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CUROCUEMERMBERIA :'HIZNIKYBRIDA'F1 EMILIA 'SCARPEPPELER:TMPEAGTERIC' www.-world-seeds.com www.plant-world-seeds.com Possibly the world’s only catalogue selling this year’s fresh seeds! In September my ten year old great niece Jessica decided to take after her ancient great uncle Ray, by running for Heart Research UK in the Subway Family 5K at Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham. And so, when we heard this news, (Tess 60+ and Ray 70+ years), we simply had to enter the race to try to keep up with her, and also raise some more funds for this worthy organisation. Well, we all ran together, and completed the course in an incredible 27 minutes!

Some of our new introductions.... ™ Candy Floss - This is the first white form we have grown of this perennial, shrubby, bush-forming plant, which can be smothered with a hundred or more swollen trusses of . ™ Fimbriata - Quite amazing exotic green flowers with purple-brown, yellow-veined insides, Our gardens constantly throw up are surrounded by attractive, silver- surprises in the form of lovely quite veined festooning this unusual, unique new which have self- drought-resistant, trailing and climbing seeded in the borders, dozens popping plant. up each year, and the very best of these ™ Dierama Adelphicum - A new, are currently being developed by valuable, very rare, and relatively dwarf companies for large scale production in recently collected from coming years. Watch this space! Swaziland, with shocking-pink, flared, bell-shaped flowers in compact clusters, The website continues to expand on dense, erect clumps. This is an with orders going to almost every absolute stunning new plant. country in the world. Our remaining loyal ™ Berteroana - An exquisite, customers who order from this, our old- surprisingly hardy pineapple relative fashioned paper catalogue, can discover producing rosettes of pineapple-shaped, around ten times more items on our silvery-green leaves beneath stout website plant-world-seeds.com Simply spikes of exotic, waxy, emerald- order online, enter this code PWCAT18 turquoise, lily-like flowers. and you will get a 10% discount! Many thanks. Ray Brown

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 2 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 A perfect day out for Garden Clubs and Plant Societies. Plant World, situated between Torquay and Newton Abbot in beautiful South Devon, offers an outstanding collection of rare and exotic plants from around the world. Indeed, the four acres of landscaped gardens, the first ever planted and constructed as the five continents, has been called ‘Devon’s Little Outdoor Eden’. We are a popular destination for visiting groups and offer a cordial welcome so please get in touch!

Established in1985, Plant World is the culmination of a plantsman’s vision and has been featured several times on BBC’s Gardeners’ World as well as on other TV programmes. The extensive collection of rare and unusual plants is complemented by the mature cottage and Mediterranean gardens.

Rare Plant Nursery Inspirational ‘gardens from around the world’ contain a selection of rare and exotic plants rarely seen outside their native lands. Choice specimens seen in the gardens are sold in the Plantsman’s Nursery, a treasure trove of sought-after plants. So if you are passionate about plants and gardens, Plant World is a definite ‘must-see’ during your visit to beautiful South Devon.

Viewpoint Café Our modern hilltop shop and café provide light lunches, cream teas and delicious home-made cakes. Visitors can enjoy one of the best views in the West Country with unforgettable views over the Teign Valley from Dartmoor to the sea. We provide free parking and entry into the plant nursery and also have a scenic picnic area. A modest entrance charge is made for adults visiting the gardens whilst children are free.

Nursery & Gardens Opening Times 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 7 days a week. From late March to early October. Please ring before visiting early or late in the season to check on opening times

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 3 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 Contents HowToSow Your Seeds

2 Introduction ™ Sow all seeds as soon as you receive them unless otherwise advised on the packet. 3 Gardens & Nursery ™ Use sterile compost. We recommend John Innes. ™ Sow seed thinly and cover to about twice the 4 General Information depth of the seed size with fine grit or coarse sand. 5 Seed Collections ™ Do remember mousetraps and slug pellets. (Note: Please be careful if you have children or pets). 6 Ornamentals ™ Sow cold-germinating seeds in a cold frame or unheated greenhouse. 44 Climbers ™ Do be patient. Some seedlings appear in a few days whilst others may take several months, or 48 Trees & even a year or more. DO NOT throw the seed tray away! 51 Grasses ™ Store warm-germinating seed in a fridge and sow in March or April in a heated greenhouse or 53 Tomatoes propagator or in a well-lit spot on a window sill. ™ Do not leave seedlings in a seed tray for too long. 58 Other Vegetables They often simply stop growing.

72 Terms Of Business Have youdiscovered 73 Order Form something new? A new perhaps?!

AbbreviationsKey Please let us know if anything new, A - Annual unusual or variegated appears in Bi - Biennial your garden. And do keep writing to Bb - us if you have any suggestions or Cl - Climber advice, as we are always pleased to H - Hardy hear how you are doing. And thanks HH - Half Hardy for buying and growing our seeds! P - Perennial Sh - T - Tree Ray Brown

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 4 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 GreatValue!Saveupto£9with ourcollections. HOTCOLLECTION TotalValue £25.70 Youpay £15.95 Our fire collection will brighten up your garden …… ‘Double Rubies’ Moraea huttonii Centaurea macrocephala Oenothera ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Dierama 'Blackbird' Potentilla ‘Monarch’s Velvet’ Ligularia clivorum ’Desdemona’ Sisyrinchium palmifolium Meconopsis cambrica ‘Frances Perry’ Scabiosa rumellica

COOL COLLECTION TotalValue £27.90 Youpay £15.95 Always the most popular colours …… Campanula lactiflora ‘Prichard’s Variety’ Lobelia ‘Blue Cardinal’ Echium ‘Blue Steeple’ Meconopsis ‘Lingholm’ Geranium ‘Purple-Haze’ Nepeta parnassica Agapanthus ‘Headbourne Hybrids’ Veronica grandis caerulescens Penstemon eriantherus

GIANTCOLLECTION TotalValue £25.85 Youpay £15.95 Land of the Giants for spectacular effects …… Alcea ficifolia Campanula 'Prichard's Variety' Datisca cannabina Peltiphyllum peltatum ferruginea gigantea Rheum palmatum tanguticum Echium ‘Blue Steeple’ Rudbeckia laciniata Lobelia tupa Vernonia gigantea

FRAGRANT COLLECTION TotalValue £26.15 Youpay £15.95 To please you and the …… Agastache ‘Golden Jubilee’ Lavandula angustifolia Aquilegia ‘Fragrant Fantasy’ Nicotiana sylvestris Aquilegia ‘ Perfumed Garden’ Oenothera ‘Apricot Delight’ Camassia leichtlinii Paradisea lusitanica Euphorbia mellifera Viola ‘Blueberry Cream’

COLOURED FOLIAGE TotalValue £25.35 Youpay £15.95 Bring colour to your winter garden …… Ligularia clivorum ‘Desdemona’ Lavatera arborea variegata Agastache ‘Golden Jubilee’ Nicandra ‘Splash of Cream’ Geranium ‘Purple-Haze’ Penstemon ‘Husker Red’ Haloragis ‘Wellington Bronze’ Phormium mixed Heuchera ‘Metallica’ Plantago major rubrifolia

SWEET PEA COLLECTION TotalValue £15.00 Youpay £12.95 For perfume all summer …… Sweet pea ‘Black Knight’ Sweet pea ‘Painted Lady’ Sweet pea ‘Stylish’ Sweet pea ‘Pastel Sunset’ Sweet pea ‘Oxford Blue’ Sweet pea ‘Ripple Mixed’ Sweet pea ‘Cupid Mixed’ Sweet pea ‘Royal Wedding’ Sweet pea ‘Henry Eckford’ Sweet pea ‘Spencer Mixed’ Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 5 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ABUTILON (VITIFOLIUM) X SUNTENSE ACOACONNIITTUUMM NAPELLUS £2.75 MalvaceaeHHSh 1.8m £2.65 RanunculaceaeHP 90cm This frost hardy plant is surely The true "Monkshood" flowers the most desirable of all mallow from earliest spring, producing relatives. Clusters of large, bowl- indigo-blue hooded flowers on shaped, pale to deep purple strong stems clad in shiny green flowers, with the occasional leaves. This is one of the white flowered form, open from earliest, easiest and most late spring to summer over a rewarding flowers you can grow foil of felted grey-green leaves. in the garden and is totally trouble-free.

ACANTHACANTHUUSS MOLLIS ACONITUM VULPARIA £2.95 Acanthaceae HP 1.0-1.5m (6 seeds) £2.85 RanunculaceaeHP 1.0m This hardy, statuesque, Long-lived clumps produce very handsome plant has large dense sprays of pale sulphur ornamental glossy leaves and yellow hooded flowers in spring strong spikes of very lovely and early summer, above 'hooded' pink and cream flowers attractive, bright green shiny which over the years make foliage. If dead-headed impressive clumps. A superb, flowering will continue into the long-lived plant that makes a autumn. perpetual statement.

ACIS AUTUMNALIS AGAPANTHUS 'HEADBOURNE HYBRIDS' £2.85 Amaryllidaceae HHBb 25-30cm £2.95 HP 60cm (50 seeds) These delightful, dainty gems Huge true blue globular heads are bulbous perennials with flower freely on stout stems linear leaves and nodding, bell- above robust clumps of strap- shaped, pure white or shaped leaves. This seemingly occasionally pink, fragrant completely hardy variety forms flowers, which open with or thick established clumps which before the leaves in late improve over the years and summer. Clumps multiply impress all who visit our reliably. gardens here.

ACOACONNIITTUMUM 'IVORINE' AGAPANTHUS WHITE DWARF £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 90cm-1.2 (10 seeds) £3.20 Liliaceae 25-30cm (10 seeds) This rare parchment white form White trumpets open on short of Aconitum septentrionale is a stems above green strap-like superb variety with an erect leaves.This dwarf gem performs bushy habit bearing clusters of beautifully grown in open ivory white hooded flowers, with ground or a pot . It is long-lived deeply fingered dark green and extremely hardy. Visitors to glossy leaves which appear in our hilltop gardens in Devon early spring. It grows best in often doubt that this tiny plant fertile, well-drained soil. is indeed an African lily.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 6 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 AGASTACHE FOENICULUM 'GOLDEN JUBILEE' ALLIUM PSKEMENSE £2.95 Labiatae HP 40-60cm £3.20 Amaryllidaceae HB,HP 60-85cm (10 seeds) Discovered here and given the Attractive rounded heads of 'All America Award'. Early green-white flowers open on spring crowns of purplish, thick stems from June to crinkled leaves transform into August. A rare and very lovely sweetly aromatic golden plant, first collected from the rosettes, with tubby terminal Pskem range and Akbulak valley spikes of fluffy lavender in Uzbekistan. It has also flowers. Superb in a well- apparently been sold as A.cepa drained spot. 'Kew White'. Few good seeds.

AIPHANES EGGERSII REBEL £2.95 ArecaceaeHHT,G 1.0-6.0m (4 seeds) £2.75 ScrophulariaceaHHP 38-45cm This rarely-seen, small / Strong, branching stems with medium-size palm is native to dark green shiny leaves produce the seasonally dry forests on a very long succession of Ecuador's Pacific coast. It dazzling crimson/scarlet flowers. produces yellow flowers, the This vigorous plant, perennial in fruit and it's single red seed are warmer countries, will flower in edible. Multiple stems of slim as little as 12 weeks from trunks and foliage split into sowing. clusters of feathered leaflets .

ALLIUM CAERULEUM ALSALSTTRROOEEMMEERRIIAA AURANTIACA £2.85 Alliaceae HB 60cm (10 seeds) £2.25 AlstroemeriaceaHP 60-90cm This beautiful free-flowering We offer a generous packet allium opens its balls of bright from our sizeable stock beds of blue flowers just as the clumps "Peruvian Lilies". These hardy of long, linear leaves die back in and trouble-free spectacular early summer. This is perfect plants form slowly expanding plant for a sunny border where clumps of orchid-like orange it will thrive in a hot, well- and yellow blooms which drained spot.(RHS Award of improve unattended over the Garden Merit). years.

