Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Artichoke Plants – Green Globe
A large and striking perennial vegetable with silvery-green deeply toothed leaves that’s good-looking enough to grow in the ornamental garden. The spiky flower buds are cut from summer onwards, with each plant producing up to 10 artichokes a season. The plant stays productive for many years given a free-drained soil and a sunny spot. Harvest
Aubergine Jackpot
Aubergine Jackpot Ideal for growing in containers in the greenhouse or on a sunny patio, and produces a high yield of virtually spineless baby-sized fruit on compact 50-60cm plants. Produces lots of baby sized (80g) Italian-type fruit which can be picked at a young age. Perfect to roast! Harvest late July-Sept.
Raspberry Heritage (Autumn fruiting)
This popular variety produces superb quality fruits from August into October. The bright red fruits of Raspberry ?Heritage? are firm and juicy with a delicious flavour. This versatile variety is best eaten fresh from the plant, but is just as delicious frozen, stewed, or made into tasty home-made jam. Like all autumn fruiting varieties, the
Apple Tree Egremont Russet
A mid-season dessert apple that produces a heavy crop of distinctive coloured fruits it has firm, crisp, flesh with a nutty flavour making it ideal for juice and cooking. Apple Egremont Russet is self-fertile, easy to grow, making it ideal for small gardens. Harvest the apples in October, and you can keep them well until
Apple Tree Cooking Apple Bramley
Large fruits with yellow-green skin colour. Acid yet sweet. Cook to pale cream fluff. Harvest mid October. C. M26 rootstock. Trees need a partner in a close pollination group (A-E), (e.g. C can be pollinated by B, C, or D). 1 year old Maidens, supplied bare-rooted. Rootstocks for trees will all give a final height
Gooseberry (Ribes Uva-Crispa) Hinnonmaki Red Organic
Gooseberry (Ribes Uva-Crispa) Hinnonmaki Red Organic A reliable heavy cropper that grows an abundance of tasty red berries with a unique flavour. Hinnonmaki Red is vigorous and performs with great disease resistance, enabling it to provide a rewarding summer harvest that can be enjoyed in a multitude of ways. Wonderful for making jam or pudding,
Basil Dark Opal
Basil ‘Dark Opal’ is a purple-bronze leaved basil which is ornamental as well as edible. Looks wonderful in the veg plot combined with hot coloured annuals such as tagetes. Height: 45cm (18”). Spread: 40cm (16”).Easy to grow, ideal for windowsill growing, and a favourite with cooks and gardeners worldwide. The pungent leaves with a spicy,
Raspberry – All Gold
An outstanding autumn-fruiting raspberry, producing large, golden yellow fruits, with a taste that is even more exquisite than its red-fruited sisters! An excellent raspberry for fresh use and freezing and also for garnishes and wine-making! These heavenly, sweet fruits can be harvested from late August until mid October, ideal for smaller gardens where they can
Raspberry – Malling Minerva
This superb raspberry will start to fruit in early June and carry on for up to six weeks, producing a bountiful crop of good-sized, deliciously flavoured, medium-firm raspberries. What’s more, the succulent flesh pulls effortlessly from the central core, making picking easy. An excellent choice for gardens as the plants are spineless, show good disease
Raspberry (Rubus ideaus) Autumn Bliss
Raspberry (Rubus ideaus) Autumn Bliss Tasty raspberries great for eating fresh, or in desserts and smoothies! Self-supporting and producing a crop of attractive tasty raspberries which are perfect for picking straight from the plant and eating fresh or freeze to add to desserts and smoothies. Autumn Bliss grows a crop of large, attractive red berries
Strawberry Symphony
Perfectly happy in baskets or containers, this hardy and disease tolerant late summer cropper gives plenty of juicy berries after the main season finishes.
Strawberry – Sweet Sensation
This popular variety you can harvest all summer, producing a superb crop of uniform, sweet and juicy fruits. An ever-bearing variety that is surprisingly sweet, Sweet Sensation is an excellent cropper making it a perfect choice for planting on the patio so you can graze while you sit and chill! Height: 20cm (8”) Spread: 30cm
Gooseberry (Ribes Uva-Crispa) Invicta Organic
Gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa) Invicta Organic Delicious flavour, great for pies and jams! Lush green organic gooseberries from June to July, on compact plants which are ideal for small gardens. Delicious flavour – recommended for pies, jams, preserves and freezing. Resistant to mildew. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Plant approximately 1.5m (5′) apart.
Strawberry Elsanta
This well-loved variety is reliable and easy to grow. It will produce heavy crops of large, aromatic, glossy red fruit, that is juicy, sweet and delicious, from mid-June to mid-July.
Blackberry (Rubus) Thornless Evergreen
Blackberry Thornless Evergreen A thornless specimen; the Blackberry Thornless Evergreen finds it easy to harvest fruits, and produces large yields of berries each August. In Summer; white flowers develop on this hardy shrub, sprinkling its evergreen foliage with the promise of what’s to come. As the fruits of this Rubus appear, they turn from green
Apple (Malus) Bramleys Seedling (MM106)
The most famous cooking apple which produces large fruits with a sharp acidic flavour, perfect for making scrumptious pies, crumbles and ideal for making purees. Awarded an RHS AGM, Apple Bramley’s Seedling has good disease resistance to scab and mildew. Harvest from October when mature for immediate use or lay the fruits in a cool
Strawberry Plants – Flamenco
This superb strawberry will give you a regular supply of strawberries throughout the summer. British bred, it produces a good crop of large, bright red, deliciously flavoursome fruit. Equally tasty eaten fresh from the plant with cream or sugar, or for making jam. Why not grow a few plants on the patio and enjoy them
Kale Plants – Red Russian
Kale Plants – Red Russian Tender to eat and sweet in flavour! Kale plant ‘Red Russian’ will produce good crops of delicious grey-green leaves, almost like giant oak leaves. As the weather gets colder, the leaves take on a red tinge and the flavour sweetens. In fact, the 60-90cm high plants are so attractive that
Strawberry Plants – Sweetheart
Who could resist these sweet, juicy, dark red berries? Ready for picking from June, the small, conical fruit are aptly named as the berries strike the perfect balance between sweetness and acidity, making them extremely moreish. The compact, heavy-cropping plants show good resistance to a number of diseases. Summer isn’t summer with strawberries!
