A charming hardy perennial that thrives on gritty, well-drained soil ? perfect for those challenging coastal locations! Eryngium 'Magical Blue Globe' sends up silver-green stems topped with masses of small blue globes and surrounded by a spidery collar of green bracts.
Ideal for sowing in succession through the season, achieving a longer harvesting period. An excellent flavour from rich maroon-coloured roots, and easy-to-grow. Height: 30cm (12). Spread: 15cm (6).
The best choice for early spring sowings. Reliably producing high quality, tasty, dark-red rounded roots, up to 10cm (4in) across, with crisp, sweet flesh. Height: 30cm (12). Spread: 15cm (6).
The round, bright red roots of this radish are very easy-to-grow and will provide a summer-long supply of tasty, crunchy roots with a mild flavour. Try them in dips! Height: 15cm (6). Spread: 10cm (4).Culinary information: Some parts of these flowers are edible. Click here for more details about edible flowers.
Allium 'Globemaster' is a fantastic plant with enormous, deep-magenta flower heads that grow up to 20cm across, bursting with vibrant colour from May into June each year. Growing to approximately 1m tall, they will be amazing wherever you decide to plant them. Alone in patio pots and containers, or with lots of other gorgeous perennials in your spring and summer borders. Very easy to grow, and with very little needed in the way of care, they're the perfect plant for novice gardeners or for those short of time - perfect results can be achieved by anyone.Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come, and it is also recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators', with flowers that are a favourite with butterflies and bees. Coming back year after year, These Allium will provide you with bigger and better displays every season. They will also make fabulous cut flowers as the stems last well once they have dried. Supplied as a pack of 2 bulbs, size 18/20 bulbs ready for planting out in autumn.
Viburnum x globosum 'Jermyns Globe' loves the UK climate, and grows well on chalky soils and heavy clay soils and even in coastal areas that can prove difficult for many other plants. Loose branching clusters of scented white blooms appear from pink buds in spring, nicely complementing the gleaming, evergreen foliage. The fading blooms are followed by shimmer, metallic blue berries. Viburnum x globosum 'Jermyns Globe' is easy to grow, making an ideal bushy shrub or small tree. Grow it as a free-standing shrub alongside cottage garden favourites, or plant as a hedge. Height 2.5m (8.2'). Spread 3m (10').
Globe Artichokes are grown for their tasty, rounded flower heads which are harvested before they bloom. If left unharvested, the spectacular thistle-like blooms make an impressive display and attract throngs of bees to the garden.
An excellent resistance to bolting from an early sowing with the colour and the flesh as good as Detroit. Beetroot Boltardy has a sweet fresh flavour.
Smooth, round, dark red skinned roots with a superb dark flesh colour and increased sugar levels. Beetroot Kestrel is delicious cooked or eaten raw, used as 'baby beetsor when mature. Good resistance to bolting. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection
An improved Detroit with rich maroon colouring. Beetroot Detroit 2 Crimson Globe produces globe-shaped beet which are ideal for successional sowing
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
Bolting is almost a thing of the past with this excellent globe beetroot! Detroit 6 : Rubidus will be ready to harvest over a week earlier than 'Boltardy', which it supersedes in all respects. Firm, smooth, deep red flesh without a hint of fibre, even when 125cm (5in) in diameter. Vigorous, high yields which are synonymous with F1 Hybrids