Enjoy this versatile and increasingly popular vegetable as salad leaves when young, or when more mature, the nutritious leaves can be steamed and used like spinach. The broad, white stems can be chopped and cooked like celery or used to add crunch to salads and stir fries. Harvest May-October.
Green Wave' resembles a perpetual spinach beet, but is more productive and with more slender, milder-tasting stems and leaves, which are delicious in salads and stir fries when young. Use mature leaves in the same way as chard and spinach. Stands in good condition without bolting.
Cacti are well loved house plants, but rarely seen outdoors in the UK! This Chamaecereus x Lobivia hybrid changes all that, making a superb hardy ?Garden Cactus? that can survive short periods as low as -7C (45F). Echinopsis hybrid (Chamaelobivia group) makes a real talking point in well drained rockeries, alpine troughs and gravel gardens.
A particularly early cropping variety that can be lifted by July from an early planting, but will easily stand until Christmas from a later planting. The long, slender stems of Leek 'King Richard' are full flavoured and ideal for slicing.
A versatile no-waste vegetable. Grow as a salad leaf, or more usually as mature plants for the thick, white, juicy stems (chards), which are cut into chunks and boiled, or used to add 'crunch' to stir-fries. Use the delicious leaves like spinach. A final sowing in August will crop through to New Year.
The Fuchsia Hardy Collection is an affordable way to fill out your garden borders with beautiful perennial flowering plants, that are low maintenance.
A worthy RHS AGM winner, Fuchsia 'Display' is a popular variety with an upright bushy habit and a profusion of two-toned deep pink flowers from June to September. The deep pink sepals curve upwards to reveal the skirt of rose-pink petals below. For reliable patio and border displays year after year Fuchsia ?Display? shows it's winning features. Height: 75cm (30). Spread: 50cm (20).
A classic Swiss Chard with thick white stems and glossy, rich green leaves. With an RHS Award of Garden Merit, this robust leaf beet is a versatile addition to the vegetable plot or even the flower border.
Hardy Fuchsias are loved for their fabulous flower power! Fuchsia 'Angela' has been trained as a standard, with a rounded head of foliage and flowers above a clear stem.
For ?midi size? ( for sq. metre gardening) and ?babyleaf? which commercial growers have expressed interest to add colour to supermarket packs.