Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Sunflower Seeds – Waooh!
A great value, easy-to-grow, multi-headed variety, producing masses of golden flowers with large, dark, central discs. The bushy plants are ideal for border or container, and were still blooming at the end of September in our trials. Flowers mid July-September. Height 60cm (24") in pots, 60-80cm (24-32") in a border. HA – Hardy annual. Easy
Lettuce Seeds – Webbs Wonderful
A very popular variety producing large, crisp hearts. Slow to run to seed. 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 garlic for an
Aubergine Seeds – Black Beauty
Black Beauty is an excellent quality aubergine producing sturdy plants and an abundant crop of large, tasty, purple-black, pear-shaped fruit. Height approximately 120cm (4′).
Leek Seeds – Atal
A pale green summer-cropping salad leek. Great flavour and uniformity. Easy to grow Milder alternative to spring onions Use raw in salads, steamed or stir-fry
Lettuce Seeds – Mixed Varieties
A superb blend of Cos, red-tinged Batavia and Oak-leaf lettuce varieties. Why buy salad leaves from the supermarket when you can grow them easily at home? And you can get up to 3 crops from the same sowing! Ideal for garden or containers. Ready to eat in just 3 weeks. Growing instructions given on packet.
Parsley Seeds – Moss Curled 2
Tall-growing, strong parsley. Mid-green foliage with an attractive curl. An improved sdelection of the standard moss curled variety, it’s very easy to grow and tolerates a light frost. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
Cress Seeds – Curled
Can be grown indoors all the year round. Sow on moist tissue and cover with glass or paper until seed germinates. To mature with mustard sow two days in advance. Ready in just 6-8 days. 27 grams. SMALL SPACES made easy! Are you feeling left behind by the “grow-your-own” revolution because you live in a
Cornichon Seeds – Vert Petit de Paris
This traditional French pickling cucumber is very productive and produces many short, cylindrical fruits. They can be used fresh or pickled by bottling in vinegar for delicious cornichons over a long period.
Love-in-a-Mist Seeds – Persian Jewels Mix
Well known mixture of white, pink, rose-red, mauve and purple shades. Pretty, delicate foliage, and flowers a little like cornflowers, followed by ornamental seed pods. Flowers July-September/May-June. HA – Hardy annual. Height 45cm (18").
Love-in-a-Mist Seeds – Miss Jekyll
A traditional favourite with clear cornflower-blue blooms. Easy to grow. Pretty, delicate foliage and flowers are followed by ornamental seed pods. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Flowers July-September/May-June. Height 50cm (20"). HA – Hardy annual.
Honesty Seeds – Mix
Attractive flower clusters followed by flat, round, translucent, papery seed pods. Easy to grow plants that are a magnet for bees and other pollinators. Flowers May-June (year 2). Height 60cm (2′). HB – Hardy biennial. Attractive to bees and other pollinators Easy to grow Seed pods are great as dried flowers
Geum Seeds – Oranges and Lemons
Vivid red and yellow flowers create a splash of colour! Traditional cottage garden favourite. Flowers July-September. Height 30cm (12"). HP – Hardy perennial.
Forget-Me-Not Seeds – Spring Symphony Blue
Superb spring flowering item with masses of mid-blue blooms which are produced on dwarf ‘ball’ shaped plants. Ideal for massed bedding with tulips or as an edging. Naturalises easily and grows successfully in most soils. Flowers April-June. HB – Hardy biennial. Height 15cm (6").
Cosmos Seeds – Xanthos
The sky is the limit, but Cosmos Xanthos goes beyond. An amazing new dwarf, early flowering cosmos bearing masses of single round flowers (some with a collarette) in a unique new colour – stunning soft yellow with lighter edges. Award winners in the Fleuroselect (All Europe) Trials. Flowers July-October. Height 50-60cm (20-24"). Stunning soft yellow
Impatiens Seeds – Super Hybrid Mix
A compact and large-flowered variety to fill your garden with colour throughout the summer. A great range of shades. Superbly versatile plants which, in addition to making superb bedding plants, are also extremely colourful grown in tubs or in hanging baskets or as pot plants. Height 15cm (6"). Also known as Busy Lizzie. (Hybrid flower
Black-Eyed Susie Seeds
Free-flowering mixture: orange, yellow and white, with and without eyes. A very attractive climber. Flowers July-September. HHA – Half hardy annual. Climbs or trails to 120cm (4′).
Soapwort Seeds – Graciella White
Fast-growing plants producing dark green foliage and a wonderful display of scented single blooms. Long ago it was used in the making of soap, this is a first year flowering perennial is best grown as an annual. Flowers July-September. Height 41-50cm (16-19"). HHP – Half hardy perennial, can also be grown as an annual. Fragrant
Sunflower Seeds – Total Eclipse
We’ve combined two contrasting varieties (a deep bronze with dark leaves and a lemon yellow with light leaves) to create a unique and beautiful blend. Both will branch and spread up to 80cm across. Flowers mid July-September. HA – Hardy annual. Height 50-60cm (20-24").
Cabbage Plants – Round Continuity Collection
Cabbage Plants – Round Continuity Collection Delicious rounded heads that crop over a long period! The Round Continuity Collection includes three excellent round cabbages to provide you with a steady supply of tasty heads. Comprising of 21 plants (a mix of each variety), all will provide good crops of delicious, nutritious, dense rounded headed cabbages
Strawflower Seeds – Forever Mix
Part of the Sutton’s Seeds Flower Heritage Range – Daisy flowers with many petals of strawy texture and brilliant colours. Can also be sown in September for early summer flowering the next year. Colourful winter dried flowers. Flowers July-October. HA – Hardy annual. Height 90cm (3′).
