Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Shallot French Bulbs – Jermor
Shallot French Bulbs – Jermor RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. The Shallot French Bulbs – Jermor is an excellent shallot with a great taste. With a slightly elongated shape, this copper coloured shallot has a great tasting, pink tinged flesh. There’s no wonder why the Shallot French Bulbs – Jermor has won the RHS
Shallot Bulbs – Red Gourmet
An early-to-mature, red-fleshed variety with a spicy taste, excellent for use in salads and cooking. Plant from February onwards.
Tomato Seeds – F1 Fantasio
A superbly flavoured tomato, bearing a prolific crop of medium/large fruit, each up to 200g (½ lb) in weight. Shows tolerance to tomato blight. For cultivation under glass or outdoors.
Herb Seed – Marjoram Sweet
An annual which brings out the full flavour of meat dishes. Also useful in fish and tomato dishes in salads.
Carrot Seeds – F1 Eskimo
The most frost-tolerant variety bred so far. On well-drained soils, you can leave some roots in the ground through the winter and dig as required. In heavy soils you may need to lift them late in the year, but they will store well. Good disease resistance. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. 84 days from
Agastache Seeds – Liquorice Blue
This first-class variety produces attractive, upright spikes of hooded rose-purple blooms that are a magnet for bees and butterflies. Flowers June-September. Height 60cm (24"). Middle of border variety. HP – Hardy perennial.
Herb Seed – Tarragon Russian
Russian Tarragon is used for flavouring vinegars, pickles, mustards and sauces. Great in fish soup!
Armeria Seeds – Ballerina Red
Compact and uniform with grass-like foliage, these plants have strong stems topped with globe-shaped red blooms. Very free-flowering, first year blooming, and excellent in rock gardens. Flowers late May-early October. Height 20-30cm (8-12"); spread 20-30cm (8-12"). HP – Hardy perennial.
Herb Seed – Dill
Annual with feathery blue-green foliage. Leaves and seeds may be used to flavour stews, casseroles, soups and fish dishes, and certain pickles.
Cucumber Seeds – F1 Burpless Tasty Green
Prolific plants producing high-quality cucumbers comparable to glasshouse varieties. Fruits are at their best when about 23cm (9") long. Tolerant of summer heat, and resistant to mildew. Ridge (Outdoor) Variety.
Crocosmia Bulbs – Mix
A clump-forming, drought-tolerant hardy perennial, producing lush green, sword-like foliage topped with spikes of fiery, freesia-like blooms. Flowers July-September. Height 35cm (14"). Bulb size 6/7cm. (Please note: We are not normally able to accept orders for bulbs after mid April.)
Cress Seeds – Watercress Aqua
A crisp-textured variety with a delicious pungent flavour. High in vitamin C. Grows well in wet soil. Crop as baby leaves or allow to mature.
Courgette Seeds – F1 Atena
Bushy plants bearing abundant crops of tasty golden-yellow courgettes. Pick them when they’re 20cm (8") long and bursting with flavour. Ideal for pickling too.
Courgette Seeds – F1 Midnight
Compact, spineless plants ideal for patio containers but also garden growing. Reliably produces heavy crops of dark green, deliciously tasty fruit. .
Courgette Seeds – F1 Defender
Courgette Seeds – F1 Defender An RHS Award of Garden Merit Winner The Courgette F1 Defender is a British bred courgette that is resistant to cucumber mosaic virus which often decimates marrow plants in our gardens. The Courgette F1 Defender produces very heavy crops of mid-green, slightly speckled courgettes. The Courgette F1 Defender is an
Celeriac Seeds – Monarch
This leading quality celeriac produces large, firm roots with white flesh that remains white after blanching. Ideal for stews or soups, but also invaluable diced or grated raw as a tasty addition to winter salads. High tolerance to Celery Virus. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
Herb Seed – Thyme Common
Thyme is a perennial herb with small scented leaves. Excellent used sparingly with poultry, meat and game, and in soups.
Cauliflower Seeds – Igloo
A versatile early cauliflower. Grow it at close spacing for a quick crop of delicious mini heads or at wider spacing for more conventionally sized curds. Sow outdoors in March for harvestng in July. Summer/Autumn maturing.
Herb Seed – Rosemary
A perennial evergreen shrub with fragrant leaves which can be picked at any time and used in flavouring meat or fish dishes, also for bouquet garni.
Digitalis Seeds – Pam’s Split
Spikes of large, neatly arranged, creamy-white flowers with burgundy blotches, and unusually cut lower petals that give the plants an open, airy feel. Up to five flower stems per plant. Attractive to beneficial insects. Sow early for flowers the same year. Height 120-140cm (4-4½’). HB – Hardy biennial.