ALLIUM CHCHRRIISSTTOOPHIPHII ALSTROEMERIA HOOKERI £2.70 Alliaceae HB 45cm £3.20 AlstroemeriaceaHP 20-25cm (8 seeds) Magnificent, ten inch, spherical Short stems carry large, heads composed of glossy distinguished, rose coloured amethystine violet stars (which flowers, attractively marked can be dried to give pleasure all with crimson and yellow. year) will turn heads for years Spreads steadily for several to come. Undoubtedly one of years giving a large bone-dry the most flamboyant members rock garden a reliable mid- of this enormous family of summer blaze of colour but plants. setting very few seeds.

ALLIUM HOLLANDICUM 'PURPLE SENSATION' ALSTROEMERIA HUEMULINA £2.85 Alliaceae HB 90cm £3.20 AlstroemeriaceaHP 30-45cm (10 seeds) This AGM winner, native to Iran, The most dazzling lipstick produces a stiff, upright stem scarlet red of any alstroemeria, bearing a sizeable, tight, with golden flame-like slashes in circular, purple flower head with the throat. A choice and umbels three inches across, of spectacular introduction from 50 or more star-shaped, deep Chile. violet flowers that appear to float through the perennials in any hot dry garden.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 7 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ALSTROEMERIA LIGTU HYBRIDS ANDROSACE HIRTELLA £2.85 AlstroemeriaceaHP 60-80cm £3.70 PrimulaceaeHP4-7cm (10 seeds) These famous hybrids come in This rare, beautiful and all shades of orange and red. rewarding species has short- The large, sumptuous flowers, stemmed, yellow-eyed white resembling orchids, are easy to flowers and small linear green grow, and the clumps improve leaves which form in rosettes. over the years making them an In cultivation it thrives in well- invaluable addition to every drained, non limy compost. This garden. variety does well outdoors in tufa, preferring winter cover.

ALSTROEMERIA MIXED SPECIES HUPEHENSIS 'SEPTEMBER CHARM' £2.95 AlstroemeriaceaHB,HP 40-80cm £2.75 RanunculaceaeHP 50-75cm Flowers of all shapes and sizes This anemone brings valuable are included in this selection colour to the garden in late taken from our large range of summer and autumn, with these lovely flowers. When masses of large, rosy pink, cup- established in deep fertile soil shaped flowers on tall, wiry they make slowly spreading stems from July to September. colonies that will reward you for One of the most reliable and many years. free-flowering of the Japanese .

AMARYLLIS VITTATA 'RED GIANT' (HIPPEASTRUM) ANEMONE LEVEILLEI £3.20 Amaryllidaceae HHP 45-60cm (10 seeds) £2.65 RanunculaceaeHP 40-45cm Seeds from the largest flowered This one of the easiest and long- amaryllis we have ever grown lived of the clump-forming here, with 20 absolutely anemonies which improves with gigantic, blood-red flowers on age, bearing dense sprays of multiple stems as the resulting white waxy-petalled flowers double up yearly. with a blue reverse. An Seedlings should produce their exceptionally beautiful flower first flowers in year 2 and bulbs from . increase in size constantly.

AMSONIA ORIENTALIS ANEMONE TOMENTOSA £2.95 ApocynaceaeHP 40-60cm (8 seeds) £2.55 RanunculaceaeHP 1.0-1.5m This desirable native of Greece This lovely Chinese species and Asia Minor has rich blue gives a valuable late summer flowers which are larger and last and autumn display of large longer than other varieties and rose pink flowers in profuse slim lance shaped foliage. This clusters on long stalks, which rarely seen beauty deserves make perfect cut flowers. greater popularity. It is well- Clouds of decorative woolly behaved and runs very slowly. seed pods remain on the plant Few good seeds collected. until late in the year.

ANDROSACE CYLINDRICA ANEMONE x FULGENS £2.95 PrimulaceaeHP5cm (10 seeds) £2.85 RanunculaceaeHP 30-40cm A choice dwarf species and one The flame anemone is a bright of the easier to grow. A tiny beacon due to it's vibrant red plant, resembling Androsace flowers on slim stems with ciliata. During April and May it pretty, divided foliage. Suited to forms mossy tufts of rounded loamy well drained soils, it likes cone-like columns, each less partial shade in a sunny spot. than an inch high, covered Ideal for containers, it will turn thickly with hairs, with white a border or rock garden into a flowers nestling in the centre. blaze of glory.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 8 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ANEMONOPSIS MACROPHYLLA ANTIRRHINUM 'ANGEL TOWERS' £3.85 RanunculaceaeHP 45cm (10 seeds) £2.65 ScrophulariaceaHP,HBi 60-90cm A Japanese treasure. Delicate We have crossed a tall, hardy, ferny leaves beneath stunning wild, perennial antirrhinum with nodding flowers. Each bloom a modern to produce displays a wondrous double these tall, shrub-like, constantly- circle of , the outer an flowering, long-lived, unique almost pure ivory white, whilst and spectacular new plants. the centre is purplish-blue. Palest pink to reddish-purple Totally hardy, will excel in shade flowers open on tall, dividing, and well-prepared organic soil. shrubby branches.

AANGENGELILICCAA SYLVESTRIS 'EBONY' ANTIRRHINUM BRAUN-BLANQUETII £3.80 HP 80cm-1.2 (10+ seeds) £2.35 ScrophulariaceaHP 45-60cm This fabulous new plant is the Numerous spikes of yellow- darkest of any angelica ever throated, pale lemon grown. Exquisite, almost black, snapdragons which will gently finely-cut shiny leaves below self-seed wherever they are heads of darkest purple buds happy. A trouble free plant opening to delicate sprays of from Northern Spain with a very pink flowers. Caused mayhem long flowering period. when first shown at Chelsea. Comes relatively true from seed.

ANGELICA TAIWANIANA ANTIANTIRRRRHHIINNUUMM MOLLE £2.45 Apiaceae HP,HBi 1.2-1.8m £3.15 PlantaginaceaeHP 20-30cm (20 seeds) Football-sized umbels of cream This classy snapdragon is flowers and heads of perfumed actually a small shrub, with seeds are supported on very grey, downy leaves and quite thick stems above bold fragrant large flowers, white or pink with basal foliage. This substantial yellow colouring in the throat. plant will make an impressive Self seeds freely but very liable statement in the mid to back to hybridize with A. majus forms border. or other species, the hybrids being more upright.

ANTHRISCUS SYLVESTRIS 'GOLDEN FLEECE' AQUILEGIA 'ALCHEMIST'S GOLD' £2.95 Umbelliferae HP 70-90cm (20+ seeds) £2.85 RanunculaceaeHP 23-38cm (20+ seeds) An old favorite with bright, The distilled essence from our lemony-yellow, fern-like leaves beds of Aquilegia 'Alchemists in early spring making shining, Mix' with the most impressive of golden mounds which are totally the dwarf golden and variegated resistant to burning by the sun, forms, some of which have with sprays of fluffy white pom-pom flowers and are flowers opening later. Few fragrant. These new plants are seeds collected but comes the pot of gold at the end of almost 100% true from seed. this line of breeding.

ANTHRISCUS SYLVESTRIS 'RAVENSWING' AQUILEGIA ATRATA £2.95 Apiaceae HP 60-90cm (30+ seeds) £2.85 RanunculaceaeHP 30-60cm This exciting recent discovery Dark purple to black flowers produces basal sprays of with unusually prominent yellow darkest mahogany-bronze, open from May to finely divided ferny foliage, August. This lovely, long-lived, making a perfect foil for the airy true alpine species, grows in umbels of white heads. Ever high rocky places, sometimes in since being revealed at Chelsea limestone areas, but makes a this has been an essential plant superb garden plant. in modern gardens.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 9 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 AQUILEGIA BERTOLINII AQUILEGIA 'GREEN APPLES' £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 5-10cm £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 60cm (20 seeds) One of the very smallest and Perhaps the first green clematis- rarest of this lovely group of flowered aquilegia. A superlative plants, this tiny delight bears form we have selected here. short stems carrying Compressed buds open pale disproportionately large, ink- lime green slowly fading to a blue flowers, above prostate, creamy green sliced-apple miniature, rubbery, blue-grey colour, before finally ageing to leaves. cream.

AQUILEGIA BLUE FLAMINGO AQUILEGIA KUHISTANICA £2.60 RanunculaceaeHP 50-70cm £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 30-45cm Large deep blue flowers open Collected in the wild by famous on long stems above strong plant hunter Josef Halda, this clumps of strong green maiden- appears to be a selected dwarf hair foliage. This selection from form of , with Pink Flamingo is very vigorous deepest inky-blue flowers and and will happily self-seed thick, glaucous blue-green making attractive drifts foliage. wherever it is allowed.

AQUILEGIA COTTAGE GARDEN MIX AAQQUIUILEGIA 'PERFUMED GARDEN' £1.95 RanunculaceaeHP 45-90cm £2.70 RanunculaceaeHP 60-90cm A selection from the range in These are the culmination of our catalogue plus other colours our breeding programme using and forms collected from our both large flowered and fragrant cottage garden. This well-filled aquilegias. Amongst these will generous packet must surely be probably be the largest the biggest ever offered by any perfumed columbines ever seed company. seen. Our bees are very disobedient so expect the occasional amazing freak hybrid!

AQUILEGIA FORMOSA AQUILEGIA PINK FLAMINGO £2.75 RanunculaceaeHP 45-60cm (20 seeds) £2.75 RanunculaceaeHP 50-60cm This soundly Large, pink, medium-spurred bears delightful deepest orange- flowerheads open in late spring red and yellow flowers in spring on this new columbine variety. and early summer. If planted Coming quite true from seed it away from others seedlings it should be planted away from will come perfectly true. other aquilegias with which it could hybridise.

AQUILEGIA 'FRAGRANT FANTASY' AQUILEGIA 'POM-POMS MIXED' £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 60-75cm £2.40 RanunculaceaeHP 60-90cm A new and lovely range of Recovered from past times, columbines bred from some of these popular Victorian short- the most fragrant species in spurred or spurless flowers have cultivation. The perfumed several tiers of petals producing flowers come in all shapes and a unique doubling, tripling or sizes, from tight pom-poms to pom-pom effect. A generous long-spurred singles and in a packet from palest pinks wide variety of colours. through bicolours, to deepest crimson and cerise.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 10 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 AQUILEGIA STARBURST MIXED INVOLUCRATA 'SHAGGY' £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 50-80cm £2.95 Umbelliferae HP 60cm A fantastic mix of double, This most popular and much divided, star shaped Grannies improved form of Astrantia Bonnets ranging from white major has a much larger through shades of pink and red, "collar", with beautifully all being equally attractive, atop coloured tips darkly etched in elegant ferny foliage. They are attractive green shades. It is hardy, herbaceous, and will very long lived indeed and will gently seed with time. grow under almost any conditions.

AQUILEGIA VULGARIS 'ORANGES AND LEMONS' £2.45 RanunculaceaeHP 60-90cm £2.50 Umbelliferae HP 60cm This completely new colour This long-flowering and very range has bicolored flowers in long-lived plant displays showy all shade of red, orange and star-like heads with radiating yellow. The occasional 'plum' in shades of green, pink pops up but adds to the colour and white. Excellent cut flowers scheme! Unlike many are a bonus. aquilegias which give a once-off burst of bloom, these will flower on and on.

ARUM PURPUREOSPATHUM ASTRANTIA MAXIMA £5.95 AraceaeHP30-45cm (4 seeds) £2.95 Umbelliferae HP 60cm A spathe of purple-black Exquisite, upwards facing, green surrounds a spadix of almost jet bracted, pure rose pink flowers black. Shiny, deep-green leaves are held above compact clumps lay below. Allegedly, it lacks the of bold tripartite foliage. This is bad smell associated with this the most desirable of all of the group. This very rare species is with a rewardingly among the most attractive of all long flowering period. "A very Arums, it is found in a small beautiful plant." (Graham Stuart area of SW Crete. Thomas)

ASPHODELUS ALBUS ATROPA BELLADONNA £2.55 AsphodelaceaeHB,HP 60-90cm (10+ seeds) £3.20 Solanaceae HP 60cm-1.2 These lovely plants, which Deadly Nightshade has purple- surprisingly are completely frost- green bell flowers, hanging on hardy, produce clumps of linear thick stems with soft leaves. basal leaves, and leafless stems Later appear juicy black berries. bearing or panicles of Be warned, its common name is star-shaped, white or pink true and appropriate. All parts flowers, each tepal with an of this plant are extremely attractive green or brown poisonous, do not plant where central vein. children can reach fruit.

