Hollyhocks are almost as easy to grow as sunflowers and would probably be grown as often if more gardeners were aware of their good nature. The dramatic, near-black flowers of Nigra are best praised by being grown.
The handsome spherical, violet-blue flowers of Echinops ritro have a metallic lustre and are softer than they look. An unusual colour and structure they are a great conversation piece and an excellent dried flower.
A classic Wallflower mixture with the super rich colours you'd expect to see in a Persian Carpet. The blooms have a delightful scent. It is not without reason that this sturdy, bushy variety so impressed RHS judges.
Until recently Cavolo Nero was one of Italy's best kept secrets. Immune to most of the diseases that trouble brassicas and extremely cold hardy, it will tolerate conditions that would make most brassicas keel over.
Known as Baby or Dwarf Pak Choi, Taiteki White Stem has a compact habit. This fast growing vegetable can be harvested at any growth stage, for eating as 'baby leaf, or left to mature to thick succulent white stems.
This incredibly succulent, melt in your mouth raw salad green is gaining popularity in the gourmet greens world. Winter Purslane brings a lovely rich, tart-creaminess to salads.
Coleus Black Dragon forms a riot of velvety purplish black, rumpled leaves and are deal for containers or grown as a house plant. Fairly vigorous, they make invaluable fillers and will quickly fill a gap with style.
Sorrel De Belleville is a small French cultivar with a good lemon flavour. Wonderful in salads and most delicious when cooked. Embarrassingly easy to grow, it needs no attention other than when you want to eat it.
Tomato "Tiny Tim" is a surprisingly tiny plant, it can be grown as a potted plant anytime of the year. The fruit is juicy and has very good sweet/tart tomato flavours. Perfect for wherever garden space is limited
Digitalis ferruginea is an interesting and exotic looking foxglove. With elegant, leafy spires and closely packed golden blooms, each orchid-like flower has an interior of rich red-brown veins.
With more colours than Joseph’s Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Swiss Chard "Bright Lights" is so beautiful to look at that its easy to forget that its real strength is as a vegetable.
Camomile is a most useful plant. While it can be used to make beautiful lawns and raised beds, an infusion of the plant is also an ideal family remedy and is effective in preventing damping-off.
Spinach are on the ‘easy to grow’ list of home gardening, F1 Emilia is even easier than most and suitable for both baby leaf or for use as regular spinach. Excellent tasting with beautiful round, dark green leaves.
Geranium phaeum ‘Samobor’ has considerable charm, with luxurious, deep maroon-black flowers. This beautiful hardy geranium is loved for its amazing deeply scalloped foliage with beautiful dark markings
Savoy cabbage is the most tender and sweet of the cabbage varieties. The very old heritage variety ‘Ormskirk’ gives a delicious fine head of cabbage, solid in the centre with deep blue-green outer crinkly leaves.
Zefa Fino is a superior strain of fennel that is ideal for cool climates and the best fennel for garden use. It stays small, will bulb reliably and keeps its succulent texture. RHS AGM.
The old English wallflower is making a comeback, and no wonder. Blood Red with astonishing, deep crimson, velvet flowers. Ideal for borders and edging, they could also be used in containers. and of course, walls!
Tatsoi or Rosette Pak Choi, with its spoon-shaped, dark green, evenly spaced leaves that form beautiful wide rosettes of regular, concentric circles is worthy to be grown for its decorative value alone.
Gardeners have always enjoyed phlox. The perennial Hybrids Mix has large flower clusters that are a beauty to behold. The colours are wonderful, the fragrance is captivating and they are very easy to grow.
Verbena bonariensis is a sight to behold when butterflies are fluttering gleefully about it. A graceful counterpart to larger flowers, it invariably compliments the landscape without overwhelming any of it.
Spinach 'F1 Primo' is a beautiful dark green variety with oval-round leaves it is early, slow bolting and resistant to downy mildew. Suitable for spring and autumn cropping. Organic Seed.
Watercress has recently risen to a starring role in elaborate culinary preparations. This highly nutritious aquatic herb has a lovely mustardy bite most commonly served raw as a garnish or as part of a salad.
Good King Henry was once a common sight in every garden. He may have lost his court and become something of a rarity today, but this unique herb has much to offer to the home or cottage gardener.
Crambe maritima is a lovely dual purpose plant. Forced Seakale is a delicacy from the olden days with a unique delicate flavour. It can be grown as a border plant, with the most beautiful of all large glaucous leaves.
Nepeta faassenii is a dwarf catmint with open drifts of hazy blue flowers. It makes a lovely informal edging plant. When it's trodden underfoot the cascading foliage releases an intoxicating aroma.
If more people tasted home grown Purple Sprouting Broccoli they would surely cultivate it. You would see it on London balconies, in country herbaceous borders and standing proud in every kitchen garden in the land.
Winnigstadt is an heirloom cabbage that owes its longevity to its fine, sweet flavour. The tightly wrapped leaves encase a firm, pointed heart. Organic seed available.
‘Oregon Sugar Pod’ Pea is an extremely hardy Mange Tout. This high yielding bush variety, grows to only 90 to 120cm tall. The pods are sweet, crisp and full of flavour. Bulk Packs available.
Unless you have tasted the stunning sweetness of a carrot pulled from your own garden in the dead of winter, you haven’t really tasted a carrot. Autumn King resists splitting and stores well just left in the ground.
The Pyrethrum daisy is a remarkable plant. This unassuming, attractive member of the daisy family bears numerous flowers, but however lovely this simple plant is in the garden, it real strengths are as an insecticide.
Stocks are among our oldest garden flowers. They enchant us with their colours and their clove-like fragrance. The Miracle series, with large flower heads and upright stems is specifically cultivated for cutting.
Unlike many other dramatic flowers that are simpler to admire than to actually grow, hollyhocks need no coddling. Large single flowers from deep red to rose grace this lovely plant from summer right through to autumn.
Hollyhocks are almost as easy to grow as sunflowers and would probably be grown as often if more gardeners were aware of their good nature. The dramatic, near-black flowers of Nigra are best praised by being grown.
Welcome to Seedaholic
Our new online catalogue is packed with a huge variety of flower and vegetable seeds from the common of garden everyday varieties to the hard to get exotics. We are particularly interested in Natives and Wildflowers and are striving to ever expand our range.
Each pack of seeds comes with an informative sheet with comprehensive growing instructions, tips and any interesting information that we can find.
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