Tasting like a mixture of mint and cloves it compliments courgettes and is legendary in tomato and pasta dishes. Use fresh or dried in salads, casseroles and vinegars. Insect repellent and companion plant for tomatoes. Companion Plant: Reputed to improve the growth and flavour of tomatoes, and keep most insects and bugs off most of your vegetables. Diluted crushed leaves make an effective organic … click for more

Basils are a favourite with cooks and gardeners world- wide. Now you can try a completely new and exclusive basil with a striking twist of lime. The development of this unique flavour adds interest to desserts as well as savoury dishes.

Fragrant, spicy leaves.

Fragrant, spicy leaves.

Very large dark shiny purple-black, ruffled and fringed leaves. Ideal contrast in bedding or containers or use it as a herb in cooking.

Introducing Basil Cinnamon, Basil Lettuce Leaf, Basil Greek, Basil Purple Delight, Basil Lemon and Basil Ararat better known as The Spice Boys! Individually attractive and unique in appearance - from frilly spice to plain leaved spice. Together they offer a symphony of flavours to tantalise your taste buds in salads, cooking and garnishes. Basil lettuce Leaf: Almost in appearance to a frilly- … click for more

An attractive selection of this common annual. Rich, dark, almost black foliage is enhanced by bright golden yellow flowers, opening in the morning, closing again by afternoon and sweetly scented in the evening, adds height and interest to your borders.

Height: 90-120cm (3-4ft)

A delectable back of border plant, at whatever stage the flower is at! Tightly scrolled buds open to 7cm (3in) in palest lemon, maturing to yellow, apricot and finally salmon-pink. The delicately scented blooms are at their best in the evening. Height: 60-100cm (24-40in)

Soft, shell-pink blooms which fade to white in the centre and are veined in a deeper pink. Bright yellow/green throats, free flowering, opening during the day and delicately scented in the evening. An excellent free flowering plant for beds, borders etc which look particularly lovely when grown in drifts. Flowers summer. Height 30-60cm (12-24in).

Try growing your own olives with this ornamental evergreen with fragrant small white flowers when established.

Ideal grown as an indoor houseplant or to add a touch of the Mediterranean to your patio during the summer.

Protect plants from frost.

Height: Up to 3m (10ft)

A splendid exhibition variety of golden merit producing large globe shaped onions with a rich, golden straw coloured skin. As well as being a super show variety, it is also one of the best varieties for general cultivation producing large onions with an excellent mild flavour. Can also be autumn sown.

A very popular and reliable variety for well over 100 years. Ideally suited to our climate producing large globe shaped, golden brown skinned bulbs with crisp white flesh.

Late summer maturity. Well grown bulbs have excellent storing capabilities.

Grows best in well-drained, rich soil in full sun.

Large, round, white skinned and fleshed bulb onions for storing through the autumn and winter. Delicious sliced and added to salads or used for all cooking purposes.

New 2008

An improved White Lisbon with upright leaves for successional sowings for spring, summer and autumn production. Slow to form bulbs during the long days of summer, with improved disease tolerance.

A new type of spring onion. It does not form bulbs, yet stays white and very straight. Can be harvested pencil-thin or thinner, yet left till it's grown as thick as a mature carrot. Because it has such a long harvesting period, you rarely waste any and unlike normal types there is not the need to be sowing every three weeks for a continuous crop.