Everything You Need To Know About Garden Bird Seed

Sunflower seeds are available in three varieties for feeding birds: black, heart kernels and chips.

Black sunflower seeds are high in nutritional content for your garden birds. In fact, it is this type of sunflower seed that is used for producing oil. They are eaten by many birds, buy mainly tits, woodpeckers, nuthatches and finches.

Sunflower Hearts are sunflower seeds with the husks removed. Because the husks have been removed, birds don't need to discard them, meaning your garden will be kept cleaner and tidier, with little to no mess around your feeders.

Sunflower Heart Chips are a much smaller version suitable for smaller birds simply because they are smaller, making them easier to feed upon.

Many seed mixes contain seeds with husks, which have a greater tendency to germinate and sprout than non-husk or cracked versions.

Our range of No Grow/No Waste seeds are perfect to stop unwanted growth in your garden. Especially since birds can sometimes make a bit of a mess, leading to a potentially hefty amount of greenery under your bird feeders.

The no wheat variety of seed mixes is a particular popular choice among many because it focuses mainly on smaller species of birds such as blue tits, bullfinches, chaffinches and greenfinches.

The lack of wheat content means there will be fewer pigeons and doves hanging around your garden stealing the smaller birds’ food.

There are number of bird seed mixes available to buy that include a combination of different (husked/dehusked) ingredients. For that ideal nutritional blend of seeds, we've put together some unique mixes such as the All Year Round, which contains a combination of quality grains and seeds, and a very popular No Mess Seed Mixes, which help to reduce the mess around your feeders.