Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Phlox drummondii ‘Cherry Caromel’
Irresistible, rich caramel flowers with vibrant cherry centres! Feature this new variety at the front of your border, or in specially-chosen patio containers. This really is a plant to show off, and be sure to cut some for vase displays too!
Salvia ‘Sahara Red’
Outstanding bedding salvia, dark green foliage, bright red blooms. Plants have exceptional vigour providing a longer lasting display than other red salvias.
Zinnia elegans ‘Sunshine Mix’ F1 Hybrid
Compact dark green foliage offsets the large vibrant blooms perfectly. The extra tough roots stand up to pot production, meaning you can sow early and plant out in late spring for the longest displays in your garden.
Zinnia elegans ‘Zinderella Peach’
Zinderella Zinnias are real eyecatchers! ‘Zinderella Peach’ produce orange blooms with cream and rose detailing and a strong central crest. Add height and interest to the middle of your garden borders by planting this variety to create an orderly tiered display of blooms right through summer.
Carrot ‘Purple Sun’ F1 Hybrid
Commercially assessed in mainland Europe, the roots are intense in colour and sweetness and contain high levels of healthy antioxidents, making Purple Sun a suitable variety for juicing. Breeding developments mean that this variety has stronger disease resistance, and more uniform roots than older purple carrot varieties.Purple carrots have long been a favourite with Prince
Chilli Pepper ‘Paper Lantern’
More productive and earlier ripening than a standard habenero – you can expect fruits ready to pick up to a fortnight quicker. The fiery fruits (scoville rating of 250,000!) are 5-7cm long, mid green in colour turning an orangey red and finally a rosy red on full maturity. Paper Lantern is best grown in large
Nasturtium ‘Orchid Flame’
From Thompson & Morgan?s renowned breeding programme comes this truly astounding development in nasturtiums! Not only do the summer flowers resemble exotic-looking orchids, they also change colour. This colour switch needs to be seen to be believed!
Tomato ‘Romello’ F1 Hybrid
Long clusters of deliciously sweet, plum-shaped cherry tomatoes will smother your Tomato Romello plants from July to October. But that’s not all! This wonder tomato has exceptional resistance to late blight. The fruits stand up well against cracking and they even grow on the outside of the plants, making it easy for you to pick
Gaura lindheimeri ‘Sparkle White’
More compact and earlier flowering than traditional gaura. ‘Sparkle White’ offers slender stems topped with a flurry of dazzling white starry blooms. This clump forming variety has a neat habit perfect for front of border or path edging. Once established, it even copes well during periods of drought. Still looks fresh at the end of
Squash ‘Summer Mix’ F1 hybrid (Summer)
An exciting colour combination of the increasingly popular ‘Patty Pans’. These vigorous bushy plants with long, quite spiny stems, produce high numbers of scalloped ‘patty pan’ fruits if harvested regularly. Harvest at golf ball-size for soft-skinned, tender fruits to eat whole and raw. Larger 7cm (3in) fruits can be sliced for stir fries or steamed.
Primrose ‘Jupiter White’
The fresh white blooms with sparkling central red eye make the ideal canvas for the taller spring blooms. Height 20cm (8in).
Sweet Pepper ‘Black Knight’ F1 Hybrid
Fruits of this early-to-set, heavy-cropping pepper will start green and then turn an attractive deep purple as they ripen. Long fruits – 25cm (10in) – are delicious stuffed, roasted or grilled.
Sunflower ‘Tall Timbers’
A hybrid form of ‘Russian Giant’ offering improved vigour. If it’s a record breaker you are after, this is the one to grow in 2015! Reaching 4m (13ft) with no special care, ‘Tall Timbers’ also produces impressive flowers with rich chocolatey centres – the archetypal sunflower.
Squash ‘Buffy Ball’ F1 Hybrid (Winter)
Very prolific fruiting winter squash – each plant can produce over 25 fruits! The tennis ball-sized, cream-skinned fruits are delicious baked whole – just prick the skin and pop them in the oven. Or slice off the top and cook individual stuffed squash. Mature fruits will store over a very long period.
Nasturtium ‘Chameleon’
Not only do the summer flowers look like exotic orchids, they also change colour ? the switch needs to be seen to be believed! Height 20-25cm (8-10in).
Tomato ‘Big Daddy’ F1 Hybrid
Bred from the renowned gardeners’ favourite, ‘Big Boy’, with improved taste, yield, size and disease resistance. The huge, meaty, ruby-red fruits with very few seeds weigh up to 425g (15oz) each. Plants give a good yield over a long season.
Cabbage ‘Tinty’ (Summer)
A green ‘baby pointed’ cabbage for autumn/winter cutting. It has a mild, sweet taste, ideally suited for shredding raw for autumn and winter salads, or used as a cooked vegetable.
Sweet Pea ‘Route 66’
Perfect perfume and masses of large bi-coloured red and white flowers. Cut blooms regularly for a vase indoors, throughout summer, and this vigorous variety will keep more and more flowers coming.
