Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
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.
Melon ‘Edonis’ F1 Hybrid
Melon ‘Edonis’ is a productive variety that is very early to ripen particularly when grown under glass. The pale orange fleshed fruits weigh up to 600g (1 1/2lb) and can be harvested from midsummer onwards. The sweet flavoured fruits have a refreshing, delicate flavour and an attractive juicy appearance. This RHS AGM variety also has
Radish ‘Bluemoon’ F1 Hybrid
Visually stunning when sliced into salads, Radish ?Bluemoon? is a unique F1 hybrid with blue skin and flesh. This appealing cultivar comes from Asian breeding as the blue counterpart to Radish ?Redmoon?. The cylindrical roots have a crisp texture and a refreshing, mild flavour that makes a great addition to stir fries. Like all radish,
Radish ‘Redmoon’ F1 Hybrid
From Asian breeding, Radish ?Redmoon? is unique for its attractive red skin and rose-pink flesh. This colourful radish has an appealing conical shape, with a mild and refreshing flavour. Perfect for enhancing stir fries with its crisp texture, and visually stunning when sliced into salads. Like all radish, it is quick and easy to grow,
Lettuce ‘Lollo Bionda’ (Loose-Leaf) – Vita Sementi Italian Seeds
Forms a round mound of pale green, frilled edged leaves. Lattuga Lollo Bionda does not produce a firm heart. Cut the entire plant or just pick leaves as required. Makes an attractive complement to Lollo Rossa. Lettuce is very suitable for inter-cropping between taller, long-standing vegetables, such as beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Lettuces require rich,
Cultivated Rocket – Vita Sementi Italian Seeds
Very quick growing, Rocket Cultivated Rucola Coltivata is a vigorous, robust plant with pungent leaves. Use as a main ingredient of a mixed green salad to add zest and texture
Calendula officinalis ‘Fiesta Gitana Mixed’
A Fleuroselect Bronze Medal winner, Calendula ‘Fiesta Gitana Mixed’ is an easy to raise hardy annual that will flower virtually all summer long. With a wide colour range of fully double blooms and a compact habit, this is a superb bedding mixture. The plants are tolerant of even the poorest soils and are good subjects
Petunia x hybrida ‘Duo Mixed’ F1 Hybrid
Bred with beauty and use in mind. A myriad of colour combinations sing-out from lacy orchid-like blooms, many striped and veined, others pure with only a hint of another contrasting colour. Early flowering, well branched plants produce a non-stop summer display in containers, bedding and baskets. One of the best Petunias giving value for money.
Poppy ‘Applegreen’
A delighted T&M customer discovered this very unusual apple green coloured Poppy in their garden. Its striking pom-pom blooms stand out above tidy grey- green foliage. Very eye catching in borders when planted en masse. Height: 60-90cm (24-36in).
Gazania ‘Kiss Bronze’ F1 Hybrid
Very early and free flowering even in dull, cool weather. Naturally compact, strong basal branches, ensuring multiflowering plants. Ideal for borders, and containers
Eccremocarpus scaber ‘Anglia Hybrids Mixed’
T&M INTRODUCTION. Pink, scarlet, crimson, yellow and orange nodding tubular blooms. Self-clinging fine annual or perennial climber. Hardy in all but elevated or northerly areas, also makes a superb climber for the greenhouse or conservatory. Flowers summer to autumn. Climber.
Petunia ‘Grand Rapids Mixed’ F1 Hybrid
A first class variety for bedding, hanging baskets and tubs. Bred with emphasis on seedling vigour and uniformity, the plants have a good free flowering habit and look superb en masse. The flowers are large with most of the colours in the range having attractive veining, which gives more substance to the flowers and enables
Gaillardia x grandiflora ‘T&M Reselected Hybrids’
3-4in semi-double blooms from crimson to yellow, many boldly zoned and bicoloured. Extremely long flowering. Ideal for flower arrangements and border impact. Flowers in its first season from an early sowing. Flowers summer to autumn. Height 60cm (24in).
Nasturtium ‘Double Delight Cream’
On T&M’s trials this was the best top flowering double Nasturtium. Gorgeous double to semi-double large cream blooms with a hint of lime, smother the bushy mid-green foliage. Nasturtium Double Delight Cream is easy to grow, freely-flowering all summer.
Marigold ‘Queen Series Mixed’
A lovely range of Camellia-flowered marigolds that orginated in France with broader more elegantly shaped blooms than ordinary types. A superb plant for bedding or outdoor containers. Flowers all summer to first frosts. Height: 23-30cm (10-12in).
