With slender bronze green leaves and lilac tubular flowers, this hardy annual makes an attractive addition to the herb garden. Summer Savory lends an aromatic peppery tang to soups and seafoods. It's mild flavour is useful as an alternative to sage or thyme, and it is also used to aid digestion, reduce fevers and soothe bee stings. Grown next to broad beans it is reputed to help repel black fly. Gather Summer Savory when harvesting your broad beans and cook them together - it does wonders for the flavour. The secret is to have your Summer Savory 15cm (6in) tall by early May to plant out amongst your beans! Height: 45cm (18). Spread: 30cm (12)
Dramatic peony-headed poppy in a kaleidoscope of colours. Poppies will bloom all summer long in borders and then reseed to appear again the following year. The ruffled nodding heads are irresistable to bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects. Plant in clumps for maximum impact. SPECIAL OFFER - ONLY 49p when you add this product to your shopping basket. Limited to 3 packs per order at this price. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer
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)
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 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.
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).
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).
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.
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)
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).