Spring/Summer Plants
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Orach Scarlet Emperor
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)A great spinach alternative
Mild in flavour with brilliant purple leaves, orach makes a colourful alternative to spinach and will brighten up any salad bowl. These are fast growing plants that produce two-toned red/purple leaves through summer. The plants can grow tall (up to 2.5m) and are best planted in a bed or border, but will do okay in a large patio container too.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Orach Scarlet Emperor (organic*)
In the kitchen: A very versatile salad leaf – can be added to quiche, salads, stews, soups and curries. Use as a summer alternative to spinach.
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Sorrel – Red Veined
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)Delicious, colourful, full of nutrients and easy to grow
Sorrel is a perennial plant, one of the last to die down for winter and one of the first to appear in spring, so choose a permanent site to plant it. The tangy leaves can be added to salads and are best picked young. It is easy to grow, just pop the plug plants into beds or pots and keep them well watered. Plants arrive in plastic-free packaging and come with a complete growing guide.Number of plants: 10
Variety: Red Veined Sorrel (organic)
In the kitchen: Sorrel adds colour to salads with a delicious sharp lemon flavoured salad leaf.
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Spring Cabbage
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)An easy growing, loose-leafed cabbage
This is a dwarf variety that can be planted quite close together (25-30cm). When planted in spring you can expect to harvest it from July through to September. Alternatively, plant later and you can harvest later! You can harvest them as delicious, small, tender cabbages or a little later on once the heads have matured. A very useful plant to grow if you struggle to get other cabbages to form a firm heart. Our plug plants make it easy to grow, just follow the advice in the growing guide that comes with the plants.
Number of plants: 10
Variety: April (organic)
In the kitchen: Enjoy spring green cabbage in stir-fries, steam it, boil it and all sorts. We rather like it cooked up in tasty bubble & squeak with a poached egg on top.
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Broad Bean – Aquadulce Claudia
Original price was: £6.99.£5.24Current price is: £5.24.
(10 Plug Plants)A reliable broad bean variety
Very easy to grow, this variety of broad bean produces longer bean pods. Best harvested young and tender. The plants can be grown in beds or in large pots/planters. There is plenty of growing advice in the growing guide that comes with the plug plants, to help get you off to a good start with your broad bean growing.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Aquadulce Claudia (organic*)
In the kitchen: Delicious boiled or steamed, and best eaten podded and peeled, broad beans are great in risotto, pasta dishes or smashed up with butter and served on bruschetta.
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Bronze Fennel
Original price was: £8.99.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)A sweet aroma and a delicious aniseed flavour
Bronze Fennel is a superb hardy perennial herb which produces beautiful bronze coloured feathery foliage. It’ll grow quite big, to approximately 1m-2m high, and 1m wide, so give it plenty of space.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Organic
Great for protecting your tomatoes, chillies and aubergines!
In the kitchen: Bronze Fennel has a sweet aroma and a delicious aniseed flavour that goes well with white fish or used fresh in salads.
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Tree Spinach
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)Sparkling pink and golden leaves!
Arguably the most beautiful salad leaf you’ll ever see! Tree Spinach plants deepen into a stunning magenta at the tips, and genuinely sparkle with a little gold dusting. Seeing is believing, so give them a grow and enjoy popping the pink leaves in your salads! The plug plants arrive with a complete growing guide, so it is easy to get started with growing these beauties, but worth knowing in advance that the plants grow quite tall and are best planted at the back of a border/bed.
Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Tree Spinach (organic*)
In the kitchen: Add Tree Spinach leaves to salads for a splash of bright pink – it’ll look really amazing!
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Baby Sweetcorn – Minipop
Original price was: £5.99.£4.49Current price is: £4.49.
(10 Plug Plants)Easy to grow, crunchy, sweet and full of flavour
This is a special variety for the production of delicious mini cobs which can be harvested at about 10 cm in length.If you are short of space, these plants can be planted much closer together than normal sweetcorn and you do not need to plant in traditional blocks to aid germination.
