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Agastache foeniculum
Anise Hyssop. Syn: Agastache anisata, Agastache anethiodora,€1.98Agastache foeniculum is a perennial herb that tastes as good as it looks and are as popular in the border as they are in the herb garden. They are excellent design plants, exhibiting a strong vertical accent for the perennial border. Bees hold an undisputed attraction for the flowers, the colour, shape and copious amounts of nectar are among their favourites. This is perhaps one of the most gratifying plants you can grow.
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Agastache foeniculum, Organic
Anise Hyssop. Syn: Agastache anisata, Agastache anethiodora,€2.10Agastache foeniculum is a perennial herb that tastes as good as it looks and are as popular in the border as they are in the herb garden. They are excellent design plants, exhibiting a strong vertical accent for the perennial border. Bees hold an undisputed attraction for the flowers, the colour, shape and copious amounts of nectar are among their favourites. This is perhaps one of the most gratifying plants you can grow. Organic Seed.
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Agastache rugosa, ‘Liquorice Blue’ Organic
Korean Mint,€2.34Agastache 'Liquorice Blue' has tall spikes of lavender to rich purpley blue lipped flowers, above toothed dark green arrow shaped foliage. When brushed past or crushed, the foliage emits a sweet liquorice perfume. A wonderful plant for attracting bees and butterflies to the garden. Organic seeds.
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Alexanders, Smyrnium olusatrum
Alisanders, Black Lovage
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland€2.94Alexanders 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.
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Allium ursinum
Ramsons Garlic, Wild Garlic, Broad Leaved Garlic
Wildflower of Britain and IrelandStarting at: €1.80
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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.
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Amaranth 'Green Giant'
Calaloo , Chinese Spinach, Yin choi, Lin Choi€1.50Amaranth 'Green Giant' is a vigorous selection that produces slightly savoyed, large mid green leaves. The popular Calaloo in Caribbean cuisine, the leaves have a mild spinach flavour and can be harvested when plants are just 20cm tall.
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Amaranth 'Passion'
Chinese Spinach, Yin choi, Lin Choi€1.74Amaranth 'Passion' has attractive oval, mid-green leaves that are streaked through with shades of red and purple. Easy to grow and tolerant of wide-ranging conditions. Its soft leaves are a great addition to salads and, like spinach they melt delectably when cooked. The plants are very ornamental and also look good in the border
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Amaranth 'Red Army'
Chinese Spinach, Calaloo, Yin choi, Lin Choi€1.50Most gardeners are familiar with ornamental amaranth, but few realise that this plant is a delicious nutritional powerhouse. In the hot summer months, when growing spinach is near impossible, amaranth thrives. A favorite with chefs, Amaranth tricolor ‘Red Army’ is an intense cherry red selection with a delicate pea-like flavour. Use at babyleaf stage for salad or garnish, or leave to mature for steamed vegetable or soups.
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Angelica archangelica
Holy Ghost, Archangelica officinalis€1.68Out of stock
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.
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Anise, Pimpinella anisum
Anís, Aniseed€1.14Out of stock
Anise, Pimpinella anisum is one of the oldest known herbs, famous for its liquorice flavour it has assumed a popular stature for both its culinary uses and in herbal medicine. Use seeds for flavouring cookies, pastries, and confections and the leaves fresh in salads and soups.
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Anise, Pimpinella anisum, Organic
Anís, Aniseed€1.86Anise 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. Organic Seed.
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Artichoke 'Arad' Organic
Artichoke€2.70Out of stock
A newly bred variety specifically for organic growers, Artichoke Arad has a short vernalisation period and can be grown as annual in one season. The plants are compact and nearly spineless.
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Artichoke 'Green Globe'
Artichoke (Heritage, pre 1600's)€1.50Large and tasty heads of green buds have made Green Globe one of the most popular varieties 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.
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Artichoke 'Tavor' Organic
Artichoke€2.70Out of stock
Artichoke ‘Tavor’ is a vigorous re-selection of Green Globe that provides a much easier growing experience. A thornless green globe variety, this 'new' variety is fast growing, often cropping in the first year, and with improved cold tolerance it is more productive in subsequent years. Organic seed.
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Artichoke 'Violet de Provence'
Artichoke€1.86Artichoke ‘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!
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Asparagus 'Connover’s Colossal'
Heritage (USA 1870's)€1.74One of the most sought-after vegetables and one of the great luxuries of the vegetable plot, much of the mystique surrounding their cultivation is unwarranted. 'Connover's Colossal' is a traditional cultivar with good yields from selected crowns.
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Asparagus 'Crimson Pacific'
Purple Asparagus.€2.70Out of stock
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.
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Asparagus 'Early Argenteuil'
Precoce D'Argentuil,
Heritage (France 1885)€1.98Earlier and hardier than most varieties, Asparagus 'Precoce D'Argentuil’ is an excellent choice for the impatient gardener. Highly esteemed for its thick, rose-purple spears with tender tips and an excellent flavour. In France it is the traditional variety used to create the popular white asparagus.
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Asparagus 'Mary Washington'
Heritage (USA 1949)€1.50Mary 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.
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Aubergine 'Black Beauty'
Eggplant. Heritage (USA 1910)€1.50Black Beauty was introduced about 1910 and has long been popular with home gardeners. An excellent quality variety, early to mature it gives and abundant crop of tasty fruits that are clear of the ground. Sturdy plants produce high yields of glossy, purple-black, pear-shaped fruit.
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Aubergine 'Black Beauty' Organic
Eggplant. Heritage (USA 1910)€2.10Black Beauty is an excellent quality variety producing sturdy plants that give high yields of 10 to 15cm glossy, purple-black, pear-shaped fruit. Early and prolifically it will crop in 78 days. Three plants will keep a family of four in aubergines from July until late autumn.
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Aubergine 'Bonica F1'
Eggplant€2.22Out of stock
Enduringly popular, Aubergine ‘F1 Bonica’ is an early maturing variety that performs well in difficult growing seasons. It reliably produces flavoursome, oval fruits with beautiful glossy purple skins. Ideal for the greenhouse, it will also do well in containers.
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Aubergine 'Emerald Isle F1'
Patio Eggplant€2.82Out of stock
Aubergine 'Emerald Isle F1' is an unique variety bred specifically for container production. Its compact habit makes it a perfect choice for mixed flower and vegetable planters. It is a prolific variety that produces pale green fruits with dark green veining should be harvested when 7 to 10cm in size.
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Aubergine 'Giotto F1'
Eggplant€1.98Out of stock
Aubergine 'Giotto F1' produces rounded oval fruits of a glossy dark violet colour. It is an excellent variety for indoor or outdoor cultivation. This disease resistant variety has upright foliage that aids ventilation. It also has good resistance to handling marks and oxidation when cut.