Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Beansprouts (Mung Bean) Seeds
Grow indoors on wet tissues or flannel to produce seedling shoots as used in many Chinese recipes. Useful standby for fresh winter salads – raise them when you need them. Not for growing in the open. Tom says: These super quick crops are packed full of surprising and intriguing flavours that will enthral your taste
Fenugreek Shoots Seeds
Used as a spice in Indian food and as a digestive aid by Americans, Fenugreek is a very fragrant, super nutritious sprout. Tom says: These super quick crops are packed full of surprising and intriguing flavours that will enthral your taste buds. As well as being loaded with flavour, these little guys are packed full
Turnip Seeds – Golden Ball
Dwarf, compact plants producing round roots with tender yellow flesh. Very hardy with outstanding keeping qualities. Excellent for storage and exhibition.
Hollyhock Seeds – Cough Syrup Mix
The petals of these statuesque cottage garden flowers make a jewel-coloured syrup, a traditional remedy for soothing irritated mucous membranes and helping to ease a dry cough. The syrup can be stored until needed. (Check with your doctor.) Height 100-150cm (39-59); spread 40-50cm (16-20). If you crave the cottage garden look, Hollyhocks are a must.
Tomato Seeds – Shimmer F1
A unique coloured tomato with red, green and gold stripes. Almond shaped fruit, bigger than a cherry type but smaller than a Roma tomato. Resistant to late blight with 30-55g (1-2oz) fruit Very sweet and fruity, it came high in our recent taste tests. Grow cordon style Adds a splash of colour to salads
Mexican Tarragon Seeds
Aromatic scented foliage which can be used as a tarragon substitute. Sweetly scented small yellow flowers. Perfect to season soups and sauces. Dried leaves and flowers can be used to make an anise flavoured herbal tea. Harvest July-September. Height 60-70cm (24-27); spread 30-40cm (12-16).
Tomato Seeds – F1 Tumbling Bella (Terenzo)
An improvement on the incredibly popular ‘Tumbler’, producing sweet, cherry-sized fruit in profusion all summer. Its cascading habit makes it ideal for tubs and it shows some blight tolerance too!
Nasturtium Seeds – Gold Jewel
Try searching online for ‘Lutein’ and you’ll soon realise that there is huge demand for lutein supplements as an aid to eye health. How much better to grow this eye catchingly, colourful nasturtium and supplement your lutein levels naturally whilst bringing a welcome zing of colour and flavour to your salad bowl. Research has shown
Tomato Seeds – Red Zebra
Lycopene is the bright red nutrient tomatoes, which might be one of the key factors behind the health benefits of a Mediterranean diet. Suttons, in conjunction with Exeter University identified the Red Zebra as having the very highest levels of lycopene out of all the 64 tomatoes tested. Excellent flavour, stunning stripes and a lycopene
James Wong – Rosella
Rosella produces delicious cherry-sized tomatoes with a dark, rosy-red hue. With a smoky flavour that adds the perfect touch to those summery salads, these cherry tomatoes have fewer seeds inside too ? so kids will love them! We love the dark colour of this variety, and the fruits hang to form miniature tomato chandeliers that
Bean (Mangetout Broad) Seeds – Stereo
Part of the James Wong Grow For Flavour Range. James says – ‘The finest tasting of all varieties, pick young pods when tender and eat them like mangetout’. An intensely sweet, nutty flavour. Pick the pods off when they are finger length. Slice them raw into a salad of goat’s cheese and roasted red onions,
Sweet Corn – Mirai White
Part of the James Wong Grow For Flavour Range. James says – ‘Pure white form, with an almost pavlova-like creaminess and super sweet to boot’ Has the superior ability to soldier on through cold, wet soils. Harvest August-September.
Viburnum plicatum Plant – Shasta
A deciduous rounded shrub growing twice as wide as tall. It has horizontal branches that are smothered in white lacecap flowers in May. Red fruits in autumn turning black as they mature. The foliage turns from a dark green to shades of red and purple. Height 150-200cm. Supplied in a 3 litre pot.
Taxus baccata Plant – Repandens
A handsome ‘Yew’ which has a naturally low growing habit great for filling an area where a typical ground cover plant may be too low. Happy in sun or shade, the dark, glossy evergreen foliage will thrive in most conditions. Height 301cm+. Supplied in a 3 litre pot. (Please note: toxic if eaten.)
Rhododendron (AJ) Plant – Palestrina
An evergreen azalea with pale green leaves. The flowers are a beautiful pure white with a greenish centre. Flowers April-May. Height 90-100cm. Supplied in a 2 litre pot.
Perovski Plant – Little Spire
Perovskia atriplicifolia ‘Little Spire’ is a lower growing variety of Perovskia, but still with the vibrant blue-violet spires that make so much impact in cottage garden and rockery planting schemes. It is ideal for smaller gardens and can be used towards the front of borders. Best grown in loose, sandy soil in a sunny spot,
Picea abies Plant – Will’s Zwerg
A compact form of spruce with attractive light green foliage. ‘Wills Zwerg’ will produce a conical shape and look attractive when planted in a border or on its own. Height 90-100cm. Supplied in a 3 litre pot or 5-7.5 litre pot.
Juniperus squamata Plant – Blue Star
A slow growing and blue coloured ground cover variety which keeps its attractive colour all year round. Height 100-150cm. Supplied in a 2 litre pot.
Juniperus squamata Plant – Blue Carpet
The true spreading and prostrate growth of ‘Blue Carpet’ makes this an ideal choice for a low ground cover or for cascading over and down rocks or walls. The foliage remains bright blue providing intrerest all year round. Height 40-50cm+. Supplied in a 3 litre pot.
Juniperus communis Plant – Compressa
Juniperus communis ‘Compressa’ is a slow-growing dense evergreen dwarf coniferous shrub of columnar habit that has won an RHS Award of Garden Merit winner for it?s outstanding qualities as a garden plant. Its dark grey-green foliage is prickly. It would be a great addition to a rock or gravel garden just as it would be
