So why buy Honeyfield's 'Fair To Nature'? Where the ingredients allow, Honeyfield's wild bird foods contain cereals and other seeds grown on Fair to Nature farms. These farms grow special areas of seed-bearing crops to provide food for farmland bird species, such as linnets, skylarks, and buntings as well as providing habitats for a host of other wildlife. This means that Honeyfield's wild bird food not only feeds the birds in your garden, it looks after the wild birds and wildlife in our countryside too. It is always good to give the wild birds a helping hand throughout the year and it is a joy to bring a wide range of birds into the garden. Suitable for use in hanging, table or ground feeders, these 'Fair to Nature' nutri bombs are bursting with energy, nutritious (packed with protein, vitamins, minerals and fat) and a year round favourite. They are net free and do not contain the nasty fillers found in similar products such as sand, chalk or clay...Just full of good stuff! Weight: 2.7kg
Grow you own fabulous and juicy seedless Dessert Grapes (often called Table Grapes), right here at home in the UK. 'Superior Seedless' is one of the most popular varieties beings eedless, and can be grown successfully outdoors here, producing good crops of medium sized fruit in Autumn. Delicious picked fresh from the tree over several weeks, they also keep well too. Great for juicing as well.
Probably the best-known variety, 'Maris Piper' is the potato most frequently used in pubs and chips shops throughout the UK - and for good reason! This versatile, all-rounder makes the most delicious crisp and fluffy chips, and its floury texture also means it is a top choice for baking, roasting, mashing and boiling. A worthy recipient of the RHS Award of Garden Merit, this fast-growing maincrop potato is easy to plant and maintain, with good resistance to eelworm. 'Maris Piper' is a tried-and-trusted, dependable variety that will reward with masses of consistently sized, oval tubers that have lovely clean, white skins and delicious creamy-white flesh. Unless you want an early crop, there is no need to chit this maincrop seed potato before planting; just store them in a cool but frost-free, well-ventilated place before planting out in the spring. Plant from March to May into fertile, well-drained soil in a sunny position, or into large containers or grow bags. Your potatoes will be ready to harvest from August to November, generally 17-20 weeks after planting. Once lifted, they will store well through winter in a dark and dry place, preferably in an open tray or crate. Supplied as a 2.5kg bag of seed potatoes (approx. 30-35 tubers) ready for chitting or for storing until planting out in the spring.
An outstanding golden-orange cherry Tomato 'Sungold SuperSweet' is without question, the sweetest bush cherry fruit you'll ever eat! It has an intensely sweet flavour with a BRIX reading of 11.5%, four times as sweet as your average supermarket variety. Perfect for growing outdoors or in the greenhouse, its cascading trusses are smothered in fruits that remain ripe and ready for picking over long periods of time (early July to October). A very prolific cropper, Sungold SuperSweet will produce up to 10lbs of cherry sized fruits from every plant - over 400 fruits per season per plant in trials! We're pretty sure this World Exclusive Variety will replace your favourite bush cherry Tomato; with its thin skin and juicy flesh, it's perfect for adding flavour and colour to salad or fantastic as a tasty snack on its own. Incredibly easy to grow in pots, baskets, or in your flower or vegetable border, tomato Sungold SuperSweet is robust and has excellent resistance to disease, making growing your own tomatoes fool proof - even if you have never tried before. There's no complicated training or pinching out of side-shoots as this is a bush variety - just plant them, water and feed them - then wait for the deliciously tempting fruit! Supplied as 6 plug plants they'll be delivered nursery fresh during April* ready for potting up and growing on and then planting outdoors from early May. *Seasonal growing conditions permitting
An amazing twist on the traditional sweet pepper 'Sweet Bells' will produce delicious snack sized peppers that are wonderfully sweet and crunchy and can be eaten straight from the plant! The peppers are green initially, before ripening to a gorgeous, glossy rich red colour and they have thick walls which gives them a wonderfully firm crunch when eaten fresh. They're also ideal in salads and for stuffing and grilling, and a great source of vitamins A and C as well as potassium and iron - a perfect, healthy snack. A versatile plant, it can be grown on the patio or in the vegetable garden or greenhouse, and it makes a spectacular looking houseplant in a sunny, warm spot. Position it in full sun to get the biggest, sweetest crops of scrumptious miniature peppers, producing flowers and fruit month after month. Supplied as 6 plug plants, ready for growing on or planting after the risk of frost has passed, reaching 90cm (3ft) tall.
'Perseus' produces striking, round fruits that have attractive orange tinged, heavily textured pale green skin with dark green stripes and wonderful bright orange flesh that can weigh up to 750g! Whether growing in a greenhouse or outdoors in a sheltered spot, 'Perseus' will need plenty of room to spread out, and the satisfaction of growing your own melons is enormous. There are so many benefits to grafted melons, in particular that each plant can produce much, much more fruit and the melons will begin cropping earlier in the spring and keep producing later into autumn than other varieties. Excellent resistance to pests and disease make grafted melons so easy to grow even if you have no experience, these will thrive to provide you with an plenty of fresh, tasty melons. Ideally suited for growing outside or in a greenhouse. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready for planting and growing to 30cm (1ft) tall and spreading 2m (6½ft).
