Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Antirrhinum majus ‘Purple Twist’ F1 Hybrid
Unusually tall and striking variety with unique striped flowers. Ideal for the back of your borders due to its height, the flower spikes also make excellent cut flowers.
Carrot ‘Autumn King’ (Start-A-Garden™ Range)
An excellent variety all round. Long, large, cylindrical roots with a lovely colour and excellent flavour. Highly recommended for eating fresh in the autumn, raw or cooked.
Carrot ‘Atomic Red’
A striking coral red-skinned and fleshed variety with 23-25cm (9- 10in) long roots. The rich colour is due to a high level of lycopene, a healthy antioxidant. The colour is more intense and the flavour deepens on cooking, although slicing or grating ‘Atomic Red’ raw in salads adds unique colour and flavour. Strong foliage aids
Climbing Bean ‘Fasold’
Early cropping Climbing Bean ‘Fasold’ bears decorative mauve flowers followed by huge harvests of superb flavoured French Beans. The long, fleshy, stringless pods are produced over a long period and are slow to develop seeds. With a less vigorous, semi-climbing habit, this variety is ideal for growing under glass for the earliest crops. Height: 180cm
Basil ‘Sweet Green’ (Start-A-Garden™ Range)
Easy to grow, ideal for windowsill growing, and a favourite with cooks and gardeners worldwide. The pungent leaves with a spicy, clove-like aroma, have a wide range of uses not only in the kitchen but when planted near tomatoes basil improves their flavour and helps deter whitefly. Half Hardy Annual.
Hebe ‘Midsummer Beauty’
This upright, evergreen shrub boasts a dense covering of glossy foliage all year round. The young leaves are a rich, purple colour, changing to dark green as they mature.
Zinnia marylandica ‘Double Zahara Strawberry’
Boasting an exceptionally long flowering season, we believe this is the best double, dwarf zinnia on the market. Its large, fully double flowers in a stunning strawberry colour, along with its good resistance to drought make this variety a fabulous garden performer.
Sweet Pepper ‘Thor’ F1 Hybrid
Long fruits of up to 25cm (10in) in length are produced in large quantities throughout the summer when grown in the greenhouse. Peppers turn a bright red colour as they ripen – try cutting them lengthways and grilling them on the barbeque.
Allium ‘Lover’s Collection’
If you’re new to Alliums, this is a great collection of interesting large and smaller types. This collection features 3 varieties as shown: ‘Purple Sensation’, christophii and caeruleum. Ideal for pots and borders. Ht. 20-50cm. Supplied as bulbs.
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
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.
Spring Onion ‘White Lisbon’ (Start-A-Garden™ Range)
Customers’ favourite. An easy to grow spring onion with a mild flavour and smooth white skin. Quick to mature, ready in just 9- 10 weeks from sowing. Ideal for sowing at regular intervals for a continuous crop of tasty salad onions.
Poppy ‘Candy Floss’ (Start-A-Garden™ Range)
A gorgeous lilac selection, with large, 7-10cm (3-4in), fully double flower heads, standing proudly above glaucous foliage, followed by large, attractive seed heads. Best sown in large drifts, as an easy to grow annual border filler, adding height and interest.
Salad Leaves ‘Mesclun’ Mixed
A mix of lettuce varieties for mixed salads, sandwiches and garnish.
Broad Bean ‘The Sutton’ (Start-A-Garden™ Range)
This dwarf, compact Broad Bean is absolutely perfect for small gardens and offers bumper crops of 15cm (6in) pods, each packed with 5 deliciously tender beans. Ideal for successional sowings to give continuous picking through the season.
Penstemon cobaea ‘Wedding Bells’
Grow these penstemon in your annual beds as well as your perennial borders! They’re much longer flowering than antirrhinums and boast larger blooms. Easy to maintain and offering years of performance, they’ll flower and flower almost all summer in a superb range of colours, including many bicolours; just remove spent flower spikes once blooms have
Broccoli ‘Summer Purple’ (Start-A-Garden™ Range)
Especially bred for summer cropping with good heat tolerance. High yields of tasty, purple spears through summer into autumn on robust plants. Pick regularly to promote fresh flushes of spears.
Schisandra chinensis
This vigorous, deciduous climber is widely grown for its medicinal qualities and scarlet-red, edible berries. The late-summer fruits are borne on mature plants in showy pendants, and are high in vitamins C and E.
Cauliflower ‘All Year Round’ (Start-A-Garden™ Range)
Britain’s most popular cauliflower and one of the most reliable for summer and autumn use. A compact plant habit with white, tight heads (curds) for eating raw or steamed.
