Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Sweet Pea ‘Erewhon’
An exciting new and revolutionary sweet pea bred by New Zealand’s Dr. Keith Hammett. Bicolour sweet pea flowers normally have darker-coloured lower ‘wings’ than the upper petals. ‘Erewhon’ with its light pink standard and rich blue wings, has the reverse. Highly fragrant, this is a fabulous variety for floral displays and early summer bouquets. Height:
Sweet Pea ‘Robert Uvedale’
Named after the Enfield school master generally credited with introducing the sweet pea into England in 1699, ‘Robert Uvedale’ is a stunning pink sweet pea with large frilly blooms. Reputedly sent some seeds by the Italian naturalist, Francesco Cupani, Uvedale was apparently the first to grow sweet peas in the UK and the resulting luxuriously
Wallflower ‘Sugar Rush’ F1 Hybrid
Sugar Rush’ completely turns conventional wallflower growing on its head! Not only does this unique hybrid starts to flower in the autumn just 10 weeks after sowing, but will flower again in the spring after deadheading. Just the job for adding vibrant colour – as well as a wonderful fragrance – to your garden in
Beetroot ‘Rainbow Beet’ (Globe)
Visually stunning 5 variety beetroot mixture – the colours of the outer skins, sliced flesh and contrasting shades of stems and leaves are amazing! And so is the flavour. Just wash young roots, peel and slice raw into salads for tasty crunch and colour. The tender stems and leaves make excellent salad ingredients too, or
Cauliflower ‘White Step’ F1 Hybrid (Autumn)
Compact cauliflower that’s ideal for the smaller garden. It produces a solid, pure white curd head which is just the right size – 10cm (4in) diameter – to serve 2 people. Plants can also be planted closer together to produce smaller ‘one person serving’ heads. Good heat tolerance for summer transplanting.
Courgette ‘Eclipse’ F1 Hybrid
British breeding in roundfruiting courgettes brings us this prolific new variety. Harvest small fruits to eat raw, whole or sliced in salads; stir-fried or on skewers on the barbeque. Mature fruits are ideal for stuffing. The more you pick, the more dark green fruits are produced throughout the summer on vigorous bushy plants.
Lettuce ‘Intred’ (Romaine/Cos)
Upright and compact ‘Little Gem’ with reddish-purple outer leaves and a pronounced red heart. Its colour, (produced by anthocyanin, a healthy antioxidant), as well as its flavour and crispness, will enhance any summer salad. Hearts stand in good condition without bolting.
Onion ‘Kappa’
The cylindrical shape of these brown-skinned onions means that they can be grown at closer spacings than traditional bulb onions. Flesh is firm, white and crisp, lending itself to uniform slicing that’s ideal for tasty burger toppings, salads and perfect onion rings. Good storage potential.
Pea ‘Tendrilla’
Fabulous semi-leafless ‘petit pois’ maincrop variety which produces tons of dark green pods, 2 per node, each containing 8-11 very small and very delicious peas. Plants are self supporting if grown in a block and have wilt and downy mildew resistance.
Dianthus ‘Rainbow Loveliness Improved Mixed’
Years of selection means that we’re now able to offer customers this very pretty and unusual-looking dianthus. Vastly improved, this incredibly fragrant variety offers better colours, including some bicolours as well as top-quality fringed flowers. ‘Loveliness’ will flower in its first year if sown by the end of February, and will bloom all summer long
Sweet Pepper ‘Tasty Mix All Season’
This colourful mix of delicious, hornshaped bell peppers is perfect for grilling and stuffing, or adding colour to tasty summer salads. The high quality, uniform fruits reach up to 25cm (10in) long, on vigorous, branching plants that are easy to grow, in the greenhouse or on a sunny patio. Varieties in this mixture are: Thor
Tomato ‘Green Envy’ F1 Hybrid
Don’t be put off by their colour, you’ll love their taste! With a delicate, sweet, lingering flavour, the colouring of these striking green tomatoes become slightly translucent when fruits are ripe. Abundant clusters of grape-sized, 30g (1oz) fruits are produced throughout the summer.
Tomato ‘Santonio’ F1 Hybrid
Remember Tomato Santa? After several years of intensive trials, we are thrilled to launch an improved version of this previously popular tomato variety. With all of its attributes – not least its fabulous taste – Santonio produces similarly thick-skinned, glossy red ‘cherry plum’ fruits of about 8g (1/3oz) in weight. The exceptional taste has a
Larkspur ‘Fancy Purple Picotee’
An easy-to-sow-and-grow annual producing eye-catching and unusual bicolour blooms on tall flower spikes. These strong and sturdy stems with their fancy purple and blue picotee flowers look fabulous in the back of summer borders and make impressive and long-lasting cut flowers too.
Tomato ‘Rosella’
With its high levels of sweetness and acidity as well as its unusual dark colouring, ‘Rosella’ is in a class of its own. The unique rich rose-pink skin colour with smoky overtones, along with its delicious dark flesh make this fabulous variety the one to grow this year. Compound trusses produce long branching racemes of
Lavender ‘Mini Blue’
Perfect for containers and for use as a neat edging plant, here’s a dwarf first-year-flowering perennial lavender. The compact, yet bushy plants enjoy a position in full sun where they quickly become covered with masses of highly fragrant blue flowers. Impressive garden performance and very floriferous.
Nasturtium ‘Firebird’
You get twice the display with this fantastic hanging-basket nasturtium – its flowers boast a spectacular colour range and its unusual variegated foliage is stunning too. Naturally trailing and easy to grow, ‘Firebird’ will ignite your hanging baskets, containers and window boxes with its long-flowering and colourful blooms.
Nasturtium ‘Rumba Mix’
This vibrant colour combination of reds and peach shades is set off perfectly by the dark foliage of this fine nasturtium. Plants are easy to sow and grow in borders and containers where the single and semidouble blooms will flower all summer.
Chrysanthemum coronarium ‘Primrose Gem’
Neat dome shaped plants with ferny foliage and 1-1.5 in gorgeous primrose ‘buttonswith a golden eye. Flowers summer. Height 30-45cm (12-18in).
