is a thoughtful gift for anyone who loves hedgehogs, cottage gardens and wildlife-friendly planting. Ideal for birthdays, festive gifting or quiet family time, it’s also a lovely treat to enjoy yourself. Explore the full Growimals range to collect every character and support even more habitats and species as you grow.

Product Details

• Approx. 12 cm tall and 9.5 cm in diameter
• Certified home-compostable inner pot
• All other materials reusable, recyclable or compostable
• Suitable for indoor growing before replanting outside
• Seed kit recommended for supervised use. Contains small seeds.

Ready to replant the world?

Everything you need to grow a hedgehog-friendly patch of wild strawberry and clover is here, designed to leave no waste behind. Grow your mini wildlife garden with your Growimal helper, then plant it outdoors to support pollinators, soil health and garden wildlife.

Begin your growing adventure today and start making a meaningful difference to nature — and to visiting hedgehogs — right from your windowsill.