An exciting plant with masses of rich, golden, apricot-coloured fruit growing on compact pendulous trusses. It is best grown in a hanging basket or tall container when its cascading fruit can be ornamental as well as being sweet and tasty to eat. (Bush) ... Learn More

The ‘Velvet Red Tomato’ is almost too bizarre to be real, the leaves and stems of this extraordinary heirloom plant being a fuzzy silvery gray colour, whilst the skins of these scrumptious, supersweet little red cherry tomatoes are velvety! This is not only an ornamental plant, though, as the fruit is absolutely delicious. This spectacular novelty tomato, a great selection for a patio garden, grown from these rare seeds, might be the most beautiful ornamental vegetable you will ever grow and is guaranteed to turn heads! (SEMI-BUSH) ... Learn More

These attractive, small-to-medium, rounded, light creamy-yellow fruit have a superb spicy, sweet and very fruity flavour. This most unusual fruit has a fuzzy skin like a peach, and is named after the river in Iowa USA. (Cordon) ... Learn More

These parchment-white fruits, which are also known as 'Snowball', have a juicy texture and sweet, strong, ripe pineapple-like flavour when sliced. This one is almost ertainly the whitest and tastiest of the 19th century tomato heirlooms. (Cordon) ... Learn More

A very rare bush variety producing a huge yield of hundreds of creamy-yellow, (not white!) almost transparent, large-cherry-sized fruits with an exceptionally sweet taste, The sweetest we have ever tasted in fact!! These continue to grow and ripen, astonishingly, on and on, right into late autumn. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This rare treasure, a favourite of gourmet-growers, has parchment-white, almost seedless fruit, with extra smooth skin and a sweet rich and mild citrus-like flavour. An amazing heirloom that is bursting with fragrance, the vines setting very heavy yields, this plant has far outperformed other heirloom tomatoes and even some of the hybrids here. (Cordon) ... Learn More

These medium to large-sized, almost seedless, creamy-white fruits are exceptionally sweet with a high sugar content and have a smooth, mild flavour reminiscent of melon. (Cordon) ... Learn More

Making a distinctive colour-break, these medium sized white tomatoes have faint green stripes. A well as being a pleasure to the eye they also taste good, the elongated 4-6 oz globes having a good sweet flavour with moderate pulp. ... Learn More

These unusual tomatoes physically resemble sweet yellow bell peppers, and can actually be put to similar culinary uses! The walls are thick with three or four large cavities, and so can be emptied out, or even left as normal, as the shell holds its shape when baked or used with various stuffing mixes. Will fool your party guests when you serve them up! (Cordon) ... Learn More

The large, mild-to-sweet tasting, deep pink fruit are very attractive indeed, especially when sliced, with pronounced pleats and hollows within the flesh as illustrated. When sliced and arranged in a salad they always make a serious talking point, and this rare and quite astonishing tomato is sold at inflated prices in exotic fruit shops. It was named after the Zapotec people of Oaxaca, Mexico, who developed this attractive tomato. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This extremely rare plant is possibly not in cultivation and exists in profusion in just a few secret places in the southern Chilean Andes where these very few seeds have been grown in cultivation. Very perennial and hardy down to at least USA zone 8, it makes a steadily-increasing tuber which yearly produces scrambling stems bearing finely divided blue-green foliage beneath masses of five-petalled yellow flowers. In 1833 William Hooker and George Arnott described Tropaeolum polyphyllum subsp. gracile. This scarce plant, which resembles a dwarf T. polyphyllum both in growth and also smaller se ... Learn More

Sheets of dazzling scarlet flowers cascading amidst pretty, delicate, divided leaves, adorn this gorgeous plant throughout midsummer. This fabulous Chilean native prefers peat to be incorporated into the soil, when it will make countless, long-lived hardy tubers. It is happiest when planted under dark shrubs, when it will soon establish and scramble over them, especially boring evergreen ones that have either finished, or are yet to flower. Finally, in late summer and autumn, bright blue shiny berries are formed. Just a few hundred fresh seeds are collected here every autumn! We collect less a ... Learn More

Purple and white flowers adorn this aromatic herb, along with dark purple stems and narrow green leaves. Widely used for both culinary and health benefits, a valuable addition to any herb garden. It has a milder flavour when compared to sweet basil, and is used extensively in Thai and Vietnamese cookery.Prefers well-drained soil in full sun or can also be grown in pots on a sunny windowsill. ... Learn More

Splendidly fragrant cream coloured flowers, tinged with greenish yellow at the centre, are displayed on upright stems emerging from dusky-green fleshy foliage. A sweet almond-like fragrance emanates from the flower at evening time on this distant relative of the onion family, which will make a good addition to a rockery, or can be displayed perfectly in a good terracotta pot, where it will be happy in a conservatory or cold greenhouse. For best results keep the plant moist during spring summer but allow it dry out a little over winter. ... Learn More

This dwarf species from Iran and Turkey, with narrow leaves and bright golden yellow flowers which are bronzed on the outer side with reddish brown ribs, is a long-flowering miniature botanical tulip, which holds both its leaves & flowers close to the ground. April blooms are followed by ornamentally appealing seed heads. It is justly a recipient of the Award of Garden Merit. It is native to the northern shore of Lake Urumiya in Azarbaijan, and is named for that lake. It also grows along Lake Rezaiyeh in northwestern Iran. ... Learn More