The flowers in the Bees & Butterfly Wildflower Meadow seed mix will help you create a flower-rich meadow with a particular emphasis on species that are known to be important as sources of nectar for bees, butterflies and other insects. If you ever wondered what beekeepers sow to attract the...

Endive Encornet de Bordeaux Seeds are the fine old French heirloom variety with large broad leaves. Extremely hardy, making it particularly suitable for early spring sowing directly into the ground, and lasting well for picking into autumn and winter. It's a fantastic addition to any salad and you may find other...

Endive Pancalieri Seeds are not commonly available in shops, so it's a great vegetable for you to grow for yourself to enjoy. This is a lovely, ornamental variety with broad, bulky heads with an abundance of dark green, very frizzly-edged, outer leaves and, almost self-blanching, contrasting creamy-white, pink-tinged hearts. Cropping...

Sweetcorn Goldcrest F1 is a tender super sweet variety that is very sweet with a thin-skinned juicy kernel about 21cm in length. A mid-season variety with excellent cold soil performance makes it well suited to the British climate. Shows great resistance to wind damage and disease. Great plucked and used...

Butternut Squash Waltham is a winter squash that produces wonderful tan coloured fruits with sweet creamy yellow flesh. Each plant produces c.4 fruit each weighing up to 2kg. 'Waltham' is an improved version of the common Butternut squash. First bred in the 1960's they are reliable, productive and a long-keeper....

Squash Turks Turban is a much requested, quirky looking and highly decorative variety of squash. These bright and colourful fruits have an extra knobbly, often striped, hat atop the rounded bottom. For the best flavour, pick young. The distinctive shape and colouration of this variety may seem more ornamental than...

Courgette Early Gem F1 produces a very early crop of dark green fruits with a lighter green stripe. It is a dual-purpose plant as the fruits can be left to form good shaped marrows. The courgette is probably the most popular form of all the marrow family. Picked young it can...

Courgette Gold Rush with its shining golden-yellow, banana-like fruits (best cut when between 10-15cm in length), with creamy-white, nicely flavoured flesh, prolifically produced on relatively compact plants, this is a very fine variety that should prove very popular. Try it raw, thinly sliced in place of cucumber, in a salad.  Gold...

Courgette All Green Bush is a very reliable, quick-growing, dark-skinned variety that's compact and so perfect for pots. Courgette All Green Bush is quick to mature and will crop all summer long and with regular harvesting. The abundant, dark-skinned fruits of Courgette 'All green Bush' should be harvested as baby courgettes...

Squash Custard White is a bright-white patty-pan type of summer squash. It gives high-yields of white saucer-sized fruits with a scalloped edge. Interesting summer squash with a fine flavour. Custard White is not suitable for storage beyond a week or two. It is best eaten fresh. Summer squash is thin-skinned...

Squash Sunbeam is a bright-yellow patty-pan type of summer squash. It gives high-yields of yellow saucer-sized fruits with a scalloped edge. Interesting summer squash with a fine flavour.  Summer squash is thin-skinned with lighter, moist flesh. They are best eaten fresh. Winter squash have harder skin and dense flesh with...

French Bean Climbing/Pole Cobra produces a heavy yield of thin and incredibly tasty stringless pods over a long period....oh and let's not forget the most beautiful mauve flowers too! If you want to grow only one French Bean then Cobra is must grow. The mid-green coloured pods are best picked...

Radish Watermelon is a Chinese heritage Radish with a surprise...the lovely smooth white globes are cut open to reveal bright pink centres - no surprise they are also known as "Beauty in the Heart". The flavour is milder than other radishes - sweeter, less spicy. Thin slices look really amazing...

Swiss Chard Bright Yellow has gorgeous dark green leaves with vibrant yellow stalks & veins that brighten up your veg patch, your dinner plate & maybe your flower beds too! This superb RHS AGM variety is slow to bolt and has good winter hardiness. Initially cropping from mid-summer to late...

Swiss Chard Fordhook Giant has gorgeous dark savoy green leaves with vibrant ivory stalks & veins that brighten up your veg patch, your dinner plate & maybe your flower beds too! Despite its size, it is a very easy to grow vegetable. The flavoursome leaves are thick and tender, making...

  Chicory Pain de Sucre, also known as Sugarloaf,  is a large, leafy variety of chicory which resembles a cos lettuce. It is a good alternative for late-season salads but it will only stand mild frosts. As the name suggests it has a sweeter taste than most chicories which tend to...

  Chicory Brussels Witloof is a heritage variety of chicory which resembles a cos lettuce. Excellent for forcing and easy to grow, the seed is sown in spring in a shallow drill.  The carrot-like roots are harvested in November and stored in a cool place. 3 or 4 weeks before...