AASSTTIILLBBEE CHINENSIS 'PUMILA' BAPTISIA AUSTRALIS £2.95 SaxifragaceaeHP 15-23cm £3.20 LeguminosaeHP 1.0-1.2m This exceptional, early summer Flowering from June to August, variety makes a dwarf, ground- this is one of the most beautiful hugging, rounded clump with early-summer perennials, with feathery plumes of densely trifoliate leaves and erect, lupin- clustered red flowers in late like racemes of rich violet-blue, summer. This variety has been pea-like flowers, followed by awarded an RHS Award of conspicuous inflated pods. They Garden Merit (AGM), (Plants of do best in deep, well-drained outstanding excellence.) soil.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 11 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 PURPUREA CAMCAMPPAANNUULLAA 'CANTEANTERRBBUURRYY BBEELLLLSS'' £2.40 Compositae HP 60cm (10 seeds) £2.75 CampanulaceaeHBi,HA 60-90cm Dark-eyed mauve dahlia-like One of the most typical cottage flowers arise from clumps of garden flowers, this has a prickly thistle leaves. An timeless charm and grace. intriguing introduction from high Masses of bells are produced in in the South African mountains. an astonishing range of blues, This newcomer demands a hot whites and pinks. Flowers sunny spot to show its best. We appear all summer long and will have included seed from a few grow in almost any position pure white-flowered seedlings. whether sun or semi shade.

BUPLEURUM 'BRONZE BEAUTY' CAMPANULA COTTAGE MIXED £2.95 Umbelliferae HP 45-60cm £2.35 CampanulaceaeHP 1.5m This attractive dwarf form of the A bumper bonus bargain packet totally perennial Bupleurum of all of the upright forms in our longifolium has lacy, divided, gardens, including some rarities yellow, almost astrantia-like we do not list. You can start seedheads, which transform in your own nursery with this lot! early summer into plates of coppery-bronze. Superb in a hot garden where it makes an ideal cut or dried flower.

CAECAESSAALLPPIINNIIAA PULCHERRIMA CAMPANULA LACTIFLORA 'PRICHARD'S VARIETY' £2.95 CAESALPINIACE HHT,G 3.0-4.0m (10 seeds) £2.25 CampanulaceaeHP 90-1.2cm Beautifully fringed, orange and Seed saved from great red blooms cover this branching heads of deep violet magnificent, West Indian shrub blue flowers atop stout stems which has most attractive clad in pointed leaves. deeply divided foliage. In a Invaluable mid-border plant. very well-protected UK garden Busy bees will ensure you have or a conservatory it makes one a quota of pale blue, white or of the most spectacular plants even pink flowers amongst you can obtain. these plants.

CALLISTEPHUS CHINENSIS 'LILLIPUT BLUE MOON' CAMPANULA LATIFOLIA 'FAICHEM LILAC' £1.75 Compositae HHA 45-60cm £2.25 CampanulaceaeHP 90cm A superb Chinese Aster, much This lovely Campanula latifolia resembling an exotic sunflower, form was discovered as a with huge deepest purple discs seedling on our first small which are held on 2 foot stems Scottish nursery near Invergarry and arise all over the plant. in the Scottish Highlands. The This fabulous flower which is spires of large white or cream easy and fast to grow is quite trumpets all have a most irresistible to and attractive prominent dark eye. bees.

CAMCAMPPAANNUULLAA ALPINA CAMPANULA MAKASCHVILII £2.95 CampanulaceaeHP 10-15cm £2.85 CampanulaceaeHP 45cm Clusters of fat, hairy, sky-blue A very rare plant from the bells open on top of short stems Caucasus Mountains. Radiating above basal clumps of thin, arching stems clad in smallish pointed leaves on this, rarely- heart-shaped leaves, hold pink- offered plant. It comprises of edged, white bells along their two subspecies: subsp. alpina length. Long lived and desirable. found in the Eastern Alps & Carpathian Mountains : subsp. orbelica found in the Balkans.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 12 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 CAMPANULA POSCHARSKYANA GIGANTEUM YUNNANENSE £2.75 CampanulaceaeHP 10-15cm £3.15 Liliaceae HB,HP 2.4-3.0m This astonishingly tough rockery This monocarpic variant of the plant bears in spring and "Giant Lily" bears summer sprays of violet starry starlike white, cream and purple flowers. Vigorous and fast flowers from early Spring until growing, it is one of the easiest late Summer. After the largest and long-flowering of all rockery bulb has flowered it dies, plants, and able to stand almost leaving smaller ones to grow on complete drying out once each year. It prefers semi-shade established in a wall. and high levels of water.

CAMPANULA ROTUNDIFOLIA CEPHALARIA GIGANTEA £2.50 CampanulaceaeHP 20-30cm £2.65 DipsacaceaeHP1.2m The true wild "Harebell" or A large, non-spreading clump- "Bluebell-of-Scotland" is a too- forming plant displays long- rarely grown little gem. Long- stemmed sprays of large flowering and easy to please in creamy yellow "pincushion any position, it produces masses scabious" flowers over an of dangling blue bells on long extended period in the summer. thin stems over an extended This is an exceptional specimen mid-summer period. plant either on its own or at the back of the border.

CANNA BRASILIENSIS CERCERIINNTHTHE MAJOR PURPUPURRAASSCCEENNSS £2.95 Cannaceae HHP 60-90cm (4 seeds) £3.20 BoraginaceaeHHA 45-60cm (10 seeds) A rare plant and one of the very "Honeywort" or "Wax-Flower", few cannas which is both much loved by bees and attractive and can be easily flowering throughout spring and grown from seed. An endless summer has deep blue procession of red-tipped yellow pendulous bracts which are flowers is produced, each of packed onto stems densely clad which forms an intriguing with waxy blue-green leaves. inflated seed pod. Mature plants This treasure is one of the can be split in spring. fastest growing plants available.

CARDIOCRINUM CORDATUM VAR. GLEHNII CHAEROPHYLLUM HIRSUTUMUTUM ROSEUM £3.20 Liliaceae HB 1.2-1.8m £2.95 Apiaceae HP 60cm This much rarer, smaller form of Bright pink heads on short the "Giant Yunnan Lily" has stems, with ferny, feathery been freshly collected on the foliage, make this exceptionally Russian island of Sakhalin. compact umbellifer an absolute Massive, fragrant, creamy white treasure. It is very slow to trumpets hang from strong tall spread as well as being bone stems rising above dark green, hardy. "To be sought, few leathery leaves. herbaceous plants can hold a candle to it in early May."

CARDIOCRINUM GIGANTEUM COFFEA ARABICA (COFFEE) £2.95 Liliaceae HB 1.8-2.4m £2.75 RubiaceaeGP3.0-4.0m (20 seeds) The fantastic "Giant Yunnan Coffee trees can grow outside in Lily" is a stately giant, producing a subtropical climate, or provide two inch thick stems, with an attractive pot plant and dinner plate sized leaves, above talking point in cooler climes. which open numerous eight inch Producing small, greyish beans green and white waxy, very this variety: 'Ethiopia Sidamo' is fragrant trumpets, followed by valued for its deep, spicy wine enormous "everlasting", toothed or chocolatey taste and floral seed-pods when dried. aroma.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 13 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 CCOOLLCLCHCHHIICCUUMM AUTUMNALE CROCOSMIA LUCIFER £2.85 Colchicaceae HB,HP 15-25cm (10 seeds) £2.85 IridaceaeHP1.0-1.25m Purple blooms with white stems From robust clumps of sword- (also part of the flower), arise shaped leaves in spring, thrust in clumps without leaves, in up strong, branching spikes of autumn and can soon naturalise brilliant red, flared, funnel- in a rock garden or grass. This shaped flowers in mid-summer. is the "Autumn Crocus", a This superb and reliable very beautiful autumn-flowering bulb, long-lived performer is happy in unrelated to the crocus but any position . botanically closer to lilies.

CONVALLARIA MAJALIS VARIEGATED CROCOSMIA NEW HYBRIDS £4.45 Liliaceae HP 10-15cm (5 seeds) £2.95 IridaceaeHP60-90cm This beautiful, sweetly- A superb collection of different perfumed plant needs little forms of this lovely range of description. The variegated- plants obtained from our large leafed form is truly splendid. collection, including many Bright green leaves are striped colourful and large-flowered with cream. Few seeds are such as 'Jackanapes', produced, seedlings will give a 'Emily McEnzie', 'Queen of variable variegation some Spain', 'Moira Reed', and many completely green. more.

CORYDALIS SOLIDA CYCLAMEN COUM £2.75 PapaveraceaeHP 15-25cm (8 seeds) £3.95 PrimulaceaeHP10-15cm (20+ seeds) In spring, tight tufts of grey- Spring flowering, unlike the green ferny foliage lie beneath more common C. hederifolium, dense spikes of purple it is completely hardy and easy, flowers.This beautiful plant from flowering from January onwards northern Europe does well in a and is a useful complement to shady position on the rockery snowdrops and other early where it will grow in size each spring bulbs, even thriving year. Very few seeds collected. under trees and in short grass, where it usually self-seeds!

COSMOS ATROSANGUINEUS CYCLAMEN COUM MIXED COLOURS £6.85 Compositae HHP,H 30-60cm (4 seeds) £3.70 PrimulaceaeHP8-15cm (20+ seeds) Rich-maroon-to-almost-black, This is a complete mix of all chocolate-scented flowers open colours of this lovely flower on this legendary plant, but which is spring flowering, unlike seedlings will vary in flower the more commonly colour, size and habit! This is encountered Cyclamen probably the first commercial hederifolium. It is completely seed offering, we are sorry but hardy and relatively easy, there is a limit of only one flowering from January onwards. packet per customer.

CRAMBE MARITIMA CYCLAMEN HEDERIFOLIUM (NEAPOLITANUM) £2.85 CruciferaeHP40cm (12 seeds) £2.35 PrimulaceaeHP8-13cm Purple spring shoots enlarge Handsome silver-marked foliage into glorious glaucous rubbery supports red, pink or ivory white leaves. Massed heads of honey- flowers in August and scented, ivory flowers in June. September. Completely hardy Superb in the border, ideal for and naturalising by self-seeding, cutting, and the tender young they are very tolerant of dry leaves are a classic gourmet's shade, being summer delights - the now very rare deciduous, only re-appearing "sea kale". with the late summer rains.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 14 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 CYCLAMCLAMEENN MIRABILE DATURA INOXIA £3.95 PrimulaceaeHP5-15cm (12 seeds) £2.70 SolanaceaHHP,H 1.5m (12 seeds) The leaves of this species are Large, floppy, night-fragrant, often marked in pink / silvery- trumpet-shaped white flowers grey. In autumn, pale pink appear in early summer to late flowers appear. These are autumn, opening upright but generally sub-orbicular. This inclining downwards later. form is available under the Amazingly, toxic stems and name C. mirabile 'Tilebarn Ann'. leaves are covered in peanut- An intermediate is named C. butter-flavoured grey hairs! mirabile 'Tilebarn Nicholas'.

DACTYLORHIZA FOLIOSA DAUCUS CAROTA 'BURGUNDY TOP' £2.95 Orchidacea HP 40-60cm £2.45 Umbelliferae/Api HP,HBi 40-60cm This beautiful spectacular A new and elegant umbellifer Madeiran Orchid is a must for with fine green foliage, above any flower border as its striking which open fabulous, doily-like flower spikes double up every heads in a range of colours from year. It will grow best in palest pink through shades of impoverished soil and prefers purple and crimson, to almost full sun, flowering in June with black. These beautiful intricate truly exceptionally large blooms. flower-heads deserve a really close-up inspection.

