The ideal lunchbox snack, with optimum flavour, crunchy but juicy picked and eaten straight from the plant. Wash if necessary but no need to peel these 7cm (3) 'mini munch cukes'. Each plant is prolific fruiting if picked every other day throughout the summer.
A slightly larger Little Gem with its similarly renowned taste. The leaves are more 'bubbled' giving it a distinctive appearance. Mature about 11 weeks from sowing, with delicious, crisp, 'romaine' hearts. Hearts stand well in condition and withstand hot summer weather. Prefers a moist, well-drained soil in full sun.
This baby lettuce is one of the most heat tolerant varieties you'll grow, with little risk of bolting. A unique cross combines the best of both iceberg and cos varieties - dense crunchy hearts are wrapped in attractive looser leaves. Mature heads are ready in around 75 days. Alternatively grow for baby leaves.
High numbers of small, smoothskinned fruits that are tender, crisp, sweet and seedless. Keep picking regularly at 10-12cm (4-5in) size; no need to peel, just wash and enjoy. All female flowering (parthenocarpic) so sets fruit without pollination. Diva has good powdery and downy mildew resistance, and performs both under glass and outdoors in a sunny position.
A mix of lettuce varieties for mixed salads, sandwiches and garnish.
All the colours and jagged leaf shapes of the mizunas with a hint of the peppery taste of mustards, rocket and Greek cress.
Upright and compact 'Little Gem' with reddish-purple outer leaves and a pronounced red heart. Its colour, (produced by anthocyanin, a healthy antioxidant), as well as its flavour and crispness, will enhance any summer salad. Hearts stand in good condition without bolting.
Fabulous mid-green wellfilled hearts which keep in good condition without bolting over a long period.
A well-coloured selection of the traditional English celery. Long, heavy, thick, green stems with a lovely reddish tinge. Very winter hardy. Use crunchy stems and fine leaves in winter salads, soups and stews. Also a winner for the showbench.
Extend your lettuce harvesting season with this outstanding 'iceberg type' variety. Resistance to tipburn, bolting and downy mildew means that Antartica stands well in good condition. The dense hearts, with plenty of crunchy flavour, are ideal for summer salads
Wildlife friendly gardening is becoming increasingly popular, and the Wildflowers 'Classic Meadow Mix' is an easy way to create a beautiful mini meadow in your garden, with a variety of native wildflowers.
Harvest within 25 days and ideal for containers on the patio! A quick growing mix for gardeners who cannot wait! A tasty blend of tastes, textures, colours and leaf shapes for sandwiches, salads and garnishes or used as 'baby' leaves. Quickest during summer but can be sown all year indoors.
Rarely seen in gardens, this handsome spreading shrub deserves to be much better known. Evergreen purple-bronze foliage provides fabulous year round colour, and contrasts beautifully with the spidery, raspberry-red spring blooms. The flowers of Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum 'Fire Dance' are delicately scented, which only adds to its charms. This magnificent hardy shrub is ideal for sheltered borders and woodland gardens where it makes an eye catching specimen in spring and provides a beautiful backdrop for colourful summer perennials. Height and spread: 2m (79).
Little Miss Giggles loves growing cucumber plants. She finds that they grow better the more she giggles with them.
Mr. Tickle finds sowing seeds quite difficult because of his extraordinarily long arms and because he's usually trying to find someone to tickle! You should find sowing these cress seeds easier than Mr.
Radish ?Diana? is a summer radish with plenty of ?plate-appeal?! The rounded roots have a lovely purple colour, fading to white at the root tips. This colourful variety is ideal for adding a bright splash of colour and a peppery flavour to your salads. This quick maturing radish matures in just 25 days.
The innovative Fruit Me® series offers a range of self-fertile fruit and nut trees, grafted onto a brand new dwarf rootstock. These compact mini fruit trees are specially adapted for growing in patio containers over a long period, producing good crops from an early age. Perfect for balconies, terraces, conservatories and small gardens ? in fact, anywhere that space is at a premium.
Planting to encourage wildlife into the garden can be so rewarding. We've come up with this Perfect Pollinators Perennial Collection of herbaceous perennials just right to encourage visitors to your garden but also ideal to fill your beds and borders with beautiful plants. As well as great for attracting bees and butterflies to the garden these perennial plants will bloom year after year, and many can also be cut and brought into the house for beautiful flower arrangements.The selection will be a seasonal choice and may contain varieties such as - Verbena Bonariensis, centaurea, gaillardia, campanula, lavender, echinacea, lychinis, armeria, molinia, coreopsis, achillea, phlox, aster and thymus. To allow us to offer you such a good price, we can't take orders for specific varieties, but whatever we decide to send, you won't be disappointed.Images are for illustration purposes only. Please note, the varieties you will receive may differ from those illustrated.
Provides a long harvest of tasty and nutritious leaves for fresh picking through summer and well into autumn.