Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
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
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
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
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
Strawberry Plants Cambridge Favourite
Can’t be beaten for the tastiest jam! Delicious medium-sized fruit. Superb disease resistance. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
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 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.
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
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.
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,
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.
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
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,
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!
Strawberry – Skyline
Short of room to grow your own strawberries? Try Strawberry Skyline it grows up not out, climbing stems and hanging fruits from every runner! An ideal strawberry for anyone short of space, its climbing habit makes it harder for the slugs to get to before you do and no bending down to pick your crop.
Strawberry Plants – Mara des Bois
The best of the European varieties for flavour! This much sought after variety combines the sweet, aromatic taste of a wild strawberry with the fruit size of a modern hybrid. The berries are a lovely deep red when ripe and just irresistible! Strawberry Mara de Bois crops over a long period too – May to
Garlic Bulbs – Elephant
This colossal garlic can grow to an amazing 15cm (6?) across and weighs almost 1kg (2.2lb). Each clove is bigger than a regular garlic bulb! As it is closely related to the common leek, the flavour is milder, making it suitable to use raw in salads. Planting from October-February.
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