DACTYLORHIZA FUCHSII DAUCUS CAROTA subsp. MAXIMA £2.95 OrchidaceaeHP30-60cm (100 seeds) £2.90 Umbelliferae, Ap HP 1.5-2.0m Rosettes of purple-spotted lance- A seldom seen plant with hairy, shaped leaves arise in spring feathery foliage, collected in and early summer with shell- Crete as a wild vegetable. Seeds pink flowers, each of which is ripen in early summer, the intricately spotted and dotted umbels curve inwards to protect with candy pink and purple. Sow the seeds, forming an directly into a moist sunny soil, impressive, beautiful structure. then wait till spring, sowing into The small seeds are slightly pots will not work! flattened with bristles.

DACTYLORHIZA PURPLE GIANT DELPHINIUM COTTAGAGEE GARDEN MIX £3.20 OrchidaceaeHP60-70cm £2.50 RanunculaceaeHP 90cm The most magnificent hardy This generous packet contains hybrid orchid we have ever all shades, including bicolours, discovered as a seedling here, blue, pink and white singles, bearing very tall spikes of and doubles from our cottage deeply coloured flowers on garden. We have also included a stems of spotted leaves, it is few unusual species so expect very hardy, robust and the odd surprise. vigorous. It is a hybrid of the old "Orchid Maderense".

DAHLIA MERCKII DIANTHUS BARBATUS 'SOOTY' £2.85 Compositae HHP 60-90cm (8 seeds) £2.35 Caryophyllaceae HP 30-38cm Beautiful yellow-eyed, lavender- An astonishing addition to the pink starry flowers on branching previously available range. stems, above shiny divided Densely packed heads of foliage, throughout the summer. darkest chocolate - almost Soundly perennial here in black, fragrant flowers, with Devon, but a well-drained foliage in deepest mahogany to protected spot is recommended match! elsewhere. Makes a deep long- lived tuber. Few seeds collected.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 15 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 DIANTHUS CRUENTUS DIERAMA 'BLACKBERRY BELLS' £2.65 Caryophyllaceae HP 30-40cm (15 seeds) £2.85 IridaceaeHP1.0-1.3m Clusters of deepest blood-red Seed collected from a vigorous flowers open on wiry stems hybrid between 'Cosmos' and above grassy foliage on this Dierama robustum, and brilliant new perennial, the inheriting some of the darkness "Blood Carnation". It made a from the former flower, but with sensation when the Daily much larger, deep purple- Telegraph garden won best in maroon flared trumpets on very show with it at Chelsea 2011. tall, strong, springy stems.

DICENTRA EXIMIA DIERAMA 'BLACKBIRD' £2.90 PapaveraceaeHP 30-45cm £2.50 IridaceaeHP1.0-1.3m A rare, beautiful plant from the Seedlings from this famous and SE USA. A mass of grey-green, darkest of all dieramas will vary, fern-like foliage above which but most plants should produce dark pink, pendent, heart- cascades of pendulous, funnel- shaped flowers open on shaped claret purple flowers on graceful, drooping stems in May wiry stems. Seedlings and September. Best positioned occasionally produce paler in moist and well-drained soil in flowers but there will be no sun or partial shade. rejects as all will be superb.

DICTAMNUS ALBUS PURPUREUS DIERAMA BLOOD DROPS £2.95 RutaceaeHP60-90cm (10 seeds) £2.95 IridaceaeHP80cm-1.0 (10 seeds) This form of the normal This brilliant new hybrid is the attractive hardy perennial bears brightest deep red seedling we the palest pink to white flowers, have discovered for many years. and produces a scent of lemon Plants grown from these seeds peel when gently rubbed, may vary but they will produce Indeed the volatile oil can be heavy heads of pendulous ignited on a hot day leaving the flowers in some startlingly plant uninjured! R.H.S. 'AGM' bright new forms. Award Winner.

DIERAMA ADELPHICUM DIERAMA DRACOMONTANUM £2.95 IridaceaeHP70cm-1.0 (10+ seeds) £2.50 IridaceaeHP60cm A new, valuable, very rare, and Compact clumps produce relatively dwarf species recently disproportionately large, deep collected from Swaziland, with pink flared trumpets on delicate shocking-pink, flared, bell- arching stems. shaped flowers in compact clusters, on dense, erect clumps in keeping with modern design trends. This is an absolute stunning new plant.

DIERAMA 'AUTUMN SPARKLER' DIERAMA IGNEUM £3.45 IridaceaeHP1.0-1.3m £2.85 IridaceaeHP60cm Stiff wands, sport close-packed Fiery bunches of flared, tomato- clusters of brightest fluorescent red flowers make an impressive pink, delicately-marked, upward- display on this diminutive facing starry bells. This rare and introduction from South Africa. desirable introduction is the last This is a choice and very hardy and the most unusual of all plant which is vigorous and dieramas, flowering into quick to clump up. October and November.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 16 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 DIERAMA 'PINK ROROCKECKET' (EX ERECTUM) DIERAMA 'SPRING DANCER' (PULCHERRIMUM TYPE) £3.20 IridaceaeHP75-90cm £2.85 IridaceaeHP90cm-1.2 A stunning, unique and This is the earliest of all "Angels' distinctive compact hybrid which Fishing Rods" to flower, in April we have bred here. This lovely and May. Numerous flared pink plant produces many short, trumpets dangle on thin stems, erect stems which hold multi- which are out-facing rather than flowered heads of upwards- pendulous. This most unusual facing, flared, bright pink new plant was collected as blossoms, unlike any of the unknown seed from the other hybrids on the market! Mountains.

DIERAMA PLANT WORLD JEWELS DIERAMA TRICHORHIZUM £2.95 IridaceaeHP60-90cm £2.95 IridaceaeHP45-60cm We offer these unique dwarf The bluest dierama, this rare, and medium-sized crosses hardy newcomer from high between the pygmy D. altitude in South Africa has pale pauciflorum, D. dracomontanum bluish-mauve flared bells on and D. igneum. These new short single erect spikes. One of forms are produced two to the smallest of all dieramas, three weeks earlier than hence ideal on a rock garden, it previous varieties, extending the is outstandingly beautiful and flowering period of this in-vogue new to cultivation. plant. DIERAMA REYNOLDSII DIGITALIS FERRUGINEA GIGANTEA £3.30 IridaceaeHP1.0-1.3m (15 seeds) £2.35 ScrophulariaceaHP 1.2-1.8m This late flowering (August) This is a spectacular towering alpine dierama is one of the form of this excellent perennial most stunning of this . On foxglove. Tall slender spikes in arching stems, the starkly- close groups bear many contrasting white bracts show distinctive pale orange-brown off the pendulous deepest wine flowers each with a protruding red flowers to perfection. The white lip. Completely hardy and true species is rarely offered. totally perennial.

DIERAMA 'SNOWBELLS' (PULCHERRIMUM) DIGITALIS GRANDIFLORA £2.70 IridaceaeHP1.0-1.3m £2.35 ScrophulariaceaHP 60-90cm This beautiful dierama produces Spikes of chocolate netted, large, flared milky white bells large sulphur yellow flowers over a long period in early and over rosettes of strongly veined mid summer, clumps improving leaves. This is the largest and over the years. Seedlings may most spectacular flowered of also produce the odd palest the yellow foxgloves. Perennial pink-flowered plant but these and long lived. can be easily separated whilst still quite young.

DIERAMA SPECIES MIXED DIGITALIS LAEVIGATA £2.90 IridaceaeHP1.8m £2.75 ScrophulariaceaHP 70-90cm A superb mixture of all the This fully hardy perennial, semi- varieties listed here. We are evergreen plant opens its also including some unusual and orange and pink, large-lipped, un-named species and hybrids bell-shaped flowers all summer from our trial grounds. All will long, and if sown early flowers be extremely beautiful. Expect the first year. With high drought some very pleasant surprises, tolerance, it grows well both in colours and forms never before semi-shade and direct sun. seen!

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 17 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 DIGITALIS LUTEA DRYAS OCTOPETALA £2.30 ScrophulariaceaHP 60-90cm £2.95 Rosaceae HP 5-10cm (10 seeds) A generous packet of this This lovely plant bears nodding, attractive long lived hardy cream buds which open into perennial which has greenish- slightly paler ivory flowers on yellow flowers freely borne on woody stems, the foliage slender spikes. A most unusual consisting of tiny, leathery plant which will naturalise in leaves with a grey reverse. parts of the garden where other Finally, the large impressive plants may struggle to grow. fuzzy ball of a seed head opens.

DIGITALIS MIXED ECHINACEA PURPUREA 'BRILLIANT STAR' £2.50 ScrophulariaceaHP 45cm-1.8 £2.40 Compositae HP 90cm A well-filled packet of cottage Very large reddish-purple flower garden forms and species from with pronounced golden-brown our gardens in all shapes and cone-centres are produced from colours. A good bet is just to July until mid-autumn. Ideal for sprinkle these around the cutting, these plants will garden as they do best when perform best on well-prepared grown without transplanting. humus-rich soil. (aka 'Ruby Star')

DIGITALIS PARVIFLORA ECHINACEA 'WHITE SWAN' £2.65 ScrophulariaceaHP 90cm £2.50 HP 45-60cm (50 seeds) Slender spikes hold numerous This is a popular variety, densely massed chocolate producing bronze-centred white brown tubular flowers. This flowers from July to October. distinctive, striking and lovely This form is shorter than others, completely perennial plant is making it a great, easy-to-grow appropriately also called mid-border plant which will 'Chocolate Soldier'. thrive in any decent soil and does not require staking making it excellent for cutting.

DIGITALIS PURPUREA ALBA BANNATICUS 'THE GIANT' £2.45 ScrophulariaceaHP 1.2m £2.75 Compositae HP 1.5-2.1m An unusual tight-spiked, white Recently discovered in the wild form of the purple foxglove is this rare and incredibly tall carrying pale purple freckles form of the lovely "globe within the throat. Impressive thistle". Numerous spiky heads, drifts can be easily established loved by bees and butterflies, in the garden. The odd purple slowly change from silver to plant may sometimes occur, but pale blue. It is perfect for the can be easily removed as soon very back of a tall border. as the coloured buds appear.

DRACUNCULUS VULGARIS ECHINOPS TIENSCHANICUM £5.25 AraceaeHP1.5m (3 seeds) £2.25 Compositae HP 1.2-1.8m (20 seeds) In early spring beautiful A tall, imposing "Globe Thistle''. patterned foliage arises, from Impressive, tennis-ball sized, which ascends a huge lurid silvery-white, prickly seedheads purple spathe which can be on strong, stout stems. more than 2 feet long and has a Constantly covered with bees distinct smell. "Dragon Lily", is and butterflies. the most impressive of all the European aroids. Very few large fertile seeds are ever collected.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 18 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ECHIUM 'BLUE DWARF' 'SNOW TOWER' £3.60 BoraginaceaeHHP 1.0-1.3m (15 seeds) £3.20 BoraginaceaeHHP 3.0-4.5m (30 seeds) This new diminutive plant A friend on Guernsey sent us appeared by chance here at some seeds of an absolutely Plant World. Best grown under pure white Echium pininana she the shelter of a hedge or wall it had discovered. We could barely makes a low multi-branched believe such a plant existed, but mound of hairy, grey-green were thrilled to finally see an rosettes, the stumpy, fat spikes enormous 15 foot high snowy of cobalt-blue flowers appear cascade. from April to June.

ECHIUM 'CANDY FLOSS' ECHIUM 'PINK FOUNTAIN' £3.80 BoraginaceaeHHSh, 1.0-1.5m (10 seeds) £3.20 BoraginaceaeHHP 3.0-4.5m (20 seeds) This is the first white form we The most lusted-after plant in have grown of this perennial, the gardens every June. A cross shrubby, bush-forming plant, we made between the fabulous which forms a solid compact with its four dome when mature, when it can foot, fat red spike and the giant be smothered with a hundred or blue Echium pininana. The more swollen trusses of flowers. result is a 15 inch wide, tapering Occasional pale pink or blue tower of delicate pink flowers. flowers may appear.

