Ornamental Bed or Potager
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Pepper, Sweet Pepper 'Corno di Toro Giallo'
‘Horn of the Bull’. Heritage (Italian)€2.25Corno di Toro Giallo peppers have thin skin and thick walls and ripen to a golden-yellow. With a sweet, crisp, full-bodied flavour they are so popular that they have spawned an almost fanatical following. -
Pepper, Sweet Pepper 'Corno di Toro Rosso'
‘Horn of the Bull’. Heritage (Italian)€2.25With a sweet, crisp, full-bodied flavour and a full, tapered shape, the gorgeous deep crimson sweet pepper ‘Horn of the Bull’ grow up to 25cm long. These uncommon peppers are a traditional favorite of Italy. Suitable for the greenhouse or outdoors. -
Pepper, Sweet Pepper 'Golden Marconi'
Sweet Pepper€1.95Out of stock
Incredibly sweet and beautiful, Sweet Pepper 'Golden Marconi’ have a wonderful taste and feature sweet skin, medium thick flesh and a mild and juicy flavour. The vigorous, productive plants produce long and slender fruits that are tapered to a blunt end. The fruits look elegantly beautiful on the plant.
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Pepper, Sweet Pepper 'Marconi Red'
Sweet Pepper, Red Horn Pepper€1.95Sweet Pepper ‘Marconi Red’ is an Italian bred variety. Maturing a little later than regular bell peppers, they produce much sweeter and tastier fruits. This variety is often used for roasting and frying but also tastes wonderful when eaten fresh. It grows very well in unheated greenhouses or in pots on a sunny patio.
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Perilla, Shiso ‘Akajiso’ Red Leaf
Japanese or Chinese Basil, Purple Mint.€2.20Out of stock
Shiso ‘Akajiso’ the red leaf variety of Perilla is used extensively in Japan to season vegetables, rice, soups, fish, etc. It has a wonderful complex aroma, the taste is almost always said to be quite hard to describe - the words cinnamon, basil, anise, and citrus pop up in the attempts. -
Perilla, Shiso ‘Aoshiso’ Green Leaf
Japanese or Chinese Basil€2.20Out of stock
Shiso ‘Aoshiso’ leaves make for exquisite decoration. It is finely sliced with ginger and added to salads, sautéed vegetables, sashimi, tempura and sushi. Available either red or green, the red having more of an anise flavour and slightly less spicy than the green variety, which tastes more like cinnamon.
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Perilla, Shiso ‘Hojiso’ Bi-coloured Leaf
Perilla 'Britton' or 'Briton'
Japanese or Chinese Basil€2.20Sometimes referred to as Perilla 'Britton' and called ‘Hojiso’ in Japan, this less typical form of Perilla has beautiful bi-coloured leaves. The serrated, red-veined leaves are green on top and deep purple-red underneath.
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Punica granatum var. nana 'Dwarf Pomegranate'
Punica granatum nana€2.95Out of stock
The Dwarf Pomegranate is one of the best compact, ornamental shrubs for courtyards and small gardens, its compact size makes it suitable to containers. Producing breathtaking orange/red trumpet-shaped flowers which are followed by orange/red fruit.Pycnanthemum pilosum 'Mountain Mint'
American Mountain Mint€1.95This attractive plant will be equally at home in the flower border or keeping company with the sage and thyme in your herb garden. Delightfully aromatic, the floral-peppermint scent is subtly different from other mints. Mountain mint is a great nectar plant, its honey is much sought after.
Rocket, Wild Rocket 'Olive Leaf'
A Foglia Di Olivo, Wild Rocket
Roquette, Rucola, Rugula€1.75Relatively unknown to our shores, Rocket ‘Olive Leaf’ is an excellent selection of the traditional Italian olive leaf wild rocket. With a beautiful light green colour and smooth shape similar to an olive leaf, this perennial form has a distinctive aroma and flavour that is more subtle than the usual wild rockets.
