This hardy, deciduous shrub makes a superb colour contrast in mixed borders. Purple-pink foliage covers the upright red stems, producing a most attractive display in summer.
Fill your beds and borders with this lucky dip collection of perennials. Perennial plants bloom year after year, and many can also be cut and brought into the house for beautiful flower arrangements. In this lucky dip you will receive at least 5 different varieties from a selection of lavender, carnation, aquilegia, delphinium, erigeron, geum, achillea, armeria and much more. To allow us to offer you such a good price, we can't take orders for specific varieties, but whatever we decide to send, you won't be disappointed.
Truly 'gardener-friendly', this 'Primo type' cabbage is ideal for summer and autumn harvesting, standing well in all weather conditions without splitting, rotting or bolting. An added bonus is its tolerance to mildew and other foliage diseases, making 'Sir' a great choice for the home gardener. Compact plants produce a flavoursome 1kg dark green, short-cored, dense ball head with few wasted outer leaves. Delicious eaten cooked or raw
As the name implies, this colourful mix of summer squash are perfect for grilling or barbecuing. Bushy, open plants produce superb yields of oval fruits with a lovely mix of green, grey and yellow skins.
Cabbage 'Champion' is a Collard type, popular in Victorian times for their non hearting crops of long, wavy leaves. 'Champion' produces superb yields of tender, dark green leaves with distinctly mild flavour and no aftertaste.
A deep red 'baby pointed' cabbage for autumn/winter cutting. It has a mild, sweet taste, ideally suited for shredding raw for autumn and winter salads, or used as a cooked vegetable.
A fabulous trio of exotic-looking Peruvian Lilies! Alstroemerias are prized for their long stemmed blooms that make magnificent cut flowers. This superb collection will provide colour in borders and patio containers from June right through to November,
An exciting colour combination of the increasingly popular 'Patty Pans'. These vigorous bushy plants with long, quite spiny stems, produce high numbers of scalloped 'patty pan' fruits if harvested regularly. Harvest at golf ball-size for soft-skinned, tender fruits to eat whole and raw. Larger 7cm (3in) fruits can be sliced for stir fries or steamed. The final fruits left to maturity can be stuffed/ baked. Mature fruits store well. Mixture includes: Custard Twinkle F1, Pesto Kemit F1 and Polo.
We didn't think we could do any better than Summer Salad, but we've re-assessed this selection of hybrids for even better greenhouse and garden performance. 'Summer Salad Improved Mix' retains all your favourite colourful varieties, but promises even better yields of both thick and thin walled fruits to suit stuffing, roasting, stir-frying and salad use.
We have selected these four varieties of sweetcorn for their vigorous, strong stems, sweet flavours and of course, their tolerance of our British summer weather. Varieties in this mixture include - Lark F1 Hybrid, Ovation F1, Conqueror F1 Hybrid and Northern Extra Sweet F1 Hybrid.
Now there?s no need to hide your strawberry plants away in the vegetable plot ? recent breeding has produced a real beauty! With double blooms in a deep shade of red-pink, Strawberry 'Summer Breeze Rose' will look equally at home among your favourite herbaceous perennials.
Scoop the shredded centres out of these generous spaghetti squashes and use as a wholesome substitute for pasta!