ECHIUM FASTUOSUM ECHIUM 'RED ROCKET' £3.20 BoraginaceaeHHP 80cm-1.8 (20 seeds) £3.40 BoraginaceaeHHP 1.5-2.0m (15 seeds) 12" spikes of Oxford Blue We back-crossed E. wildpretii flowers on strong stems in with tougher "Pink Fountain", spring and summer, very few itself a cross between the good seeds are often produced. relatively hardy E. pininana and This is a perennial in a sheltered E. wildpretii. Result: A column situation, e.g. in a large pot or of strawberry-red flowers above very protected garden. In The a rosette of grey narrow leaves. Scillies and SW of the UK this You invariably get a small plant often makes a small tree. proportion of variants too!

ECHIUM PININANA 3 COLOURS ECHIUM WILDPRETII £3.20 3.0-4.8m £3.95 BoraginaceaeHHP 1.0-1.25m (10+ seeds) Colour variations are blue, pink Stout, rose-pink spikes of and white. Plant young plants massed flowers with bright blue out early in the season so plants pollen, arise from prostrate grow large enough to survive rosettes of furry grey leaves. the winter in the open ground. The most sought-after of all To identify them, pale stems , and one of the most have white flowers, darker dramatic of all flowers. Grown stems blue, narrow leaf ones near to Echium pininana so the are pink fountain! odd hybrid may occur.

ECHIUM PININANA 'BLUE STEEPLE' EMILIA SCARLET MAGIC £3.20 BoraginaceaeHHP 3.0-4.5m (30+ seeds) £1.90 Compositae/AsteHHA 30-40cm (15 seeds) Also known as the 'Tower of This new and intriguing annual Jewels'. Echium pininana initially produces a great profusion of produces a palm tree-like sprays of fluffy, flame-scarlet- rosette on a thick woody stem. red tassels, blooming on the A year or two later, the centre, tops of tall, thin stems that holding thousands of flowers, sway in the breeze all summer shoots upwards, sometimes to long from June to September. It 15-20 feet! Bees love this giant. is also excellent for cutting.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 19 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ERODIUM MANESCAVII ERYNGIUM PLANUM 'BLAUKAPPE' £2.50 Geraniaceae HP 20-35cm (10 seeds) £2.55 Umbelliferae HP 60-90cm Deepest lilac-pink flowers are This is the most metallic blue of produced for many months over all "sea holly" flowers. Heart- a cascading clump of lovely shaped leathery leaves surround feathery leaves. A beautiful, these exotic blooms which make long-flowering, very long-lived superb cut flowers, and when plant that will put on a superb dried out, retain their colour show for year after year where indefinitely. others will not survive.

ERODIUM PELARGONIFLORUM ERYNGIUM VARIIFOLIUM £2.65 Geraniaceae HP 30cm £2.50 Umbelliferae HP 1.0m Large, violet-veined, white Superlative evergreen, flowers open above fragrant beautifully variegated and crinkly leaves from the end of marbled, waxy green rosettes, winter until midsummer, and produce branching angular spasmodically thereafter. Much sprays of spiky silvery-blue admired in our gardens, this flowers. From the Atlas superb plant is bone hardy too. Mountains of Africa comes this Although its exotic appearance completely hardy, loveliest of does not give this impression. the eryngiums.

ERYNGIUM BLUE HOBBIT ERYSIMUM 'BOWLES BABIES' £3.20 UMBELLIFERAEHP 23-30cm £3.50 CruciferaeHP30-60cm (10 seeds) This superb new variety has a Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve' has quite amazing dwarf, compact invariably been sterile producing form. Producing prostrate basal no seeds. We have developed a rosettes from which emerge strain that DOES produce seed, silver-blue stems forming into a so you can grow new forms for large, globular flower-head yourself, from tiny to tall, with containing hundreds of metallic- colour variations including some blue flowers. A bone hardy bi-colours and from pale mauve valuable introduction to gardens. to deepest purple.

ERYNGIUM GIGANTEUM 'MISS WILMOTT'S GHOST' ERYSIMUM BOWLES MAUVE HYBRIDS £2.65 Umbelliferae HBi 60-80cm £4.25 CruciferaeHP45cm (10 seeds) One of the most impressive Very rarely are seeds produced summer plants you can grow in by the usually sterile, legendary, the UK, with unbelievable 'Bowles Mauve' Erysimum. metallic silvery-blue leaves, These will all produce true F1 flowers and stems. The word plants with first generation gigantea refers to the flowers, hybrid vigour. Plants vary in not the plant which is rarely habit, flower colour and more than 2 feet high. flowering time. Unique and developed at Plant World.

ERYNGIUM MIXED ERYSIMUM PLANTWORLD RAINBOWS £2.50 Umbelliferae HP 1.0-1.5m £3.20 CruciferaeHP30-45cm (20+ seeds) A large packet taken from all of Years ago we crossed many those described here, as well as perennial erysimums including some unidentified species in our 'Bowles Mauve', linifolium and trial ground. We have also scoparius, with dwarf included unidentified new wallflowers. Many of these new species collected by us on our plants have been marketed Expedition to Chile. worldwide and these valuable hand-collected seeds will give all colours and habits.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 20 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ERYTHRONIUM CALIFORNICUM EUPHORORBBIIAA LATHYRIS £3.20 LiliceaeHB10-50cm £2.35 EuphorbiaceaeHBi 90cm (10+ seeds) This delightful perennial bears A handsome and extremely pairs of elliptic, mottled leaves rapid-growing plant bearing and stems to 30cm. bearing up symmetrical, pointed, blue- to 3 , slightly-scented flowers 5- green leaves. Umbels of tiny 6cm wide, creamy-white with yellow flowers produce large reddish hints in the throat. Will bulbous seed-pods. Also known multiply readily once established as "The Mole Plant" as it is and can be transplanted into reputed to deter moles! new bed areas.

ERYTHRONIUM REVOLUTUM EUPHORBORBIIAA MELLLLIIFFEERRAA £2.65 Liliaceae HB 30cm £2.85 EuphorbiaceaeHP 1.2-1.8m The fabled "trout lily" is perhaps This gem has large, creamy- the choicest of all erythroniums. veined leathery leaves topped Lily-like, palest peach, spring by golden, fragrant flower flowers open for a long period heads. The name 'mellifera' above leaves beautifully mottled refers to the sweet fragrance of in purple, brown and white. This honey which will drift across the very long-lived plant will self- garden amazing all who are seed making splendid drifts over nearby. time.

ESCHSCHOLZIA 'THAI SILK' EUPHORBORBIIAA MIXED £2.05 Compositae HHP 20-30cm £3.20 EuphorbiaceaeHP 1.2m The "California Poppy" is best A really generous bargain bag of sown where it is to flower, this hardy perennial euphorbias from well-loved flower giving an our range, including some endless display of double unnamed rarities from our trial flowers with fluted petals in ground. Exceptional value for mixed colours over compact, money and a good way to start grey-green glaucous foliage, a collection!. from June until September.

EUPHORBIA CCHHAARRAACCIIASAS CHARACACIIASAS EUPHORORBBIIAA MYRSINITES £2.95 EuphorbiaceaeHP 60-90cm (20+ seeds) £2.75 EuphorbiaceaeHP 15-20cm (6 seeds) Probably the most popular and "Blue Spurge". Thick, diamond- long-lived of all spurges, this old shaped blue leaves radiate from favourite produces strong stems strong prostrate stems. A long of evergreen, blue-green leaves succession of bright yellow which terminate in extended flowerheads, which later age to narrow heads of bright yellow red, appear from May until flowers. One of the easiest, long- August. A perfect, long-lived, lived and trouble-free plants you rockery or front-of-border plant. can grow.

EUPHORBIA CHCHAARRAACCIIASAS WULFENII EUPHORBORBIIAA PITHYTHYUUSSAA £2.75 EuphorbiaceaeHP 60-90cm £2.40 EuphorbiaceaeHP 30-38cm (10 seeds) This outstanding form produces New to us is this superlative imposing clumps of erect stems dwarf. Like a big silver-grey clad in narrow grey leaves beach-ball cut in half, then terminating in large and almost studded with countless golden spherical, football-sized heads flowers. Non-running, non-dying of yellow-green flowers. These (seems very hardy), and imposing specimen plants will regrettably, non-seeding perform reliably where little else (almost!). will thrive.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 21 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 FRANCOA 'ROGERSON'S FORM' GAILLARDIA 'ARIZONA RED SHADES' £2.50 SaxifragaceaeHP 60cm £2.60 Compositae HP 30cm (20 seeds) A new and impressive form of First year flowering Gaillardia in the normally pale pink Francoa the most spectacular shades of sonchifolia with large panicles of crimson red. Only about 15" tall deepest pink, star-shaped it is tailor made for planters and blossoms strikingly marked with tubs, the plants are well crimson on long stalks. This is branched and have a very an ideal flower for cutting. uniform habit which is certainly not shy to flower profusely through the season.

FRANCOA SONCHIFOLIA 'PINK GIANANT'ANT'T' GENTIANA ASCLEPIADEA £2.60 SaxifragaceaeHP 60-90cm £2.65 GentianaceaeHP 45-60cm Several years ago a single The "Willow Gentian" is one of seedling flowered with huge the few plants that really does blossoms and beautifully bi- improve with time. Hundreds of coloured petals on attractive upturned deep blue trumpets on short, stout stems. From this arching stems through summer plant we have established a and into late autumn. The superb seed strain with larger, easiest, longest lived, latest more attractive and longer flowering and most rewarding of lasting flowers. the taller gentians.

FRITILLARIA IMPERIALIS GENTIANA LUTEA £4.25 Liliaceae HB,HP 60cm (8 seeds) £2.40 GentianaceaeHP 90cm In early summer this fabulous Strong, noble spires of large, plant bears a prominent whorl golden, star-like flowers open in of bright downward facing late spring over clumps of large flowers, topped by a 'crown' of basal lily-like leaves. A superb small leaves. These seeds have gentian and one of the most been collected from the deepest magnificent, easy-to-grow, and coloured forms in our gardens. long lived plants you can ever wish to grow.

FRITILLARIA MELEAGRIS GENTIANA VERNA £2.95 Liliaceae HB 40cm (30 seeds) £2.95 GentianaceaeHP 5-8cm The nodding bell shaped flowers This is the classic alpine with of Fritillaria meleagris are sheets of the most brilliant blue unmistakeable for their nodding starry flowers in spring. The heads, sometimes of pure small clumps of tufted leaves white, or more frequently slowly spread to produce a solid marked with a delicate cushion. Easy from fresh seed. chequerboard pattern in shades of purple. This rare British wild flower is now protected by law.

FRITILLARIA MELEAGRIS ALBA GERANIUM ALBANUM £2.85 LILIACEAE HB,HP 30-38cm (20 seeds) £2.50 GeraniaceaeHP30-45cm (10+ seeds) The white form of this rare Large numbers of magenta- British native is rarely found in veined, shocking pink flowers the wild. It flowers from March on spreading stems are to May growing to between 15 produced over a far longer and 40 cm in height. In the wild season than most other it is commonly found growing in geraniums. "A long flowering, grasslands in damp soils and underrated plant" ('Hardy river meadows and can be Geraniums' - Bath & Jones). found at altitudes up to 800m.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 22 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 GERANIUM BOHEMICUM GERANIUM MACRORRHIZUM 'CZAKOR' £2.65 Geraniaceae HP 30-45cm (10+ seeds) £2.90 GeraniaceaeHP45cm (10+ seeds) (Syn. Geranium 'Orchid-Blue'). Very fragrant, rounded, slightly This new-on-the-scene plant, hairy leaves (the source of oil-of- often confused with the very geranium) make a solid, similar Geranium lanuginosum, creeping, evergreen produces flowers of a rarely groundcover foil for the seen shade of pure campanula magenta purple blooms on this blue, on low brittle hairy stems. easily grown, totally hardy plant. Wonderful in rich damp soil.

GERANIUM ENDRESSII GERANIUM MACRORRHIZUM 'SNOW SPRITE' £2.95 Geraniaceae HP 30-60cm (10 seeds) £2.55 GeraniaceaeHP30-40cm (15 seeds) A really attractive, very, very This superb miniature has milky long- with icing white flowers with all other pink flowers on low, slowly parts being palest lime green. creeping stems. This plant will Along with its controllable act as a weed-suppressor and diminutive stature and the attractive ground cover where aromatic perfume from its few other geraniums will dainty leaves, this plant should survive, even in deep shade or have a place in every garden. on a dry bank!

