These old American heirloom potato-leafed plants bear a heavy crop of big, deepest darkest maroon-red beefsteak fruits with excellent flavour balance and the perfect ratio of sugar to acid. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This old traditional French tomato variety produces hardy, indeterminate, regular-leaf tomato plants that bear moderate to high yields of medium-sized, 3-inch, red, round, tomatoes with soft, thick, meaty flesh with an excellent flavour. Although this looks superficially like a supermarket tomato, it has a truly great flavour, producing well in cooler growing regions right up to the frost. It was given a glowing report in BBC Gardeners' World Magazine in March 2008 by Pippa Greenwood. (CORDON) ... Learn More

One of the most unusual tomatoes you can find, this stunning, red, bell-pepper-shaped tomato has vibrant yellow stripes, and a semi-hollow interior with a mild sharpish flavour, the seeds forming what looks like a shiny strawberry inside! They have a very long cropping season, are drought-resistant, store unusually well for very many weeks in a refrigerator, and are ideal for stuffing or grilling. What more can you ask for? (Cordon) ... Learn More

Very attractive, medium-sized, elongated fruit are produced with a base colour of red with beautiful, wavy yellow-orange streaks. The meaty flesh and excellent but mild flavour, are an added bonus. Excellent sliced lengthways in salads. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This cold-tolerant, potato-leaf heirloom from Czechoslovakia, bears an abundance of very sweet, flavourful, 2 to 3 inch, deep-red fruit. A 1988 comparative tasting in San Francisco gave it first place for its wonderful sweet/acid, luscious, tomatoey flavour and production. It is very high yielding, producing quickly, heavily, reliably early, and continuously throughout the long fruiting season, and is still producing well here in mid-September. It is the first non-cherry to ripen, setting well at very low temperatures, and become even sweeter with colder autumn weather. Finally it is very di ... Learn More

From Rostov via Oregon come these very big, very strong-flavoured, thin-fleshed, meaty, heart-shaped, yellow-blotched tomatoes. These amazing plants, which cropped very heavily here, are resistant to frost, blossom end rot and cracking. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This rare and fabulous performer produces thousands of pea-sized, sweet red berries like beads on a necklace, the largest number on any tomato! It makes absolutely irresistible eating, truly 'once popped you can't stop!' It can be easily trained on a pole to make a 1.8 metre waterfall, and if fed and watered constantly it will be eternally dripping with fruit. (Cordon) ... Learn More

A tall-growing, good-yielding variety giving an extremely long season of small red cherry tomatoes which are deliciously sweet and juicy. Trusses continue to carry on swelling and ripening, quite incredibly until the first frosts. (Cordon) ... Learn More

A rare and endangered heirloom cherry tomato from France. Bright red fruit have an orange tinge inside and a long, strong, lingering flavour. Productive vines produce loads of these tiny jewels that seem to melt in your mouth. (Cordon) ... Learn More

A classic, easy-to-grow, late season heirloom, setting lots of uniform, smoth-skinned fruits, which are pretty, 3 inch globes, ripening from deep pink to golden-red in clusters of 3 or 4 and with fair resistance to cracking and also good blight resistance. Fruit are of excellent flavour, and ripen evenly, producing very good yields of old fashioned tasting tomatoes right up until frost. Superb if just eaten as a big, hefty, juicy slice! (Cordon) ... Learn More

Bred to cascade over hanging baskets although remaining quite compact, this plant produces masses of identical, sweet and tangy fruits of medium strength with firm flesh, and is the perfect tomato plant for novice growers or people short on space.(Bush) ... Learn More

The ‘Velvet Red Tomato’ is almost too bizarre to be real, the leaves and stems of this extraordinary heirloom plant being a fuzzy silvery gray colour, whilst the skins of these scrumptious, supersweet little red cherry tomatoes are velvety! This is not only an ornamental plant, though, as the fruit is absolutely delicious. This spectacular novelty tomato, a great selection for a patio garden, grown from these rare seeds, might be the most beautiful ornamental vegetable you will ever grow and is guaranteed to turn heads! (SEMI-BUSH) ... Learn More

A favourite of gourmet grocers, this sensational potato-leafed plant has fruit which is a gorgeous deep pink with golden streaks, whilst the firm flesh has a strong, unusually fruity flavour. Superb sliced in a salad. (Cordon) ... Learn More

Another strong-flavoured, very heavy-cropping variety. Cute, small to medium, palest lemon-cream fruits are shaped like little pears. These hang in heavy clumps, and are absolutely charming when served combined with Yellow or Red Pear types. Cordon. ... Learn More

Spectacular three-petalled flowers usually in rich purple-red, but occasionally white or yellow, poke up above mottled clusters of three egg shaped leaves in early spring. A clump forming perennial, it spreads reliably and is an excellent ground cover plant for a shady spot. It will do best in moist but well drained soil, and the unusual appearance of this plant will certainly make it a talking point in your garden. ... Learn More