Number of plants: 10
Variety: Minipop (organic)
In the kitchen: Perfect for stir-fries, steaming or to add extra crunch to your salads.
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Japanese Mint
Original price was: £8.99.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Good for herbal teas and inhalations
This is almost like the Extra Strong Mint of the herbal mints. This variety of mint is grown for the medicinal use of the menthol essential oils found in its leaves. It can be used in similar ways to traditional mint varieties to make herbal teas, and it’s also a great one to use for a steam inhalation if you have a bad cold! Our Japanese Mint plug plants arrive ready to be planted straight away.
Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Variety: Japanese Mint (organic*)
In the kitchen: Make soothing herbal teas – great for colds!
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Apple Mint
Original price was: £8.99.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Mint with an apple-like scent
This is a softer variety of mint to garden mint, both in flavour and texture with its gently furry leaves! Named for the mild apple-like scent, it is a great one to grow for herbal teas and desserts like fruit salad, or grilled peaches. Our Apple Mint plug plants will arrive in biodegradable pots, ready to grow at home.
Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pot)
Variety: Apple Mint (organic*)
In the kitchen: Delicious sliced finely and sprinkled over grilled peaches
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Chervil
Original price was: £8.99.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Delicious and rich in vitamins
Chervil is confused with parsley because of its leaves. This annual has an unusual aniseed flavour and is very rich in vitamins.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Organic*
In the kitchen: Delicious in soups and salads. Chervil goes very well with chicken and white fish.
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Hyssop
Original price was: £8.99.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Bees and butterflies love these beautiful blue flowers.
Hyssop produces rich blue, clustered flowers that grow out of one side of its stem. These flowers are great at attracting bees and butterflies to the garden. The stem has a square shape with long pointed aromatic dark green leaves. Hyssop can grow to a height of 45cm.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cmbiodegradable fibre pots)
Organic*
Great for protecting your brassicas!
In the kitchen: Use the young leaves of hyssop in salads or in meat or oily fish dishes or use to flavour soups, stews, stuffing and fruit dishes. Hyssop is said to aid the digestion of fatty or rich foods.
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Purple Sage
Original price was: £8.99.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Gorgeous shades of purple and green
This is such a beautiful variety of sage that looks fab growing in a herb bed or in the borders, providing purple and green foliage all year round. The bees will love the flowers that come out in summer. Great for stuffings, paired with squash, and to flavour nut roasts. Our Purple Sage plug plants are ready to be planted straight away.
Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Variety: Purple (organic*)
In the kitchen: Sage is traditionally used with pork, cheese and mushroom dishes and will make wonderful stuffings. The flowers are edible too and can be used to dress summer salads.
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Summer Savory
Original price was: £8.99.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Year round herbs for the garden
Summer Savory is an annual herb that produces peppery-flavoured leaves all summer. It is a real winner for stews, stuffings and roast veggies. The flavour is somewhere between thyme and pepper – much better and smoother once cooked, rather than being eaten raw. Best grown in well-drained soil, or in a pot with good drainage. Our Summer Savory plug plants come in sets of 3 in small 8.5cm biodegradable pots, ready to be planted straight away.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Organic*
In the kitchen: Great to add to stews, soups and stuffings.
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Vietnamese Coriander
Original price was: £8.99.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Striking in appearance with a punchy tasty flavour
Vietnamese Coriander is a popular herb in Asian cooking. It’s very punchy in flavour and has quite a striking look; the top of the leaf is dark green, with chestnut-coloured spots, and the bottom of the leaf is burgundy red. It’s a great alternative to traditional coriander that we’re so used to, the flavour is stronger and it’s less prone to bolting.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Organic*
In the kitchen: Young leaves are delicious chopped fresh in salads. Use in stir fries and curries, add towards the end of cooking time to retain the subtle flavours. It works wonderfully as a flavouring alongside lime, chilli and lemon grass.
