This mix of fiery mustard leaves will spice up salad bowls, sandwiches and stir fries, adding both flavour and colour. Hardy enough to harvest through autumn and winter, this is an easy, space-saving crop which is indispensable fo…

This glasshouse type, butterhead lettuce is perfect for growing crops of large, well-filled hearts in winter and early spring. Lettuce ‘Brighton’ produces bright green, compact heads with good flavour and texture which…

Adding a lemony zing to salads, sauces, pasta and egg dishes, Sorrel ‘Volare’ is a hardy perennial herb which once sown, can be harvested for years. Easy and fast growing, sorrel is one of the earliest of crops, being …

No more boring salads with Rocket ‘Scorpion’! This quick and easy salad leaf will add punch to your salad ingredients, with its very hot, mustardy flavour. Related to wild rocket but quicker to mature, be sure to keep …

Basil ‘Purple Ball’ is so ornamental, it can even be used as a foliage filler alongside brightly coloured bedding in a container or window box. A Greek-style variety, it bears small, highly flavoured, purple leaves whi…

Greenhouse type Winner of an RHS Award of Garden Merit for its reliability and excellent performance, Cucumber ‘Emilie’ is a prolific variety, producing almost entirely female flowers. Large crops of 20cm long (8in), …

Carrot ‘Volcano’ is a sturdy and vigorous variety, popular with commercial growers. This Nantes type carrot produces strong, 8-9” tapered roots with exceptional resistance to breaking and splitting and a crown of…

This beautiful red cabbage is bursting with health-giving antioxidants as well as looking wonderful in the veg patch. Cabbage ‘Pretino’ is a very early variety with good bolting resistance, producing dense, round dense…

This sweetheart cabbage makes excellent use of space in smaller plots. Early to mature but holding well in the ground, Cabbage 'Marquess' can be harvested over several weeks. Quickly reaching 500g in weight, the crisp, apple green…

This delicious variety will keep you supplied with nutritious greens in the summer and autumn months without bolting. Cabbage ‘Green Rich’ is a high quality, slow bolting, ‘oriental’ type cabbage which is s…

Clobber clubroot with Brussels Sprout ‘Cryptus’ ! This easy-growing, medium-late variety is equipped with superb genetic resistance to all common clubroot races. Ready for harvest in November and December when little e…

Sunflower 'Carmel' is a professional grower's variety perfect for cutting or admiring in the garden. Large flowers with glorious sunshine-yellow petals surrounding a dark centre are held individually atop tall, stout stems. This v…

Column stocks are traditional cut flower varieties perfect for growing en masse, with each plant bearing a single, densely packed flower spike on a tall stem that is perfect for the vase. Perfect in pastels, column stock 'Apricot'…

A staple of cottage gardens and bouquets alike, stocks have been loved since Roman times for their dense spires of intensely fragrant flowers in late spring and early summer. Column Stock 'American Beauty' is a particularly tall, …

A busy plant for lazy gardeners! Sedum ‘Busy Nights’ provides masses of bee-friendly, deep pink flowers throughout late summer. The clusters of starry flowers are held above neat mounds of rounded green foliage flushed…

Petunia 'Alenka' F1 is a true classic with lovely vintage colouring. Masses of baby pink blooms, 5-6cm across, with sunshine yellow centres create a beautiful display all summer and autumn until the first frosts. The plants are we…

Extraordinarily long trumpets flare into exotic white flowers with a star-shaped magenta eye and tangerine stamens. Opening in the late afternoon, these elegant flowers will perfume the air with a heady orange blossom fragrance wh…

In gorgeous sunset colours of coral, yellow and red, this baby snapdragon is a real charmer, bringing an unusual colour palette into the garden.   Unlike the stockier, bedding snapdragons, this baby version has an airier hab…

In a sugary confection of pinks, magenta and white, these easily grown Cosmos 'Candyfloss Mix' are early to flower and will continue blooming throughout summer on compact, dwarf plants. Ideal for borders, containers and the cuttin…

In a sugary confection of pinks, magenta and white, these easily grown Cosmos 'Candyfloss Mix' are early to flower and will continue blooming throughout summer on compact, dwarf plants. Ideal for borders, containers and the cuttin…