Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Lily Bulbs – Purple Fountain
This gorgeous Oriental lily boasts an intoxicating fragrance from its large white flowers and each petal is delicately edged with deep mauve-pink. An elegant lily ideal for planting in beds and borders or why try growing it in large patio containers so that the fragrance can be enjoyed up close! Lily ‘Purple Fountain’ also makes
Seed Tape – Beetroot Rainbow Mix
Brighten up mealtimes! Taste and colour combos that are sure to be enjoyed at the dinner table, even by the kids!Tasty, succulent and full of vitamins. Sow March-June. Harvest July-October. 6m seed tape.
Pleione (Orchid) Rossini
Hardy orchids are becoming more and more popular within our gardens as they add a touch of the exotic without needing much attention. Pleione ‘Rossini’ has very pretty lilac coloured petals with a delicately fringed white centre and lip. Happily grown in shallow pots and planters as well as in a sheltered, partially shaded border,
Sweet Corn Seeds – Earlibird
10 times more sugary than conventional sweet corn, super early and hugely productive. Origin: USA. The earliest harvest supersweet variety. Guaranteed to spike your blood sugar and send your tastebuds racing. Harvest August-September.
Tomato Seeds – F1 Baby Boomer
Perfect for patios and smaller outside spaces, F1 Baby Boomer is one of our favourite tomato varieties. The cherry tomato has never been more popular, and this fruity little number produces up to 300 fruits per plant. Baby Boomer is a bush variety, so it?s easier to care for than regular choices, and you?ll enjoy
James Wong – Kale Black Magic
A growing stack of evidence shows compounds called glucosinolates found in crops like kale may suppress the development of cancer cells from the colon, lungs, liver, bladder, breast and stomach. Suttons and Exeter University tested various cruciferous veg for glucosinolates and Kale Black Magic showed by far the highest levels of all, with more than
Lettuce Seeds – Lolla Rossa
Containing a massive 690 times the polyphenols of light green iceberg lettuce, this showgirl of the salad bowl with its frizzy edges and a bright red fringe is as beautiful as it is nutrient dense. Polyphenols are the same compounds that give blueberries and black grapes their apparent protective effects, which may reduce the incidence
Chamomile Seeds – Calming Sleep Soother
Create a calming green swathe of chamomile lawn and then gather the white flowers to make a bath milk that will soften and soothe dry and irritated skin or a tea to calm busy minds. (Check with your doctor.) Flowers June-August. Height 50-60cm (20-24); spread 30-40cm (12-16). View the recipes to make the Calming Sleep
Meadowsweet Seeds – Aspirin Plant
The darling of many a TV cookery programme and described as being a cross between elderflower and marzipan, meadowsweet is the fashionable new flavour on the block but it has more traditionally been sought after for its natural pain-relieving properties. Be wary of giving to children under 16, pregnant or suffering with asthma. Do not
St John’s Wort Seeds – Healing Balm
Well known in recent times for its medicinal use in the treatment of depression, this versatile plant has more traditionally been used as a topical antiseptic and anti-inflammatory wound healer. You can use it as an oil or turn it into a soothing balm. Easily grown and adding a splash of yellow to summer borders,
Pea Seeds – Vivado
An outstanding variety producing a bumper crop of sweet tasting peas that are rich in protein, carbohydrate and fibre. Harvest May-September. W = Wrinkled seed. Sow in succession March-June. Allow 60-120cm (2-4′) between rows. (12-14 weeks maturity).
Pea Seeds – Proval
Pea Proval Great for successionally sowing, produce fresh peas for months! Pea ‘Proval’ is a very early, spring cropping variety. Large yields of non-floury, crisp, and sweet peas, producing 7-8 per pod. Short 60cm tall pea plants that can withstand bad weather and are Mosaic Virus resistant. Sow successionally in beds or borders, for fresh peas
Bean (Broad) – Statissa
Bean (Broad) – Statissa The first broad bean created especially for eating in the pod, to join the mangetout pea! Statissa grows particularly fine beans inside a slim pod that enable you to cook and eat the young beans whole and use the full crop throughout your homemade meals. Nothing goes to waste with this
Bean (Broad Bean) Seeds – Luz de Otono
A vigorous growing bean that shows good cold resistance for overwintering use. Produces long, high quality pods of tasty beans May-June. May also be sown in July for a November crop in mild areas. For autumn sowing.
Patio Apple Gala
Grow one of Britains favourite Apples on your patio. Having Apple ‘Gala’ grafted onto dwarf rootstocks, controls the growth of the plant without taking away from its fruit production. At maturity the tree will reach no more than 2.5m tall. Every year more and more sweet ‘Gala’ apples will emerge. The fruits can be eaten
Tomato Seeds – F1 Summerlast
Allow us to introduce the first blight-resistant dwarf patio variety! Summerlast is an F1 tomato ideal for growing anywhere. If you have a smaller outside space or a compact area like a patio or balcony, you can still grow delicious tomatoes that look as good as they taste.
Leek Seeds – F1 Sprintan
Well named, Sprintan certainly gets a move on to be our earliest maturing leek. From spring sowings, it will mature from late August through to November. As this suggests, it has good ‘standing’ ability and long green ‘shanks’. Has good resistance to leek rust fungus.
Tomato Seeds – Sweet Aperitif
A new cherry tomato with an indeterminate growth habit and a very high yield of small cherry-sized fruits. The bright red fruits have an exceptional flavour with high levels of sugar and acid which combine to give a sweet taste with a refreshing tang. (Cordon variety – one stem grown by pinching off side-shoots as
Lettuce Seeds – Lollo Bionda
Loose heads of delicious, rounded, pale green leaves with frilled edges. Easy to grow. Pick individual leaves as you need them. Ideal for raised beds, patios or veg garden. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. An expensive, premium salad in the supermarket. Tom says: Quick and easy lettuces are many peoples first veggie crop. Try