GERANIUM HARDY MIXED GERANIUM MADERENSE £3.20 Geraniaceae HP 30-90cm (30+ seeds) £3.20 GeraniaceaeHHP 70cm-1.2 (15+ seeds) A generous selection taken from This true flamboyant species our range including items with grows a stout "trunk", which too few seeds to list. This radiates strong stalks, much exceptionally good value mix resembling a small palm tree, always contains a few real with huge trusses of deep pink rarities and could be the flowers in early summer. Prefers cheapest way to start a shelter, or even a big pot, but collection of these long-lasting worth any trouble to grow for plants. the incredible finale.

GERANIUM 'JESTER'S JACKET' GERANIUM MADERENSE 'GUERNSEY WHITE' £3.55 Geraniaceae HP 15-23cm (10 seeds) £3.60 GeraniaceaeHP90cm (15 seeds) Small, prostrate leaves are New from Plant World is the prettily spangled in red and gorgeous pink-eyed white- white beneath a constant flowered form of this succession of pink flowers spectacular plant which throughout summer and produces a massed head of autumn. This valuable form of flowers in late spring. It does of Geranium thunbergii really is the its best in a sheltered spot or first true-from-seed variegated very large pot, when all who hardy geranium. see it will be amazed.

GERANIUM MACRORRHIZUM BEVAN'S VARIETY GERANIUM PALMATUM £2.85 Geraniaceae HP 30cm (10+ seeds) £2.95 GeraniaceaeHP60-90cm (15 seeds) An old favourite form of this This is perhaps the most easy-to-grow plant producing impressive and spectacular of all sprays of bright pink flowers hardy geraniums with sprays of which adorn the fragrant deepest pink exotic flowers and mounds of low, hairy foliage. large clumps of glossy divided One of the best ground cover foliage with reddish stems. It is plants available. best in a sheltered spot, but has survived minus 11 C unscathed here.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 23 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 GERANIUM PHAEUM GERANIUM ROBUSTUM 'SILVER CLOAK' £2.50 Geraniaceae HP 60cm (10+ seeds) £2.85 GeraniaceaeHP45cm (10+ seeds) The very dark maroon nodding This superb geranium is a fertile flowers give this desirable plant cross between the beautiful its common name "The Geranium incanum, with the Mourning Widow". Very popular finest filigree foliage, and the and deservedly so, this mixture more robust Geranium will produce a proportion of robustum. Vigorous flowing plants with attractively marked carpets bear flowers from pink and variegated leaves. to mauve over deeply cut leaves in grey and silver.

GERANIUM PHAEUM 'SAMOBOR' GERANIUM SANGUINEUM £2.75 Geraniaceae HP 60cm (8 seeds) £2.85 GeraniaceaeHP15-30cm (10+ seeds) Typical, darkest midnight purple Collected from the best cultivars flowers open over solid mounds in our garden, seedlings will of large leaves which are produce large, upward-facing, strikingly zoned in dark red saucer-shaped flowers chocolate brown. Certainly a above low hummocks of deeply candidate for the most divided leaves. Bone hardy, and attractive foliage of any hardy very reliable in making a blazing geranium and very rarely and long-lived display each offered from seed. spring and summer.

GERANIUM PRATENSE GERANIUM WALLICHIANUM 'BUXTON'S BLUE' £2.40 Geraniaceae HP 60cm (20+ seeds) £2.95 GeraniaceaeHP23cm (8 seeds) The " Meadow Cranesbill". This On a compact slowly spreading perpetually popular flower bears carpet appears a non-stop large, sky blue flowers with display from June onwards of white eyes and veins above upward-facing white-eyed sky clumps of deeply cleft leaves. blue flowers. "A pearl beyond Ever popular and will happily price" (G.S.T.), but alas a naturalise. reluctant seed producer - the elusive seeds are collected individually.

GERANIUM PRATENSE 'PURPLE-HAZE' GEUM LADY SSTTRRAATHEDEN £2.95 Geraniaceae HP 60cm (10+ seeds) £2.85 Rosaceae HP 45-60cm Years of selecting Geranium This bright yellow flower is a pratense forms has given us leaf classic cottage-garden colours from mahogany to perennial, blooming as early as deepest darkest beetroot. May, and if dead-headed, Plants will vary in size from 12 flowering on and off all summer to 24 inches high with flowers in long until October, when it will shades of blue or purple. brighten your garden with a touch of summer, long into the autumn months.

GERANIUM PYRENAICUM 'SUMMER SNOW' GEUM MRS BRADSHAW £2.30 Geraniaceae HP 45-60cm (20+ seeds) £2.05 Rosaceae HP 38-45cm This pure white form of the Strong stems hold frilly flowers usually pinkish purple flower, in beautiful shades of scarlet produces profuse quantities of red. This old favourite is at white flowers with deeply home in a cottage garden notched petals. Very long where it will bloom and spread flowering and ideal for a hot colour as far as the eye can see. spot in the garden where it can Placed in full sunlight at the self-seed when happy. front of a border it will thrive even in heavy clay soils.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 24 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 GLAUCIDIUM PALMATUM HARDY COTTAGE TTAALLLELER MIX £4.25 PapaveraceaeHP 38cm (6 seeds) £2.45 VariousHP60cm This fabulous and choice A huge choice selection of connoisseur's plant is very rarely literally hundreds of different seen or offered. Large and taller cottage garden plants. exquisite cup-shaped lavender Some of these are collected flowers are held above soft from famous gardens and lobed leaves. A priceless stately homes so expect some specimen for shade and rich surprises! soil. "A great treasure." (Graham Stuart Thomas)

GLORIOSA MODESTA HARDY ROCK DWARF MIX £3.20 Colchicaceae HHCl 1.8m (5 seeds) £2.40 VariousHP3-10cm This climbing lily opens waxy A wide selection of lots of our orange flowers in summer, most desirable and diminutive reaching 6ft plus. Related to the rock plants collected in small more common, showy gloriosas, quantities. Examples are it is easier to grow. Can grow androsaces, aquilegias (jonesii, outdoors in the UK given saximontana,), asyneumas, adequate shelter. 1 grew here calceolarias (darwinii, etc.), for years before being lost to an campanulas, cortusas, dianthus, Arctic winter. but please do not request a list!

GUNNERA MANICATA HARDY ROCKERY GEMS £2.30 HaloragidaceaeHP 1.5-3.0m £2.50 VariousHP10-30cm Certainly one of the largest A generous packet of all sorts of hardy herbaceous plants which rockery and front of border can be grown in the U.K. plants. Far too many to list, but producing large, puckered and includes dwarf campanulas, tiny lobed leaves on spiky stems thalictrums, diminutive gentians, above huge statuesque spikes dianthus and very many more. of tiny reddish-green flowers. Near water this plant can grow enormous.

HARDY BULBS SMALL MIXED HELLEBORUS ANEMONE-CENTRED £2.30 HB 8-45cm £3.70 RanunculaceaeHP 30-60cm (15 seeds) A large packet of seeds from This delightful variety of choice and unusual dwarf hellebore has an attractive ring bulbous plants from around the of frilly petals (which are in fact world. Includes numerous oversized nectaries) within the treasures, including amongst usual petals producing an others, bellevalia, brodiaea, attractive, frilly, doubling effect. clintonia, eucomis, habranthus, The sizeable, upturned flowers lilium (dwarf forms), notholirion, come in the usual range of sisyrinchium and tigridia. bright colours.

HARDY BULBS TALL MIXED HELLEBORUS 'BLACK BEAUTY' £2.40 VariousHB45cm-1.2 £3.40 RanunculaceaeHP 38-45cm (20 seeds) A generous packet of taller These seeds were collected bulbous plants, including such from the darkest plants we rarities as asphodeline, grow, which originated from eremurus, galtonia, one of the country's top hermodactylis, veratrum, hellebore breeders. Deepest watsonia, and dozens more. plums and purples open from slate coloured buds, many plants having the extra bonus of the dark foliage of their parents.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 25 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 HELLEBORUS COTTAGE MIXED HELLEBORUS NIGER £2.85 RanunculaceaeHP 30-60cm £2.95 . HP 15-20cm (10 seeds) A wide and generous selection This ever-popular plant is an from all of the hellebores evergreen perennial flowering varieties and species on our list. plant producing its large, waxy All colours are included from white flowers on short stems white to deepest purples and with thick shiny leaves in the spotted and mottled forms. An middle of winter. These make inexpensive way to start a superb cut flowers when all else collection of these attractive is still underground asleep! favourites.

HELLEBORUS 'DOUBLE ROSES' HELLEBORUS ORIENTALIS 'BEST COLOURS' £3.70 RanunculaceaeHP 45cm (10+ seeds) £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 30-45cm (10 seeds) These absolutely superb, fully A selection from some of our double hellebores, do indeed best Helleborus orientalis plants bear an amazing resemblance to which are guaranteed to roses and come in all shades brighten up your garden with a from palest pink to red. The splash of colour. All the very long stems are perfect for best forms have been selected cutting too. by hand and concentrated in this selection.

HELLEBORUS FOETIDUS MISS JEKYLL'S SCENTED HELLEBORUS PLANTWORLD DOUBLES £2.75 RanunculaceaeHP 60-75cm £3.95 RanunculaceaeHP 38-45cm (10+ seeds) The overpowering fragrance, These superb, fully double similar to mahonia, from the hellebores bear an amazing pendulous purple-lipped resemblance to roses and come flowers, fills our cottage garden in all shades from pure white to in earliest spring. This is the red, and including greens and rare, sweetly-perfumed form. yellows and often heavily (Its simply marked and shaded. The long explains that the thick, shiny stems are perfect for cutting too. leaves smell if bruised!).

HELLEBORUS 'GOLD BULLION' HELLEBORUS PRIZE WINNERS £3.70 RanunculaceaeHP 45-60cm (10 seeds) £2.85 RanunculaceaeHP 30-45cm (10 seeds) Dazzling shining fingers of Seed from the very best forms purest gold form the leaves of of Helleborus orientalis that we this fabulous new variety of grow in our gardens, including Helleborus foetidus, which we pinks, maroons and mottled and developed here. Strong and patterned heads. This selection vigorous even in the brightest will impress all who are sunny spot, the normally green fortunate enough to discover flowers being a pale sulphur these emerging from March to yellow. June each year.

HELLEBORUS 'HELEN BALLARD'S' HEUCHERA 'EMPEROR'S CLOAK' (AMERICANA) £3.20 RanunculaceaeHP 38cm (20 seeds) £2.65 SaxifragaceaeHP 30-45cm Seed from the most beautiful Puckered, folded and pleated plants we have ever grown. leaves, from beetroot red to Large, waxy, extravagantly deep purple and which appear marked flowers produce gasps to be transparent in the sun, of awe from all who see them. produce a mound from which These plants are descendants of arise thin stems carrying fluffy many of Helen Ballard's famous white, superbly contrasting named forms. flowers.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 26 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 HIERACIUM AURANTIACUM IMPATIENS GLANDULIFERA 'WHITE FACES' £2.40 Compositae HP 15-23cm £2.40 BalsaminaceaeHP 90cm-1.2 This favourite old cottage This pure white form of garden plant has brilliant, "Himalayan Balsam" can make coppery, orange-red flowers an impressive statement in an with black tips which appear on isolated bog garden or pond short stems for a long period in margin. White "faces" grow spring and summer. It will run atop stout hollow stems, later slowly and is perfect for a wild producing exploding seed pods garden or a rockery. which can propel seed for some distance. Can become invasive.

HOLLYHOCK 'BURGUNDY TOWERS' IRIS BLUE RIBAND £2.40 MalvaceaeHP1.5-2.1m £2.85 IridaceaeHP60-70cm (10 seeds) This unusual form occurred here Huge, sumptuous flowers with some time ago with strong wide, heavily marked petals stems carrying large, deepest open over an extended period crimson flowers and fig-shaped from early to late summer. leaves. In common with other Some years ago we were given fig-leaved hollyhocks, these a few precious seeds from a have proven to be very resistant skilled breeder of these to rust. desirable plants and these gems were the result.