Globe Artichokes are considered a true gourmet food by many, probably because of there unusual and exotic looks. These large and architectural perennial plants are grown for their edible flower buds, but they also make great ornamentals in the garden. 'Imperial Star' is a very good cropper, even in its first year, and forms exceptionally large buds with a great taste that are ready to harvest between June and September. Any buds left on the plants will flower, looking like thistles that are a magnet for bees and butterflies. Remove the buds just before they open and begin to flower and boil or steam until tender before remove the leaf scales one by one. The scales and hearts are delicious dipped in melted butter. The plants will provide excellent crops for several seasons, but it's best to replace them ever 3 or 4 years as they become gradually less productive. Supplied as 3 established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant, reaching 180cm (6ft) in height and 75cm (2½ft) wide.
It's hard to beat the sleek and simple lines of well-trimmed quality Buxus, adding a modern yet classic look to any garden. Used for centuries as a classic garden hedge or to form borders around other planting such as roses, Buxus sempervirens is a well-loved and instantly recognised feature of both formal and contemporary gardens. Equally at home in small or large gardens, box hedging is perfect for edges, borders and small boundaries, and makes neat hedges 1m tall over 10 years if required, although can be kept much smaller if needed. Whether dressing either side of a classic porch, or as a feature in minimalist decking gardens, it's hard to think of another easy to grow, yet versatile plant as good as Box. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, these 15-20cm plants are 3 years old and trimmed several times to give really bushy plants that make growing a box hedge easy. Plant one plant per 25cm (10in) for best results. Totally hardy too, leave them out all year - they look great covered in snow too! The key with Box is not to let them dry out - especially when in full sun for much of the day. Keep the roots cool and well-watered and they will grow 10-15cm per year. Do not trim for 2-3 years after planting, then lightly tip in summer as needed.
Transform Your Garden - Grow These Garden Hardy Perennials For 6 Months Of Spectacular Colour Every Year! These incredibly colourful, strong-growing perennials will transform your garden from this year. Providing a wonderful display of showy colour and long-lasting structure throughout summer and until late October, they will look great AND attract beneficial insects including butterflies, ladybirds and honey bees, perfect for fruit and veg gardeners where pollination is so important. Supplied as plugs, they are big enough to plant straight out spring, summer or autumn and will establish and get better year after year. If planting together in a border, we suggest you plant 60cm (2ft apart), which they will fill after their second season. Main varieties Included (but not guaranteed): Achillea 'Summer Berries', Delphinium 'Pacific Giant Mix', Digitalis (Foxglove) 'Dalmation Mixed', Hollyhocks 'Chaters Double Mixed', Coreopsis 'Early Sunrise', Gaillardia 'Mesa Mix', Geum 'Lady Stratheden', Aquilegia 'Mrs Scott Elliot', Alchemilla mollis, Salvia Salvatore Blue, Verbena bonariensis, Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm'. Note: Due to this product being available all year, in some weeks we reserve the right to substitute some varieties in the specific collection shown here.
Illuminate your summer displays with the very latest and best trailing Begonia - Super Cascade Mixed... Containing THE very best palette of bright colours ever seen in begonias, including some completely new shades, Super Cascade will provide you with the most torrential summer-long display of semi-double cascading double begonia blooms - each 3-4in across! Super Cascade is ideally suited for the British climate too with strong, very weather resistant blooms - giving you a cascading rainbow of colour from May until early November. Grow in hanging baskets, window boxes and patio containers - anywhere that will allow the plants to cascade freely, then just wait for the flowers - whatever the weather! Trails to 60 cm (24in). Supplied as 12 plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Just imagine biting into your own juicy, homegrown peaches - perfect to enjoy picked straight from the tree! With gorgeous pink blossom in spring followed by sumptuous red-blushed fruits, Prunus persica 'Suncrest' is the ideal peach for your kitchen garden. Despite their reputation as being a bit of a specialist fruit, peaches are remarkably easy to grow, and 'Suncrest' is well suited to the UK climate, being self-fertile with blooms that are relatively frost tolerant. The large, firm fruits are called 'freestone', which means that the flesh separates easily from the stone, making 'Suncrest' great for eating and cooking, and it is definitely one of the best-tasting peaches, with an exceptional flavour. Supplied as an established plant, 90-110cm tall in a 5L pot, ready to plant out now.
A flower with real 'wow-factor', Osteospermum Double Pink will certainly liven up your pots and baskets with an abundance of long-lasting, soft-pink blooms. Each flower on this fabulous variety has a double row of slightly darker petals in the center, making these Cape Daisies a real eye-catcher. As an added bonus, the sturdy pom-poms last twice as long than the ordinary varieties, giving you much more flower power in your garden. Ideal when planted in pots or the centre of hanging baskets, Double Pink will thrive in full sun or partial shade, making them a good all-round addition to your garden - they even make fantastic cut flowers for the vase. Easy to grow and needing very little in the way of aftercare, the compact, domed plants are also remarkably drought tolerant meaning that they are perfect for low maintenance areas of your garden too. Supplied as 6 x plug plants, ready to pot up and grow on before planting out.