Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Pepper Seeds – F1 Snackbite Mix
You’ll love these snack-size sweet peppers, so sweet you will hardly know it’s a pepper – impressive when spread on a plate for parties and a great healthy snack for kids! The compact fruits contain few seeds. Ideal as a patio plant. So sweet and with a high sugar content, the little 7cm (3") peppers
Beetroot Seeds – Chioggia
A striking Italian beetroot with ball-shaped light red roots which, when sliced, reveal highly ornamental rings. They are very sweet-tasting and ideal in salads or as a hot vegetable. Young leaves can be used in salads or cooked like spinach/chard.
Calendula Seeds – Pink Surprise
Fully double salmon-pink flowers with a touch of delicate orange. Ideal for bedding, borders and cutting. Keeps blooming right up to the first frosts. Height 45cm (18"). HA – Hardy annual. Often known as the ‘Pot Marigold’ – a reference to its use in cooking. The edible petals can be used fresh in salads or
Bean (Runner) Seeds – Butler
Strong growing plants which crop over a long period. Medium length, very fleshy pods which are quite stringless.
Onion Sets – Autumn Champion
This superb onion matures from late July and stores well until the end of the year. Whilst mildish in flavour it’s a little more robust than others offered due to its slightly higher dry matter content. The best choice if you only have room for one! 250g pack.
Bean (Runner) Seeds – St George
In recent RHS trials, St George emerged as the highest-yielding runner bean. Semi-stringless and good flavoured, its attractive bicoloured red-and-white flowers are an added bonus! RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
Onion Sets – Electric
Produces outstanding quality, shiny, deep red semi-globe-shaped onions with excellent flavoured pink tinged flesh. Ideal for over wintering, plant in autumn-early winter for harvest May-June. 250g pack.
Seed Potatoes – Nicola 1kg (Late)
A smooth-skinned yellow potato with a great flavour. Perfect for boiling and salads. Our most popular summer planting variety, planted late summer for a second crop late harvest. All potatoes supplied are certified virus free, and come with full growing instructions. Each 1kg pack should, on average depending on variety, contain 10-15 tubers. Late season
Bean (Dwarf French) Seeds – Purple Queen
Delicious in flavour, the pods should be picked young and regularly to encourage cropping over a long period. The pods turn green in boiling water.
Blueberry Plants – Collection
Not only do Blueberries taste amazing in muffins and pies but they are jam packed with amazing health improving benefits too! To top it all off these plants will look absolutely amazing potted around your garden. With the iconic deep blue colour of blueberries blending into green foliage, these plants will be a real attraction!
Seed Potatoes – Carlingford 1kg
The most popular and widely grown potato variety and it’s easy to see why! Carlingford performs reliably from late plantings giving good yields of round, smooth-skinned creamy-white fleshed tubers. These boil beautifully bringing that true ‘new potato’ taste to your meals. Harvest tasty new potatoes from late season potatoes, grown from seed potato tubers which
Poppy Seeds – Ladybird
A distinctive low-growing poppy in a bright fire-engine red with a conspicuous black spot on each petal. Ideal as a rock garden or alpine plant as well as for borders. Height 40cm (16"). RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. HA – Hardy annual. Improved, re-selected strain Bright flowers with ‘ladybird’ spots
Alyssum Seeds – Wandering Star Mix
A superb mix of bright colours. For ground cover or baskets. Height 30cm (12"). HA/HHA – Hardy annual/Half-hardy annual. An easy to grow, fragrant choice for edging. Flowers June-September.
Plum Tree – Beauty
A wonderful ‘asian’ plum, which is very different from other varieties. It’s very early – pick in mid July – and gives a huge crop of purple fruits. But it’s the taste and texture that’s really different – you will get an explosion of juice and candy-like sweetness with very little acidity. Trees are easy to
Turnip Seeds – Purple Top Milan
Flat-topped roots, white with purple crown. Quick maturing, useful in frames and under cloches. Tender when young, with an excellent mild, sweet flavour. Popular in Northern areas.
Tomato Seeds – Gardener’s Delight
Gardener’s Delight is a heavy cropping tomato with long trusses of small size fruits which are extremely sweet in flavour. Usually grown outdoors or in containers on the patio. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. (Cordon variety – one stem grown by pinching off side-shoots as they appear, needs staking and tying in.)
Tomato Seeds – Moneymaker
Heavy crop of medium-sized fruits. Resistant to greenback. For cultivation under glass or outdoors. (Cordon variety – one stem grown by pinching off side-shoots as they appear, needs staking and tying in.)
Tomato Seeds – Hundreds and Thousands
This vigorous, easy-to-grow heirloom variety is like no tomato you’ve ever seen before! Perfect for baskets, window boxes or raised patio containers, the cascading plants live up to their name, producing literally thousands of sweet, juicy, bite-sized tomatoes in an inexhaustible supply throughout the summer! (Bush variety – very easy to grow as trusses do
Tomato Seeds – Tamina
A superb early ‘potato-leaved’ tomato with an outstanding taste (thought to be better than ordinary-leaved varieties), producing a heavy crop of medium-sized, round fruits – approximately 70gms (2½oz). Very little side shooting required. For cultivation under glass or outdoors.
Sweet Corn Seeds – F1 Swift
An early maturing, extra tender sweet corn with a high sugar content that gives a deliciously sweet flavour. It has a dwarf habit and improved performance in cold soils. Eat raw or cooked. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. SUPERSWEET VARIETY – Has 2-3 times the sugar levels of ordinary sweet corns. Careful sowing in
