Category Archives: Garden
Organic Leek ‘Carentan’ – Seeds
Reliable and flavoursome Organic Leek ‘Carentan’ provides a wonderful autumn and winter crop of thick, straight stems, perfect for adding to warming winter stews, soups and casseroles. These generous white and tender stems can reach up to 5cm (2in) thick then fully mature, and are topped with an attractive display of blue-green foliage.
Organic Lettuce ‘Red & Green Salad Bowl Mixed’ (Loose-Leaf) – Seeds
A loose-leaf type with soft wavy edges, this Organic Lettuce ‘Red & Green Salad Bowl Mixed’ provides you with both colours for varied pickings throughout summer. Sow successively for a long-lasting harvest of fresh salad leaves.
Organic Basil ‘Classico’ – Seeds
Essential for authentic Italian cuisine, this sweet basil is one of the most popular varieties, with a strong scent and distinctive fresh flavour. Try growing Basil on the kitchen windowsill or in convenient containers outside the back door.
Coriander – Organic – Seeds
A quick growing, dual purpose annual herb that is grown for its seeds or fresh young leaves. Coriander seeds are delicious in cakes, and when crushed add an orangey flavour to meat dishes. The young leaves of coriander (often called ‘Cilantro’) can be finely chopped and added to curies, sauces, chutneys and salads. Height: 60cm
Spring Onion ‘White Lisbon’ – Organic Seeds
Quick growing with a delicious, pungent flavour. Spring Onion White Lisbon is popular and reliable for successional sowings throughout the season. Delicious when young, becoming more pungent as the stems enlarge and start to bulb
Parsley (Flat Leaved) – Organic Seeds
This hardy biennial is one of the most popular herbs for culinary use as a garnish, flavouring sauces and pastry, and associating particularly well with fish. With a stronger flavour than curled varieties, this ‘Flat-leaved’ or ‘Italian’ Parsley makes a useful, low maintenance addition to herb gardens, or grow parsley indoors on a bright kitchen
Wild Rocket – Organic Seeds
Wild Rocket has dark green, serrated leaves with a rich, intense peppery flavour. Wild Rocket is an ideal kitchen windowsill herb.
Lettuce ‘Little Gem Delight’ (Cos) – Organic Seeds
Compact, ‘Little Gemproducing a crisp, dense heart. Lettuce Little Gem Delight has a delicious sweet flavour. Some downy mildew tolerance
Organic Lettuce ‘Sylvesta’ (Butterhead) – Seeds
Organic Lettuce ‘Sylvesta? is a butterhead type which forms a good sized head of thick, flavoursome green leaves. Showing resistance to mildew and aphid, sow this variety successively and you can enjoy a reliable outdoor crop from spring through to late summer.
Radish ‘French Breakfast 2’ – Organic Seeds
Quick growing, with bright red skin and a white tip. Radish French Breakfast 2 has crisp flesh with a delicate, mild taste.
Organic Broccoli ‘Green Sprouting’ (Calabrese) – Seeds
Tasty and nutritious Organic Broccoli ‘Green Sprouting’ (Calabrese) provides a wonderfully long harvest of flavoursome heads along with a great crop of tender side shoots. Enjoy a fantastic harvest from late summer onwards – pick the side shoots regularly and these generous plants will continue to produce more throughout autumn.
Herb Rocket (Cultivated) – Organic Seeds
Duchy Originals Cultivated Rocket is a quick growing salad leaf with a peppery taste. Cultivated Rocket ideal kitchen windowsill herb.
Organic Carrot ‘Nantes 2’ (Early maturing) – Seeds
This fast maturing selection is ideal for early sowings under glass in late winter for your first crop of the year. Carrot ‘Nantes 2’ produces blunt tipped, medium length roots of about 15cm (6) long.
Organic Tomato ‘Koralik’ – Seeds
This early-cropping bushy variety, organic Tomato ‘Koralik’ has a well-branched habit and provides a fantastic summer harvest large cherry tomatoes which are simply bursting with flavour. Showing excellent blight resistance, this is a reliable choice for growing outdoors and will provide a long season of tasty tomatoes to use in salads, sauces, soups and sandwiches.
Foxglove lanata ‘Cafe Creme’ – Seeds
Also known as ?Woolly Foxglove?, the stunning coffee-coloured blooms of Foxglove lanata ‘Cafe Creme’ have a soft, fuzzy appearance. It?s easy to see how this unique variety got its name – most noteworthy is their unusual colouring – brown-hooded blooms with intricate vein markings appear to seep into the cream-coloured lower lip.
Lychnis coronaria ‘Dancing Ladies’ – Seeds
Lychnis coronaria ‘Dancing Ladies? is a colourful mix of Rose Campion that makes an eye-catching display in sunny beds and borders. Rosettes of silvery foliage produce upright silver-white stems topped with white, pink and rose-red flowers.
Poppy ‘Album’ – Seeds
This beautiful hardy annual bears its open, cup-shaped flowers from June to September above a basal rosette of blue-green foliage. Each delicate bloom is palest pink with contrasting lilac blotches at their centre. As the flowers fade, they are replaced by attractive seed heads that enclose the edible seed that can be used when baking
Viola hybrida ‘Miniola Heart Purple’ – Seeds
Whether you sow them for winter displays or late spring and summer colour, this cute Viola really packs a punch! Small flowers are borne in profusion above neat, branching stems and handsome, dark green foliage. The royal purple flowers each boast a contrasting golden face with delicate whisker-like markings.
Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Cupcakes White’ – Seeds
Pristine white petals are fused together to form a single cup that’s distinctly different to traditional daisy varieties. The unusual blooms of Cosmos ‘Cupcakes White’ float above fine, airy foliage, making this a real ‘head-turner’.
Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Lemonade™’ – Seeds
Where Cosmos ‘Xanthos’ improved, ‘Lemonade’ excels! Just look at these delicate, citrus yellow blossoms ? simply masses of them are produced throughout the summer on short, branching plants. Fantastic for patio pots or as a robust and oh-so-floriferous border filler! Create a stunning and eyecatching display where these delightful new cosmos can be fully appreciated.
