An easy to grow annual excellent for bedding and borders. Large, frilled blooms in unusual shades ranging through apricot, orange, primrose and cream. Long-flowering in many garden situations and also makes a good cut flower.
Fill your salad bowl all summer long with fresh and healthy home-grown leaves . Quick and easy to grow, simply direct sow directly outside.
Very wide colour range, excellent in small spaces, tubs, window boxes. Slightly later flowering
Bright red double to semidouble blooms. Excellent garden performance and drought tolerance. A reliable hardy annual, that will flower all summer long. Ideal for attracting bees and pollinating insects.
Stunning new colour combination on this traditional climber makes 'Purple Pimpernel' an ideal variety for exhibition. In two shades of purple, the large, fragrant blooms on their long, strong stems look fabulous in a vase. The original seed was sent to T&M by an amateur breeder and we liked it so much, we've produced a seed crop to offer to our customers. We hope you like it!
Little Miss Chatterbox loves gardening. It's one thing she can do while she's talking. She can chat away without bothering anyone - although sometimes the birds in the garden ask her to 'Shush'!
The perfect 'last minute annual', lavatera are quick-growing and are oh so easy to sow! Superb, miniature busy plants, dressed in pretty pink, cupshaped blooms. Lovely!
Outstanding in trials, this variety combines the flower power, garden performance and weather resistance of a French marigold with larger blooms similar to an African Marigold. Double mahogany red, large blooms on free-flowering bushy and robust plants, to create impact in borders.
A true 'throw and grow' plant; scatter the seed where you wish (even if you think you're too late) and within weeks you'll have a glorious display.
British bred, Marrow Bush Baby produces compact plants with an open habit enabling fruits to set and ripen quickly. Harvest when mature as delicious baby, striped, slightly ribbed marrows 15-20cm (6-8in) long. Marrow Bush Baby is ideal for growing in smaller gardens, or containers on the patio.
With a dwarf habit and excellent resistance to bolting or yellowing, this modern variety makes an attractive feature in the kitchen garden as well as a tasty and productive crop.
A fabulous tiny Butterhead lettuce that is perfectly proportioned for individual salads. Remarkably quick maturing, Lettuce 'Tom Thumb' produces solid heads of deliciously soft and juicy leaves that can be grown just 15cm (6) apart. Its tiny size and good vigour make this an ideal variety for early crops under cloches for the earliest harvests. Sow successively for an ongoing supply throughout summer. Height and spread: 15cm (6)
Tropaeolum majus Mahogany Jewel Common name: Nasturtium An easy to grow annual with compact, uniform plants which are early to flower. The large, semi-double blooms in gloaming, deepest red mahogany are produced in succession over the summer months. Excellent summer ground cover for beds, borders, and containers.
Well known and reliable variety for over 100 years. Compact habit, producing firm, well-flavoured, pointed, tender hearts. Use also for spring greens when sown or planted more closely. Suitable also for spring sowing for summer and autumn cuttingHelp to retain bio diversity by growing these traditional varieties with the taste and garden performance well regarded by previous generations
High yield of tender and well-flavoured dark green, blistered, savoyed leaves from successional spring and summer sowings to give a longer cropping period. Stands well without bolting during hot weather if kept well watered. Ideal for freezing
A reliable, red flowered, heirloom favourite producing a high yield of long pods of superb flavour which snap readily when young and tender. Runner Bean 'Crusader' must be picked regularly for optimum yields. Runner beans are a good source of Vitamin C, folate and iron, and have a high fibre content. Also suitable for freezing. Height: 3m (10'). Spread: 30cm (12).
A beautiful and alluring mixture of traditional cosmos and the fabulous ?Cupcakes? - a unique introduction from T&M?s own breeding programme.
An easy-to-sow-and-grow annual producing eye-catching and unusual bicolour blooms on tall flower spikes. These strong and sturdy stems with their fancy purple and blue picotee flowers look fabulous in the back of summer borders and make impressive and long-lasting cut flowers too.
Organic herb Chives 'Staro' has a mild onion flavour that makes an excellent for garnish for potato salad, soups and other savoury dishes. This perennial member of the onion family is undemanding and easy to grow, returning year after year, and attracting bees and butterflies to its pretty pink blooms. Chives are an essential addition to the herb garden. Chives also make an excellent companion plant, deterring pests such as carrot root fly. Height: 20cm (8). Spread: 315cm (6)