Wonderful anemone-like flowers on uniform, basal branching plants, early flowering with exceptional garden performance all summer. Height: 20-25cm (8-10in)
The first bicolour of its kind available from seed! It offers the same fabulous garden performance of cutting-raised varieties; boasting large, wonderfully scented, lilac and white flowers set against dense and wellbranched foliage. Height 30cm (12in).
We believe that this is the fastest climbing petunia available from seed - easily reaching the top of a 120-180cm climbing frame by the end of the summer. Extremely vigorous and very free-flowering, 'Purple Tower' is from T&M's own breeding and can also be used as fragrant ground cover where it will spread to 120cm (4ft). Best planted in a container with a frame if grown as a climber, this has got to be one of the most eye-catching plants you'll see this summer!
A luxuriant variety with intense, rich, orange and yellow anemone-like flower heads, borne on branching, uniform plants. Exceptionally early flowering with outstanding garden performance. Height: 20-25cm (8-10in).
A remarkable new F1 hybrid marrow of the Striped Green Bush type but which is earlier, better cropping and more uniform. Marrow Tiger Cross also carries resistance to cucumber mosaic virus which can be a real crop spoiler. The attractive fruits can either be cut at 10-15cm (4-6in) as courgettes or left to mature as marrows. Marrow Tiger Cross is excellent eaten lightly cooked, freshly picked or is suitable for winter storage.
Cabbage ?Gilson? is an autumn cropping variety with plenty of F1 hybrid vigour. This delicious white cabbage copes well on a wide range of soil types, and is especially useful on less fertile soils. It can be grown closer together than many varieties ? ideal where space is at a premium!
A unique Oriental spinach, Spinach Mikado has an upright habit, producing dark green, large, pointed leaves, multiple side shoots and long stems with pink tinged bases. Delicious chopped in stir fries, added to salads or steamed. Spinach Mikado has good downy mildew resistance, for spring and autumn crop. Ideal for summer sowings due to its superb bolting resistance
Sow directly outdoors - ready to flower in 12 weeks, the multibranching habit produces several blooms on one plant, ideal for the border and to cut for a vase.
Long fruits of up to 25cm (10in) in length are produced in large quantities throughout the summer when grown in the greenhouse. Peppers turn a bright red colour as they ripen - try cutting them lengthways and grilling them on the barbeque.
Commercially assessed in mainland Europe, the roots are intense in colour and sweetness and contain high levels of healthy antioxidents, making Purple Sun a suitable variety for juicing. Breeding developments mean that this variety has stronger disease resistance, and more uniform roots than older purple carrot varieties.Purple carrots have long been a favourite with Prince Charles in the garden at Highgrove, so join the royals and add some Purple Sun to your garden in 2015!
The colourful, nectar-rich blooms of Aquilegia x hybrida 'McKana Giants Mixed?, also known as Columbine, inject a splash of colour into the garden from late spring into summer, whilst attracting bees and other pollinators. This vibrant mixture of Granny?s Bonnets in an array of harmonious shades are unfussy and easy to grow, making them suitable for dotting all around the garden as well as for planting in groups or naturalistic drifts running through borders.
A most effective and spectacular strain of Foxgloves superb for shady shrub and tree areas, back of borders and excellent for cut flowers. They can really bring the early summer garden alive! Flowers early summer. Height 5ft