This unusual strawberry, a rare variant of the alpine strawberry, bears beautiful golden ornamental foliage, which will brighten up the darkest spot in your garden. It will also produce a long succession of sweet, tasty fruits throughout the summer. ... Learn More

Strawberry 'Mignonette' is a wood alpine strawberry that produces masses of dainty red, sweet berries all summer. The plants are bushy and don't produce any runners, making them ideal for containers and hanging baskets. If treated like a half-hardy annual and sown early under glass, these strawberries should flower and fruit the first year from seed. Fruits are borne throughout the summer and autumn and, being a perennial, plants fruit again in future years. They prefer a moist and shaded position, an advantage in itself as most gardens have such a spot hidden away. ... Learn More

Good grief! By far the largest strawberry we have ever seen, this really is a monster. Only a few apple-sized fruits are produced, but their size more than makes up for their small number. Grow them in a well prepared and manured bed as you would a marrow. Very few good seeds collected. ... Learn More

This rare and incredibly delicious new fruit, ripening in spring and summer resembles a strawberry, but has a pineapple-like flavour. When ripe, this cross between Fragaria chiloensis and Fragaria virginiana, is a creamy-white, but has attractive red "seeds" patterned across its surface. It is exceptionally disease resistant, and when sold is very highly priced, having been first bred in South America around 2002. We believe we may have been the originators, as we collected seeds of Fragaria chiloensis on our seed collecting trip to the the Chilean Andes in 1994, seed collected on the beach sa ... Learn More

These ready-stratified seeds have been collected from the large, sweet, plump, juicy berries that have grown in our gardens for many years. These plants will soon spread by runners giving you fruit all summer long. Fruiting habits of many of these will vary too, giving you a longer season of fruit. ... Learn More

An excellent 'sweetheart' variety producing dark red sweet-tasting fruit on compact dark green plants. This variety is almost runner-less so is ideal for use in hanging baskets, grow bags or patio containers. ... Learn More

This true wild strawberry, one of the parents of all cultivated varieties, produces uncountable masses of small but very sweetly-flavoured fruits from early summer until late autumn. Making a very low, steadily-running carpet of fruit, is perpetual fruiting and gives a constant supply of fruits unlike the larger cultivated forms. For a never-before-experienced treat, collect a small bowl full, leave them for an hour or so in a warm place, then smell them. You will experience a perfume like no other! It may self-seed into places where it is happy ensuring fruit all summer long. In the wild it ... Learn More

An incredible form of the perpetual fruiting alpine strawberry which stays white when it is ripe, the numerous pure white fruits being held erect on long stems. This plant makes a solid clump and runs barely at all. Just as sweet and juicy as the red form, and no race with the birds, who usually get to the ripe ones first, because they just cannot see and eat them! ... Learn More

This is an exceptionally easy-to-grow, yellow-fleshed variety, providing great winter crops of sweet and tasty purple-skinned roots. It is very winter hardy and has resistance to powdery mildew and club root, for healthy and reliable harvests. It is a delicious sweet veg that is a great addition to the winter dinner plate, either roasted, steamed, or mashed with butter & pepper, or even in large chunks in a stew. The tasty leaves can also be used & harvested a few at a time, and treated like a ‘cut & come’ again cabbage. It has a long harvest period from November to February and stores well in ... Learn More

This incredible multi-coloured variety was developed from traditional Indian corn and produces long cobs with kernels of yellow, red, black, purple, pink, even marbled! The corn grows to of a height of between 1.5m and 2.0m. The cobs are often used for decorative purposes but the kernels are completely edible if you want a change from uniform cobs. In fact this makes great pop corn. Just brush the cob with butter and put the cob in a microwaveable dish with cling film on top into the microwave. ... Learn More

A sugar-enhanced mid-season sweetcorn variety, this is very reliable, heavy cropping and has an incredible flavour! The plants show good tolerance of common rust helping to keep plants healthy during wet summers. ... Learn More

Minipop is delicious lightly steamed or stir-fried, and is also lovely raw in dips or salads as pre-dinner dips. It does not need to be sown in blocks and should be harvested when the silk tassels begin to show prior to pollination. ... Learn More

Very tasty with large dark green, savoyed leaves and a broad white rib. A good alternative to spinach with the advantage that the leaves retain their volume when cooked. Very easy to grow - leaving the row to its own devices will still yield a large crop. ... Learn More

Native to the Mediterranean, this is one of the easiest varieties to grow and is an excellent source of vitamins and iron. The beautiful, emerald green leaves have a strong agreeable flavour making it perfect for eating raw or cooked. ... Learn More

The Tamarillo (Cyphomandra betacea) is the "Tree Tomato". Like its cousins of the closely-related Lycopersicon genus (the ordinary common tomato), the egg-size fruit makes good eating, and is typically made into jams or conserve, although it is recommended that the skin and seeds are removed before cooking. It therefore makes either a fruiting shrub or a superb foliage plant! It is easily grown from seed and makes a pleasing contrast to the more typical foliage of cannas, gingers and bananas. Easily grown from seed, the roots of this plant are quite tough surviving moderate frosts, and in ... Learn More