Still the premier garden lettuce in most people's vegetable patch. Iceberg Lettuce Webbs Wonderful has large, wrinkled leaves with a big tight centre of crisp, white leaf. An outstanding Iceberg Lettuce whether the summer is wet or dry, Webbs Wonderful is always slow to run to seed.
Indispensable salad plant, regularly included in mixed leaves in supermarket packs, but also tasty as a steamed vegetable. The rich green, slightly nutty but mild-flavoured leaves are packed with vitamins and nutrients.
Very useful plant for rapidly filling space in your border, the Malope is a good, bushy plant with large, often 5-75cm (2-3in) flowers. This special blend shows the great effect achievable with red and pink, along with a catalyst of white. Height: 45-60cm (18-24in)
A captivating mixture of high quality Sunflowers in delightful shades to add a rustic, autumnal feel to your late summer bedding displays. Mid-height plants, with multi-branching heads give an impressive show in a spectrum of shades. Easy to grow; ideal for children.
Baby Leaf Salad produces a succulent spicy mix of Spinach, Mizuna and Red Mustard
Sweetly fragrant scarlet flowers on dwarf sturdy plants. Just right for containers and beds, where space is limited or to underplant tall bulbs. Flowers spring. Height: 35-45cm (15-18in).
Vivid, single and semi-double 8cm (3in) flowers. Neat, moundshaped bushy plants. Height 30cm (12in).
More productive and earlier ripening than a standard habenero - you can expect fruits ready to pick up to a fortnight quicker. The fiery fruits (scoville rating of 250,000!) are 5-7cm long, mid green in colour turning an orangey red and finally a rosy red on full maturity. Paper Lantern is best grown in large pots or with two plants per growbag in the greenhouse for the earliest fruits, or in a sunny sheltered spot outdoors if you don't mind waiting a little longer. Renowned for being blisteringly hot, Paper Lantern makes a tasty addition to hot sauces, salsas and soups - but it's not for the faint hearted!
Mr. Clever is so clever. He knows so many things. He knows all about plants and how they grow. He's always telling people what to do in their gardens and how to grow bigger and better flowers.
An easy to grow half hardy annual and cottage garden classic, freely flowering in a broad range of attractive blue shades throughout the summer. Its compact bushy habit makes it ideal for planting as drifts of colour, as border edging or in containers
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New British breeding of this increasingly popular subject, to ensure good performance in a cooler climate. Attractive oak leaved with a flavour combining sweetness with a pungent Wild Rocket kick
An intriguing, easy-to-grow annual that produces foliage with a fragrance similar to that of a basket of tropical fruits. A profusion of canary-yellow, daisylike flowers with an attractive central maroon-red ring open during the morning and early evening, and close during very strong sunlight. Ideal for adding height and fragrance to annual borders. Height: 60-80cm (24-32in)
Visually stunning when sliced into salads, Radish 'Bluemoon? is a unique F1 hybrid with blue skin and flesh. This appealing cultivar comes from Asian breeding as the blue counterpart to Radish 'Redmoon?. The cylindrical roots have a crisp texture and a refreshing, mild flavour that makes a great addition to stir fries. Like all radish, it is quick and easy to grow, and makes an excellent crop for containers, window boxes and greenhouse borders. Height: 15cm (6). Spread: 10cm (4).
More often found in the garden, these vibrant painted nettles make great house plants too. With such a diversity of colours and patterns, they are perfect for cheering up a bright windowsill, or adding a lush, leafy feel to the conservatory.
Super little pickling or cocktail onions, Onion Paris Silver Skinned are easy and quick to grow and do well on the poorest soils. Sow thickly and the resultant competition will prevent the bulbs from getting too large for pickling purposes.
Summer ground cover to banish those weeds for good! A favourite when I was a child, I couldn't get enough of the small 'snapdragon' blooms, opening and closing them like little puppets in my hand!
Tomato 'Ferline' F1 Hybrid is a full-flavoured, F1 cultivar, producing heavy crops of deep red fruits up to 150g (5oz) in weight. A popular choice for growing under glass, Tomato 'Ferline' may also be grown outdoors, and has good resistance to verticillum and fusarium wilt. For the best crop, grow this vigorous, indeterminate variety in the greenhouse. Height: 200cm (79). Spread: 50cm (20). Companion planting: Try growing tomatoes with French marigolds to deter whitefly, and basil, chives or mint to deter aphids and other pests.