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Greek Basil
Original price was: £8.99.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
3 Plug Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)The leaves on Greek Basil may be small, but its flavour is big and bold!
Greek Basil has a very tight compact growing habit and forms a perfectly spherical bush with tiny leaves appearing as though having been pruned.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Variety: Greek Basil (organic)
Great for protecting your tomatoes, chillies and aubergines!
In the kitchen: Pinch off small sprigs and add to salads, tomato dishes, sauces and vegetables.
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Chocolate Mint
Original price was: £8.99.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)An absolute delight for chocolate lovers
Chocolate Mint produces pretty brown/purple leaves, with a wonderfully minty chocolate taste and fragrance. Our Chocolate Mint plug plants come in sets of 3 in small 8.5cm biodegradable pots, ready to be planted straight away.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Variety: Chocolate (organic)
Great for protecting your brassicas, tomatoes, chillies and aubergines!
In the kitchen: Wonderful used in summery drinks, desserts, with fresh fruit or to make fresh mint tea.
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Ginger Mint
Original price was: £8.99.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Perfect for puddings and fruit salads
The gold-splashed leaves of Ginger Mint have a spicy ginger scent – this is a great one to grow for adding to cocktails and homemade lemonades as well as puddings, particularly fruit salads, or chopped and sprinkled over a slice of melon on a hot summer’s day.
Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pot)
Variety: Ginger Mint (organic*)
In the kitchen: The leaves of this herb are well suited to fruit salads, melon, Pimm’s and lemonades
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Sage
Original price was: £8.99.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Bees and other beneficial insects love these pretty flowers.
Sage is an evergreen herb with highly aromatic leaves. This lovely common broadleaf variety of Sage is arguably the best for culinary uses.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Variety: Common Broadleaf (organic)
Great for protecting your brassicas!
In the kitchen: Sage is traditionally used with pork, cheese and mushroom dishes and will make wonderful stuffings. The flowers are edible too and can be used to dress summer salads.
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Pineapple Mint
Original price was: £8.99.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)Wonderful attractant and nectar source for bees and other beneficial insects
Pineapple Mint plants are one of the most attractive varieties of mints, producing beautiful green leaves edged with white. This mint has a lovely tasty hint of pineapple and is extremely versatile.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Variety: Pineapple (organic)
Great for protecting your brassicas, tomatoes, chillies and aubergines!
In the kitchen: Wonderful used in summery drinks, desserts, salads, with fresh fruit or to make fresh mint tea.
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Marjoram
Original price was: £8.99.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)If you love Mediterranean cooking this is a must have herb for your kitchen garden
This traditional culinary marjoram will produce lovely pink or white flowers from mid-summer to early autumn above the strongly aromatic, dark green leaves.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Variety: Pot (organic)
In the kitchen: If you love Mediterranean cooking this is a must have herb for your kitchen garden. Use in sauces for pizza toppings, marinades, or salad dressings, or dry to use in other recipes.
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French Tarragon
Original price was: £8.99.£6.74Current price is: £6.74.
3 Plants (8.5cm bio-pots)A culinary must for the kitchen garden
French Tarragon is a herbaceous perennial which can be over-wintered in mild areas. The beautiful foliage has an aniseed flavour.Number of plants: 3 (8.5cm biodegradable fibre pots)
Variety: French (organic)
In the kitchen: Tarragon is wonderfully versatile, often used to flavour sauces, oils and vinegar. It is tastes great with chicken, seafood, soups, rice and pasta.
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Spinach – Giant Winter
Original price was: £5.99.£4.79Current price is: £4.79.
(10 Plug Plants)Plant in summer, enjoy through winter
As the name suggests, this variety produces lots of lovely big leaves through the winter months. They’ll need about 30cm between plants so they are best grown in a raised bed or similar.Number of plants: 10 plug plants
Variety: Giant Winter (organic*)
In the kitchen: You can either cook the spinach leaves making a delicious addition to a wide range of dishes, use the baby leaves in salads or add to smoothies or juice.