Half Hardy Biennial.  Bushy, compact, dark green plants, with hairy, prickly foliage, enhanced by clusters of deep lilac to purple-red flowers. Flowering over a long period during the summer. Ideal for the front of a perennial border.

Hardy Biennial.  Glorious blue flowers buzzing with bees.

Vegetable.  Popular and reliable garden favorite. Large, glossy purplish -black skinned oval fruits about 13cm (5 inches) long. Fruits hold quality and color well after picking.

Vegetable.  3 plants will keep a family of four in aubergines from July until late autumn. It is early and prolifically sets huge fruit up to 1.5lb. Pick regularly or plants will need staking to support weight of fruit.

Vegetable.  An array of 4 tantalising colours and shapes, for a wide range of culinary uses, from grilling, stuffing to stir fries. Colours range through apple green, snowy white, pale pink with cream slashes and red.

Vegetable.  A unique new Aubergine with a neat, dwarf habit, making it particularly attractive when grown in patio containers. Long, oval, white-skinned fruits hang like bunches of grapes, and are best picked small to increase yield over a long season. Suitable for indoor or outdoor growing.

Vegetable.  Early, reliable, high yielding, tasty, long, slender, matt purple fruits.

Vegetable.  From South America, this Aubergine is a striking red colour and the size of a tennis-ball. An unusual and interesting colour to add to vegetable dishes. A good cropper, producing a generous helping of fruit throughout summer.

Hardy Deciduous Shrub.  A deciduous shrub or tree for small gardens, with wavy, silvery fruits that turn red in autumn. The edible berries are an excellent source of lycopene, a type of nutrient that helps stimulate the body's natural defences.

Garden Sundry.  Use this mat for seed germination. Works like nature, keeping soil warmed 15° to 20° above surrounding air. 110-120 volt household current. 22¼ by 15¼ inches. U.L. listed.

Half Hardy Annual.  An attractive ornamental grass producing many green, 'claw' like flowers on sturdy stems throughout summer. A great border plant, and a spectacular cut flower. Can also be dried.

Half Hardy Annual.  Attractive, small, flame red, fluffy flowers, sway gently in the summer breeze, resembling an artist's brush or tassels, giving the common names of Flora's Paintbrush or Tassel Flower. Ideal for adding a change of height, colour and texture to bedding displays.

Greenhouse Perennial.  Possibly the hardiest Ensete species, this plant originates from high altitude China so is accustomed to cooler regions. The huge, glaucous leaves are architectural and decorative, great for the tropical borders or large containers.

Greenhouse Perennial Trailer.  Trailing Indescribably beautiful blooms - some powerfully fragrant in cerise, magenta, gold, scarlet, cream, etc. flowering within 2½ years.

Hardy Biennial Bulb.  Towering but sturdy spires, excellent for border or focal point plantings.