Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Salad Leaves Mixture ‘Misticanza D’Insalate’ – Vita Sementi® Italian Seeds
A delicious blend of lettuce which, from regular sowings give tasty salad leaves all the year round and is a well-balanced mixture of young, fresh and tender leaves. It will provide a continuous harvest of salad leaves all the year round if successionally sown in pots on the windowsill, or sown outdoors from March to
Sweet Pepper ‘Rubens’ – Vita Sementi® Italian Seeds
A green fruited, Biscayne type turning bright red with long, broad shouldered slightly tapering fruits with thick flesh, ideal for grilling. Peperone Rubens will produce an abundant crop over a long season if picked regularly
Wild Rocket (Rucola Selvatica) – Vita Sementi® Italian Seeds
Slower growing and with a more serrated leaf than Cultivated Rocket but Wild Rucola Selavativca is increasing in popularity to add to Cultivated Rocket as a mixed salad ingredient
Salsify ‘Scorzobianca’ – Vita Sementi® Italian Seeds
Often called the ‘vegetable oysterbecause of its flavour. Salsify Scorzobianca produces slender, parsnip-like roots, white skinned and fleshed. Ideal for lifting in the autumn for storing, or can be left in the ground and lifted as required. In the spring the tender shoots of Salsify Scorzobianca make an appetising green vegetable
Tomato ‘Principe Borghese’ – Vita Sementi® Italian Seeds
BushDeterminateEgg sized, deeper than round plum fruits. Tomato Pomodoro Principe Borghese has a characteristic sharp taste as ‘vine ripenedfruits for salad and ideal as a sun dried variety. A huge cropping tomato over the season.
Pea ‘Sugar Snow Green’ (Mangetout)
Pisum sativum. Dwarf, flat, broad-podded Mangetout, Pea Sugar Snow Green crops prolifically if harvested when pods are small and before seed development within the pods
Foxglove ‘Milk Chocolate’
A delightful species originating from Spain and Portugal. Produces elegant flower spikes covered in small chocolate trumpets circling each stem and attracting beneficial insects
Banana – Exotic Seed Collection
Decorative, huge leaves rivalling any expensive mature house plants. Grows 3ft in the first four months!
Pea ‘Kennedy’ (Mangetout)
British breeding from Oregon Sugar Pod has produced this attractive darker green and sweeter-tasting mangetout variety. Flowers set earlier and yields are higher than Oregon, whilst Mangetout Pea Kennedy’s strong plant habit coupled with its resistance to powdery mildew will extend the picking season.
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)
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!
Cauliflower ‘Goodman’ (Summer) – Organic Seeds
This high yielding organic cauliflower produces reliable, top quality, uniform curds that can be cut from midsummer onwards. The well protected, firm, pure white heads of Cauliflower ‘Goodman’ are quick to mature on vigorous plants that can be cropped just 80 to 90 days from transplanting. Height: 45cm (18). Spread: 60cm (24)
Nasturtium ‘Whirlybird Cream’ – Kew Collection Seeds
A delicious separate colour with creamy butter-milk, semi-double flowers held well above rich green foliage.
Penstemon digitalis ‘Husker Red’ – Kew Collection Seeds
A plant collector’s item for decades. Husker’s Red is an unusual Penstemon offering maroon-red , occasionally bronze-green foliage when grown from seed. This is coupled with contrasting spikes of blushed pink flowers making useful late summer colour for bordersHeight: 50-75cm (20-30in)
Spring Onion ‘Pompeii’- Kew Collection Seeds
Allium cepa. A quick growing, silver skinned cocktail/pickling onion. Spring Onion Pompeii is succulent and ideal for sowing thinly in containers or window boxes
Chilli Pepper ‘Krakatoa’ F1 Hybrid (Hot)- Kew Collection Seeds
Capsicum annuum. Compact ‘ornamental edibleon the windowsill or outside in a sunny spot, producing masses of upright pale green, turning vivid red chillies throughout the summer. Chili Pepper Krakatoa makes an attractive and edible feature on a windowsill or sunny patio
Tomato ‘Cherry Kisses’ – Kew Collection Seeds
An ultra compact, upright bush variety reaching only 30cm (12) in height. Tomato ‘Cherry Kisses’ produces good crops of sweet cherry tomatoes for continuous picking throughout summer. This compact variety is ideal for patio containers due to its compact habit and can even be grown on a sunny windowsill. Height and spread: 30cm (12)
Turnip ‘Atlantic’ – Kew Collection Seeds
Brassica rapa var. rapa. Flatter, globe-shaped roots with purple crowns and white bases, ideal as baby turnips when the taste is sweet and succulent. Dark green, erect leaves are ideal steamed as ‘greens’. Turnip Atlantic is ideal for growing in containers
