Thick clustered, tightly-knit blooms create a colourful floral carpet. China aster 'Carpet Ball Mixed' produces neat, mound-shaped plants with the foliage almost obscured by the fully double flowers. These superb, low maintenance annuals flower over a long period throughout summer, making them ideal for brightening up the front of borders and patio containers. Height and spread: 20cm (8).
Lobelia erinus compacta 'Snowball' creates a shimmer of gleaming white flowers in summer, with an occasional touch of pale blue. The dark green, finely cut foliage contrasts beautifully with the snowy blooms.
Pincushion flowers in a rich milk-chocolate shade, that look almost black on cloudy days. Drifts of annual cornflower 'Black Ball' add a touch of drama to summer borders and wildlife gardens where they will attract bees and butterflies to their pretty blooms. This tall variety of Centaurea makes an excellent cut flower too. Height: 75cm (30). Spread: 30cm (12).
Turnip 'Golden Ball' delivers an exceptionally long cropping season of uniform round roots with buttery yellow flesh, perfect for use in hearty stews, casseroles and soups. Sow this very hardy variety successively and enjoy a harvest which lasts from summer through to winter.
Very prolific fruiting winter squash - each plant can produce over 25 fruits! The tennis ball-sized, cream-skinned fruits are delicious baked whole - just prick the skin and pop them in the oven. Or slice off the top and cook individual stuffed squash. Mature fruits will store over a very long period.
Attract a vast collection of wild birds into your garden with the suet fat ball feeder
Attract a vast collection of wild birds into your garden with the suet fat ball feeder.
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 in the RHS Vegetable Collection
A blaze of large orange-yellow flowers, each edged with an ember red glow, cascade from the serrated foliage. Whatever the weather, Begonia Fireball will radiate colour all summer long, until its smouldering blooms are extinguished by the first frosts. Fantastic for window boxes, baskets and patio containers.
A first-class white, globe turnip. Turnip Snowball is early, juicy and sweet flavoured, will yield a good supply from early summer to early winter, and the tops make most nutritious and tasty 'greens'
An early maturing, vigorous and uniform Red Cabbage with deep red, solid and compact heads. The remarkably sweet flavour and high quality makes Cabbage Ruby Ball ideal for cooking as well as pickling. For late summer/autumn cropping.
A T&M-bred mixture of Potentillas, which are easy, unfussy, long-lasting perennial plants awash with colour all summer. This blend features some unique and exciting doubles, in a range of fiery colours. Will grow in any ordinary, well-drained soil in full sun