Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Apple ‘Golden Delicious’
Apple ‘Golden Delicious’ is a versatile garden variety for the warmer parts of the UK, which can be used both as a dessert and cooking apple. This easy to grow variety produces good yields of attractive golden-green apples that store well over a long period after harvesting.
Mahonia japonica ‘Hivernant’
Mahonia japonica ‘Hivernant’ is an evergreen, specimen shrub for the larger garden, or a mixed shrub border. This hardy shrub is cloaked in dark green, glossy, sharply toothed leaves which are paler underneath. Scented, lemon yellow flowers form arching racemes from November through to March.
Tacca chantrieri
In Malaya they call it the Devil’s Flower and strange, fascinating stories surround it. Originating, no doubt, from the malevolent way the eyes in the bloom seem to be following your every move! It grows to about 2ft. in height with flowers complete with filaments or whiskers 12in. long forming a flowing forked tail
Mahonia x media ‘Winter Sun’
Mahonia x media ‘Winter Sun’is a large, bushy, evergreen shrub with an RHS AGM. Long, slender racemes of bright yellow, richly fragrant flowers are borne in dense clusters of arching racemes from November to March. Bunches of spherical purple berries follow through the summer.
Crab Apple ‘Appollo’
Crab apple ‘Appollo’ is a compact variety that perfect for small gardens. With a slender, columnar habit it remains less than 90cm (3′) wide at maturity. This eye catching, deciduous tree boasts large, purple-red leaves when emerging which retain their dark colour throughout the season.
Apple ‘Belle de Boskoop’
Apple ‘Belle de Boskoop’ is a dual purpose apple that can be eaten fresh, cooked or dried. It produces medium to large, round, somewhat lumpy fruits with an attractive orange-red flush and stripes over a yellow skin. The fruits are firm, with cream flesh which has a sharp taste that mellows with storage.
Apple ‘Jacques Lebel’
Apple ‘Jacques Lebel’ is a cooking variety that produces large, green skinned fruits with very pale green-white flesh. The fruits are juicy with a sharp, acid flavour. Good crops can be harvested from early September and can be stored through to December.
Apple ‘Jonagold’
Apple ‘Jonagold’ is a dual purpose apple variety that originated in New York. The fruits are particularly large with pale green-yellow skins that are flushed with red. The flesh is crisp with a creamy-white colour. The flavour is a combination of sweetness and sharpness with a rich aromatic taste.
Apple ‘King of the Pippins’
Originating from France where it is known as ‘Reine des Reinettes’. This versatile variety is a dual purpose apple for eating fresh or cooking. Apple ‘King of the Pippins’ produces orange and red flushed fruits with firm flesh that sweetens during storage. The fruits can be harvested from early October and will store to December.
Magnolia sieboldii
Fully hardy in the UK, this deciduous, slow growing shrub eventually becomes a spreading tree so allow it sufficient space. Oval-elliptic dark green leaves with a paler grey-green and downy undersides appear before the flowers.
Mahonia bealei
Mahonia bealei is a hardy, upright, evergreen shrub with blue-green leaves divided into broad leaflets. Pale yellow, fragrant flowers are produced in short, upright 10cm (4) racemes from November to March, followed by ovoid blue-purple berries.
Musa lasiocarpa
An unusual dwarf hardy banana reputed to be able to take temperatures as low as -10C (14F). This banana has exotic leaves followed by a yellow globular flower, once established. Plant in sun or partial shade outdoors or indoors in containers
Banana – Exotic Seed Collection
Decorative, huge leaves rivalling any expensive mature house plants. Grows 3ft in the first four months!
Strelitzia reginae (Dwarf) – Exotic Seed Collection
Unparalleled beauty of colour and form. Fantastic, exotic flowers justly famous. Grow them in your own greenhouse. One of the most rewarding of plants, it will take quite a bit of abuse and careless handling. Flowers spring. Height: 60-90cm (24-36in)
Glory Lily (Mixed)
An easy to grow exotic climber, with lily-like flowers in a wide range of vibrant colours. Ideal for creating a spectacular feature plant climbing up an obelisk in containers or through trellis in bordersClimber 180cm (6ft)
Echium pininana
No wonder this is also called Tower of Jewels or ‘Pride of Tenerife! Exceptionally tall flower spikes packed with either rose or purple-blue flowers, interspersed with silver-green lanceolate leaves
Cactus ‘Special Mixed’ – Exotic Seed Collection
An exciting mix of all sorts of easy to grow cacti, which are all well suited to window sills, sun rooms or greenhouses. It’s easy to grow a cactus, and this fun mix means that you never know quite what you are going to grow!
Magnolia ‘Honey Tulip’
Large honey-gold, goblet shaped flowers appear on bare stems from March to April, followed by large, green, deciduous leaves. Magnolia ‘Honey Tulip’ forms an upright, open, branching tree, which once established be smothered with spring flowers.
