Keeps on producing a mass of fresh flavoured, deep green leaves. A late summer sowing will guarantee winter salads.

Tasty water cress substitute, ready in 7-8 weeks. Sow early spring onwards, over winters too. Vitamin, iron and calcium rich cress which tastes almost like watercress but has a smaller leaf providing a continuous supply over a long period. It is easy to grow and does best in a cool moist soil and part shade.

Barbarea vulgaris. A new 100% variegated introduction. Winter cress is very popular as a salad ingredient with a taste and look reminiscent of watercress. Harvest virtually all the year round, if covered with cloches during severe winter weather.

Flavour guide: Crisp and tangy; alternative to watercress.

A delicious blend of lettuce which fromregular sowings tasty salad leaves all the year round. This is a well-balanced mixture of young, fresh and tender leaves of chicory, lettuce, and endives. It will provide a continuous harvest of salad leaves all the year round if successionally sown in pots on the windowsill, or sown outdoors from March to September. It is easy to grow with minimum … click for more

Ready in 6-8 weeks and crops for 6 months or more. A new application of an old European technique producing nutritious, tasty and tender leaves through many months of the year. Particularly valuable for producing tender young shoots in spring and a spring sowing should produce salad material through summer.

Deepest maroon red to black flowers each with a yellow pheasant eye borne on dwarf, compact plants. These glorious plants are ideal border fillers or can be grown in containers or as pot plants. Either way they also make great cut flowers. Flowers summer. Height: 45-60cm (18-24in).

Powerful mixture of glorious veined Alstroemeria-like flowers. Throws out flower branches close to the ground, resulting in a dwarfer compact habit. Ideal cut flower. Height: 45-60cm (18-24in).

New 2008

Kew Blue adds height and a touch of class to your summer displays. Slender stems bear clusters of velvet-like flowers in an exquisite shade of deepest purple-blue each complemented by a central dark blotch. Sure to attract admiring glances when used in borders or as a cut flower.

(Sandwich Island). Delicious, delicate flavour likened to Oysters or Asparagus. A good source of Vitamin C and potassium.

Often called the 'vegetable oyster' because of its flavour. Slender, 'parsnip' like roots, white skinned and fleshed. Ideal for lifting in the autumn for storing, or can be left in the ground and lifted as required. In the spring the tender shoots make an appetising green vegetable.

In the first year plants make unusual dwarf rosettes of soft grey woolly foliage that is impossible to pass without touching, followed in the second year by tall silver spikes with pinkish-white flowers. Adds interest to borders and containers.

Height: 90cm (3ft) when in flower.

A charming and unusual tri-colour blend of intriguing, tubular shaped flowers, on upright stems. Ideal for adding tiers of summer colour to borders or containers, as well as attracting many beneficial insects to your garden.

SPECIAL OFFER Collection comprises one packet each of: Salvia patens - a classic border plant, ideal for adding a cool blue drift to your planting schemes. The attractive, large blue hooded florets are borne on erect stems above toothed foliage. Salvia patens Cambridge Blue - exquisite large pale blue, hooded flowers on erect stems. Superb in borders, greenhouse or conservatory, and in … click for more

New 2008

Unique breeding has brought us this very visually appealing Salvia. Bushy, compact plants bear multiple spikes of attractive blue and white bicoloured flowers on distinctive dark stems. Flowers all summer and continues through to October in borders or containers.

Height: 35-45cm (14-18in).

From uniform and compact plants rise silvery erect stems bearing many silver-green calyx, from which a firework of small clear blue flowers emerge. Height: 35-45cm (14-18in).