Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Squash Seeds – Pasta Plant (Vegetable Spaghetti)
Grow your own vegetable spaghetti and the bowl to put it in! When you harvest a fruit, cut it in half and scoop out the ‘spaghetti’ flesh tendrils. Cook these and you can place back into the ‘bowl’ you have created for eating. FUN TO GROW – A fun, educational way to get children growing
Onion Seeds – Grow A Lightsabre (F1 Yoda)
A fan of a certain film? Then why not grow your own lightsabre. The long, thin white shoots are produced just 12 weeks from sowing and as well as giving you your own lightsabre, they also make tasty additions to salads. FUN TO GROW – A fun, educational way to get children growing flowers and
Shallot Bulbs – Autumn Twin Pack
Twin pack contains 500g pack each of Griselle & Longor: Griselle – A robust spicy taste that will not disappoint! Best planted October to mid December, it multiplies well to give a good crop of long, grey-skinned bulbs in June. Use green or dried for storage well into winter. Essential vegetables with a distinct flavour.
Artichoke Plants – Twin Pack
Artichoke Twin Pack contains 12 plants (6 of each variety): Purple Globe – Attractive and delicious! Perfect at the back of a perennial border or in the kitchen garden, this perennial plant produces abundant yields of tender and flavourful purple artichokes, ideal with a light French dressing or dipped in butter with a hint of
Antirrhinum Plants – Antiquity Mix
A unique strong-growing dwarf boasting masses of fragrant blooms on every flower spike, and narrow, dark green, disease-resistant foliage. The mix features a fantastic range of colours. Deadhead and trim finished flower spikes to encourage more blooms to emerge. Flowers late May-September. Height 20-30cm (8-12”). Dwarf antirrhinum perfect for pots and front of the border
Pea Seeds – Douce Provence
Perfect for spring, summer, autumn and over-wintered protected sowings. Produces a bountiful crop of sweet and succulent peas. Easy to grow. No staking required. Sow October-December & February-July. Harvest May-October. Sow every two weeks for continuous crops For spring or autumn sowing R = Round seed. Hardy, and can be sown in late autumn or
Tomato Seeds – F1 Pink Baby Plum
A heavy cropping baby plum tomato, providing good pickings of attractive and tasty fruit. For indoor or sheltered outdoor growing. Delicious in salads. High yielding plum tomato Grow indoors and outside Delicious in salads (Cordon variety – one stem grown by pinching off side-shoots as they appear, needs staking and tying in.)
Leaf Salad Seeds – Wild Dragons Tongue
A superb British-bred variety with attractive red-veined leaves, good vigour and a wonderful peppery taste. Plants are bolt-resistant, so don’t run to seed, allowing you to keep picking the leaves over a long period. ‘Cut & come again’ leaves British bred with superb vigour Bolt resistant variety
Herb Seed – Basil Summer Surprise
Deep purple leaves and stems make a colourful alternative to the common green basil in a wide range of dishes, including salads, pasta, pizza and tomato dishes. Can be grown as a microgreen on a windowsill – ready in just 21 days! Delicious in salads and pasta
Wineberry Plant
This vigorous, upright, self-fertile variety really is a pretty subject to grow – it’s as well-suited to growing in the flower garden as the fruit garden. Throughout winter the bare stems look magnificent – they’re bright red and covered with hundreds of spines that give them an almost furry appearance. The bright flowers are followed
Aster Seeds – Milady Mix
Excellent weather resistant bedding plants, bushy and uniform in habit. Flowers are large, with incurving petals and colours are bright and clear. Ideal also for tubs, troughs and window boxes, and as pot-plants. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Flowers July-October. HHA – Half hardy annual. Height 25cm (10"). Also ideal for mid-late summer colour,
Forsythia int. Plant – Week-End
With a fantastic display of bright yellow flowers in spring on bare woody branches, Forsythia x intermedia Week-End® ‘Courtalyn’ is a hedging must-have. It has an upright, bushy habit, with a multitude of stems and foliage that is a wonderful bright green, opening as the flowers begin to fall. We’d recommend using this shrub mass
Hydrangea macrophylla Plant – Bouquet Rose
Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Bouquet Rose’ is an ideal addition to your garden if you need colour and interest added to your garden for the late summer. Needs a little TLC in rough weather like droughts and icy winters. The blooms are pink in colour, quite large and a good way to attract those useful insect like
Carrot Seeds – F1 Maestro
Not specifically bred for carrot fly resistance but has proved so on our own and independent trials. Also has good resistance to diseases (including Cavity Spot and Alternaria – common diseases of carrots). A fine choice for conventional or organic growing. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. 120 days from sowing to harvest (taken from
Chamaecyparis lasoniana Plant – Pygmaea Argentea
Pygmaea Argentea is a slow growing evergreen conifer with a rounded growth habit. The dense blueish-green foliage is tipped with white which is more predominant in spring. Supplied in a 5-7.5 litre pot.
Squash Seeds – F1 Hunter
An early ripening butternut variety providing a very heavy crop throughout late summer and autumn. Fruit are a lovely buff colour, with fine-flavoured orange flesh, and store well. Average fruit weight 800g – 1Kg. Trailing type, but shorter than American bred varieties
Pepper Sweet Seeds – F1 Blockie Mix
A mix of early, heavy-cropping, red, yellow and orange bell/blocky peppers, with a mild, sweet flavour. Average weight of approximately 180g per fruit. For greenhouse or, when mature, the patio. These F1 hybrids will be very consistent in their growth.
Aubergine Seeds – F1 Galine
This superb, heavy-cropping variety will produce clusters of small, purple, egg-shaped fruit. The plants are extremely ornamental, and the fruit are very tasty! RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
Leek Seeds – Musselburgh
An extremely winter hardy variety. Good length, tasty white stems. A milder flavour substitute for onions in many culinary dishes. Thick, white, tasty stems Extremely winter hardy Traditionally popular variety Heritage Seed Variety, 1919 packet details – Greatly improved stock of Musselburgh leek, far superior to the ordinary strain. Highly Commended, Royal Horticultural Society, 1918.
Pea Seeds – Hurst Greenshaft
Medium green pointed pods in pairs, each containing 9-11 peas. Resistant to downy mildew and Fusarium Wilt; recommended for exhibition. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Second-Early/Maincrop Variety. Height 75cm (30").
