When cooked, the flesh of this Chinese vegetable (actually a winter squash), falls away from the fruit in ribbons and strands, just like spaghetti for which it makes a perfect substitute in countless cooking roles. It contains folic acid, vitamin A and beta carotene. ... Learn More

'Waltham' is an improved earlier version of the common Butternut squash with very little seed cavity which stores very well too. The rich nutty-flavoured, orange flesh stays firm when cooked. Nothing beats the rich, sweet flavour of winter squash. ... Learn More

This rarely encountered, fast-growing, vigorous, evergreen climbing shrub is closely related to the equally attractive holboellia. The very sweetly perfumed male and female flowers open in racemes of three to seven flowers. White tinged with mauve or violet, both male and female flower clusters look very similar, but female clusters will, if fertilised, produce walnut-sized sweet purple fruits. In Japan and Korea, where this plant grows in the wild, the fruits are regarded as a delicacy! We recommend doing further research before you try! ... Learn More

Highly prized in South America, this astonishing plant has been grown there for centuries for its incredibly sweet-tasting leaves. It is now used widely in the food and drinks industry as an organic and harmless sugar supplement or substitute. This attractive, white-flowered cultivar is known for its branching habit, which creates a naturally bushy plant, and it will happily over-winter on a bright windowsill in a cool room where it will make an attractive evergreen shrub. Very few fertile seeds are ever produced. This cultivar is larger than the original species, but has the same taste. ... Learn More

The perpetual fruiting alpine strawberry produces a constant supply of small, but very sweet, bright red fruits, held dangling on long erect upright stems. This plant makes a solid clump and runs barely at all. Fruiting begins in early summer and often continues in a sheltered spot until the first frost of winter! Not to be confused with Fragaria vesca the "wild strawberry", both of which are good to eat! ... Learn More

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

Easy to grow, Peachberry Strawberries are yet another delicious novelty fruit! This sweet and flavoursome new strawberry variant has been selectively bred for many generations until peach flavours predominate. And you may get even more new diverse flavours from some seedlings! Plants are long-lived and will multiply readily, so that you can either expand the Peachberry bed or just give some to grateful friends! ... 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

Pure white sweet fruits ripen on this new variation of the more common red strawberry. Just as sweet and tasty as the ordinary red ones, they make an excellent talking point when friends eat the unexpectedly sweet "unripe" strawberry you offer them to try! Oh, and birds do not realise either, so they leave them alone here! ... Learn More

Rarely offered. Spectacular orange and dark blue flowers open from May to October on thick strong stems. This rare and very striking feature plant varies from the normal variety, having upright cylindrical, rush-like leaves, without a leaf blade. This species is said to be one of the most frost resistant of the five in the genus in southern Africa, (the other four being S. alba, S. nicolai, S. reginae and S. caudata). Indigenous to South Africa, this exceptionally-evolved drought resistant form of Strelitzia occurs sparingly near Uitenhage, Patensie and just north of Port Elizabeth, where it i ... Learn More

Attractive racemes of dazzling, showy, bright red pea-like flowers, open over a long period, followed by sizeable, pink-tinged, bladdery, inflated seed capsules, which many children love to "pop" with an audible bang!Probably the most beautiful of any berry.. ... Learn More