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.
The first fully integrated petunia mixture. For hanging baskets, containers and walls. The Super Cascades are much freer flowering and will cascade in 8 different colours - blue, white, pink, blush, cerise, salmon, scarlet and violet from a formula blending of seed. Weather tolerance, heat and wet, is excellent, they bloom from planting out to frost and have good drought tolerance. Growing tip: Get the best out of your petunias with our specially formulated Petunia Fertiliser - the perfect balance of nutrients to get them off to a flying start and nourish them through the summer
The longest flowering and best double pot marigolds that we have grown on our trial grounds! Sturdy, dwarf, multi-branching plants produce large, luminous blooms, to brighten summer borders and containers. The daisy-like flowers of these calendulas are excellent for cutting and can also be added to salads as an edible flower. Quick and easy to grow, Calendula copes in almost any garden situation, and even grows well in coastal areas. Height: 25cm (10). Spread: 30cm (12)Collection comprises one packet each of 'Candyman Orange' and 'Candyman Yellow'.
This is surely the sensible way to grow and eat peas - no time consuming podding, no waste, just heavy crops of delicious, sweet and juicy pods of sugar-peas, often called 'Mangetoutor 'Snow peas'. Well flavoured and excellent for lightly steaming or stir-fries,. The pods of Mangetout Pea Oregon Sugar Pod are large and flat (4 1/2 inches long by 3/4 inch wide) and stringless when young. This is the way peas will be eaten in the future. It just doesn't make sense to go through the tediousness of discarding the pod if its so full of goodness and so delicious to taste
We've built our leek collection on hardy, disease resistant British bred varieties so you can be sure your crop will stand up to winter and summer extremes with little risk of rust, bulbing or bolting.This collection comprises:Leek 'Below-Zero F1 Hybrid'Leek 'Bulgaarse'Leek 'Reuzen-Lincoln'Leek 'Oarsman F1'
CordonTomato 'Country Taste' produces meaty, delicious fruits, which can easily attain weights over 227g (0.5lb) if trusses are trimmed to allow 3 or 4 fruits to ripen per truss. This fantastic beefsteak tomato is particularly early to set and ripen when grown under glass. An excellent cordon tomato for exhibition and competitions - you could grow a record breaker! Height: 200cm (79). Spread: 50cm (20)
We've based our selection on sweet fresh flavours, long cropping and disease resistance to give you the best possible mangetout harvest from mid summer through to autumn. Oregon Sugar Pod and Kennedy are firm customer favourites and we know you'll love the full flavour of Sweet Horizon - perfect for stir fries and steaming. Varieties in this mixture are - Kennedy, Oregon Sugar Pod and Sweet Horizon.
Clubroot Resistant! Cabbage Kilaton has a high level of Clubroot resistance producing quality, 2kg, autumn ballheads with a solid, dense structure. Superb used for coleslaw, salads or steamed. Cabbage Kilaton F1 Hybrid will stand for a long while in the garden and keep in good condition. It also stores exceptionally well over a long period without deterioration allowing gardeners more time to enjoy its delicious flavour. It has taken over 18 years of conventional breeding to develop a variety that can combat the devastating brassica disease Clubroot and this superb variety is the most resistant we have ever grown on our trials
Tomato 'Tumbling Tom Red' produces abundant early crops of sweet and juicy cherry tomatoes throughout summer. This compact bush variety has a naturally trailing habit that will cascade over the sides of baskets, containers and windowboxes. With no side shooting or training required, this variety is easy to grow both outdoors and under glass. Height and spread: 30cm (12)
A premier variety in every way! Vigorous, high yielding plants produce the most tender, thick, succulent pods you have ever tasted. The delicious long, mid green beans of Runner Bean ‘White Lady’ are stringless with a wonderful smooth texture. These white flowered plants are less prone to bird attack than their red flowered cousins, and set well, even in high temperatures, guaranteeing a plentiful crop. Height: 3m (10’). Spread: 30cm (12”)
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.
The best ever yellow Petunia! Bushy, compact and free-flowering, with large wavy blooms in an attractive two tone creamy-yellow bicolour, resembling the delicious Italian liqueur. Adds a zest of lemon to borders or containers. Prefers a light, well drained soil in full sun. Height 20-25cm (8-10 inches). Growing tip: Get the best out of your petunias with our specially formulated Petunia Fertiliser - the perfect balance of nutrients to get them off to a flying start and nourish them through the summer
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A flower in an entirely new form. Its large completely double, azalea-shaped blooms provide a riot of colour and its reliability and impressiveness are borne out by rare award of an All-America and All-Britain Selections Bronze Medal. Ideal for borders, bedding and superb cut flowers. Flowers summer. Height: 69-90cm (24-36in)
This colourful mix contains three varieties of F1 Hybrid courgettes. These vigorous bushy plants each produce a generous crop of shiny, flavoursome, spherical fruits of either pale green, dark green or bright yellow that look fantastic on your plate. Harvest them at golf ball size to add raw to salads or wait until they are tennis ball sized stuffing and slicing. Height: 45cm (18). Spread: 90cm (35).
This British bred variety is perfectly adapted to our cooler climate, producing very high yields of 5-6 squash per plant! Butternut Squash ?Hunter? forms a bushy, open plant that allows the sunlight to penetrate for improved ripening. Crops are quick to set and ripen, so you can harvest the pale-tan, pear-shaped fruits, in just 95 days from sowing.
An outstanding variety. Ideal for small gardens. Cabbage Hispi can be grown at virtually any season of the year and comes to maturity faster than cabbages specially created for specific seasons. Even autumn sown it will beat the earliest of the spring cabbages. Hispi is a pointed type, strong and uniform and with a beautifully sweet flavour. A Jan/Feb sowing fills the late spring gap in cropping. Bolt resistant. Andrew Tokely says: I always sow this cabbage in early March, and I harvest the first sweet and tender hearts by mid June. This is far quicker than traditional spring cabbage sown in the autumn and the flavour is miles better too
Unique new runner bean combining the very best traits of both French and runner beans, Tenderstar really has to be tasted to be believed! The fabulous flavour and tender texture are the result of 15 years of British breeding. Masses of 20cm (8in) long smooth pods are produced throughout the summer, whatever the weather, whilst the stunning bicolour red and pink flowers are an added bonus
If it's colour that you're after, then look no further than Begonia 'Non-Stop Mixed'! The fully double flowers come in a boisterous range of shades, that jostle for attention containers, beds and borders.
An easy to grow exotic climber, with lily-like flowers in a wide range of vibrant colours. Ideal for creating a spectacular feature plant climbing up an obelisk in containers or through trellis in bordersClimber 180cm (6ft)