Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Lemon Grass Seeds
To overwinter, lift the plants in early autumn and pot up, growing throughout the winter in a greenhouse at a minimum temperature of 7C. Compost should be kept just moist throughout winter. Lemongrass can also be permanently grown in a container (30cm) in a conservatory or heated greenhouse. Harvest July-October. Height 100150cm (39-59); spread 50-60cm
Pea Seeds – Shiraz
Burgundy mangetout with a savoury, chestnutty taste. Best eaten raw to keep their colour. Pretty bicoloured flowers and flat purple pods that are best picked young and eaten raw, steamed or stir-fried. Good resistance to powdery mildew and good tolerance to downy mildew. Harvest May-September.
Dwarf French Bean Seeds – Colour Mix
Dwarf French Bean Seeds – Colour Mix Dwarf French Beans are a popular choice across kitchen gardeners and the delicious colour mix has finally arrived! This colourful mix includes green, yellow and purple pods that produce high yields of extra fine beans over a long cropping period. Growing to around 40-50cm tall, Compass, Adoration and
Speedy Veg Seed – Leaf Salad Cress Greek
A versatile salad item with a nice peppery flavour. Easy to grow indoors or outside. Why buy salad leaves from the supermarket when you can grow them easily at home? And you can get up to 3 crops from a sowing! Ideal for garden or containers.
Turnip Seeds – Armand
This purple and white skinned turnip can be spring sown for summer and autumn lifting or, because of its hardiness, sown later for winter use through to February or March. The sweet, tender flesh boasts excellent culinary qualities – try some with your Christmas lunch!
Alstroemeria New Tree Everest Mix
Alstroemeria ‘New Tree Everest Mix’ is an exotic-looking blend of Peruvian Lilies ? specially selected for their height and stature! These tall, hardy perennials produce long stems of tropical blooms that form a vibrant column of colour throughout the summer. Alstroemeria make fabulous cut flowers for summer bouquets. Try them in a Tower Pot? frame
White Hanging Basket Duo
Plant these up in our easy to use, long-lasting hanging basketsThe best white hanging basket performersCreate your hanging basket in your favourite colourThis versatile duo of white hanging basket plants are perfect for creating a cascade of flowers all summer long. Plant them up together, or mingle them with other trailing plants for a more
Chrysanthemum Decorative Mixed
Tall stems bear wide blooms that are perfect for long-lasting flower arrangements. Savour the colour of these magnificent half hardy chrysanthemums in your autumn garden when summer bedding plants have faded away. This vibrant collection will reward you with dazzling blooms right through until the frosts. Disbudding the stems will produce fewer, but larger blooms,
Primrose Plants – Husky Raspberry Punch
Primrose Husky Raspberry Punch will add a variation of pink blooms with sunny centres to your winter garden. Excellent colours no matter what the weather, make this vibrant F1 variety ideal for the spring garden. Once established. these easy to grow perennials will be very low maintenance. Height & Spread 11-20cm.
Hosta Olive Bailey Langdon
Hostas are instantly recognisable for their large, rounded leaves, forming dense clumps of colourful foliage. Over time they will spread to create weed-smothering ground cover. These hardy perennials thrive in lightly shaded areas of the garden, either in borders or patio containers. Large, corrugated blue-green leaves with wide golden margins that resist sun scorch. Height:
Physalis Chinese Lantern
Physalis Chinese lantern blooms from June until July and produces incredible coral coloured papery Chinese lantern calyces. Commonly known as Cape Gooseberry, Physalis alkekengi var. franchetii is easy to care for and grows best when positioned in a sunny yet shaded spot. Your Chinese lantern bare roots are mainly grown for their showy edible berries,
Lupin The Governor (Blue)
Lupin The Governor (Blue) If you grow traditional planting schemes or opt for cottage garden displays, why not try something different and add a modern twist with the unique, bicolour purple and white blooms of Lupin ‘The Governor’. This tough, robust perennial grows marvellous, tall flower spikes from early summer, with each spire packed full
Phlox subulata Pharao Blue Eye
Creeping Phlox are useful for dry, sunny spots and parched ground where other plants just won’t grow! Once established, Phlox ‘Pharao Blue Eye’ will thrive in the driest of soils, producing an impenetrable mat of fragrant flowers, suppressing weeds and resisting drought! The detailed eye on each gleaming white flower sets this stunning, evergreen drought
Plant-O-Tray Tulip Purple Prince & Muscari Latifolium
Plant-O-Tray Tulip Purple Prince & Muscari Latifolium Our 100% biodegradable Patio Preplanted Tulip and Muscari Plant-O-Trays are guaranteed to provide a perfect spring display in your garden with minimal effort. Ready for planting, simply dig a hole, lay the planter on the compost or soil, cover and water. This stunning mix consists of 19 bulbs
Tomato Seeds – Summer Frolic
An early crop of bright red fruits of exceptional flavour. Versatile and very productive plants that are ideal for greenhouse or outdoors. Harvest from July. Medium fruited type.(Cordon variety – one stem grown by pinching off side-shoots as they appear, needs staking and tying in.)
Sweet Corn Seeds – Snobaby F1
Sweet Corn Snobaby F1 A delicious corn for popping! Sweet Corn Snobaby is a dual use corn: stir-fry or popping. Perfect to use as tender, sweet baby corn in stir-fry or Thai curries. Leave the cobs on the plants to grow to maturity (approximately 20cm), then harvest and let dry to create corn for ‘popping’.
Helleborus Orientalis Mixed
A stunning winter flowering hardy perennial that will really brighten up your garden from December to March, returning year after year. Helleborus Orientalis ‘Mixed’ provides essential early nectar for pollinators and is great for planting in your shady garden borders and winter pots. This hellebore also makes a fantastic cut flower!
Squash Seeds – Long Pie
The perfect pumpkin for pie and baking since before pumpkins were even round! A sweet and savoury depth of flavour, these are ready to harvest when the ground spot is orange and the rest of the squash is green. Turns fully orange in storage, this is when it’s at its best! Fruits ripen from green
Erythronium Bare Root – Purple King
Striking purple, sharply recurved petals held above vigorous clumps of foliage. Ideal for woodland or partial shade. Flowers April-May. Height 1-10cm. Root size 1.
Poppy Plants – King Kong
Big, deep red flowers with ruffled petals and striking black centres, held on strong stems with fern-like foliage. Ideal for British summers. Flowers May-June. Height 100-150cm (39-59). Ideal for back of borders.
