Well know variety that produces solid ?ball head? cabbages from June to August. Easy-to-grow and reliable cropping. Full of flavour either eaten raw, or cooked. Height: 30cm (12). Spread: 45cm (18).
Reliable old favourite, produces early, pointed hearts that are full of flavour. Plants are more narrow in growth allowing closer cropping and less waste of outer leaves. Height: 30cm (12). Spread: 40cm (16)
These bushy, compact, free-flowering plants display masses of double golden blooms throughout summer. Spectacular in borders or containers. Height and spread: 30cm (12).Culinary information: Some parts of these flowers are edible. Click here for more details about edible flowers.
Dwarf growing variety that makes large heads of florets. This easy-to-grow variety can be sown and harvested all year round, overwinter in coldframes for summer crops. Height: 60cm (24). Spread: 75cm (30).
Bred in the UK especially for summer harvesting, plants need no vernalisation (winter chill) to produce the tasty purple spears. Good tolerance to heat. Height: 90cm (35). Spread: 60cm (24).
A green 'baby pointed' cabbage for autumn/winter cutting. It has a mild, sweet taste, ideally suited for shredding raw for autumn and winter salads, or used as a cooked vegetable.
Especially bred for summer cropping with good heat tolerance. High yields of tasty, purple spears through summer into autumn on robust plants. Pick regularly to promote fresh flushes of spears.
A delightful blend of gorgeous pink shades with a hint of white. Masses of attractive pin cushion heads wave delicately in the summer breeze, attracting butterflies to your borders. Height: 60-90cm (24-36in)
From new breeding in Chinese Cabbage, this tasty variety produces particularly compact, upright barrel heads which can be planted as close as 30cm (12) apart - perfect for smaller vegetable plots. Each barrel head has attractive dark green outer leaves and a contrasting yellow heart that will add crunch to salads and stir fries.
One of the best new colours to be introduced in recent years, with its mouth-watering combination of rose-pink outer petals, and a delicious creamy white centre. These dainty hardy annuals are tougher than they appear and positively thrive on poor, dry soils. The papery flowers attract bees and hoverflies, and make excellent, if short-lived, cut flowers. California poppies are easy to grow in beds and borders, or let them self seed throughout gravel gardens to form natural drifts. Height: 25cm (10). Spread: 25cm (10
British breeding especially for summer cropping as needs no vernalisation (winter chill) to produce tasty purple spears. Robust plants will produce high yields if picked regularly to promote fresh flushes of spears. Broccoli Summer Purple has good heat tolerance. Crops from July to November if sown at regular intervals
This new mini-series of perennial salvia has so many special attributes, it's difficult to know where to start! Bred to be more compact and bushy than other coccinea types, it's multibranching habit produces masses of flower spikes which bloom in only about 9 weeks from sowing. In trials, Fleuroselect judges applauded this early flowering - as well as Summer Jewel's ability to keep flowering all summer long. Pollinated by hummingbirds in its native Mexico, these 2 fabulous versions of this popular salvia variety will attract beneficial pollinating insects, such as butterflies and bees, to the garden. Plant them in borders or containers where they're bound to be the envy of your neighbours.