This reliable cut and come again variety will provide you with a rewardingly long harvest of tasty, crunchy salad leaves. Salad is always best eaten freshly picked for optimum texture and flavour - with successive sowings, Lettuce 'Valmaine' will treat you to an ongoing supply of fresh green leaves to harvest repeatedly throughout summer and into autumn.
Finalist for 2019 B&LLA Licensing Awards and Winner of the Cultural Enterprise Award 2020. This sumptuous bouquet represents quintessential London. The luxurious use of the classic English red Roses and red Calla Lillies set against the 'fountains' of white Calla Lilies create an elegant contrast. Dramatised with tall majestic steel grass just like to Nelson's Column. These luxury flowers are inspired by the masterpieces housed at The National Gallery. Each bouquet is beautifully arranged by our floral designers exclusively for The National Gallery. This bouquet is available for UK next day delivery. Detail from hand tinted 1950's postcard of Trafalgar Square © The National Gallery, London.
Serve fresh home-grown mint with roast lamb, use it to make a refreshing yoghurt dip to accompany curry, add it to side dishes, make sauces or simply use as a decorative garnish on a dessert . With such a multitude of uses, it?s no wonder mint has been such a popular kitchen herb for so long.
Finalist for 2019 B&LLA Licensing Awards and Winner of Cultural Enterprise Award 2020. Monet chose soft pastel shades of lilacs, pinks and greens in his Water-Lily Pond. This delightful bouquet features Memory Lane Roses with their dark mauve edge fading to a soft lilac centre, contrasted with the deep purple Statice highlighting the blue tones in the painting. A central stem of Ammi speckles this bouquet with white flecks of 'light'. Sinuous pale pink Veronica and spring green Thlaspi represent the weeping willow surrounding Monet's famous garden. This delicate bouquet is framed by lily-pads and come with a complimentary wrap. These luxury flowers are inspired by the masterpieces housed at The National Gallery. Each bouquet is beautifully arranged by our floral designers exclusively for The National Gallery. This bouquet is available for UK next day delivery. Claude Monet, 1840–1926 The Water-Lily Pond (detail), 1899 © The National Gallery, London
Let the twining stems of this fast-growing climbing annual, Morning Glory 'Heavenly Blue?, scramble their way up trellis and obelisks in your summer garden and put on their fantastic show of vivid flowers. Known as Morning Glory for its simple sky-blue flowers which open every morning throughout the summer.
Free-flowering, vibrant and edible, Nasturtium ?Climbing Mixed? certainly have a lot to offer. Over the course of the season, these vigorous plants grow long stems which happily scramble up trellis or over walls, producing a lush show of round leaves along with a long-lasting profusion of edible flowers in vibrant shades of red, yellow and orange.
An impressive summer bedding for height and fragrance, Nicotiana sylvestris graces your border throughout summer with tall, upright stems, lush leaves and elegant white blooms which flaunt a hint of pink blush. The distinct, sweet scent of the Tobacco Plant is a highlight in mixed borders and fits in well with a cottage-garden style.
If you?re looking for a beautiful variety that?s easy to grow, Nigella damascena 'Persian Jewels' is a fantastic choice. Affectionately know as Love-in-a-Mist, this pastel colour combination blooms with marvellously intricate flowers in hues of soft pink, blue and white above airy fennel-like foliage.
An easy-to-grow, hardy perennial herb perfect for adding a delicious Mediterranean flavour to dishes, versatile Oregano is a useful addition to any kitchen or herb garden. Also known as Pot Marjoram, this vigorous plant produces masses of fresh leaves which can be used all summer long, simply pick and use whenever required and enjoy their fabulous freshly-picked flavour.
Flattened, lacy umbels of dazzling white flowers appear in early summer and persist through to autumn. Orlaya grandiflora is of Mediterranean origins, flourishing in grassy meadows and olive groves.
Enjoy the aromatic flavour of freshly-picked Parsley ?Lisette? is fish dishes, salads, sandwiches and as a garnish. This improved ?Green Pearl? type produces strong upright stems with generous curled rosettes of a rich green leaves, reliably yielding without yellowing or bolting.
A reliable variety with excellent canker resistance, Parsnip ?White Gem? produces a uniform crop of smooth-skinned, flavoursome roots in virtually any soil types. Cropping over a generously long season, sow successively and you can enjoy harvesting fresh parsnips throughout autumn and most of winter.