Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Nasturtium Seeds – Gold Jewel
Try searching online for ‘Lutein’ and you’ll soon realise that there is huge demand for lutein supplements as an aid to eye health. How much better to grow this eye catchingly, colourful nasturtium and supplement your lutein levels naturally whilst bringing a welcome zing of colour and flavour to your salad bowl. Research has shown
Tomato Seeds – F1 Tumbling Bella (Terenzo)
An improvement on the incredibly popular ‘Tumbler’, producing sweet, cherry-sized fruit in profusion all summer. Its cascading habit makes it ideal for tubs and it shows some blight tolerance too!
Mexican Tarragon Seeds
Aromatic scented foliage which can be used as a tarragon substitute. Sweetly scented small yellow flowers. Perfect to season soups and sauces. Dried leaves and flowers can be used to make an anise flavoured herbal tea. Harvest July-September. Height 60-70cm (24-27); spread 30-40cm (12-16).
Tomato Seeds – Shimmer F1
A unique coloured tomato with red, green and gold stripes. Almond shaped fruit, bigger than a cherry type but smaller than a Roma tomato. Resistant to late blight with 30-55g (1-2oz) fruit Very sweet and fruity, it came high in our recent taste tests. Grow cordon style Adds a splash of colour to salads
Hollyhock Seeds – Cough Syrup Mix
The petals of these statuesque cottage garden flowers make a jewel-coloured syrup, a traditional remedy for soothing irritated mucous membranes and helping to ease a dry cough. The syrup can be stored until needed. (Check with your doctor.) Height 100-150cm (39-59); spread 40-50cm (16-20). If you crave the cottage garden look, Hollyhocks are a must.
Turnip Seeds – Golden Ball
Dwarf, compact plants producing round roots with tender yellow flesh. Very hardy with outstanding keeping qualities. Excellent for storage and exhibition.
Fenugreek Shoots Seeds
Used as a spice in Indian food and as a digestive aid by Americans, Fenugreek is a very fragrant, super nutritious sprout. Tom says: These super quick crops are packed full of surprising and intriguing flavours that will enthral your taste buds. As well as being loaded with flavour, these little guys are packed full
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
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
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 – Parsnip Tender & True
Excellent for exhibition and for culinary purposes. Long, smooth-skinned roots with considerable resistance to canker.
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
Rhododendron (AJ) Plant – Palestrina
An evergreen azalea with pale green leaves. The flowers are a beautiful pure white with a greenish centre. Flowers April-May. Height 90-100cm. Supplied in a 2 litre pot.
Taxus baccata Plant – Repandens
A handsome ‘Yew’ which has a naturally low growing habit great for filling an area where a typical ground cover plant may be too low. Happy in sun or shade, the dark, glossy evergreen foliage will thrive in most conditions. Height 301cm+. Supplied in a 3 litre pot. (Please note: toxic if eaten.)
Viburnum plicatum Plant – Shasta
A deciduous rounded shrub growing twice as wide as tall. It has horizontal branches that are smothered in white lacecap flowers in May. Red fruits in autumn turning black as they mature. The foliage turns from a dark green to shades of red and purple. Height 150-200cm. Supplied in a 3 litre pot.
Tomato Seeds – F1 Sweet Million
Tomato Seeds – F1 Sweet Million Enjoy lots of tomatoes this season with Sweet Million. Winner of the RHS Award of Garden Merit, the Tomato Seeds – F1 Sweet Million is a heavy cropping tomato plant that produces delicious, shiny, cherry- sized fruit with a rich red colour. Cherry tomatoes are the sweetest and smallest
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
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.
Picea abies Plant – Will’s Zwerg
A compact form of spruce with attractive light green foliage. ‘Wills Zwerg’ will produce a conical shape and look attractive when planted in a border or on its own. Height 90-100cm. Supplied in a 3 litre pot or 5-7.5 litre pot.
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,