Rosemary, Rosmarinus officianalis
Herb Rosemary€2.10Rosemary can be used for ornamental, culinary and medicinal purposes. The aromatic, evergreen shrub, native to the dry hills of southern Europe and North Africa, can be grown as a clipped hedge, along the edge of a retaining wall, pruned and shaped as topiaries and as a container patio plant.
Sage, Salvia officinalis
Common, Kitchen, Garden Sage€2.10Salvia officianalis, as the Latin name implies, is the original aromatic foliage used for centuries to flavour stuffing, meats and even make sage tea. Good with cheese and is often combined with thyme and used with beans and in soups, of course, nothing says stuffing like good old Garden Sage.
Salad Burnet
Formerly known as Sanguisorba minor
Ancient Herb€1.85Out of stock
Salad Burnet is a wonderful old herb that makes a great addition to any garden. It was planted along pathways 'to perfume the air most delightfully, being trodden on and crushed', the delicate leaves have a subtle cucumber flavour and today are used in salads, as a flavouring and to add interest to cold drinks.
Sanguisorba officinalis
Greater Burnet, Di-Yu
Ancient Herb, WIldflower of Britain and Ireland€2.00Out of stock
Sanguisorba officinalis is a native of Europe and an old-world herb that is currently enjoying a resurgence in popularity thanks to the revival of interest in perennial gardens and naturalised form of planting. Perfect for natural style planting schemes, it looks right at home in a swaying sea of grasses.
Saponaria officinalis, Soapwort
Bouncing Bet, Fuller's Herb€2.35Cleanliness is next to godliness even in history. For centuries Saponaria officinalis has helped keep us clean while providing a little loveliness in our gardens. The flowers are an important nectar source and emit a pleasant and intriguing clove-like scent, seducing both night moths and butterfly species.
Sorrel, Red Veined
Bloody Sorrel€2.00Out of stock
A most attractive selection 'Red Veined' Sorrel is valued for its pointed and bright lime-green leaves with dark red veins, and because of its low-growing habit it makes a nice border plant or garden accent. It looks right at home in a flower border or container if you don't have space for a vegetable patch.
Sorrel, Red Veined, Organic
Bloody Sorrel€2.45Out of stock
'Red Veined' Sorrel is valued for its pointed and bright lime-green leaves. It is one of the earliest green crops and can even withstand freezing winters. Once established, it can be treated as a 'cut and come again' crop and should produce greens for 8 to 10 years. Organic Seed.Spinach, Mexican Tree Spinach
Micro Glitter Spinach€1.95Mexican Tree Spinach is the latest ‘new’ arrival on the veg-growing scene. With a hundred different names including 'Micro Glitter Spinach' - this is a beautiful plant to have in the garden or allotment. Vivid pink tinged triangular bright green leaves with each new set of leaves blushed a shocking magenta.
Strawberry Spinach, 'Strawberry Sticks'
Strawberry Sticks, Beetberry, Strawbini€2.10'Strawberry Spinach' or 'Strawberry Sticks' is a curious plant that is enjoying something of a resurgence, The berries make a colourful and edible accent in the garden and in salads and the greens are deliciously edible in salads or as a pot herb.Strawberry Spinach, 'Strawberry Sticks', Organic
Strawberry Sticks, Beetberry, Strawbini€2.95Out of stock
'Strawberry Spinach' or 'Strawberry Sticks' is a curious plant that is enjoying something of a resurgence, The berries make a colourful and edible accent in the garden and in salads and the greens are deliciously edible in salads or as a pot herb. Organic Seed.Sweet Annie, Artemisia annua
Sweet wormwood, Qing Hao€2.45Artemisia annua, commonly called Sweet Annie is a graceful annual with tall stems with fine bright green ferny foliage. With sweetly fragrant foliage it has a wide variety of uses both medicinal and for handcrafting but is most often grown for fresh and dried arrangements.
Sweet Cicely, Myrrhis odorata
Garden Myrh, Anise€2.35Sweet Cicely is an attractive plant that is a striking component of herb gardens and hedgerows. Growing to around 90cm, umbels of tiny white flowers appear from spring to early summer. Formerly a widely cultivated culinary herb, the fern-like leaves are deeply divided and smell of aniseed when crushed.