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Calendula – Ivory Princess (Organic)
£2.50 Add to basketCalendula – Ivory Princess (Organic)
Large double and semi-double creamy-yellow blooms with a contrasting dark centre disk. This is a wonderful new addition to our catalogue for 2024, we have totally fallen in love with this variety. The delicate and contrasting colours make it a superb addition to the garden and it looks wonderful in bouquets.
Its long stem length compared to other calendulas we’ve grown make it particularly suitable as a cut flower.
(Approximate seed count – 100)£2.50 -
Lettuce – Red Salad Bowl (Organic)
£1.98 Add to basketLettuce – Red Salad Bowl (Organic)
Fast growing lettuce with long, burgundy red and deeply cut leaves.. This lettuce is known for its excellent taste and resistance to bolt. It has a non-heading growth habit with sweet, succulent oakleaf type leaves. We love it for its tenderness and cheerfulness in salads. As the name suggests one lettuce is usually enough to fill a whole salad bowl.
Best grown in spring, early summer and fall. However it can be grown in the hotter summer months too as it’s slow to bolt.
‘Red Salad Bowl’ was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit (AGM) in 1993.
(Approximate seed count – 250)
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Radish – Black Spanish (Organic)
£2.30 Add to basketRadish – Black Spanish (Organic)
Large round winter radish with thick black skin and white flesh. This radish is an old variety that is easy to grow and makes an excellent winter vegetable. It is larger than the standard radish with a spicy taste and crisp texture. It’s great eaten raw in salads or cooked in a stew, stir-fry or used like a turnip. It’s a reliable and robust radish that will keep throughout the winter outside or in storage, staying tender and without getting woody.
Sow thickly in July or August and thing out for small early harvests.
(Approximate seed count – 250)£2.30 -
Cornflower – Black Ball (Organic)
£2.25 Add to basketCornflower – Black Ball (Organic)
A quirky variety producing very dark maroon double blooms. The flowers are so dark they are almost black and have a very dramatic appearance. They make a great cut flower, as well as looking fantastic in the garden. As with all cornflowers, they are edible too.
(Approximate seed count – 130)£2.25 -
Zinnia – Queen Blush Lime (Organic)
£2.65 Add to basketZinnia – Queen Blush Lime (Organic)
A truly unique zinnia producing blooms of lime green and purple. This stunning variety is really quite other-worldly. There are not many flowers which are green but this is one and it’s quite remarkable.
The green flowers are blushed with contrasting purple, creating a zingy electric effect. A real show-stopper!
(Approximate seed count – 75)£2.65 -
Lettuce – Devil’s Tongue (Organic)
£1.98 Add to basketLettuce – Devil’s Tongue (Organic)
A dark red spring lettuce with tapered cos-like leaves forming loose heads at maturity. Bred by lettuce breeding wizard Frank Morton, this variety has a very buttery texture and thick leaves.
This is not a pure-line variety, as evidenced by its black and white seeds, but a multiline “landrace” of similar looking (but genetically distinct) sub-lines. Most of our ancestors’ staple crops, their legumes and grains, were also multi-lines. The genetic diversity of these farmer-varieties was the original crop insurance against the vagaries of nature.
(Approximate seed count – 250)£1.98 -
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 -
Winter Lettuce – Brighton (Organic)
£1.98 Add to basketWinter Lettuce – Brighton (Organic)
A green winter-hardy butterhead lettuce with great taste and texture. We wanted to include Brighton amongst our lettuces because it is one of the best and biggest winter hardy butterhead types there is. It has glossy dark green leaves and medium-sized heads. Sown in September, it can be cultivated outside or undercover for continuous picking or left to mature for an early spring harvest.
(Approximate seed count – 250)£1.98 -
Helichrysum – Strawflower (Organic)
£1.85 Read moreHelichrysum – Strawflower (Organic)
A beautiful mix of white, pink orange and yellow flowers on plants 40cm tall. Strawflowers (also known as ‘everlasting flowers’) are a beautiful addition to the garden. They are perfectly suited for drying, just cut the stem before they are fully open and hang in bunches upside down in a dry place out of direct sunlight. They are also great as a fresh flower for use in bouquets. We love the bright colours in this mix, they remind us of colourful boiled sweets!
(Approximate seed count – 200)£1.85 -
Borage – White (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2025***
£1.95 Add to basketBorage – White (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2025***
*** This year’s crop is currently being processed and tested – we hope to get everything ready for 1 November catalogue launch ***
Adored by bees and humans alike, this variety of borage produces an abundance of delicate, edible white flowers. Borage is a must-addition for any ornamental or kitchen garden, with its tall stems, abundant flowers and edible petals. No nature-friendly garden is complete without this wonderful annual flower. It is a prolific self-seeder so you may only need to sow it once to have it forever.
(Approximate seed count – 60)£1.95 -
White Mignonette (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2025***
£2.20 Add to basketWhite Mignonette (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2025***
White Mignonette produces an abundance of delicate white spires with a vanilla scent. They produce long, upright stems that flower all summer long and make a lovely addition to a cottage garden border or a great filler for a cut flower arrangement. Expect a vase life of 5 – 7 days.
(Approximate seed count – 600)£2.20 -
California poppy – Appleblossom Chiffon (Organic)
£2.30 Add to basketCalifornia poppy – Appleblossom Chiffon (Organic)
A stunning and unique variety producing mainly double flowers of creamy rose and cranberry. This is a new variety for us and we really love it. It’s a real show stopper. It flowers over a very long season, especially if picked or dead-headed. California poppies are drought tolerant so very low maintenance.
If using as a cut flower it acts as both filler and thriller due to its delicate lacy foliage.
(Approximate seed count – 100)£2.30
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