Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Indian Oyster Mushroom Dowels
Sweet, mild taste. High in vitamins, proteins and non-saturated fatty acids. Regularly used in Indian cuisine. Use pine logs.
Mushroom Log – Hericium
Crops in late summer and early autumn. Ready to fruit logs from woodland restoration projects. Once mature they will fruit for up to four years. The logs are 50cm long and 10-15cm diameter and are inoculated with dowels. Available all year. Full instructions included with aftercare for the logs. You do need to be patient
Cyclamen Hardy Seeds – Hederifolium Winter Cheer
Beautifully marbled foliage with flowers in white or pale rose. A widely grown winter-flowering pot plant. Neat, decorative foliage. HP – Hardy perennial. Height 7.5-15cm (3-6). RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
Dahlia Seeds – Disco Dancer Mix
Excellent bedding dahlia, medium sized double and semi-double flowers in a fine colour range. Stunning flowers with green or bronze foliage. Easy to raise from seed. Invaluable material for autumn floral arrangements. HHP – Half hardy perennial. Height 60cm (2′).
Seeds for Pollinators – Purple De Provence
This superb purple variety is finer tasting than green varieties. It’s as ornamental as it is edible, and is ideal for a variety of situations, and is loved by bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects. Harvest May-June (year 2). This superb purple variety is, in our view, finer tasting than the green forms and is
Seeds for Pollinators – Marjoram Sweet
An annual which brings out the full flavour of meat dishes. Also useful in fish and tomato dishes in salads. Harvest August-October. Height 30-40cm (12-16); spread 30-40cm (12-16)
Tomato Seeds – F1 Crimson Blush
Exclusive to Suttons, this blight resistant beefsteak tomato is sweeter than other beefsteak varieties. In fact, it tastes more like a cherry tomato. This tomato variety has been bred for growing outside and is able to stand up to periods of wet weather. Expect an abundance of stunning large, crimson fruit. Harvest July-October. Height 150-200cm
Chilli Pepper Seeds – Hot Rod
A medium hot chilli pepper with striking ?go faster? stripes on variegated foliage. The stripes will change colour as the fruit ripens, from green and white, to orange and brown, and finally that hot rod red! This chilli pepper has a delicious fruity flavour that gets hotter as the chilli reddens, so you can choose
Cosmos Seeds – Fizzy Pink
This is a lovely series with double and semi-double flowers, charming and exuberant, with wonderfully frothy petals. These attractive flowers are also excellent for cutting. Every garden should have some Cosmos bipinnatus – they’re so easy to grow, colourful and with a very long flowering season. Flowers June-September. Height 80-90cm (31-35); spread 60-70cm (23-27).
Arctic Poppy Seeds – nudicaule Mongolia
A vibrant Arctic Poppy with bright yellow blooms that really stand out. Poppy ‘Mongolia’ is a tall cultivar with sturdy upright stems that make superb cut flowers. Plant them in dense groups towards the middle of cottage garden borders for a beautiful summer display. These seeds are handy in the kitchen too, as they’re delicious
Nasturtium Seeds – Bloody Mary
Nasturtium Bloody Mary has stunning ?blood red? blooms with a unique, flecked colour pattern. Their peppery watercress taste and striking appearance make them one of our most exciting edible flowers, and what a way to add a talking point to a dinner party or special meal! Flowers July-August. Height 20-30cm (8-12); spread 20-30cm (8-12).
Caryopteris cland. PETIT BLEU®
This new cultivar is compact and its flowers are deep blue. Perfect for small gardens or in a pot. One of the few shrubs that bloom during early autumn and have a blue colour in the beginning. Feel free to cut them in March, so that it blooms better. Flowers August-October. Height 60-70cm. Supplied in
Yucca gloriosa Plant – Variegata
Yucca gloriosa ‘Variegata’ (variegated Spanish dagger) is a very handsome and architectural evergreen shrub with sharp-tipped dark green leaves striped golden yellow. In late summer and autumn, dramatic tall spires of bell-shaped white flowers opening from purplish buds rise above the striking foliage. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Flowers August-October. Height 150-200cm. Supplied in
Cotoneaster horizontalis ‘Variegatus’
Ideal as a groundcover shrub, Cotoneaster horizontalis ‘Variegatus’ has small dark green leaves, each delicately edged in white. The herringbone patterning of its growth make it a particularly attractive structural plant too, it can also be trained up walls and fences on wires. In late spring and early summer, small pink-white flowers will appear which
Cineraria maritima Seeds – Silver Dust
Neat plants with ferny, deeply divided leaves, silver-grey and woolly. Compact and ideal for edging your beds and borders. A great colour foil for most plants. HHA – Half hardy annual. Height 15-20cm (6-8").
Paeonia Plant – ITOH Old Rose Dandy
A charming hardy perennial with exquisite freesia-scented blooms from May to June above a neat mound of glossy foliage. The blooms have a vintage appearance, opening to an unusual terracotta colour and slowly fading to yellow. Height 70-80cm. Supplied in a 3 litre pot.
Syringa v. ‘Beauty of Moscow’
Fully double, snow-white blooms unfurl from delicate pink buds giving an attractive two tone effect. Syringa ‘Beauty of Moscow’ is an elegant deciduous shrub with a spreading habit and heart shaped foliage. This trouble-free variety has nectar rich, fragrant flowers that are loved by butterflies. Lilacs are well loved specimen shrubs for cottage garden borders
Sweetcorn (Organic) Seeds – Damaun
From recent European breeding of open-pollinated sweet corn. Excellent quality, stocky, juicy cobs remain sweet after harvest. Pick in approximately 95 days.
Cauliflower (Organic) Seeds – Romanesco
This has fantastic, large pyramid-shaped heads, apple green in colour. Grows exceptionally well in cool conditions.
Cabbage (Organic) Seeds – Chateaurenard
Quick growing variety with pointed heads. For summer and early autumn cutting. Sow April-June, plant 50cm apart, harvest August-October.
