Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Keep Cropping Our Veg Selection
Make the most of your empty beds with our ‘Keep Cropping’ range of vegetables. Perfect to grow in the garden (with cloche protection) or an empty tunnel or greenhouse. Plants will grow and crop during spring to give you tasty leaves to be used in salads, stir-fry or any other way you like. The collection
Viburnum tin. Eve Price
Flattened heads of pinkish-white flowers, opening from carmine-pink buds from December to April, followed by dark blue-black fruit. This popular form of laurustinus is denser and more compact than the species. Thriving in sun or shade, the shiny, dark green foliage provides an excellent evergreen backdrop for ornamental and feature plants. Flowers December-April. Supplied in
Rose Plant – Scent From Heaven
Scent From Heaven Every garden needs a beautiful climbing rose! Voted Rose of the Year 2017, Scent From Heaven is a wonderful climbing rose. It starts flowering early summer to produce strongly fragrant blooms of rich orange with delightful shades of apricot and peach. Scent From Heaven has been bred in Britain by Chris Warner.
Seed Potato Organic Setanta 1kg
This late maincrop potato is high yielding and excellent for storage. With red skin and yellow flesh, it has moderate resistance to foliage and tuber blight and dry rot. This Organic variety is ideal for baking, mashed, roast or chips.
Starry Eyes Mix
Starry Eyes Mix Pre-planted hanging baskets make gardening super easy and hassle-free, adding lovely seasonal colour to your outdoor space. To make life more simple, we supply are hanging baskets already planted up and our spectacular displays include vibrant mixes of customer favourite plants that are great performers and provide a long-lasting flower display. Our
Keep Cropping Cabbage Plants – Winterjewel
Keep Cropping Cabbage Plants – Winterjewel Nutritious and just as visually superb! Make the most of your empty beds with our ‘Keep Cropping’ range of vegetables. Perfect to grow in the garden or even an empty tunnel or greenhouse after you’ve harvested your summer crops. Plants will grow and crop before you need the space
Mushroom Windowsill Kit – King Oyster
Looking for a Christmas gift that keeps on giving? Mushroom Kits – The perfect gift for the gourmet food lover! King Oyster is widely believed to be one of the finest tasting mushrooms. Very nutritious and with this handy kit you’ll soon be picking delicious fresh King Oyster mushrooms, at a fraction of the cost of
Seed Potatoes – Pentland Javelin
Colour – white. Shape – oval. Easy to grow; eelworm resistance RO1. A popular early variety that is favoured for its tasty, white, waxy-fleshed tubers. New, boil, steam or saute – it does not discolour when cold. First Early. Quality Control – following inspection our seed potatoes receive a certification number (see bag label). They
Pea Seeds – Shiraz
Burgundy mangetout with a savoury, chestnutty taste. Best eaten raw to keep their colour. Pretty bicoloured flowers and flat purple pods that are best picked young and eaten raw, steamed or stir-fried. Good resistance to powdery mildew and good tolerance to downy mildew. Harvest May-September.
Lemon Grass Seeds
To overwinter, lift the plants in early autumn and pot up, growing throughout the winter in a greenhouse at a minimum temperature of 7C. Compost should be kept just moist throughout winter. Lemongrass can also be permanently grown in a container (30cm) in a conservatory or heated greenhouse. Harvest July-October. Height 100150cm (39-59); spread 50-60cm
Oyster Leaf Plant Seeds
Often called ‘the vegetarian’s oyster’ and used as a garnish by many a modern tv chef, prepare yourself to be amazed by their similarity to the eponymous shellfish. It’s an incredible experience when you taste your first Oyster leaf. The salty, slightly earthy flavours combine superbly with seafood but also add an interesting salty element
Lemon Balm seeds – Lemon Calmer
Easily grown, brush against it and release its intense lemony aroma into your garden. Used since the middle ages to reduce stress, anxiety and to improve sleep. In these hectic days, why not relax with a lemon balm tea just before bedtime? (Check with your doctor.) Flowers late May-June. Height 50-60cm (20-24); spread 50-60cm (20-24).
Pea Mangetout Seeds – Multicoloured Mix
A mixture of three very different tasting and looking mangetout peas: Shiraz, Golden Sweet and Oregon sugar pod. Shiraz has purple pods with a floury chestnut flavour and pretty blue bicolour flowers, Golden Sweet has golden yellow super sweet pods with gorgeous mauve flowers, Oregon Sugar Pod has long fleshy green pods with a grassy
Bean (Broad) Seeds – Witkiem Manita
A fast-growing, quick-maturing broad bean, producing a good harvest of short, well-filled pods. The beans have a high tannin content, giving them particularly good taste. For spring sowing.
Bean (Dwarf French) Seeds – Celine
Bean (Dwarf French) Seeds – Celine This variety boasts extra-fine, dark purple beans, only 6-7mm thick, which you can find and be served in the most finest restaurants. These dark stemmed plants grow an abundance of attractive purple/white flowers and produce a great harvest of nutty flavoured beans. ‘Celine’ has also been specially selected out
Bean (Runner) Seeds – Hestia (Dwarf Stringless)
Just because you don’t have much space, doesn’t mean you can’t grow runner beans! This is a superb variety that is ideal for small gardens, patios or balconies as it reaches only 45cm (18) tall. Produces good yields of long, straight, stringless pods with a good flavour and are excellent to freeze for later use.
Bean (Runner) Seeds – Black Knight
Bean (Runner) Seeds – Black Knight The story is that this runner bean has been grown by the Bishop of Shrewsbury, Edmund Knight, and to have been passed to some of the local congregants in the late 1800’s. This could be true or an old wife’s tale, but where it originates from has been certainly
Bean (Runner) Seeds – Tenderstar
This new generation French-Runner bean cross sets beans easier, producing masses of 18-20cm (7-8") long pods throughout the summer whatever the weather. It boasts a good flavour and exceptionally tender texture. And the bicoloured red-and-pink flowers are extremely attractive too!
Bidens Collection
Modern breeding has made huge advances in improving Bidens, transforming these somewhat straggly species into compact, bushy bedding plants. This colourful collection brings together 3 recent introductions. Feathery foliage and a profusion of flowers make these varieties ideal for mixed baskets and containers. Their gently cascading stems will spill from patio containers, or knit together
Bean (Dwarf French) Seeds – Cannellino
Dwarf green beans for fresh use or drying for winter dishes, pure white dried beans for storing, a good source of protein, antioxidants and fibre.
