Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Strawberry Plants Cambridge Favourite
Courgette Sure Thing (Patio) F1
Ideal for a small garden or greenhouse needs no insects for pollination, so you’ll always get a good crop of tasty fruit! Harvest July-September. SMALL SPACES – made easy! Are you feeling left behind by the grow-your-own revolution because you live in a gardenless apartment or have a postage-stamp-sized patio? Anyone with a sunny windowsill,
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
Strawberry Symphony
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 – 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
Cyclamen hederifolium
A lovely plant that produces delicate pink flowers with reflexed petals in the autumn. Emerging after it has flowered, heart-shaped, dark green leaves are decorated with silver so creating a marbled effect. Cyclamen hederifolium is perfect as a ground-cover plant in rockeries and woodland areas where it will self-seed and create carpets of foliage and flowers
Strawberry – Mount Everest
An unusual fast-growing, climbing variety producing runners up to 1m lengths adding interest to your garden when trained up a trellis or obelisk or trailing from hanging baskets. It is an ever-bearing variety that produces a luscious crop of medium-sized fruits from June to September! Height: 1m (39). Spread: 30cm (12).
Onion (Spring) Setton
Onion Setton (Spring planting) The Onion Setton (Spring planting) is a fantastic hardy bulb that is easy to grow and care for. Originally created as an improvement from the popular variety ‘Sturon’, it does not disappoint with its more uniform shape, better storage potential and higher yields. Onion Setton (Spring planting) is best grown in
Onion Sets – Senshyu Yellow
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