Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Coriander (Start-A-Garden Range)
A quick, easy to grow herb with pungent leaves cropping in only 6 weeks. Essential for adding to curries, salsa and a host of hot and spicy dishes, as well as injecting life into cool salads. A decorative herb for the border, thanks to its finely cut foliage, or as a pot plant on the
Sunflower ‘Russian Giant’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
Easy to grow and a giant in sunflowers. Grows up to 3m (10ft) tall if given plenty of room and boasts eye-catching, huge yellow flowers up to 30cm (12in) in diameter. Excellent for the back of borders, ideal for children to grow and birds love the seeds and will feed from the flower heads in
Leek ‘Mussleburgh’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
A tried and tested old favourite with superb garden performance and long, thick, quality stems. Impressive winter hardiness, providing bumper crops of tasty stems.
Sweet Pea ‘Fragrant’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
The best of the best, with exhilarating fragrance and colourful, fancy blooms. A traditional ‘Spencer’ type ideal for cutting, garden decoration or exhibiting. Superb for arches, trellises, obelisks, etc.
Lettuce ‘Red Salad Bowl’ (Loose-Leaf) – Vita Sementi Italian Seeds
Lattuga Red Salad Bowl forms a voluminous head of reddish-bronzed leaves. Non-hearting, just pick young leaves as required or cut the full head, wash and keep in the refrigerator. Lettuce is very suitable for inter-cropping between taller, long-standing vegetables, such as beans, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Lettuces require rich, moisture retentive soil free of weeds
Petunia x hybrida ‘Sparklers’
T&M is proud to bring you the first ever star-shaped petunia from seed. A white version of this uniquely-shaped flower was originally sent to us by a customer, Edward Cragen from Kent in 1998. After 10 years of breeding and many generations of selection, the perfect star shape was obtained as well as this fabulous
Pea ‘Mangetout’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
Easy to grow and a marvellous way to eat peas – no waste and no need to spend time removing from their pods. Bumper crops all summer of 10cm (4in), juicy, sweet, stringless, crisp pods, ideal for adding whole to stir-fries or for lightly steaming.
Tomato ‘Rainbow Blend’ F1 Hybrid
What more could you want from a tomato. Juicy, sweet and colourful! Simply stunning mix of four colours of ‘baby plums’ – Katiebell (yellow), Lizziebell (orange), Luciebell (red) and Flamingo (pink) – will make attractive and productive plants this summer. Contrasting fruit colours will add to the interest and taste of your salads, sauces and
Pea ‘Kelvedon Wonder’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
Extremely popular and reliable, early maturing variety for successional sowings throughout spring, and a particular favourite for June sowings. Produces huge crops of narrow pointed pods in pairs, averaging 7or 8 succulent peas per pod.
Radish ‘French Breakfast’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
A reliable and easy to grow radish with crops of crisp, crunchy, mild roots. Ideal for growing indoors and outdoors. A long standing customer favourite.
Salad Leaves ‘Speedy’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
Harvest within 25 days and ideal for containers on the patio! A quick growing mix for gardeners who cannot wait! A tasty blend of tastes, textures, colours and leaf shapes for sandwiches, salads and garnishes or used as ‘baby’ leaves. Quickest during summer but can be sown all year indoors.
Spinach ‘Perpetual’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
A continuous crop of quality, succulent leaves ideal for autumn and winter cropping. Hardly ever runs to seed in the first season and therefore good on dry ground. Full of nutrients and goodness.
Spring Onion ‘White Lisbon’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
Customers’ favourite. An easy to grow spring onion with a mild flavour and smooth white skin. Quick to mature, ready in just 9- 10 weeks from sowing. Ideal for sowing at regular intervals for a continuous crop of tasty salad onions.
Calendula ‘Art Shades’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
An easy to grow annual excellent for bedding and borders. Large, frilled blooms in unusual shades ranging through apricot, orange, primrose and cream. Long-flowering in many garden situations and also makes a good cut flower.
Candytuft ‘Dwarf Fairy’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
Showy plants for borders and bedding, with loads of lightly scented flowers throughout the summer in a wide colour range. The ideal last minute border filler. The dried seedheads also make a decorative dried flower.
Nasturtium ‘Climbing Mixed’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
A vigorous, quick-growing climber for long lasting summer colour. Excellent for scrambling over walls or covering fences, trellis and obelisks. The frilly blooms are produced continually over the summer in a bright colour range including bicolours.
Nigella ‘Moody Blues’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
An exquisite, easy to grow, mixture of Love in a Mist, bringing together some spectacular double blooms in a delightful blend of blue shades followed by intriguing seed pods. A cottage garden favourite which creates a soothing drift of colour in borders and makes a dramatic cut or dried flower.
Poached Eggs Plant(Start-A-Garden Range)
A much-loved, easy to grow annual with a gentle fragrance that attracts hoverflies, who then feed on troublesome aphids. Bees also love this low spreading carpet of yellow and white blooms. A customer favourite, perfect for the front of borders, rockeries and as path edging.
Poppy ‘Candyfloss’ (Start-A-Garden Range)
A gorgeous lilac selection, with large, 7-10cm (3-4in), fully double flower heads, standing proudly above glaucous foliage, followed by large, attractive seed heads. Best sown in large drifts, as an easy to grow annual border filler, adding height and interest.
Green Manure ‘Grazing Rye’
An excellent nitrogen lifter. Produces an extensive root system and plenty of leaf growth to suppress weeds and improve soil structure. Continues to grow during cold weather. Ideal for overwintering to dig in during spring.
