Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Sweet Potato Plants – Speciality Collection
Traditionally sweet potatoes have been grown from ‘slips’, but we supply Super Plugs, well-rooted and actively growing, which give far better results! Our new generation of cool-weather-tolerant, fast-maturing varieties can now be grown successfully from plants in even the chilliest parts of the UK. Simply pot and grow on in a frost-free environment until June,
Sweet Potato Plants – Kaukura
One of the newly bred ‘ornamental edible’ sweet potatoes that is an orange-skinned and orange-fleshed variety which is delicious! Deep purple heart-shaped leaves that are as ornamental as the tubers are tasty. Can be used in pots as bedding, then harvest the tubers when you empty the pots. Leaves are traditionally eaten in Vietnam/Japan and
Spinach Tree Spinach (12)
Easy to grow, colourful alternative to spinach. Tree spinach has bright magenta, almost sparkly growing tips. Plants can grow up to 2m tall, hence the name ‘Tree’ spinach. Young leaves can be used fresh in salads and larger ones can be harvested and use like spinach. Plants can be harvested as a cut and come
Chilli Pepper Plant – Trinidad Moruga Scorpion
Chilli Pepper Plant – Trinidad Moruga Scorpion A whopping 1.4 million Scoville units – Its the hottest recorded chilli pepper! The ‘Trinidad Moruga Scorpion’ is currently the hottest recorded chilli. Native to the district of Moruga in Trinidad and Tobago, it weighs in a whopping 1.4 million Scoville units! When chopping your ‘Trinidad Moruga Scorpion’
Oca Giggles Gourmet Roots
Part of the Gourmet Roots collection. Also known as ‘Peruvian Wood Sorrel’ from the Andes. Tangy flavoured leaves are good to add to salads. The tubers can be grated into salads or steamed, cooked or fried. Forms red/yellow tubers in the autumn. Ideal to grow in pots or containers as well as in the ground.
Forsythia Intermedia – Week-End
Forsythia Week-End is perfect for the spring garden, its lovely, bright yellow flowers cover the length of the stems, a deciduous, hardy shrub is ideal as part of a hedge, stand-alone or patio container. Green foliage opens when the flowers fade adding to the flexibility of this forsythia including as a spring cut flower. When
Mushroom Plugs – Lion’s Mane Mushrooms – 30 spawn plugs
Mushroom plugs – Lions Mane Cascading white ‘spines’! Aptly named, producing a ‘mane’ of cascading white ‘spines’ up to 40cm (16") in diameter, which are ready to harvest in June/July. When cooked they have the delicious flavour of lobster – luscious fried up with onions, garlic, almonds and butter. Acclaimed for its medicinal properties too!
Escallonia laevis Plant – Pink Elle
The huge flowers of this hardy, evergreen variety really make it stand out. The leaves are dark glossy green and the flowers, which almost smother the plant during the summer, are soft pink with dark pink outer edges produced in larger clusters. Sometimes in autumn, it can have a second smaller flush of flowers but
Deutzia ‘Raspberry Sundae’®
It’s hard to contain your excitement when you see the beauty that is Deutzia Raspberry Sundae. This plant is indeed sundae-like, with its large clusters of two-toned pink and white flowers bejewelling its compact habit from mid-spring to mid-summer. Its scent is just as sweet too, attracting a whole host of pollinators to enjoy its
Strawberry Plants – F1 Frisan
Summer-long strawberries will crop for up to five months! Juicy fruit with a delicious sweet flavour makes strawberry F1 Frisan a delightful attraction to your fruit garden and ornamental garden alike. Abundant flowering and high yields of fruit will continue all summer until the autumn. Plants even fruit on their numerous runners, perfect for containers.
Raspberry Plant – Glen Coe
Just one plant will give you a bountiful harvest!Unique purple colour and outstanding sweet intense flavour. Unusual vigorous clump-forming habit – ideal for border or patio container. This rich-purple-coloured raspberry forms a clump of vigorous semi-erect spine-free stems ensuring that just one plant will give you lots of superbly flavoured fruit from mid June to
Aubergine Grafted Meatball
Aubergine ?Meatball? really is the meatiest of aubergines. Large, globe-shaped fruit up to 13cm across with very dense flesh which only have a few seeds making the flavour sweeter than other varieties. Aubergine ?Meatball? combines the very best traits of both heritage and modern hybrid varieties. Height: 70cm (28). Spread: 60cm (24). Please note: Your
Verbascum Plant – Snowy Spires
A gorgeous cottage garden classic with ice white blooms that are accentuated by lush, green foliage in this stately perennial, yet the most magical thing about the Verbascum Plant – Snowy Spires is the magenta coloured, fuzzy centre to each flower. As you wander through the garden, you’ll notice that Verbascum Plant – Snowy Spires
Fig Plant (Organic) – Peretta
An early to mature variety with large quantities of fruit that are good flavoured green to reddish-brown pear-shaped. It has a strong habit and establishes very quickly. Supplied as a 13cm potted plant.
Blackcurrant Plant – Ben Alder
A modern Scottish bred variety that is heavy cropping and later fruiting with excellent disease resistance. Harvest June-July. Supplied as a 2 year old bare root plant.
Trixi Plant – Cherry Kiss 14
The Trixi collections have been put together after many years of trialling to find the perfect mix of plants that will grow well together, flower together and create a stunning display with different varieties and colours. This has been taken and grown on into large colourful potfuls allowing them to be planted in the garden,
Rhubarb Crowns – Timperley Early
One of the earliest to crop, delicious tasting and high yields with thick stems of red changing to green with red markings.
Trixi Plant – Ayers Rock
The Trixi collections have been put together after many years of trialling to find the perfect mix of plants that will grow well together, flower together and create a stunning display with different varieties and colours. This has been taken and grown on into large colourful potfuls allowing them to be planted in the garden,
Mulberry Dwarf Bush – Charlotte Russe (Mojo Berry)
The Mulberry Bush – Hard to find the fruits in supermarkets, you can have all the joys of growing your own mulberries without the hassle of keeping a large tree. With heights reaching 8 metres, many people don’t have the space for a mulberry tree. This dwarf, compact variety only reaches a height of approximately
