Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Cabbage ‘Cabbice’ F1 Hybrid
An intensely sweet cabbage variety producing thick crisp leaves, just perfect for use in salads and coleslaws. This cabbage will perform in almost any free-draining soils.
Lettuce ‘Claremont’ (Romaine/Cos)
Supersedes our very popular ‘Chartwell’. ‘Claremont’ is of equal flavour with increased downy mildew resistance and heads stand well without bolting during hot weather.
Leek ‘Bulgaarse Reuzen – Lincoln’
If you can’t wait for the autumn leek harvest, use Leek Lincoln to bring your crops into summer! An early spring sowing will lead to medium sized clean white shanks for picking in late summer. With little risk of bolting and inbuilt disease resistance, it also stands well in the soil for harvest right through
Onion james ‘Longkeeping’
Flavoursome Heirloom variety. The medium sized bulbs of Onion ‘James Long Keeping’ store well over winter for a long window of use in the kitchen.
Parsnip ‘Panorama’ F1 Hybrid
Large, weighty roots, with inbuilt F1 vigour and uniformity ideal for the show bench. This main crop variety impresses both in terms of performance and flavour. Canker-resistant Parsnip Panorama F1 produces long, even, well-filled roots with only slight tapering, ready to lift from October right through to March.
Pea ‘Sweet Horizon’ (Mangetout)
The number one mangetout in our technical trials over the past two years. Sweet Horizon stood well in both the summer heatwave and autumn wet weather, producing an abundance of sweet, predominantly stringless pods through the season. Great mildew resistance gives the longest harvest window, with plants standing well until October. A dwarf habit make
Sweet Pepper ‘Mini Bell Improved Mix’
The latest breeding development in mini sweet peppers! Each plant produces small but stocky, blocky fruits in a mix of orange, red and chocolate. Ideal for UK greenhouse and patio growing. What’s more, the bigger the pot you give them, the bigger the plant and the heavier they crop. For easy maintenance we recommend planting
Sweet Pepper ‘Summer Salad Improved Mix’
We didn’t think we could do any better than Summer Salad, but we’ve re-assessed this selection of hybrids for even better greenhouse and garden performance. ‘Summer Salad Improved Mix’ retains all your favourite colourful varieties, but promises even better yields of both thick and thin walled fruits to suit stuffing, roasting, stir-frying and salad use.
Radish ‘Mars’ F1 Hybrid
If you like an ornamental quality to the veg patch, or for the show bench, you’ll appreciate the neat leafy tops and uniform bright red roots of Radish Mars F1. More importantly you’ll love this mild tasting radish for its crisp, juicy texture and visual appeal on the plate. This radish is easy to grow
Sunflower ‘Helios Flame’ F1 Hybrid
Easy and fun to grow with outstanding garden performance as well as being an attractive cut flower variety with an excellent vase life. Rich bicolour blooms stand aloft tall strong stems, shinning out like a beacon, adding height and interest to borders.
Tomato ‘Akron’ F1 Hybrid
This heavy weight tomato has performed superbly in RHS Wisley growing trials, coming out tops against 31 other varieties. We were amazed at the heavy crops at the end of the trial period. Each plant produced an average of 69 fruits under greenhouse conditions each weighing an average 109g (3¾oz). For the longest cropping season
Marigold ‘Durango Bolero’ F1 Hybrid
Wonderful anemone-like flowers on uniform, basal branching plants, early flowering with exceptional garden performance all summer. Height: 20-25cm (8-10in)
Cucamelon ‘Melothria’
This easy-to-grow fruiting climber performs well on a sunny patio or border and even better in the greenhouse, producing heavy crops of mini melon fruits tasting of cucumber with a twist of lime! For maximum fruit production, stop main stems at 2.4m (8ft) and trim back all side shoots to 45cm (18).
Brussels Sprout ‘Brodie’ F1 Hybrid
Launched a couple of years ago to rave reviews. Now you can grow this tasty, mild flavoured variety yourself. We don’t think there is a tastier Brussels Sprout on the market, try it and you’ll be amazed by the ‘no-bitter-after-taste’ due to it’s reduced mustard oil content.
Poppy ‘Tallulah Belle Blush’
A real stunner! Splendid fully double blooms in fabulous lilac and violet shades make this poppy a ‘must have’ for this year’s summer borders. Poppy Tallulah Belle Blush is best sown directly into the garden in drifts from March to early June; the resulting large pom-pom head poppies will flower all summer and will provide
Cauliflower ‘Veronica’ (Summer/Autumn)
Romanescois increasing in popularity. Cauliflower Veronica produces individual florets with lovely spirals giving a magical appearance from late summer to early frosts, from successional plantings. Protect heads against frost with fleece to extend season
Foxglove ‘Mountains Mixed’
After the success of Foxglove Candy Mountain, flower breeders have developed this beautiful and striking mixture with the same unique upward facing flowers. Sturdy stems with masses of blooms create a truly eye-catching display in borders and will attract bees to its easy-to-enter flowers.
Phlox drummondii ‘Dwarf Beauty Mixed’
A beautiful annual which blooms throughout a long summer season. It produces large solid heads of bright rich colours on dwarf bushy plants. Admirable for filling out summer beds sowing in drifts etc, and the flowers are splendid for cutting. Autumn sown plants make fine spring flowering pot plants for the cool greenhouse. Flowers early
Basil ‘Pesto’
This British bred herb is perfectly suited to the UK climate. Basil ?Pesto? is as attractive as it is useful. Its aromatic, glossy green foliage is flushed with purple and supported on purple stems. The pale pink flowers contrast beautifully, attracting bees and other pollinating insects. As the name suggest, this variety has a strong
Courgette ‘Shooting Star’ F1 Hybrid
British breeding and a world first in climbing golden skinned courgettes. Shooting Star makes a stunning space-saving plant when grown up a trellis/arch. Group 3 plants together to ensure good pollination and tie in stems regularly to support the weight of fruits. The fruits have a higher ‘dry matter’ (less watery) than many varieties so
