Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
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.
Forsythia x intermedia ‘Minigold’
Renowned for their eye-catching spring colour, Forsythia x intermedia ?Mini Gold? is no exception, becoming absolutely smothered in dazzling yellow flowers from March onwards! Unlike common Forsythia, this exceptional cultivar has a neat compact growth habit, reaching just 1.2m (4?) at maturity.
Blackcurrant ‘Ebony’
The sweetest blackcurrant ever! This outstanding dessert variety is so exceptionally sweet that it can be eaten straight form the bush when fully ripe. Heavy crops of large, firm currants – each one up to twice the size of a normal blackcurrant – are produced for harvesting from early to mid July. The bushy plants
Geum ‘Double Sunrise’
Here’s a truly magnificent perennial geum! You don’t often see plants like these in garden centres, which is a shame as they’re absolutely ‘bullet-proof’ and probably some of the toughest border plants you can find. From early summer through until early autumn this variety produces a profusion of pretty blooms on wiry stems, which are
Large Patio Pot
This stylish patio pot features a diamond lattice pattern that makes a stylish display on your patio. Manufactured from sturdy plastic, this large patio pot is weatherproof and lightweight, making it easy to move from place to place.
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.
Begonia ‘Crispa Marginata’ White-Red
Crimped petals enclose contrasting golden stamens to create an amazing display. Tuber size 3/4.
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.
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.
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.
Spring Onion ‘Apache’
Salad Onion Apache (Deep Purple) is an attractive deep purple-red skinned spring onion with a mild flavour and a crisp texture. The purple outer skin merges with the silver when peeled, adding a colour contrast to salads. Salad Onion Apache is ideal for growing in containers, or outdoors throughout the season. Seeds are in the
Cucumber ‘Mini Munch’ F1 Hybrid
The ideal lunchbox snack, with optimum flavour, crunchy but juicy picked and eaten straight from the plant. Wash if necessary but no need to peel these 7cm (3) ‘mini munch cukes’. Each plant is prolific fruiting if picked every other day throughout the summer.
Parsnip ‘Albion’
Long, smooth, white-skinned, tapering roots of uniform size with a delicious sweet flavour and good texture. Good canker resistance, especially from later sowings. Lifted roots store well for winter use
Swan Gourd
I’m a fun plant to grow as I have spotted fruits with a long neck that make me look like an elegant swan. When my fruits are dried you can paint me with faces or leave me looking like a swan. Height: 2m. Why Not invite your friends round to see who can paint the
Iris Tiger Mixed
Uniquely coloured dutch iris mix. These hardy, low maintenance bulbs, are ideal for cutting.
Ageratum houstonianum ‘Dwarf Ball Mixed’
This pretty combination of dwarf Ageratum provide long-lasting colour to beds, borders and containers all through the summer months and into autumn. Ageratum houstonianum ?Dwarf Ball Mixed? creates soft cushions of harmonious colour with their dense flower clusters which have a unique, fluffy appearance.
Sunflower ‘Magic Roundabout’ F1 Hybrid
Irresistible, biciolour flowers that rise around 1. 8m (6?) tall! Sunflower ‘Magic Roundabout’ is a sunny blend of harmonious colour combinations.
Rose ‘Scented Double Gold’
Ruffles of perfectly formed petals sculpt these exquisitely scented double blooms. This repeat flowering rose combines improvements in scent, form, and colour with enhanced disease resistance. A sensational addition to borders!
Hypericum ‘Orange Flair’
This deciduous Hypericum makes superb low maintenance ground cover. The well, branched stems form a neat, bushy plant cloaked in narrow, dark green leaves. From midsummer, the orange-gold blooms contrast nicely with the foliage, followed by berry-like, bright red fruits that darken to black as they mature.
Poppy ‘Ladybird’
Charming relative of the corn field poppy producing shining crimson single blooms with a black blotch. Easy and cheerful. Developed using a species introduced by our founder Wm. Thompson, from Russia in 1876
