Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
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
Cherry Tree – Crown Morello
The best sour cherry! Produces large, small stoned fruit with a delicious tart flavour. Makes a wonderful cherry pie. Vigorous, hardy and hugely productive. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. (Part of the English Heritage fruit variety range.) For planting and growing advice read our cherry-tree-growing-guide.
Onion Sets – Red Ray
Onion Sets – Red Ray Great flavour and ruby colour The exciting Onion sets – Red Ray is a true must have in your vegetable patch or allotment. This is a uniform variety that boasts an excellent ruby red skin, accompanied by an amazing flavour. Thanks to its very strong root system, the Onion Sets
Swede Tweed
This vigorous uniform hybrid grows well even on poorer soils. The attractive globe-shaped purple-shouldered roots boast tasty fine-textured cream-coloured flesh. Club Root resistant.
Apple Tree – Greensleeves
Mid-season, crops well UK-wide. Extremely heavy cropping, fruit is pale green, turning pale yellow, with a crisp flesh that becomes sweeter. Dual-purpose (an eater that cooks well), good resistance to the usual diseases (mildew, scab, canker etc.). Also an excellent pollinator – not self-fertile, but easily pollinated by any other apples nearby. Cross between James
Begonia Tubers – Prima Donna Yellow
How beautiful are our biggest begonias in bright sunny yellow? They produce compact, upright plants with extra strong stems and huge ruffled blooms (around 3-4 per plant at a time) that can reach up to 20cm (8") across and are very long lasting. Height 35cm (14"). Flowers July-October. (Please note: We are not normally able
Gaillardia Seeds – Red Plume
Fully double, deep red, spherical flower heads, held well above the foliage. Equally good in borders or containers, long-blooming and ideal for cutting. Height 25-30cm (10-12"). HHA – Half hardy annual.
Sweet Pea Seeds – Anne Gregg
A creamy-white, waved Spencer type. Long stems and strong scent make it ideal for cutting. Height 1.8m (6′). Scent 3. HA – Hardy annual.
Colchicum Bulbs – autumnale Album
How pretty are those double white blooms? Ideal for naturalising and the perfect winter flowers for your garden or your home, it?s all about colchicums. These elegant blooms add a touch of magic to your autumn / winter garden, and just one bulb will produce up to eight flowers. Colchicums autumnale Album will flower between
Plum Tree – Victoria
Our best seller! Deservedly the most popular and most widely planted plum in Britain. Delicious eaten fresh off the tree, it also cooks well. Reliable and very heavy cropping. For planting and growing advice read our gage-and-plum-trees-growing-guide.
Cabbage Seeds – F1 Dutchman
A deliciously sweet, small-headed pointed cabbage. It boasts excellent flavour, shows good resistance to white blister and holds well when mature. Ideal for growing at reduced spacing.
Nemesia Plants – White Perfume
Nemesia Plants – White Perfume Drift into the summer months with beautiful vanilla scented Nemesia. A fantastic modern variety of Nemesia Sunpeddle. The ‘White Perfume’ will produce an abundant vanilla-scented dainty chalky white flowers with buttery yellow centres are produced in a compact habit. A truly sunny addition to the garden, this Nemesia is suitable
Mushroom Windowsill Kit – White Button
The quickest, easiest, most reliable mushroom kit we’ve ever seen! With this handy kit you’ll soon be picking delicious fresh mushrooms straight from the windowsill, at a fraction of the cost of buying them at the supermarket. Kit comprises base tray, lid and pre-spawned substrate. Dimensions: 17.5cm (7") x 27.5cm (11") x 8cm (3½") depth.
Cucumber Seeds – Marketmore
Luscious, cylindrical, dark green fruits are produced in large numbers throughout summer. Performs well both in good and poor seasons.RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
Cucumber Seeds – Venlo Pickling (Gherkin)
Excellent for pickling when the fruits are young and tender. Dual use – excellent flavour used in salads or for pickling. Ridge (Outdoor) Variety.
Herb Seed – Lemon Grass
An essential ingredient for stir fries and other oriental cooking, this unique lemon scented herb is quick-growing and will make an interesting addition to the herb garden or greenhouse.
Alcea Plants – Chaters Double Mix
Large double flowers produced up a tall stem. The colours range from whites, pinks and yellows to reds and purples. Flowers April-May. Height 90-100cm (36-40").
Silene Plants – Starry Dreams
A fully hardy perennial bearing masses of small, star-shaped, upward-facing white flowers, set off against fresh green foliage. Flowers July-October. Height 10-20cm (4-8"). Supplied in 9cm pots.
