Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Lupin Pixie Delight
Zinnia Swizzle Cherry & Ivory
Swizzles are sure to brighten any display with their eye-catching, bicoloured flowers, in vibrant shades of cherry and ivory. The dwarf, bushy free-flowering plants have exceptional garden performance in sunny borders or in containers, as well as attracting a variety of butterflies to your garden. Height: 25-30cm (10-12in).
Tomato Sweet Petit F1
Sweet Petit is a vigorous growing cherry tomato producing fishbone shaped shiny red fruits. Enjoy heavy crops of these deliciously tasting cherry-sized tomatoes from summer right through to the autumn! Ideal for a heated or unheated glasshouse or polytunnel, the Sweet Petit will just be a stone’s throw away from your favourite dish. If like
Tomato Rozalina Rossa
Tomato Ildi (F1)
Mini, sweet yellow, pear-shaped cherry tomatoes with up to 80 fruits per truss. Tomato ‘Ildi’ is a cordon variety. Sow March/April for greenhouse growing (or April for outdoor growing) in a propagator on a windowsill or pots or trays in a greenhouse at 18-21ºC using a good quality compost. Cover seeds with 6mm compost (germination
Pepper Tangerine Dream
Yes, it’s a gorgeous little bush studded all over with shiny red-orange rockets too pretty to hide away among rows of vegetables. But it’s very tasty too, with a hint of heat. The 8 cm fruits are sweet and delicious, either pickled or on salad platters. Using a good quality, moist seed compost, sow your
Amaryllis Collection
These fabulous winter flowering bulbs add a stunning focal point to any room. Coming in four different colours, they can be grown outdoors when all risk of frost has past, making them perfect for creating a summer display on your patio. Collection comprises: Amaryllis ‘Minerva’ – An eye-catching Hippeastrum producing vibrant red blooms with a central
Dianthus caryophyllus Grenadin Mixed
The Dianthus caryophyllus Grenadin Mixed is an industrious perennial forming a neat mound of evergreen foliage. From early summer through to autumn plenty of scented, fully double, flowers emerge. A border Pink Carnation with strong stems, make Grenadin Mixed a glorious cut flower with fragrant displays. Perfect for borders, pots and containers for a radiant
Gaura Sparkle White Gem
This stunning hardy perennial makes a fabulous border plant! Its graceful, slender stems are topped with a flurry of dazzling white, starry blooms that still look fresh and airy at the end of summer. This bushy, clump forming variety has a neat, compact habit that makes it perfect for the front of sunny borders or
Aster Plants – Tonga
Bring splashes of brilliant colours late summer into autumn, it forms a neat dome of slender green foliage, this hardy perennial becomes smothered in beautiful purple flowers from late August to October. With a compact, dwarf habit this is perfect for beds, borders and containers, with very little maintenance throughout the year. Height and spread:
Eschscholzia Single White
Pretty ferny foliage, and bright white coloured flowers with delicate petals that flutter in summer breezes. Flowers mid June-September. HA – Hardy annual. Height 30cm (12"). Choose a sunny position. Sow direct into finely raked, moist, warm soil where the plants are to flower at a depth of 6mm (¼") covering the seed lightly. Germination
Verbascum Dark Eyes
Verbascum Dark Eyes Perfect for summery bouquets of colourful flowers! A compact variety with short spires, Verbascum ‘Dark Eyes’ (Mullein) is a must-have addition to the front of a border or for displaying in patio containers and helping to create the quintessential cottage garden look. This is a look which many gardeners aspire to portray
Eschscholzia Single Purple
Pretty ferny foliage, and brightly coloured flowers with delicate petals that flutter in summer breezes. Flowers mid June-September. HA – Hardy annual. Height 30cm (12"). Choose a sunny position. Sow direct into finely raked, moist, warm soil where the plants are to flower at a depth of 6mm (¼") covering the seed lightly. Germination takes
Anemone Pulsatilla
Award-winning Pulsatilla vulgaris. Showy bell-shaped blossoms of bright purple contrast beautifully against the luminous golden-yellow stamens. Its silky foliage remains attractive throughout the growing season. These low growers self-seed making for more seasonal interest. Height and spread: 20cm (8").
Eryngium Blue Hobbit
Dorotheanthus Gelato Lemon Shades
Also known as a ‘Livingstone Daisy’; ‘Gelato Yellow Shades’ is a tender, mat-forming to trailing annual with cylindrical, ovate to spoon-shaped, fleshy, light green leaves and, throughout summer, daisy-like flowers in shades of yellow. Sow in a propagator on a windowsill or in a greenhouse at approximately 15-18°C (60-65°F) onto a good quality, finely sieved,
Cabbage Pointed Merlin
Broccoli F1 Arcadia
Garlic Bulbs – Carcossonne Wight
Exceptional, pink cloved hardneck garlic showing great vigour in UK climate. Most successful of all hardnecks in UK with good skin cover, great strength of flavour coupled with a superior (in our opinion) bouquet and character. This variety was probably brought to Carcassonne by pilgrims travelling from the east on their way to Compostela. 8/12