Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Grape ‘Fragola’
An excellent and productive variety for the garden, where is makes a lovely decorative feature too. Attractive lobed foliage cloaks its stems throughout summer, turning a rich tapestry of gold in autumn. September sees its small red grapes ripen, with a r ????
Corn Salad ‘Cavallo’
Corn Salad Cavallo keeps on producing a mass of fresh flavoured, deep green ‘lamb’s lettuceleaves. A late summer sowing will guarantee winter salads.
Achillea millefolium ‘Summer Berries’
Masses of tiny flowers create flat plates of colour that balance on tall stems above the aromatic, feathery foliage. This low maintenance perennial provides an explosion of late summer colour to brighten the backs of herbaceous borders.
Geranium pratense ‘Plenum Violaceum’
A luxuriant display of double, violet flowers make Geranium pratense ‘Plenum Violaceum’ a sought after variety. This hardy Geranium is free flowering in early summer, above a mound of finely-cut foliage.
Pumpkin ‘Hooligan’ F1 Hybrid
Trailing. A new development in ‘Microwaveable Mini Pumpkins’. The attractive brightly coloured, small 75cm (3in) diameter by 5cm (2in) deep fruits of Pumpkin Hooligan are produced freely on trailing plants. Simply slice off the top, scoop out the seeds, replace the top and microwave for around 4 minutes to enjoy its delicious sweet flavour. Pumpkin
Summer Savory
With slender bronze green leaves and lilac tubular flowers, this hardy annual makes an attractive addition to the herb garden. Summer Savory lends an aromatic peppery tang to soups and seafoods. It’s mild flavour is useful as an alternative to sage or thyme, and it is also used to aid digestion, reduce fevers and soothe
Geranium x magnificum
This free-flowering Cranesbill gives a burst of colour in early summer! Masses of purple blooms, delicately etched with maroon veins are borne above a mound of lobed, fresh green foliage.
Tulip ‘Gudoshnik Double’
These fabulous peony-flowered Tulips produce a jaw-dropping display of fragrant, colour-changing blooms in spring. Extravagant, double flowers open in a rich shade of orange-red, and gradually fade through warming tones of coral and peachy-yellow as they age.
Squash ‘Patty Pans Scallop Mixed’ (Summer)
(Bushy) The vigorous plants of Squash Patty Pans Scallop Mixed produce a colourful mix of tasty ‘Patty Panscalloped fruits. Harvest throughout the season at various sizes from ‘baby squashfor eating raw to its mature size of 15-20cm (6-8in) across.
Iris ‘Orange Harvest’ (Re-Blooming)
Hardy, drought, disease and insect resistant iris. Spring flowering with a second flush in autumn. This majestic, tall bearded iris flowers have a delicate scent and make impressive cut flowers for a vase indoors
Santolina chamaecyparissus
Santolina chamaecyparissus is an eye-catching small shrub, with yellow button flowers sitting atop the silver, ferny foliage in midsummer. The silvery foliage persists all year round, and plants are drought tolerant and will thrive on neglect.
Holly (Hedging)
A well known British native, particularly for its red berries at Christmas; Holly is a prickly evergreen shrub which makes a fine evergreen hedge. The dark green, glossy leaves provide a lovely foil for lighter coloured shrubs and perennials and its tolerance to clipping makes it a good choice for formal hedges. Ilex aquifolium is
Pea ‘Jumbo’ (Maincrop)
Maincrop variety producing a very good crop over a long picking period on vigorous plants. Straight, long, pointed, large 13cm (5in) pods containing up to 10 plump and sweet tasting peas. Resistant to Fusarium race 1.
Runner Bean ‘Moonlight’
A major breakthrough in British runner bean breeding, offering predominantly self setting plants for a guaranteed crop. This profusely white-flowering variety combines the valuable characteristics of French beans with those of runner beans, resulting in extra smooth, very fleshy, stringless pods up to 25cm (10) long, with a great texture and true runner bean taste.
Green Manure
An easy way to add nutrients and bulky, organic matter (humus) to your soil, helping to maintain or improve fertility and soil structure. Sow it through the summer on any vacant patch of ground or in autumn to overwinter and dig in the following spring. Mixture contains: Rye, Vetch, Tetraploid Italian Rye Grass and Forage
Cabbage ‘Red Jewel’ F1 Hybrid (Summer/Autumn)
One of the best round red cabbages there is. Cabbage Red Jewel has large, tightly packed hearts with crisp, ruby red leaves. Excellent standing in the ground and storing ability
Strawberry ‘Anais’ (Everbearer/ All Season)
One of the best strawberries we have ever tasted – highly aromatic and sweet with an unusual orangey colour. The only way to enjoy them is to grow your own – supermarkets tend to reject this delicious variety as the skins are too thin for commercial packaging and the fruits perish in transit. Easily yields
