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No. of Varieties: 81
Wild thyme

Thymus serpyllum is one of the most versatile groundcovers. Forming dense evergreen cushions of flowers these low maintenance plants don’t require mowing, watering or care, and can take a lot of abuse. Its leaves can be used as a culinary herb and its uses in the garden are almost unlimited.

Price range: €2.75 through €9.75

Absinthium, Absinthe Wormwood

Wormwood is best known as the primary ingredient in absinthe, but is also an exceptionally versatile herb. As well as being an attractive plant to look at, this ancient crop has been used for centuries as a moth repellent, general pesticide and as a spray to repel slugs and snails.

Holy Ghost, Archangelica officinalis

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.

Artichoke

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!

Goose Egg, Eggplant
Historically, White Aubergines were some of the first types to be found in cultivation in Asia. Today they are still relatively rare, but they are experiencing a wave of popularity as more chefs and home cooks search for diversity in their produce. Organic Seed.
Chicory / Radicchio, Late variety.
Heritage (Italian 18th C.)

Chicory Variegata di Castelfranco has a beautiful form with wavy leaves that are flecked with purple. Incredibly hardy and totally invaluable, this traditional variety is one of the easiest to grow at any time in the year.

Seakale, Wildflower of Britain and Ireland
Ancient Crop.

Crambe maritima is a lovely dual purpose plant. This delicacy from the olden days has a unique delicate flavour, forced Seakale is a real delicacy. In the garden, it can be grown as an eye-catching and fragrant border plant. It has perhaps the most beautiful of all large glaucous leaves

Cardoon
If you’re an adventurous gardener, cook, or gastronome, then you’ll want to grow cardoons. Besides being a dramatic statement in your flower border. it will bring to you a flavour that is truly unique in the vegetable world. Organic Seeds. RHS AGM. Organic Seed.
Chinese leek, Oriental garlic chives, Ku chai, Koo chye or Gau choy

A relatively new vegetable in the English-speaking world but well-known in Asian cuisine, the flavour of garlic chives is more like garlic than chives, though much milder. Both leaves and the stalks of the flowers are used a stir fry ingredient. The flowers may also be used as a spice.

Blue Hyssop
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland
Hyssop famously attracts bees, hover-flies and butterflies. It makes excellent honey and is a must for any wildflower garden. Some beekeepers rub the hive with it to encourage the bees to keep to their home. In cooking, use the same way you would Rosemary. Organic Seed.
Pink Hyssop

Hyssopus officinalis ‘Alba’ is a much less well known variety of hyssop. Also known as ‘White Hyssop’ the plants sport bright white flowers from July to October. Widely used as a ‘taste enhancing’ herb or wildlife plant, the plants are a dark, vibrant green with a spiky, upright habit and narrow tongue-like leaves which have a peppery scent when stroked.

Blue Hyssop
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland

Hyssop is a strong-flavoured aromatic herb which is enjoying a revival with home gardeners. An ideal plant for use in containers or as a low hedge or border within the herb garden. Highly attractive to bees, it makes excellent honey and is a must for any wildflower garden.

Summer Marjoram

Members of the oregano family are an essential plant for a well-stocked, sunny herb garden. Fragrant and very decorative, Sweet Marjoram is an essential culinary herb, good with veal, beef, lamb, roast poultry and fish. The leaves are best used fresh, as their flavour is sweeter and milder.

Caucasus Catmint

Nepeta grandiflora is a superb catnip garden performer and one of the best garden plants in this family. ‘Border Ballet’ is a striking new catmint, lusher than true catnip, with dark green leaves. It flowers in shades of blue and pink in perfect harmony. This easy to sow and grow perennial flowers in the first year of sowing.

Japanese Bunching Onion, Naga Negi
Bunching onion “Ishikura” is a outstanding variety of that does not bulb but forms long white stalks. It is a perennial variety that is cold hardy, very adaptable to various climates and resistant to pink root and botrytis leaf blight. It is suitable for later crops and for overwintering.
Japanese Bunching Onion, Naga Negi
Bunching onion ‘Ishikura’ is a outstanding variety of that does not bulb but forms long white stalks. It is a perennial variety that is cold hardy, very adaptable to various climates and resistant to pink root and botrytis leaf blight. It is suitable for later crops and for overwintering.
Summer Purslane, Garden purslane.
Ancient Crop. In use since the 1600's

This highly esteemed ancient crop can be used raw in salads, sautéed as a side dish or cooked like spinach. Summer Purslane has a crispy texture you would expect from a succulent and an interesting nutty, peppery flavour. It is salty on the tongue.

Cultivated Rocket,
Arugula, Roquette, Rucola, Rugula

Rocket ‘Pronto’ is a very attractive and fast growing salad rocket. A clear improvement to regular varieties, the highly serrated leaves resemble the shape of wild rocket yet are mildly spicy with a nutty, light peppery flavour. Ideal as a bed for seafood and it also makes a wonderful salad on its own.

Arugula, Roquette, Rucola, Rugula

Rocket ‘Sorrento’ is a reliable main season variety with distinct thick leaf and strongly erect plant habit. A little slower to mature with good field holding ability for summer and autumn crops, the plants are more upright, and bolting is slower than with standard wild rocket. Use as a baby leaf in salad mixes, it will ‘cut and come again’ two to three times.

Arugula, Roquette, Rucola, Rugula

This trendy Wasabi Rocket actually has the punchy flavour of Wasabi – a Japanese vegetable much like horseradish. It can be picked from microleaf, babyleaf or a larger rocket sized leaf. Easy to grow and packs a full flavoured punch with the unusual flavour of wasabi. .

Herb Rosemary

A fresh twist on a classic, Rosemary ‘Rosy’ keeps all the familiar virtues of this herb garden favourite but dresses them in soft pink. Neatly branching plants carry slender, aromatic leaves and, from early spring, are studded with clouds of small rose-pink flowers that hum with bees and other pollinators.

Bloody Sorrel

Red Veined Sorrel is valued for its bright lime-green leaves with dark red veins. One of the earliest green crops and embarrassingly easy to grow, it needs no attention other than when you want to eat it. Organic Seed.

Alpine Strawberry

This wonderful heritage variety of alpine Strawberry produces loads of little red strawberries that are bursting with flavour. Much sweeter than their traditional commercial cousins they possess a fine, old fashioned flavour. Plants have compact growth with few runners. An alpine Strawberry that is very hard to find, excellent for high altitude climates!

Thyme de Provence

Aromatic French Summer Thyme has more narrow, pointed leaves with a bit of a grey tint. The famed culinary thyme from France, it is higher in essential oil content than other varieties and reputedly the most flavoursome Thyme you can grow with a stronger and sweeter taste.

Orange Thyme, Fragrant Thyme

Orange Scented Thyme is a useful and versatile plant, the leaves are extremely fragrant with a delicious scent of balsam and oranges. An excellent herb, they blend their essence with both savory and sweet dishes to create some memorable flavours.

Price range: €2.75 through €9.75