Vegetable.  Dark, tightly curled leaves. Excellent quality, very cold hardy, good for difficult or windswept gardens or poor wet soils.

Vegetable.  Highly decorative with lots of crinkled purple-red leaves. Excellent cold tolerance cropping during autumn to winter. Wonderful for growing in the flower border!

Hardy Perennial Climber.  Vigorous and ornamental, ideal supported on a sunny wall. Heart shaped leaves and charming clusters of moderately fragrant 1½ inch flowers. Grow 3 to 4 plants close together to produce Kiwi Fruit.

Hardy Herbaceous Perennial.  One of the finest perennials for the border we have seen. It has a very long season of flowering lasting well into the autumn and early winter. The dense, double, pin cushion scabious like flowers are a brilliantly strong cherry red, a rare colour in border flowers. Makes a large, neat, rounded bus ...

Hardy Herbaceous Perennial.  Glorious scabious-like, 4cm (1½in) pin cushion blooms in the softer hues: blue, mauve, pink, rose, salmon and crimson. Excellent back of border plant producing masses of flowers in two flushes (provided you cut down spent bloom), through to autumn frosts. Suitable for most types of soil. Flowers su ...

Hardy Herbaceous Perennial.  A fascinating and rarely offered species from South Africa which produces unconventional orange and red spikes which appear almost oval, rather than the traditional poker. Highly recommended border plant with a long flowering period.

Hardy Perennial.  An intriguing novelty variety. Flowering on very dwarf plants, often no taller than a 30cm (12 inches) ruler. *First year flowering, with unusual red, amber and green flower spikes. Adds interest to the front of borders or even containers! *Sow SeptlOct to flower the following season

Hardy Perennial.  An exclusive blend of mixed species, including a complete spectrum of colours, heights and different flower spikes. Colours ranging from yellows, reds, oranges and bronze with some having an unusual hint of green. Ideal for brightening any herbaceous border.

Hardy Perennial.  A native of Kenya, this unusual Red Hot Poker produces open racemes of coral pink blooms, with a lower petticoat of fiery yellow-orange florets. Flowers in sucession from mid summer to late autumn. A delight in any border.

Vegetable.  One of the best Kohl Rabi in recent T&M trials. The result of intense breeding rewards you with intensely coloured purple-blue bulbs which have a resistance to becoming woody, together with a delicious sweet, nutty flavour. (Brassica oleracea)

Vegetable.  In recent RHS trials, as well as our own, Purple Danube was voted the best deep purple variety available. Its outstanding sweet flavour and colour will brighten any dish. Ideal eaten raw in a salad or even peeled like an apple, as well as cooked. Stands for a long time without going woody.