Adzuki beans are prized in Asian cuisine, used in sweet and savory applications they are are complimented by warm spices and often used for celebratory and festival dishes. They cook quickly, and supply high quality protein, low in calories and fat but high in nutrients.

Alexanders are an ancient food source, cultivated for many centuries. This biennial wild flower, with dark green, shiny leaves and umbels of yellow-green flowers can be grown as an ornamental or can be put to use as a culinary herb or spice, the flavour is said to be similar to myrrh.

Micro Leaf and Sprouts represent the point of greatest vitality in the life cycle of a plant, and pound for pound, Alfalfa is one of the most nutritious foods that you can eat. This dainty, mild-flavoured vegetable lends a wispy, almost-crunchy health bite to salads and sandwiches.

Until a few years ago you would never have seen wild garlic on a menu, but these days is definitely a chefs' favourite. The whole plant is edible. The flavour is softer, more pleasant than cloves from garlic bulbs. The leaves have a vibrant colour that brings food to life.

Angelica archangelica is a majestic plant that deserves a prominent position at the back of a border or in a wild part of the garden. All parts of the aromatic plant have culinary or medicinal uses, but it is best known for its candied stems, used as a cake decoration.

Anise is a dainty, herbaceous plant most famous for the liquorice flavour of its leaves and seeds. Use the leaves fresh in salads and soups, and the seeds for flavouring cookies, pastries, and confections.

Large and tasty heads of green buds have made Green Globe Britain's most popular variety of Artichoke. They are perennial plants and will produce more heads with each successive year. This old heirloom variety is a great delicacy, steam or boil and serve with melted lemon butter or hollandaise sauce.

Artichoke ‘Violet de Provence’ is one of the most traditional of Italian vegetables. This delicious medium sized artichoke develops rich violet-purple headed globes. Few dishes are as satisfying to eat as the globe artichoke. Dip the leaves into warm balsamic-bacon dressing and fall in love with a little thistle!

The attractive Purple Globe artichoke is similar to the Green Globe, but with a finer flavour. Globe artichokes are perennial plants and will produce more heads with each successive year. They are a popular dual-purpose plant, being grown not only for food but often as borders in ornamental gardens.

Crimson Pacific produces high yields of even, purple spears that are sweeter and tender with very low fibre content. Thick, tasty, purple spears are produced in May and early June. This is a high yielding variety that is super sweet when cooked, they are so delicious they are good enough to eat raw.

Atlas F1 hybrid asparagus is an early maturing asparagus that producing high numbers of heavy dense spears with excellent disease resistance. This all male hybrid, usually only available from California growers produces green spears that have very tight heads under warm to hot growing conditions during harvest time.

Mary Washington is one of the most popular of all heirloom asparagus varieties and is an excellent choice for the garden. The delicious spears are tender, thick, heavy and straight and are of a rich dark green colour with a purple tinge. Produces uniform spears and a heavy yield.