Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
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.
Hibiscus Seeds – Simply Love
Large creamy yellow blooms with attractive chocolate-maroon centres. Once grown, always desired! Height 80-90cm (30-36"). HHA – Half hardy annual.
Marrow Seeds – F1 Tiger Cross
Tiger Cross is an early maturing type producing tasty courgettes or delicious marrows with attractive green, striped fruits of good length. Recommended for both table and exhibition purposes. Resistant to Cucumber Mosaic Virus. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Bush variety.
Portulaca Seeds – F1 Lazy Daze Mix
British-bred plants in a great mix of colours. Low-growing, succulent-leaved, drought-tolerant plants that make superb ground cover. Height 15-22cm (6-9"). HHA – Half hardy annual.
Rhodochiton atrosanguineum Seeds
Beautiful bell-shaped blooms. Ideal against a wall or fence. Also looks good trailing from hanging baskets. A popular, fast-growing climber for the greenhouse or sunny, sheltered spot outdoors. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Height 180-240cm (6-8′). GP – Greenhouse perennial.
Sunflower Seeds – Giraffe
British bred by Victoria Wakefield. Perfect for the UK climate and a must for competitions! Possibly the tallest sunflower ever bred! Height 4.5m (15′). HA – Hardy annual. Easy to grow and a real favourite with children. Flowers like very large daisies with brightly coloured petals. Pollen-free varieties are ideal for hayfever sufferers and for cutting. Use
Teasel Seeds
Dramatic plants that are loved by bees and butterflies. Ideal for cutting and drying. Imposing plants that will bring real impact to the back of a border and are loved by bees and other pollinators. Height 180cm (6′). HB – Hardy biennial.
Beetroot Seeds – Rainbow Mix
Brighten up mealtimes with this superb mix of round-shaped beets that comes in a host of colours (including the striking Italian variety Chioggia, with its internal rings of dark pink and white). They’re sweet and flavoursome, particularly if harvested as mouth-watering baby beets. An easy way to add both visual appeal and flavour to all
Brussels Sprout Seeds – F1 Content
Vigorous plants producing lots of exceptionally sweet buttons per plant. The plants hold well, providing a long harvest window (October-March) and perform well on a range of soil types.
Seed Tape – Radish Rainbow Mix
Brighten up mealtimes! Taste and colour combos that are sure to be enjoyed at the dinner table, even by the kids! Excellent in salads and stir-fires. Sow March-August. Harvest April-October. 6m seed tape.
Seed Tape – Lettuce Red & Green Cos Mix
Brighten up mealtimes! Taste and colour combos that are sure to be enjoyed at the dinner table, even by the kids! Sweet, tasty and full of vitamins. Sow March-July. Harvest June-October. 6m seed tape.
Lettuce Seeds – Unrivalled
Sow outdoors in spring and summer. Also excellent for January-February sowing under glass for transplanting outdoors. 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 little gem lettuces and sautéing with peas and
Kale Seeds – Black Magic
A variety of the Italian black cabbage, bred to perform better in our climate, with improved cold tolerance, colour, leaf shape and bolt resistance than current Italian varieties. Good cut-and-come again crop. Tom says: Kale has had a huge resurgence in recent years thanks to it’s incredibly high nutritional values, so much so that we’ve
Bean Broad Plants – Luz de Otono
Bean Broad Plants – Luz de Otono Produce an autumn harvest of delicious broad beans! Luz de Otono is a vigorous growing broad bean that shows excellent cold resistance for overwintering use. These broad bean plants will produce long, high quality pods of tasty beans perfect to plant in July for a delicious autumn harvest.
Lobelia Plant – Starship Deep Rose
A recently bred lobelia which brings to the market earlier flowering, a better branching habit and a better all round display. Intense red flowers are produced in columns up the strong stem for many months. Flowers June-September. Height 50-60cm (20-24"); spread 10-20cm (4-8′).
Allium Bulbs – Red Mohican
Unusual and very striking red flower heads. Ideal for cut flower arrangements. Flowers May-June. Height 90-100cm. Bulb size 10cm+. (Bulb sizes quoted in centimetres refer to the circumference of bulbs. All bulbs are sourced from cultivated stocks.)
Lettuce Seeds – Little Gem
Little Gem is the perfect Cos Lettuce – it’s quick to mature, dwarf and compact, producing crisp, sweet, medium-sized hearts. Resistant to root aphid. Suited to sowing March-July outdoors, and also good under cloches. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Cos Variety. Heritage Seed Variety, 1938 packet details – A distinct and most valuable cos
Asparagus Crowns – Twin Pack
Asparagus Crowns – Twin Pack Two luxury delicious asparagus varieties! Mouth-watering asparagus tips are still considered something of a luxury vegetable, and the supermarkets certainly price them as such! So why not grow your own? Our Twin pack contains 20 crowns (10 of each variety): Erasmus – Is an early-variety, with thick spears intense purple
Nectarine Tree – Lord Napier
Large mouth-watering fruit, full of juice, white flesh with a crimson-flushed skin. Reliable and prolific, excellent outdoor variety for the British climate. Self-fertile. For planting and growing advice read our apricots-peach-tree-and-nectarines-tree-growing-guide.
