Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Morning Glory ‘Cameo Elegance’
Truly elegant, with attractive twining stems of marbled foliage perfectly complemented by vivid, magenta pink blooms all summer. Ideal for adding a touch of style and grace to baskets or climbing through an obelisk or in containers on a sunny patio
Pak Choi ‘White’ F1 Hybrid
Pak Choi White F1 produces pure white, juicy stems. Ready to harvest in 30 days from sowing as ‘baby leafor 45-70 days as semi-mature to full size heads. Earlier and later sowings of Pak Choi White F1 for ‘baby leafcan be made under cloches or fleece
Pak Choi ‘Green’ F1 Hybrid
Pak Choi Green F1 produces vibrant apple green stems. Ready to harvest in 30 days from sowing as ‘baby leafor 45-70 days as semi-mature to full size heads. Earlier and later sowings of Pak Choi Green F1 for ‘baby leafcan be made under cloches or fleece
Beetroot ‘Albina Vereduna’ (Globe)
A true beetroot but white in colour. It means no smudging or bleeding. Beetroot Albina Vereduna is much more acceptable as a vegetable with fish or poultry and adds variety and flavour far exceeding red beetroot available today. The curved and wavy top leaf is a vegetable delicacy like spinach and high in vitamins
Courgette ‘Partenon’ F1 Hybrid
Extra early crops of excellent flavoured, dark green, slightly speckled cylindrical fruits. Courgette ‘Partenon’ has a parthenocarpic habit, meaning it has the ability to set fruit without pollination. So even when grown under glass or during poor summers when pollinating insects are scarce, you will have a plentiful harvest of succulent courgettes. Height: 45cm (18).
Cucumber ‘Long White’
Greenhouse typeCucumber ‘Long White’ is not just a novelty! The firm flesh is sweet and juicy, with a pleasant tang that will add flavour to your salads without a bitter after taste. The tender, white skins are so thin that they won’t even need peeling. This attractive variety is a good cropper when trained against
Marigold ‘Starfire’
Dwarf, compact and neat plants. The flowers in a rich colour range are produced in abundance superb for bedding, edging and containers. Flowers early summer to frost. Height 15-20cm (6-8in).
Zinnia elegans ‘Giant Double Mixed’
Large double flowers and long rigid stems which make them ideal for cutting. The symmetrical form of each flower makes it a thing of beauty in itself. A good blend of the best colours with giant 11cm (4 1/2in) blooms
Scabious ‘Ace of Spades’
Fully double, pin cushion flower heads which are as near to black as can be. Gently fragrant, they make good cut flowers and will no doubt cause interest in this haunting colour. Easy to grow and an excellent filler for the border
Petunia grandiflora ‘Limoncello’ F1 Hybrid
The best ever yellow Petunia! Bushy, compact and free-flowering, with large wavy blooms in an attractive two tone creamy-yellow bicolour, resembling the delicious Italian liqueur. Adds a zest of lemon to borders or containers. Prefers a light, well drained soil in full sun. Height 20-25cm (8-10 inches). Growing tip: Get the best out of your
Foxglove ‘Dalmatian Cream’ F1 Hybrid
Sow ‘Dalmation’, the fastest flowering foxglove from seed, and you’ll be enjoying its stunning flowers in only 16 weeks! Well branched and compact, attractive dwarf plants produce good quality flower spikes in all three colours. Each flower trumpet sports the ‘spots’ that give Dalmation its name
Runner Bean ‘Celebration’
This RHS AGM variety is particularly high yielding, producing an abundance of tender beans with an excellent flavour. The pods of Runner Bean ‘Celebration’ are fleshy, straight, smooth, and almost stringless when young. With its pretty peach-pink flowers this attractive runner bean will look equally at home in your vegetable plot or your flower borders.
Dwarf Bean ‘Boston’ (Start-A-Garden? Range)
Dwarf Bean ‘Boston’ bears straight, round 15cm (6) long pods with a dark green colour and an excellent flavour. These sturdy, upright plants produce heavy crops over a long picking season. This RHS AGM variety is ideal for growing in containers. Height: 45cm (18). Spread: 30cm (12)
Pea ‘Oasis’ (Maincrop)
(Maincrop) A British bred maincrop, Pea Oasis produces a huge yield of double pods per node, averaging 8 to 9 succulent, dark green peas per pod. Resistant to pea wilt, Pea Oasis also has good downy mildew resistance. Height: 60-70cm (24-28in)
Pea ‘Ceresa’ (Petit Pois)
An outstanding new ‘Petit Pois’. Plants are semi-leafless almost self supporting with an abundance of easy to pick, well-filled pointed pods, containing up to ten small, but deliciously sweet peas. Height 50cm (20in)
Cutting Celery
(Apium graveolens). Immature celery plants produce a clump of delicious, slender stems and leaves for cutting. Cutting Celery should be cut regularly to promote fresh growth, for use in summer salads and garnishes, or in soups and stews during the winter. Height: 20cm (8 inches)
Pumpkin ‘Summer Ball’ F1 Hybrid
A first for British breeding! This unique ‘dual-purposevariety, Summer Ball can be grown as a courgette or as a pumpkin! Compact, bushy plants produce bright-yellow, round fruits which can be cut early as courgettes or left to mature to larger 1kg (2lbs) summer pumpkins. Pumpkin Summer Ball is ideal for growing in containers. Seeds are
Chilli Pepper ‘Basket of Fire’ F1
Grow a wonderfully productive – and decorative – chilli pepper. The unique plant habit of ‘Basket of Fire’ makes it a perfect choice for hanging baskets or containers – it will become smothered with small hot chilis which mature from deep purple through yellow and orange to a bright red, creating a fabulous display. Plants
Pea ‘Golden Sweet’ (Mangetout)
A tall growing variety with red leaf nodes and lovely mauve flowers followed by deliciously sweet pale golden-yellow, crisp pods. Best picked regularly before the peas swell in the pods, ideal steamed whole or added to stir fries. Mangetout Golden Sweet grows to 210cm (7ft) so needs support.
