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Sweet Pea – Enchante (Organic)
£2.65 Add to basketSweet Pea – Enchante (Organic)
Beautiful delicate multicoloured blooms opening creamy green and progressing through pink to pale mauve. This Fred’s favourite sweet pea variety. The colour show when they are in full bloom is no less than spectacular. Each flower head is a rainbow of different colours, and the smell is intoxicating!
(Approximate seed count – 23)£2.65 -
Sweet Pea – Jilly (Organic)
£2.50 Add to basketSweet Pea – Jilly (Organic)
A beautiful and highly productive sweet pea producing an abundance of delicate cream blooms. This is Ronja’s favourite sweet pea of 2023, producing a huge amount of incredible blooms, the performance was incredible and beautiful in its simplicity. The scent of the flowers wafting through the field in July brought a very special feeling to the patch and we were sad to see the blooms go. Luckily they were followed by lots of plump seed pods which we were equally excited about as now we can offer this variety to you!
(Approximate seed count – 23)£2.50 -
Sweet Pea – Nimbus (Organic)
£2.25 Add to basketSweet Pea – Nimbus (Organic)
A striking flake variety with maroon-grey speckles on a white background. Nimbus is a real show-stopper variety producing a mass of bicolour blooms on very long stems. The petal edges have a dark maroon strip and their scent is delicious. Definitely a must-have variety.
(Approximate seed count – 23)£2.25 -
Nigella – African Bride (Organic)
£2.25 Add to basketNigella – African Bride (Organic)
White petals with contrasting dark maroon spidery centres borne on delicate green foliage. We totally love this variety and regularly had to stop and admire it as we walked past it in the field. It’s a really prolific producer of some of the most elegant blooms we have ever grown.
The flowers have a great vase life and develop into striking dark ornamental seed pods after the petals have dropped.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.25 -
Nigella – Miss Jekyll (Organic)
£2.35 Add to basketNigella – Miss Jekyll (Organic)
Pale blue mostly double flowers, sit atop a misty spray of delicate green foliage. A delightful sight in any garden or allotment and an excellent crop for attracting beneficial pollinators into your space. ‘Miss Jekylls’ captivating blooms are perfection in borders for cut flower arrangements and after the pods swell and dry the edible seeds can be harvested utilising the attractive seed head for dry flower crafts.
This delightful annual has stood the test of time amongst garden designers, its is after all named after one of the greatest female garden designers of the 19th century whose influence is still very much alive in modern garden design today.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.35 -
Poppy – Amazing Grey (Organic)
£2.10 Add to basketPoppy – Amazing Grey (Organic)
Mesmerising poppies with semi-doubled petals textured like vintage silk in stylish tones of stormy grey, delicate mauve and silvery white. These charismatic poppies float gracefully upon delicate stems providing a dreamy romantic atmosphere to your borders with a profusion of successional flowers. Whilst each flower is short lived, the statuesque seed pods can be admired long after the petals have scattered like confetti.
(Approximate seed count – 500)£2.10 -
Climbing French Beans – Pea Bean (Organic)
£2.85 Read moreClimbing French Beans – Pea Bean (Organic)
Stringless flatish pods followed by plentiful fresh beans that turn maroon and cream once dried. This pretty heritage variety of bean has been passed through the weathered hands of generations of gardeners since the 16th century. It’s the ultimate all-rounder providing plentiful flat smooth skinned green pods. As the pods fill out with beans and dry they develop a delightful maroon and cream pattern, great for long storage and comforting winter stews. An easy to grow climbing bean with great drought tolerance and plentiful abundance.
(Approximate seed count – 60)
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Dwarf French Beans – Brittany Haricot (Organic)
£2.95 Add to basketDwarf French Beans – Brittany Haricot (Organic)
Plump round bean with purple marbled pods best enjoyed half-dry . If this bean was grown in the Cotes d’Amor region of Brittany, it would be called Coco di Paimpol. With a creamy nutty flavour this Haricot bean is traditionally sold at French markets demi-sec in pods and enjoyed in hot and cold dishes.
We received a packet of seeds in the post from one of our customers with a note saying that they had been saving their own seed from this variety for over 6 years since they lived in Brittany.
Best harvested when the beans in the pods are fully formed and semi-ripe. It freezes really well, avoiding the need for
soaking overnight if dried. Great as a warm salad or in casseroles.
(Approximate seed count – 60)£2.95 -
Chard – Magenta Sunset (Organic)
£2.30 Add to basketChard – Magenta Sunset (Organic)
This chard makes a stunning leafy green with stems of orange and magenta . ‘Magenta Sunset’ has its name from the showy coloration that ranges from bright pink over crimson to deep burgundy contrasting the dark green leaves typically growing to a height of 30-60 cm. It is versatile that adds ornamental and culinary value to gardens and container growing. It can be harvested throughout the growing season and makes a delicious and nutritious addition to salads, soups, and stir-fries.
Our favourite way of eating it is as a side dish steamed with melted butter and a pinch of pepper and salt.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.30 -
Carrot – Lila Lu (Organic)
£1.95 Add to basketCarrot – Lila Lu (Organic)
Lila Lu is a purple carrot on the outside with a vibrant orange interior, sweet and crunchy. This is a modern European breed specifically developed for organic growing conditions. It has a crunchy texture and pleasantly sweet taste, the purple pigmentation is attributed to a higher levels of the potent antioxidant ‘anthocyanin’ alongside the usual beta carotene that orange carrots offer. Carrots have been bred since the 10th century in Asia, whilst we have come to know carrots in their orange standard, their ancestors were yellow and purple, we appear to have come full circle with this ‘new’ variety.
(Approximate seed count – 400)£1.95 -
Onion – Senshyu (Organic)
£2.25 Add to basketOnion – Senshyu (Organic)
The classic Japanese over-wintering bulb onion best sown in August. This is a real work-horse variety which is ideal for over-wintering, although can be sown in Spring too.
It produces heavy crops of semi-flat bulbs which are ready for harvest in June.
(Approximate seed count – 300)£2.25 -
Chilli MIX – Hungarian Hot Wax with a hint of Basque (Organic)
£1.25 Add to basketChilli MIX – Hungarian Hot Wax with a hint of Basque (Organic)
Oops! A little mix-up happened here: a few Basque chilli seeds have sneaked into our Hungarian Hot Wax seed bag. Instead of chucking it all away, we decided to let them bring a bit of a surprise element to your garden. You’ll mostly get the classic, versatile Hungarian Hot Wax peppers – ripening from green over yellow and orange to red with a mild taste and perfect for pickling or grilling – plus a few Basque chilli plants with a spicy twist when eaten raw and quite mild when cooked; traditionally used in French cuisine for drying and powdering. Plant and see what you get!
(Approximate seed count – 22)£1.25
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