HOLLYHOCK 'LEMON LIGHT' IRIS CHRYSOGRAPHES 'BLACK GOLD' £2.50 MalvaceaeHP1.5-1.8m £2.75 IridaceaeHP60-90cm Frilly, pale sulphur yellow The flowers are certainly not oil- flowers open on strong tall coloured, but its name alludes stems on this lovely cottage- to the Greek, chrysographes or garden favourite. At Plant World 'gold writing'. Tall strong stems we plant this and 'Black-Beauty' hold sprays of darkest blue to side-by-side for a perfect almost black velvety flowers contrast. These plants often which are delicately marked gently self-seed, producing with golden lines. fabulous drifts!

HOLLYHOCK 'SNOW PEAKS' IRIS COLCHESTERENSIS £2.45 MalvaceaeHP1.8-2.4m £3.20 IridaceaeHP45-60cm (6 seeds) Seed collected from pure white This superb form of Iris and palest cream forms of these laevigata which was selected well-loved cottage garden here and comes pleasingly true favourites. from seed, has gorgeous, sumptuous white flowers, heavily painted in deepest navy blue. It is fine in the ordinary garden but outstanding in damp or wet soil.

IMPATIENS BABALLFFOOURURII IRIS ENSATA CUP WINNERS £2.85 BalsaminaceaeHHP,H 60-75cm (10 seeds) £2.95 IridaceaeHP40-60cm (12 seeds) This new, rare and lovely plant, Rare seed mix by Davor Cetina originating in the Himalayas a top iris breeder from Croatia. produces a long succession of bi- Includes - Activity, Aiogata, coloured pink and white flowers Aquamarin, Darling, Emotion, from late June until September. Fortune, Fuyijama,Gipsy, Planted out early in the year in Kogesho, Laughing Lion, good soil it makes a magnificent Loyalty, Moonlight waves, Oase, solid dome absolutely Oriental eyes, Port Arthur, Rose smothered with blossoms. queen, Summer moon.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 27 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 IRIS ENSATA 'PRIZE-WINNING MIX' IRIS PSEUDACORUS £2.65 IridaceaeHP60-75cm (15+ seeds) £2.25 IridaceaeHP60-90cm These seeds are taken from The "Yellow Flag" is the second some of our most requested of our worthwhile-to-grow cultivars and spectacular plants, native wild irises. Large bright including Higo and Blue-Peter, yellow flowers in spring amidst blooms being up to up to 6 " stiff green leaves. Supposedly a plus across , with colours from bog plant, but it thrives on our white & pale pinks to deepest dust-dry hillside! blue & purple. Possibly the best bet for a new prize-winner.

IRIS FOETIDISSIMA IRIS SETOSA SSP CANADENSIS £1.80 IridaceaeHP60cm £2.60 IridaceaeHP15-25cm The unusual 'Welsh Gladwyn' is Iris setosa dwarf has large, blue- not usually grown for its pale purple flowers, white-blotched mauve flowers but for the bright at the centre, attractively orange seeds which burst forth pencilled in deeper purple, with from the seed-pods in autumn, small standards. Does best with but do not fall (as shown in ample moisture, must have picture). Whole stems can be adequate sun to flower well. cut to make an impressive floral Native to the NE coastal states display which lasts. of USA and Canada.

IRIS FOETIDISSIMA PAUL'S GOLD IRIS SPECIES MIXED £3.20 IridaceaeHP30-45cm (10 seeds) £2.65 IridaceaeHP23-90cm A brand new dwarf, incredibly A generous packet of all our bright, shining canary-yellow irises, including some collected foliage form of Iris foetidissima. in quantities too small to list, Semi-evergreen clusters of some very rare, in all sizes and golden daggers arise from colours. More than twenty compact clumps and are varieties, but a few examples astonishingly vivid in very early are: Iris chrysographes, spring. Pale blue, typical iris forrestii, innominata, shrevei flowers, are almost incidental. and many more.

IRIS HOOKERI ISATISATIS TINCTORIA £2.60 IridaceaeHP15-25cm £2.05 CruciferaeHP60-90cm Resembling a dwarf Iris setosa, This famous plant makes a this iris has large, blue-purple dividing clump of shiny leaves, flowers, white-blotched at the above which arise masses of centre, pencilled in deep purple small yellow flowers which with small standards. Does best produce sprays of unusual with ample moisture, needs elongated seeds. This is the adequate sun to flower well. plant made famous for its blue Native to the coastal states of natural dye, used by the Celts of NE America and Canada. the British Isles in ancient times.

IRIS LATIFOLIA CAULESCENS £2.65 IridaceaeHP30-45cm (8 seeds) £2.40 AsphodelaceaeHP 90cm Rarely offered from seed, a In September, later than all semi-dwarf iris with deep blue other pokers, arise massive flowers, yellow in the centre of heads of red, later changing to lower petals, on short stems greenish-lemon, above very from May - July. Also known as broad grey leaves and elephant- The English Iris, a common iris trunk-like stems. "Very valuable of the Pyrenees and NW Spain. and perhaps the only truly The leaves are stiff, sword- hardy large poker" (G.S.T.) shaped and approx 60 cm long.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 28 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 KNIPHOFIA NORTHIAE LLAAVVATATEERRAA ARBOREA VARIEGATA £2.95 AsphodelaceaeHP 60-90cm £2.50 MalvaceaeHP1.2m Probably the most impressive of This unique plant often stands all red-hot-pokers. Massive, pride of place amongst the wide, heavy leaves, make a winter foliage plants, where it solid agave-like rosette from shines like a lantern in the which arise very thick-stemmed garden. As a bonus, purple flower-spikes of yellow and flowers smother the plant in orange. A stunning plant which early summer. Either in a very improves with age. large pot or in the garden it is an arresting sight.

KNIPHOFIA PUMILA LIBERTIA CHILENSIS (GRANDIFLORA) £3.40 AsphodelaceaeHP 25-40cm (15 seeds) £1.50 IridaceaeHP60cm Bearing the long slender leaves One of 's exquisite often attributed to most dwarf natives which has settled well in Kniphofia, this variety has the the UK, this distant iris relative most intense green-yellow has sprays of pure white, orchid- flowers as opposed to the like, saucer-shaped flowers with yellow-orange varieties. This yellow stamens atop clumps of dwarf variety was found in non-invasive dark green stems. South Africa, great for borders and cut flowers.

LAVLAVANANDULA ANANGUGUSTIFOLIA LIGULARIA CLIVORUM 'DESDEMONA' £2.35 Labiatae HP 60-75cm £2.65 Asteraceae HP 80cm-1.2 The common lavender will Three inch wide, bright orange produce long-stemmed, bright flowers on branching purple blue flowers which are ideal for stems, stand above glossy, cutting, drying or to perfume beetroot-coloured, heart-shaped linen. Long-lived and easy-to- leaves. This exceptional back- grow, it benefits from a close of-border or even bog plant haircut early each spring to attracts countless butterflies and encourage fresh growth. , such as the Painted Lady shown here.

LAVANDULA PPRROOVVENENCE BLUE LILIUM MARTAGON (PINK) £2.70 Labiatae HP 30cm-5.0 £2.75 Liliaceae HB,HP 60cm This exceptionally compact, This strong-growing lily bears bushy, clump-forming, whorls of narrow leaves with evergreen perennial has large racemes of nodding, fragrant silver-green leaves and glossy, purplish-pink flowers bears narrow spires of deep with recurved petals in early blue flowers in summer which summer, with the occasional are also highly scented and are odd plant flowering white. very good for drying. It is long- Hardy and long-lived it is a lived and easy-to-grow. valuable addition to any garden.

LAVANDULA SPICATA 'MUFFET'S CHILDREN' LILIUM MARTAGON ALBUM £2.65 Labiatae HP 20-25cm £2.75 Liliaceae HB 60-90cm This amazingly dwarf lavender This is the lovely white form of has short-stemmed fragrant this excellent plant, bearing blue flowers studding a football- pendent flowers with waxy, sized, silver-grey bush. Ideal reflexed petals. It is an for a small rock garden or even exceptionally easy, long-lived for formal edging, the odd plant for the garden, multiplying seedling may vary but most will up over the years. The be very compact indeed. occasional seedling may produce pink flowers.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 29 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 LILIUM MARTAGON RED LINARIA 'PINK BUDGIES' £2.95 Liliaceae HB,HP 50-70cm £2.65 ScrophulariaceaHP 50-60cm This is the more unusual, This really beautiful, icing-pink extremely desirable darker- variation of this normally mauve coloured form of this strong- plant bears opening flowers that growing lily. It forms a clump of really do look like three little stems bearing whorls of slim birds having a gossip on a leaves and racemes of deep red perch. An absolutely stunning, flowers in early summer. Bone superb plant for a rockery, hardy and long-lived, a valuable where it may very gently self- addition to any garden. seed.

LILIUM MONADELPHUM LINARIA PURPUREA BROWN'S WHITE £2.85 Liliaceae HP,HB 45-90cm (15 seeds) £2.85 ScrophulariaceaHP 50-80cm This gorgeous lily produces, on This lovely plant opens its long strong stems,up to twenty pristine, tiny, pure white or more large, perfumed, “snapdragons” atop long slender nodding yellow flowers, spikes of delicate, fine, greyish- delicately marked inside with green foliage. This lovely new purple spots. form is bone hardy, long-lived and drought-resistant and was selected by Ray Brown, Plant Worlds owner.

LILIUM PYRENAICUM LINARIA TRIORNITHOPHORA £2.85 Liliaceae HB,HP 60-75cm (10 seeds) £2.30 ScrophulariaceaHP 60cm Heavy heads of glorious, bright, Incredible yellow-lipped, long- vivid yellow flowers, with, tailed, purple "snapdragons" on exotic, rather musty perfume, stout stems. These are arranged and rust-speckled especially in around the stems in groups of the throat, arise on shortish, three, looking incredibly just like stout stems. This excellent budgerigars! (Look at the garden plant is happy with both botanic name - 'three birds'). An lime and acid soils and is bone exceptional, but rarely seen hardy and long-lived. plant.

LILIUM SELECTED SPECIES LOBELIA 'BLUE CARDINAL' £2.85 Liliaceae HB 45cm-1.5 (30+ seeds) £2.75 CampanulaceaeHP 60cm This is an excellent value bag of Spires of clear blue, snapdragon- numerous lily species grown like flowers open in succession both by ourselves and some lily- on strong stems bearing thick, mad friends! Includes the crinkly leaves. These lovely following species: L. auratum, flowers will grow equally well in henryi, longiflorum, pyrenaicum, dry or wet conditions and are regale, pumilum, and others we very hardy and soundly have in small quantities, all of perennial. them very lovely.

LINARIA DALMATICA LOBELIA TUPA £2.40 ScrophulariaceaHP 60cm £2.95 CampanulaceaeHP 1.2-2.4m A vigorous and most attractive An incredible giant hardy lobelia plant forming many blue-green from Chile. From a large leaved spikes of large-spurred, rosette of thick leathery felted large yellow flowers, all summer leaves arise thick stems carrying long and indeed up to Christmas tropical orchid-like deepest in our garden here! carmine flowers. A valuable late season display from July until the autumn frosts.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 30 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 LUPINUS RUSSELL MIXTURE LYCHNIS VISCARIA £2.90 Papilionaceae HP 60-90cm (30 seeds) £2.65 Caryophyllaceae HP 30-45cm Tall spires of compact flowers This rare British native is both rise above clumps of palmate soundly perennial and beautiful. foliage in a magical array of In midsummer, massed panicles colours. This mix of popular of purple-red flowers are held 'Russell Hybrids' is ideal for atop strong thin stems, which height and structure at the back are sticky enough to trap the of borders and woodland edges. odd small fly (to no obvious A hardy perennial that remains advantage unless you know the a cottage garden favourite. reason why. we don't!).

