Category Archives: Garden
Salad Leaves ‘Mesclun’ Mixed – Seeds
A mix of lettuce varieties for mixed salads, sandwiches and garnish.
Tomato ‘Rainbow Blend’ F1 Hybrid – Seeds
What more could you want from a tomato. Juicy, sweet and colourful! Simply stunning mix of four colours of ‘baby plums’ – Katiebell (yellow), Lizziebell (orange), Luciebell (red) and Flamingo (pink) – will make attractive and productive plants this summer. Contrasting fruit colours will add to the interest and taste of your salads, sauces and
Petunia x hybrida ‘Sparklers’ – Seeds
T&M is proud to bring you the first ever star-shaped petunia from seed. A white version of this uniquely-shaped flower was originally sent to us by a customer, Edward Cragen from Kent in 1998. After 10 years of breeding and many generations of selection, the perfect star shape was obtained as well as this fabulous
Sunflower ‘Russian Giant’ – Start-A-Garden? Seed Range
Easy to grow and a giant in sunflowers. Grows up to 3m (10ft) tall if given plenty of room and boasts eye-catching, huge yellow flowers up to 30cm (12in) in diameter. Excellent for the back of borders, ideal for children to grow and birds love the seeds and will feed from the flower heads in
Sweet Pea ‘Fragrant’ – Start-A-Garden? Seed Range
The best of the best, with exhilarating fragrance and colourful, fancy blooms. A traditional ‘Spencer’ type ideal for cutting, garden decoration or exhibiting. Superb for arches, trellises, obelisks, etc.
Stock ‘Night Scented’ – Start-A-Garden? Seed Range
Glorious evening fragrance from deliciously scented, lilac flowers which open in the evening. Simply scatter seed outdoors amongst borders and bedding to allow sweet scent to pervade your garden on summer nights. You can also add a little pinch to baskets and containers.
Wallflower ‘Sugar Rush’ F1 Hybrid – Seeds
Sugar Rush’ completely turns conventional wallflower growing on its head! Not only does this unique hybrid starts to flower in the autumn just 10 weeks after sowing, but will flower again in the spring after deadheading. Just the job for adding vibrant colour – as well as a wonderful fragrance – to your garden in
Sweet Pea ‘Robert Uvedale’ – Seeds
Named after the Enfield school master generally credited with introducing the sweet pea into England in 1699, ‘Robert Uvedale’ is a stunning pink sweet pea with large frilly blooms. Reputedly sent some seeds by the Italian naturalist, Francesco Cupani, Uvedale was apparently the first to grow sweet peas in the UK and the resulting luxuriously
Petunia hybrida ‘Purple Tower’ F1 hybrid – Seeds
We believe that this is the fastest climbing petunia available from seed – easily reaching the top of a 120-180cm climbing frame by the end of the summer. Extremely vigorous and very free-flowering, ‘Purple Tower’ is from T&M’s own breeding and can also be used as fragrant ground cover where it will spread to 120cm
Nasturtium ‘Rumba Mix’ – Seeds
This vibrant colour combination of reds and peach shades is set off perfectly by the dark foliage of this fine nasturtium. Plants are easy to sow and grow in borders and containers where the single and semidouble blooms will flower all summer.
Nasturtium ‘Firebird’ – Seeds
You get twice the display with this fantastic hanging-basket nasturtium – its flowers boast a spectacular colour range and its unusual variegated foliage is stunning too. Naturally trailing and easy to grow, ‘Firebird’ will ignite your hanging baskets, containers and window boxes with its long-flowering and colourful blooms.
Lavender ‘Mini Blue’ – Seeds
Perfect for containers and for use as a neat edging plant, here’s a dwarf first-year-flowering perennial lavender. The compact, yet bushy plants enjoy a position in full sun where they quickly become covered with masses of highly fragrant blue flowers. Impressive garden performance and very floriferous.
Larkspur ‘Fancy Purple Picotee’ – Seeds
An easy-to-sow-and-grow annual producing eye-catching and unusual bicolour blooms on tall flower spikes. These strong and sturdy stems with their fancy purple and blue picotee flowers look fabulous in the back of summer borders and make impressive and long-lasting cut flowers too.
Lettuce ‘Mazur’ (Loose-Leaf) – Seeds
Truly outstanding in our trials, this voluminous green-leaved lettuce produces an abundance of thick, crunchy leaves that you can keep on picking all summer. As an added bonus, Mazur is tipburn and bolting tolerant and offers excellent resistance to downy mildew. Height: 20cm (8). Spread: 30cm (12).
Dianthus ‘Rainbow Loveliness Improved Mixed’ – Seeds
Years of selection means that we’re now able to offer customers this very pretty and unusual-looking dianthus. Vastly improved, this incredibly fragrant variety offers better colours, including some bicolours as well as top-quality fringed flowers. ‘Loveliness’ will flower in its first year if sown by the end of February, and will bloom all summer long
Dianthus barbatus ‘Kaleidoscope Mixed’ – Seeds
Create an ever-changing kaleidoscope of colour with this striking mixture. Florets within each bloom change colour as the flower matures, from pink to bicolour to white producing a fabulous display in the garden as well as an attractive cut flower. Will flower in its first year from a Jan/Feb sowing or can be sown in
Turnip ‘Golden Ball’ – Seeds
Turnip ‘Golden Ball’ delivers an exceptionally long cropping season of uniform round roots with buttery yellow flesh, perfect for use in hearty stews, casseroles and soups. Sow this very hardy variety successively and enjoy a harvest which lasts from summer through to winter.
Tomato ‘Rosella’ – Seeds
With its high levels of sweetness and acidity as well as its unusual dark colouring, ‘Rosella’ is in a class of its own. The unique rich rose-pink skin colour with smoky overtones, along with its delicious dark flesh make this fabulous variety the one to grow this year. Compound trusses produce long branching racemes of
Tomato ‘Green Envy’ F1 Hybrid – Seeds
Don’t be put off by their colour, you’ll love their taste! With a delicate, sweet, lingering flavour, the colouring of these striking green tomatoes become slightly translucent when fruits are ripe. Abundant clusters of grape-sized, 30g (1oz) fruits are produced throughout the summer.
Onion ‘Kappa’ – Seeds
The cylindrical shape of these brown-skinned onions means that they can be grown at closer spacings than traditional bulb onions. Flesh is firm, white and crisp, lending itself to uniform slicing that’s ideal for tasty burger toppings, salads and perfect onion rings. Good storage potential.
