Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Tomato Seeds – Red Zebra
Lycopene is the bright red nutrient tomatoes, which might be one of the key factors behind the health benefits of a Mediterranean diet. Suttons, in conjunction with Exeter University identified the Red Zebra as having the very highest levels of lycopene out of all the 64 tomatoes tested. Excellent flavour, stunning stripes and a lycopene
James Wong – Rosella
Rosella produces delicious cherry-sized tomatoes with a dark, rosy-red hue. With a smoky flavour that adds the perfect touch to those summery salads, these cherry tomatoes have fewer seeds inside too ? so kids will love them! We love the dark colour of this variety, and the fruits hang to form miniature tomato chandeliers that
Bean (Mangetout Broad) Seeds – Stereo
Part of the James Wong Grow For Flavour Range. James says – ‘The finest tasting of all varieties, pick young pods when tender and eat them like mangetout’. An intensely sweet, nutty flavour. Pick the pods off when they are finger length. Slice them raw into a salad of goat’s cheese and roasted red onions,
Sweet Corn – Mirai White
Part of the James Wong Grow For Flavour Range. James says – ‘Pure white form, with an almost pavlova-like creaminess and super sweet to boot’ Has the superior ability to soldier on through cold, wet soils. Harvest August-September.
Pepper Chilli Seeds – Trinidad Perfume
If you love the tangy, fruitiness of habanero peppers but can’t handle the heat there’s some good news for you. Sweet with barely any heat this is the ulimate chilli-haters chilli. Rating 0-500 SHU (Rating measured in Scoville heat units – SHU. The higher the rating the hotter the chilli.) Height 71-80cm. Origin: Mexico. All the fruity
Basil Seeds – Mix
My hand picked mix of super aromatic varieties to pack maximum flavour punch. Origin: India. One of the worlds best-loved herbs, with a diverse range of flavours. Perform well outdoors even in poor summers. Contains: Mrs Burns Lemon, Thai Sita, Emerald, Dark Opal. Harvest June-October.
Bean (Runner) Seeds – Grow A Whopper! (Scarlet Emperor)
Runner beans are one of the fastest growing plants, you can usually see them pop their heads above the soil within one to two weeks. You can measure the height of your plant and also the actual beans. You will be amazed how long they can grow! FUN TO GROW – A fun, educational way
Pea Seeds – Mini Muncher (Tom Thumb)
Nothing beats the taste of fresh peas! This little fellow only grows to around 25cm (10") and can easily be grown in a pot on the patio, in the garden, or on a bright, sunny windowsill. The small, bushy plants become covered in pods, full of succulent tasty peas, ideal for eating off the plant
Seed Tape – Parsnip Tender & True
Excellent for exhibition and for culinary purposes. Long, smooth-skinned roots with considerable resistance to canker.
Seed Tape – Carrots
Goodbye successional sowing! Just sow once and the mix of varieties mature successionally for a super-long harvest period! Harvest for up to 24 weeks! Vitamin-packed maincrop carrots. Sow April-May. Harvest August-January. 6m seed tape.
Seed Tape – Beetroot Boltardy
Smooth-skinned roots of fine colour, ideal for exhibition. Resistant to bolting and recommended for early sowing. (115 seeds) Do you have trouble handling small seed and getting an even distribution? Sometimes it’s not easy when the seed is the same colour as the soil! When the seedlings emerge, do you find thinning them out a
Beansprouts (Mung Bean) Seeds
Grow indoors on wet tissues or flannel to produce seedling shoots as used in many Chinese recipes. Useful standby for fresh winter salads – raise them when you need them. Not for growing in the open. Tom says: These super quick crops are packed full of surprising and intriguing flavours that will enthral your taste
Perovski Plant – Little Spire
Perovskia atriplicifolia ‘Little Spire’ is a lower growing variety of Perovskia, but still with the vibrant blue-violet spires that make so much impact in cottage garden and rockery planting schemes. It is ideal for smaller gardens and can be used towards the front of borders. Best grown in loose, sandy soil in a sunny spot,
Juniperus squamata Plant – Blue Star
A slow growing and blue coloured ground cover variety which keeps its attractive colour all year round. Height 100-150cm. Supplied in a 2 litre pot.
Juniperus squamata Plant – Blue Carpet
The true spreading and prostrate growth of ‘Blue Carpet’ makes this an ideal choice for a low ground cover or for cascading over and down rocks or walls. The foliage remains bright blue providing intrerest all year round. Height 40-50cm+. Supplied in a 3 litre pot.
Juniperus communis Plant – Compressa
Juniperus communis ‘Compressa’ is a slow-growing dense evergreen dwarf coniferous shrub of columnar habit that has won an RHS Award of Garden Merit winner for it?s outstanding qualities as a garden plant. Its dark grey-green foliage is prickly. It would be a great addition to a rock or gravel garden just as it would be
Tomato Seeds – Crimson Cocktail F1
The first small tomato that’s resistant to early and late blight. A new addition to the ‘Crimson Family’ producing cocktail-sized fruit with an excellent flavour that has a good balance of sweetness and acidity. Green shoulders which fade to red as the fruit ripen. Ideal to grow outside or in a tunnel/greenhouse. A cordon variety.
Hypericum moserianum Plant – Tricolor
Hypericum x moserianum ‘Tricolor’ is a low-growing shrub, evergreen in warm areas, with pink-flushed green leaves edged in creamy white. Masses of bright yellow flowers appear from mid-summer to early autumn. It will cope with most soil conditions and grows in sun or partial shade. Good for small gardens. Height 90-100cm. Supplied in a 3
Tomato Seeds – F1 Tumbler
This vigorous, trailing British-bred tomato is ideal for hanging baskets and containers on the patio, production up to 4kg (9 lb) of delicious cherry-sized fruit in a single season. Grow one plant per 35cm (14") hanging basket. (Bush variety – very easy to grow as trusses do not require support and fruits without side shoots
Hypericum dummeri Plant – Peter Dummer
Hypericum × dummeri ‘Peter Dummer’ is a dwarf, compact, bushy, spreading shrub that forms a neat mound about 80cm high. Its ovate foliage is bronze when young, gradually turning dark blue-green as they mature and taking on reddish tinges in winter. It flowers prolifically in summer, producing masses of bright yellow flowers followed by conical,
