Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Musa velutina
An ornamental banana with lush green foliage, featuring a striking burgundy midrib. An exceptionally quick grower, with bright pink blooms followed by inedible pink bananas in summer, once plants are established. Makes an interesting feature in borders or containers. Easy to grow. Height: 15-18m (5-6ft)
Corn Salad ‘Cavallo’
Corn Salad Cavallo keeps on producing a mass of fresh flavoured, deep green ‘lamb’s lettuceleaves. A late summer sowing will guarantee winter salads.
Swiss Chard ‘Bright Yellow’
The beautiful, broad golden stalks of Swiss Chard Bright Yellow are a striking and colourful addition to the vegetable garden and the flower border or containers. The sweet stalks can be steamed as a vegetable or, when young, eaten raw in salads. Swiss Chard Bright Yellow is slow to bolting and has good winter hardiness.
Tomato ‘Tamina’
A ‘potato-leaved’ variety that produces excellent crops of particularly tasty, medium sized tomatoes. The rounded, rich red fruits attain average weights of 75g (2 1/2oz) and are especially well flavoured when cultivated outdoors, but can be grown in the greenhouse if preferred. Tomato ‘Tamina’ is best grown as a cordon but will require minimal training
Endive ‘Mixed’ – Vita Sementi Italian Seeds
A mixture of different tastes, colours and leaf shapes, from light to dark green outer leaves and white to gold centres, plus deep green salad endive with upright irregular shaped leaves. Ideal for summer and autumn cultivationEndive Indivia Mixed contains Endive Romanesca da Taglio, Fijne Krul Geel (Sempre Bianca), Pancalieri a Costa Bianca, Riccia a
Squash ‘Patty Pans Scallop Mixed’ (Summer)
(Bushy) The vigorous plants of Squash Patty Pans Scallop Mixed produce a colourful mix of tasty ‘Patty Panscalloped fruits. Harvest throughout the season at various sizes from ‘baby squashfor eating raw to its mature size of 15-20cm (6-8in) across.
Pak Choi ‘White’ F1 Hybrid
Pak Choi White F1 produces pure white, juicy stems. Ready to harvest in 30 days from sowing as ‘baby leafor 45-70 days as semi-mature to full size heads. Earlier and later sowings of Pak Choi White F1 for ‘baby leafcan be made under cloches or fleece
Antirrhinum majus ‘Purple Twist’ F1 Hybrid
Unusually tall and striking variety with unique striped flowers. Ideal for the back of your borders due to its height, the flower spikes also make excellent cut flowers.
Heliomeris multiflora ‘Sunsplash’
For a really eye-catching plant this summer, grow this stand-out heliomeris. Its bushy, slightly sprawling habit makes it ideal for filling a sunny border where it will attract numerous beneficial insects, including butterflies. Direct sow this hardy annual where you want it to flower and enjoy its bright yellow bicoloured blooms all summer. A truly
Beetroot ‘Albina Vereduna’ (Globe)
A true beetroot but white in colour. It means no smudging or bleeding. Beetroot Albina Vereduna is much more acceptable as a vegetable with fish or poultry and adds variety and flavour far exceeding red beetroot available today. The curved and wavy top leaf is a vegetable delicacy like spinach and high in vitamins
Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Xanthos’
Unique soft-yellow blooms are produced in profusion on compact dwarf plants, bringing real impact to patio containers, beds and borders. This early flowering cosmos will start to bloom in as little as 70 days from sowing, going on to offer six months of colour from May to October – keep on top of the deadheading
Broccoli ‘Sibsey’ (Bellaverde) F1 Hybrid (Calabrese)
So sweet you can eat the stems raw! A true pure broccoli similar in look to Cima di rapa (wild broccoli). Expect three or four harvests per plant.
