Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Best Value Perennial Collection
Best value Perennial Collection This Best value Perennial Collection has been created to provide vibrancy, reliability and diversity to your garden. Your collection will consist of 6 plug plants of each of the varieties: Aquilegia ‘Mrs Scott Elliot’, Dianthus ‘Rockin Red’, Doronicum ‘Little Leo’, Leucanthemum ‘Crazy Daisy’, Salvia ‘Salvatore Blue’ and Verbena ‘Buenos Aires’. Your
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
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
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
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
Turnip Seeds – Armand
This purple and white skinned turnip can be spring sown for summer and autumn lifting or, because of its hardiness, sown later for winter use through to February or March. The sweet, tender flesh boasts excellent culinary qualities – try some with your Christmas lunch!
Speedy Veg Seed – Leaf Salad Cress Greek
A versatile salad item with a nice peppery flavour. Easy to grow indoors or outside. Why buy salad leaves from the supermarket when you can grow them easily at home? And you can get up to 3 crops from a sowing! Ideal for garden or containers.
Dwarf French Bean Seeds – Colour Mix
Dwarf French Bean Seeds – Colour Mix Dwarf French Beans are a popular choice across kitchen gardeners and the delicious colour mix has finally arrived! This colourful mix includes green, yellow and purple pods that produce high yields of extra fine beans over a long cropping period. Growing to around 40-50cm tall, Compass, Adoration and
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
