These beautiful blooming trees put on a brilliant display of a multitude of two to three-inch-long, fragrant, golden yellow, trumpet-shaped blooms borne in terminal flower clusters. The gorgeous silvery leaves often drop just before the flowers appear making the spectable even more amazing. Deeply-furrowed silvery bark on picturesque, contorted branches and trunk adds even more to its grandeur. Although it thrives only in warmer climates, it can be also be grown in containers, especially small ones, which eventually can turn the tree into a large bonsai specimen. It is native to South Americ ... Learn More

From flattened rosettes of deeply-lobed leaves arise short, strong, hollow stems bearing most attractive, and quite remarkable flowers which bear more than a passing resemblance to a fried egg! Frilly, ivory-white petals radiate out from a golden-eyed centre, and although it vaguely resembles our native "dandelion", this plant is guaranteed not to become a weed in your garden, just a lovely intriguing specimen. In the wild, as the name suggests, it comes from cold areas in Mongolia and the Far-East. Very few fertile seeds available. ... Learn More

Bright yellow "pea" flowers open on radiating prostrate stems which carry glaucous green leaves, whilst the large, sharp seed pods do indeed look rather dangerous but are not! It is ideal for a hot rockery or bank where this creeping ground-coverer will flower throughout the summer. It is native to dry, rocky to sandy soils in Central Europe, where it has now become rather rare, but is easily cultivated in an rich, well drained soil in full sun and will be excellent for the rock garden. ... Learn More

Branching stems hold large heads of countless, fluffy, rich rosy lilac flowers, just like tiny powder-puffs, over delicate sprays of maidenhair, columbine-like foliage. This is a choice and exceptionally lovely plant that should be in every garden. ... Learn More

This rare deep purple form of the classic green tomatillo verde, truly resembling an enormous physalis, and makes a salsa with a difference! The fruits have a little more sweetness than the standard green variety, and the anthocyanins, which give the fruit its purple colouring, are a superb source of antioxidants. The fruits turn purple in patches on the plant but become more uniformly purple if the fruit is exposed to sunlight on a windowsill after harvesting. ... Learn More

As far as taste goes Ailsa Craig is one of the best. It has just the right balance of sweetness and sharpness to give it an amazing flavour. With a thinnish skin and deep colour, it is great in salads and just firm enough for slicing for sandwiches. It has a good disease resistance and is an early ripener and reasonably vigorous grower. (Cordon) ... Learn More

Alicante is an early variety producing heavy crops of uniform, smooth, sweet tasting, medium size fruits. Succeeds well in soil or grow bags. An excellent variety for the UK climate, it can be grown very successfully outside but also will do well in the greenhouse. (Cordon). ... Learn More

These large, firm, orange, slightly oval, beefsteak fruits high in lycopene have a rich, fruity, superior sweet yet full bodied tomato flavour. This old heirloom from the Amana Colonies of Iowa is a good keeper. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This unique tomato displays a rainbow of marbled colours from green and yellow through red and purple and is gorgeous when sliced. The outstanding flavour is very, very sweet and smokey with hints of citrus and the yield is one of the heaviest we have ever seen. (Cordon) ... Learn More

Heavy trusses of small, solid-bodied sweet fruits have a sweet, very tasty, soft and velvety textured flesh. Fruits are all evenly-matched in size and beautifully crafted, to perfectly resemble tiny pears, making them ideal for exotic salads.(Cordon) ... Learn More

An impressive-cropping tomato giving an almost endless supply of big symmetrical trusses of baby, pear-shaped golden fruits. These grow on attractive and truly impressive heavy trusses of pendent fruits. They are lovely for eating, just like grapes, straight off the vine! A superb salad tomato. (Cordon) ... Learn More

A very productive easy-to-grow variety bred by The University of Missouri. The rosy red fruits have crisp flesh and a great taste, just tart enough to be interesting, and are particularly easy on the palate. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This tasty Swiss tomato is slightly larger than conventional cherry tomatoes and is rather blocky-ovaloid in shape. The fruits range in size from 10g to 50g and have a good a ratio of sweetness to acidity with the former prevailing. Bearing in mind their small size, the tomatoes also store very well indeed. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This heavy cropping variety is everyone's favourite, producing seemingly endless bunches of smallish, ultra-sweet fruits, which resemble large, shiny, dark brown cherries and which have a very rich flavour. A current favourite in up-market shops, it is a very easy-to-grow gem. As long as you keep picking them, heavy hanging bunches of fruit are produced over a surprisingly long period from July right into late September (Cordon) ... Learn More

Whilst this deep reddish-brown Russian beefsteak variety is not as dark as some other "black" tomatoes, where it really scores is on taste which is really strong, rich and sweetly-sharp with a hint of smokiness. (Cordon) ... Learn More