Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Beetroot Seeds – Burpees Golden
A superb, yellow-fleshed beetroot, providing great colour in salads or pickles. Leaves can be cooked like spinach. Row 4.5m (15′). Globe variety. Maturing 12-16 weeks from sowing. No staining, juice doesn’t run when cut. A good source of fibre, potassium and calcium.
Cucumber Seeds – Bush Champion
Large numbers of crisp, bright green slicers from a pint-sized plant. Proven tops for productivity, flavour and wide adaptability for an outdoor variety. Mosaic resistant and very productive. SMALL SPACES made easy! Are you feeling left behind by the “grow-your-own” revolution because you live in a gardenless apartment or have a postage-stamp-sized patio? Don’t worry:
Catmint Seeds
Unlike other Nepeta species, this is the true catmint. Aromatic silver-grey foliage, and white flowers finely spotted with purple. Cats will chew it, lick it, roll over in the leaves and purr! Dried flowers can be stuffed into cat toys. Said to have medicinal benefits too, including the reduction of fever and headache relief. Height
Kale Seeds – F1 Reflex
A dark-leaved, intensely-curled, fully winter hardy variety which stands well without yellowing and can be picked for much of the year from successional sowings. Although mainly used in winter as mature leaves, it can also be used in summer as tasty ‘baby’ leaves. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. The most reliable, nutritious winter vegetable.
Livingstone Daisy Seeds – Yellow Sunshine
Great for borders and rockeries. Fleuroselect winner. Dazzling daisy flowers and small succulent leaves that appear to have been sprinkled with sugar. Fleuroselect winner. Flowers July-September. Height 10cm (4").
Love-in-a-Mist Seeds – Ebony & Ivory
White and velvety-purple flowers. Dry the seed pods for winter decoration. Pretty, delicate foliage, some with flowers a little like cornflowers, followed by ornamental seed pods. A superb border filler. Flowers July-September/May-June. Height 90cm (36"). HA – Hardy annual. Also known as Love-in-a-Mist.
Morning Glory Seeds – Inkspots
An enchanting ipomoea of these popular, fast-growing climbers, producing a glorious display of large, trumpet-shaped blooms in a range of blue shades, overlaid with deep rose markings. An easy to grow climber reaching 2.4-3m (8-10′). Beautiful on a sunny wall, or in a cool greenhouse. Thrives in poor soils! Flowers July-September. HHA – Half-hardy annual.
Blueberry Plant – Rubel
Rubel’s small, dark berries are perfect for pies, muffins and pancakes, but are too delicious to pass up fresh. You can’t find flavour like this in the supermarket! The strong-growing bushes, up to 1.8m (6′) tall, are cold hardy and a consistent provider. Foliage turns bright fire red in the autumn. Matures in early August.
Onion (Salad) Seeds – White Lisbon – Winter Hardy Seeds
Sow in September for us in the following spring. Very hardy. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
Trillium Plant – Erectum
Attractive dark mahogany-red flowers set off against plain green foliage. One of the quickest species to form a good clump. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Flowers in April. Height 30-38cm. Root size 1.
Radish Seeds – Scarlet Globe
Quick-growing, bright scarlet roots with crisp, white flesh. One of the most popular outdoor varieties. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Summer Variety.
Begonia Plant – Little Brother Montgomery
An attractive tall begonia. The maple-shaped leaves have dark veins and edges which are covered in silver spots. The young leaves have a pink tinge. Cane type. Flowers January-December. Height 91-100cm. TP – Tender perennial.Foliage houseplantLeaves are maple-shapedIdeal for patio or border in summer months
Begonia Pink Champagne`
A fantastic medium sized begonia. A decorative foliage of heart-shaped silver and dark green colouring. Stems are a deep pink/red. Rex type. Flowers January-December. Height 21-30cm. TP – Tender perennial.Foliage houseplantAttractive colouringGrown for multi-coloured leaves
Anemone coronaria Bulbs – Mr Fokker
Wonderful true blue flowers with contrasting black stamens over low-growing, fern-like foliage. A great performer year after year. Flowers March-May. Height 31-40cm. Bulb size 5/6cm. (Bulb sizes quoted in centimetres refer to the circumference of bulbs. All bulbs are sourced from cultivated stocks.) Low growing fern-like foliage Vivid splashes of colour in the spring
Scabious Seeds – Pincushion Mix
Can be sown in September for flowers April-June the following year. Flowers in dense domed heads on long wiry stems. Simple, very attractive border plants and good for cutting. Flowers July-September. HA – Hardy annual. Height 90cm (3′).
Celosia Seeds – Nana Mixed
Very uniform growing habit, ideal for pots, borders and bedding. Dramatic flower spikes that will extend your season of colour. Height 15cm (6"). HA – Hardy annual.
Seed Tape – Perpetual Spinach Leaf
Excellent on dry soils where annual spinach would run to seed quickly. Hardy and useful for autumn and winter dishes
Cerinthe Seeds – Honey Bee
Electric-blue, metallic-looking flowers. Excellent for bees, and ideal for cottage and wildlife gardens. Height 60cm (24"). HA – Hardy annual.
Lettuce Seeds – Match
An exceptional iceberg lettuce whose crunchy leaves are deliciously sweet. It shows good mildew resistance, is tolerant of hot weather and slow to bolt. Tom says: Quick and easy lettuces are many peoples first veggie crop. Try mixing red and green lettuce leaves to add a note of bitterness to salads, or try slicing up
Gomphrena Seeds – haageana Orange
Bushy plants bearing rich, fluorescent orange blooms. Easy-to-grow plants with strawflower-like blooms. Height 25cm (10"). HA – Hardy annual.
