So, 'seed-infused paper' you say?

I knew that I wanted to print/silk screen Metro newspapers on to seed-infused paper.

I knew that I wanted the paper to sprout indigenous wild flowers.
Hmm, but where on earth was I going to find this paper?
Firstly I tried making the paper. Having been assured that people 'hand make paper aaaall the time' by a friend, I decided to give it a go myself. How hard could it be?
I walked around Peckham Rye train station collecting abandoned Metro newspapers, which I decided I was going to recycle and use as the base of my seed paper.
The only other things I needed to make my hand made seed paper now, was glue, water, a regular food blender and really cheap seeds. Check, check check check...
It all went horribly wrong.
I liked the idea of making the paper using old Metros but unfortunately as soon as I added water and glue to the newspaper and blended it together I managed to produce a horrible grey mush as all of the ink from the newspaper had mixed together.. not to mention the poor blender which was wheezing and rumbling worryingly having had glue poured into it...
I thought about bleaching the mixture to make it paler but in doing that I would most probably kill the seeds which I wanted to add and probably upset the blender even more...
I tried to roll out some of the paper using instructions I found online, but once the paper had dried, it was extremely brittle and dusty and would certainly not hold out through the rough ride of silk-screening or digital printing.
Oh dear...and it seemed like such a good idea at the time.
There was only one thing left to do. I would have to commission somewhere to make the paper for me. I Googled 'wildflower seed-infused paper' and after a few clicks, there was my answer.
'Creative Paper Wales', a paper company based near Snowdonia, (Wales,) were selling 10 sheets of Seed Paper (wild meadow) for £50 !
' The paper is made with live wild meadow seeds...and can be planted to grow a beautiful meadow bouquet . . .It's paper and it's a garden all in one!'

Not only was the paper already made for me, (no more grey glue disaster mix, hurrah!) but the seeds inside the paper were exactly what I was looking for! Here is a list of the wildflower seeds included in this magical paper...

Meadow Floxtail

(Alopecurus pratensis)

Chamomile

(Anthemis nobilis)

Wild Carrot

(Daucus carota)

Meadowsweet

(Filipendula ulmaria 'Aurea')

Selfheal

(Prunella)

Red Campion

(Silene acaulis)

Yarrow

(Achillea Coronation Gold)

Common Poppy

(Papaver rhoeas)

Oxeye Daisy

(Leucanthemum vulgare)

Two whole Metros stuffed with those beautiful flowers. Wonderful!

The seed paper's size is 508mm x 635mm which is also perfect as I needed tabloid sized pieces (430mm x 280mm). Perfect!

As a Metro uses 14 pieces of newsprint per paper (I counted!), I was going to need the same for my Metgros. I ordered 3 batches of 10 sheets from Creative Paper Wales and slept soundly that night, quietly confident that this kooky idea might just work...

Now, to figure out how to print newspapers on to this paper...