An attractive British spinach variety with the dark green of the leaves broken up by decorative red veining and stems which become more pronounced as the plant grows. This spinach looks as attractive in the vegetable patch as it does on the plate. The plants can be harvested early as baby leaves for use in salads as well as using the mature leaves. This variety has good mildew resistance and is packed full of vitamins and calcium and iron for health. ... Learn More

Confound your friends at dinner parties with "fruit" in the salad bowl! You can eat the leaves of the same plant like spinach. And the roots like radishes too!! This very quick growing and amusing plant produces little red "strawberries" all the way along its stems. ... Learn More

Red flowers grow into huge, very pretty, five-sectioned seed pods with red interiors, which can reach 12 cm in diameter and open along one side to release up to 40 very large, shiny, black edible seeds. This large deciduous tree with an attractive buttressed trunk is found in disturbed, evergreen forests from India to Burma and Malaysia. ... Learn More

The perpetual fruiting alpine strawberry produces a constant supply of small, but very sweet, bright red fruits, held dangling on long erect upright stems. This plant makes a solid clump and runs barely at all. Fruiting begins in early summer and often continues in a sheltered spot until the first frost of winter! Not to be confused with Fragaria vesca the "wild strawberry", both of which are good to eat! ... Learn More

Strawberry 'Mignonette' is a wood alpine strawberry that produces masses of dainty red, sweet berries all summer. The plants are bushy and don't produce any runners, making them ideal for containers and hanging baskets. If treated like a half-hardy annual and sown early under glass, these strawberries should flower and fruit the first year from seed. Fruits are borne throughout the summer and autumn and, being a perennial, plants fruit again in future years. They prefer a moist and shaded position, an advantage in itself as most gardens have such a spot hidden away. ... Learn More

This rare and incredibly delicious new fruit, ripening in spring and summer resembles a strawberry, but has a pineapple-like flavour. When ripe, this cross between Fragaria chiloensis and Fragaria virginiana, is a creamy-white, but has attractive red "seeds" patterned across its surface. It is exceptionally disease resistant, and when sold is very highly priced, having been first bred in South America around 2002. We believe we may have been the originators, as we collected seeds of Fragaria chiloensis on our seed collecting trip to the the Chilean Andes in 1994, seed collected on the beach sa ... Learn More

These ready-stratified seeds have been collected from the large, sweet, plump, juicy berries that have grown in our gardens for many years. These plants will soon spread by runners giving you fruit all summer long. Fruiting habits of many of these will vary too, giving you a longer season of fruit. ... Learn More

An excellent 'sweetheart' variety producing dark red sweet-tasting fruit on compact dark green plants. This variety is almost runner-less so is ideal for use in hanging baskets, grow bags or patio containers. ... Learn More

An incredible form of the perpetual fruiting alpine strawberry which stays white when it is ripe, the numerous pure white fruits being held erect on long stems. This plant makes a solid clump and runs barely at all. Just as sweet and juicy as the red form, and no race with the birds, who usually get to the ripe ones first, because they just cannot see and eat them! ... Learn More

Pure white sweet fruits ripen on this new variation of the more common red strawberry. Just as sweet and tasty as the ordinary red ones, they make an excellent talking point when friends eat the unexpectedly sweet "unripe" strawberry you offer them to try! Oh, and birds do not realise either, so they leave them alone here! ... Learn More

This is a spectacular and unusual variety of sunflower - stunning dark red flowers with dark brown centres on tall stems with oval to heart-shaped, toothed, hairy, dark green leaves . Brilliant for the back of borders and makes for a beautiful cut flower in your home. A favourite for children to grow. ... Learn More

A later blooming, beautiful sunflower with 5-6" (12-15cm) flowerheads of golden petals with a ring of red surrounding the chocolate brown centre. Heavily branching, each plant will provide a good number of blooms, perfect for cutting or for a fiery display in your border. If not cut, flowers may produce seeds for wildlife, another benefit to growing any sunflower. ... Learn More

Attractive racemes of dazzling, showy, bright red pea-like flowers, open over a long period, followed by sizeable, pink-tinged, bladdery, inflated seed capsules, which many children love to "pop" with an audible bang!Probably the most beautiful of any berry.. ... Learn More

This unusual Spencer Sweet Pea has exceptionally large, fragrant, bold, cherry red flowers, and it was specially bred to have up to 8 florets on long stems, making it ideal for cutting or for showing. ... Learn More

This incredible multi-coloured variety was developed from traditional Indian corn and produces long cobs with kernels of yellow, red, black, purple, pink, even marbled! The corn grows to of a height of between 1.5m and 2.0m. The cobs are often used for decorative purposes but the kernels are completely edible if you want a change from uniform cobs. In fact this makes great pop corn. Just brush the cob with butter and put the cob in a microwaveable dish with cling film on top into the microwave. ... Learn More