Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Calendula Art Shades
An easy to grow annual, super for bedding and borders, has large, frilled flowers in shades ranging through Yellow, orange and gold. This lovely marigold is long-flowering and makes a good cut flower. Height 60cm (24"). Spread 20cm (8") Culinary Tip: Use Calendula petals in salads or a beautiful decorative addition to cakes and bakes.
Alcea Rosea Ficifolia Las Vegas Mix
Like the bright colourful lights of Las Vegas, this mixed colour strain of fig leaf hollyhocks bears large, saucer-shaped flowers in unique shades of red, copper, chestnut brown, yellow, pink, and white over a long period beginning in early summer.
Tomato F1 Cherry Belle
A splendid variety producing high yields of extremely tasty, cherry tomatoes. Sow March/April for greenhouse growing (or April for outdoor growing) in a propagator on a windowsill or pots or trays in a greenhouse at 18-21ºC using a good quality compost. Cover seeds with 6mm compost (germination 7-14 days). Transplant seedlings singly into 7.5cm (3)
Acer Shirasawanum Moonrise
Acer Shir. Moonrise boasts fantastic autumn colour and is specifically grown for this purpose. This Japanese maple foliage turns from green in the summer to a vivid and dark red in the Autumn. Red winged seedpods also develop and ripen in the Autumn. Thinking of a Japanese themed garden, this is the one for you!
Aster Plants – Normans Jubilee
Bring a renewal of colour into your borders with pale pink flowers to extend the season colours into autumn. Aster Norman’s Jubilee has a compact, bushy habit. ideally suited to patio containers, beds and borders. Height and spread: 40cm
Hibiscus Plant – Purple Pillar
Hibiscus Purple Pillar is an ornate, tropical exotic variety. A hardy shrub you will marvel at with mauve-blue flowers from late summer into autumn when other shrubs are fading! The flowers grow along stems, attracting pollinators with their open centres and mild scent. The leaves are a bright, mid-green that set off the pinky-purple shade
Sarcocca Plant – Winter Gem
A new variety of this amazingly fragrant genus bred by the highly acclaimed British breeder Peter Moore. Combining the best qualities from both its parents, ‘Winter Gem’ produces larger than average dark, glossy, green leaves that emerge from the purple stems which during winter also hold a mass of the very attractive and highly fragrant
Lonicera henryi Copper Beauty Noble® (PBR)
The new foliage of this evergreen, twining climber, emerge with a distinctive bronze colour which gradually fade to green as they age. From early summer the yellow flowers start to appear, these contrasting beautifully with the colourful foliage.
Hebe Pinguifolia Pagei
Hebe Pinguifolia Pagei Hebe come in all shapes and sizes! This one is low-growing with a dense, spreading habit. Small, fleshy, silver leaves cover the stems all year round, accompanied by short white flower spikes in May and June, which are loved by bees and butterflies. Mature height and spread: 35cm x 90cm.
Tulip, Hyacinth and Anemone Collection
Create a succession of Spring colour with our this Tulip, Hyacinth and Anemone Mix. this has been carefully selected to provide a continuous supply of colour coordinated blooms for your beds, borders and containers. White Anemones begin the display in March, they are soon to be followed by deep purple Hyacinths, and a splash of
Euryops Pectinatus
Euryops Pectinatus The Euryops Pectinatus is a great variety for alpine gardens and sheltered sunny borders. A vigorous, half-hardy shrub, this Grey-leaved Euryops produces bright-yellow daisy flowers on long stalks above a mound of hairy, grey-green, evergreen foliage. Known to grow best in a sheltered spot with winter protection, the Euryops Pectinatus flowers from early
Sunflower (Organic) Seeds – Medium Red Flower
Sunflower (medium flower red) is a sunflower with branched stems and medium-sized flowers in shades of red, pale red and dark red. This sunflower is a good cut flower and bee and butterfly friendly. The plants can grow up to 2 metres high. Flowers August-September. Culinary tip: This flower is edible. Edible flowers are always
Nasturtium (Organic) Seeds – Tall Mix
A free-flowering and rapid climber for use against trellises, screens and trees. This hardy annual attracts aphids away from vegetables, so useful throughout the garden. Flowers June-September. Height 180cm (6′) Culinary Tip: The fresh leaves and flowers have a peppery flavour similar to watercress. The flowers will add a spicy touch to salads and the
Platycladus orientalis Plant- Pyrmadalis Aurea (Thuja)
Also known as Thuja orientalis ‘Aurea Nana’. An attractive and compact golden coloured variety. The scale like leaves emerge as a bright green colour before changing to bright golden yellow and often bronze in winter. Gives all round year interest. Height 51-60cm. Supplied in a 3 litre pot or 5-7.5 litre pot.
Onion (Organic) Seeds – Ailsa Craig
(1899) Large golden straw- coloured onions, globe-shaped, with a mild sweet flavour. Much loved by exhibitors.
Florence Fennel (Organic) Seeds – Finale
Firm, heavy, uniform bulbs with flattened shape. Good bolt resistance so can be sown end Feb – mid-July, for harvesting between June and November.
Tamarix tetrandra Plant
Blooming in late May, this species makes it possible to have the airy, pink flowers of tamarix in spring as well as summer. Perfect for the dry bed, this irregularly shaped deciduous shrub or small tree graces the garden with its extremely fine sprays of green cypress-like foliage throughout summer and fall. Ultimate dimensions of
Cucumber (Organic) Seeds – Marketmore
Attractive dark green cylindrical fruit up to 20cm in length. Continuous high yield throughout the season. Resistant to cucumber mosaic virus.
Carrot (Organic) Seeds – Resistafly F1
Carrot (Organic) Seeds – Resistafly F1 A carrot fly resistance and the F1 hybrid makes this variety a great carrot to grow! The Carrot Resistafly F1 is a Nantes hybrid with great carrot fly resistance. This carrot variety has a traditional long shape with a bright orange, well coloured hue and smooth roots. The Carrot