LYCHNIS CHALCEDONICA ALBA LYTHRUM SALICARIA 'THE BEACON' £2.45 CaryophylaceaeHP 60-90cm £2.65 LythraceaeHP90cm-1.2 This is the albino form of the Spires of rosy-purple flowers are famous "Maltese Cross" flower, produced for a very long and having congested heads of ivory- valuable midsummer period white blooms. Very long-lived from July until September, when and hardy, it can make a truly many plants are well over dazzling splash of light in the flowering. This lovely plant mid-border, and especially in grows perfectly in ordinary soil, any dark area needing to be but in a wet spot, or even pond brightened up! edge will excel.

LYCHNIS CORONARIA MAGNOLIA CHAMPACA £2.50 Caryophyllaceae HP 45-60cm £3.95 Magnoliaceae HHT 3.0-5.0m (8 seeds) Large flowers of deepest rose- This evergreen, semi tropical crimson are carried on large shrub has large mid-green branching stems bearing leaves and sweetly fragrant attractive grey woolly leaves. orange flowers in spring. The This must-have plant for the strongly fragrant flowers from classic cottage garden will this fabulous, exotic tree are gently self-seed into cracks and used to make the expensive shady corners but rarely perfume 'Joy'. becomes a nuisance.

LYCHNIS CORONARIA ALBA MECONOPSIS BAILEYI £2.30 Caryophyllaceae HP 60-90cm £2.95 HP 90cm The unusual albino form of the (Syn. Meconopsis betonicifolia). traditional cottage garden plant The fabulous "Himalayan Blue has massed heads of pure white Poppy" forms clumps of hairy flowers on grey stems above leaves from which arise strong clumps of grey woolly hairy stems carrying heads of silky, leaves. kingfisher-blue, almost transparent petals with golden eyes. This is one of the most beautiful garden plants.

LYCHNIS CORONARIA 'ANGEL'S BLUSH' MECONOPSIS BAILEYI ALBA £2.30 Caryophyllaceae HP 60-90cm £2.85 Papaveraceae HP 90cm The pink-eyed white-flowered Pure white silky petals surround form of the woolly, grey-leaved a boss of golden stamens on Lychnis coronaria comes quite this rarely seen form of the true from seed but the pink eye "Himalayan Blue Poppy" which varies quite bizarrely with the makes an outstanding picture in season and weather conditions. a shady damp corner, hopefully A lovely long-lived cottage growing in rich, moist, organic garden plant. soil.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 31 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 MECONOPSIS BAILEYEYII 'HENSOL VIOLET' MECONOPSIS GRAANNDDIISS £2.95 PapaveraceaeHP 60-90cm (40+ seeds) £3.05 PapaveraceaeHP 60-90cm Bright violet-purple flowers, with This seed has been collected the merest hint of red adorn this from garden-grown plants of quite exquisite variant of the the true form of this rare blue "Himalayan Blue Poppy". poppy. Large saucer flowers in Coming quite true from seed, it deepest blue arise on thick, surprises countless poppy-lovers strong stems. Quite perennial who have never before seen when it is in slightly acidic, this unusual plant which organic soil, it is one of the originated from Hensol Castle. classic blue flowers.

MECONOPSIS CAMBRICA AURANTIACA MECONOPSIS GRANANDDIISS BURGUNDUNDYY £2.75 PapaveraceaeHP 30-45cm £3.20 PapaveraceaeHP 60-90cm (10 seeds) This is the orange form of the A spontaneous mutation has normally yellow "Welsh Poppy". caused this superb, brand new with delicate orange petals, this colour-break in this legendary may slowly self seed in the plant. The colour comes garden, usually only rewardingly true from seed germinating in the spring. although the odd blue one may still appear.

MECONOPSIS CAMBRICA FL. PL. AURANTIACA MECONOPSIS 'LINGHOLM' (EX M.M. GRANDIS) £2.95 PapaveraceaeHP 30-45cm £3.20 PapaveraceaeHP 1.0-1.2m The magnificent deep orange The true Meconopsis grandis is double form producing a long rare in cultivation, but this fertile succession of flowers hybrid, which is a quite reliable throughout spring. One of the perennial, has enormous deep top ten selling plants on our cobalt blue flowers, up to four nursery. Will self-seed into inches across, and is certainly places where it is happy and is the best available anywhere. quite perennial.

MECONOPSIS CAMBRICA 'FRANCES PERRY' MECONOPSIS NAPAULENSIS £2.75 PapaveraceaeHP 30-45cm £2.95 PapaveraceaeHP,HBi 1.2-1.5m The rare red form of the Deeply lobed leaves felted with perpetual flowering perennial silvery hairs, form a large and Welsh poppy comes true from most sumptuous winter seed as long as there are none rosette. In early spring the of the common yellow ones to thick, strong, main stem of this cross with it. Drifts of this very absolutely magnificent specimen hardy and long-lived beauty are arises, with branching spurs glorious, as it flowers all carrying golden-eyed, cherry summer long. red flowers in midsummer.

MECONOPSIS CAMBRICA YELLOW MECONOPSIS NAPAULENSIS 'PINKY' £2.50 PapaveraceaeHP 30-45cm £2.95 PapaveraceaeHBi 1.2-1.5m Meconopsis cambrica is perfect This beautiful bright pink variant for anyone wanting to create a opens its golden-eyed flowers woodland garden and with its on branching spurs which sprout gorgeous yellow flowers and from a thick strong main stem fine, fern-like foliage, the Welsh in late spring. Deeply-lobed Poppy is ideal. It spreads easily leaves felted with silvery hairs and is well adapted to colonising form a sumptuous evergreen gaps and crevices in rocks and winter rosette. stones.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 32 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 MECONOPSIS PANICULATA MECONOPSIS WILSONII £2.95 PapaveraceaeHP 1.2-1.8m £3.60 PapaveraceaeHP,HBi 1.2-1.5m (20+ seeds) Perhaps the most magnificent of Newly-described, this rare, all winter rosettes is this exciting and unbelievably enormous beast composed of exquisite flower bears massive, felted, golden bear's- spectacular heads of closely- ear-like leaves. In early spring packed, golden-eyed, blue- arises the thick stem holding a purple flowers, which open over succession of refined golden an extended period in late silky flowers. spring on stout hairy stems, and is worth any trouble to grow.

MECONOPSIS REGIA MELANOSELINUM DECIPIENS £2.95 PapaveraceaeHP,HBi 90cm-1.5 £2.65 Apiaceae, UmbelHP 1.2m (20+ seeds) From dense rosettes of silver This new umbellifer is certainly and golden pelted leaves arise one of the finds of recent great spikes of sulphur-yellow, years. In its second year a thick silky flowers. One of the most strong stem sprouts a broad fabulous and impressive plants crown of several branches in moist rich soil. (Experts now carrying finely divided bronzed believe that the true, genuine leaves, beneath very large Meconopsis regia may be no umbels of bright pink flowers. longer in cultivation.) An unforgettable picture.

MECONOPSIS RUDIS MELIANTHUS COMOSUS £3.50 PapaveraceaeHP,HBi 30-45cm (20 seeds) £2.65 Melianthaceae HHSh 60cm-1.2 (8 seeds) A rare and unusual blue poppy A rare, high altitude, hardy with bristly, spiny stems and dwarf relative of M Major. Silver- leaves and frilly, cobalt-blue grey, deeply fingered leaves flowers with attractive central smelling of hazelnuts when bosses of white anthers. bruised. Maroon flowers with Flowers are produced over an chocolate bracts and green extended period until late in the stamens produce large, pale year. green inflated fruit that children cannot resist popping!

MECONOPSIS SUPERBA MELIANTHUS MAJOR £2.95 PapaveraceaeHP 90cm-1.8 £2.90 Melianthaceae HHSh 1.2-1.8m (10 seeds) This fabulous plant has The giant with deeply-cut grey gorgeous rosettes of grey-green leaves. Bizarre, brownish leaves and strong, hairy stems flowers produce inflated seed- bearing sprays of sumptuous, pods in late summer. golden-eyed, pure white "Melianthus has probably the flowers. Found at altitude in most beautiful large foliage of Tibet and Bhutan, it has proved any plant that can be grown out easy to grow here in Devon of doors in these islands". from wild collected seed. (Graham Stuart Thomas).

MECONOPSIS VILLOSA MORINA LONGIFOLIA £3.15 PapaveraceaeHP 45-60cm £3.10 MorinaceaeHP60cm (10 seeds) A choice and extremely A rare and long-lived Nepalese desirable perennial poppy with plant with thistle-like foliage golden-haired rosettes of leaves (but no relation). From the main with many stems carrying wide, stem leaf axils appear exotic, nodding, open globes of bright flared white flowers, which turn yellow in the leaf axils. Very to pink inside after . rarely offered, famous gardener Repeat flowering from early Graham Stuart Thomas sums it summer until the frost, up thus, "Superbly beautiful". especially if dead-headed.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 33 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 MYRRHIS ODORATA NIGELLA DAMASCENA £2.05 Umbelliferae HP 60-90cm (10 seeds) £2.05 RanunculaceaeHA 45cm This uncommon and beautiful Large showy blue flowers open British native, has ornamental, over finely-cut, feathery, almost much-divided, delicate, aniseed- fern-like foliage and are perfect scented, fern-like foliage and for cutting, whilst the inflated crowded umbels of fragrant seed-pods are also popular with white flowers followed by flower arrangers. They may extremely large, shiny-black, gently self-seed but very rarely decorative seed-heads which become a nuisance! are fluted and slightly curved.

NASTURTIUM MAJUS 'FIREBIRD' OENOTHERA BLOOD ORANGE £2.05 Tropaeolaceae HHA 30-40cm (30+ seeds) £2.40 OnagaceaeHP8-10cm An eye-catching trailing This new and lovely dwarf plant Nasturtium, this one is superb with the same cushion-forming for hanging baskets where it will habit as aubreieta, produces an create vigorous cascades of extremely long succession of fiery blooms above unusual yellow-rimmed, red-eyed variegated foliage. It is perfect flowers all season long on in baskets, window boxes and prostrate stems. containers.

NASNASTTUURTRTIUM 'TOM THUMB MIXED' OMPHALODES LINIFOLIA £2.80 Tropaeolaceae HHA 15-23cm (40+ seeds) £2.75 BoraginaceaeHBi,HA 15-30cm (15 seeds) Dwarf compact plants bear A quite spectacular small flower brilliantly coloured flowers in a with grey-green leaves, above wide colour range including bi- which arise profuse sprays of colours. These are amongst the faintly sweet-scented, pure very easiest plants, for beds, white flowers all summer long. borders and containers. But This lovely thing will gently self- they really excel when planted seed around the garden but on a dry sunny bank or are never, ever becomes a nuisance! allowed to climb over a pergola.

NICOTIANA LIME GREEN ONOPORDUM ACANTHIUM £2.40 Solanaceae HHA 60-80cm £2.50 Asteraceae HBi 1.8-2.7m One of the most spectacular of This is truly one of the most all of the flowering tobaccos, impressive plants you can grow this easy-to-grow annual makes in the UK if you can give it a dazzling display of fragrant, room. Candelabras of large lime-green flowers from early mauve flowers open on much- summer onwards, doing best if branching white woolly stems sown in situ, although it can be which arise from a huge grey sown early under cover before spiky rosette in spring. being transplanted.

NICOTIANA SYLVESTRIS PAEONIA DELAVAYI £2.50 Solanaceae HHA 1.2m £3.20 PaeoniaceaeHSh 1.8m (10 seeds) This lovely plant is actually a "Victorian Tree ". Single species of wild tobacco bowl-shaped yellow-eyed (Woodland Tobacco), grown in flowers from red to deepest gardens for its deeply scented burgundy. In time, this peony perfume, which is overpowering makes an imposing, many at night, it attracts pollinating branched, deciduous tree. Well moths. This is one of the plants worth waiting for. from which the leaves can be dried for smoking.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 34 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 PAEONIA MASCULA ssp MASCULA PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM 'MIDNIGHT' £3.95 RanuculaceaeHP 80cm-1.0 (5 seeds) £2.60 PapaveraceaeHA 60-90cm A fabulous plant , one of the A bed of these unusually dark, most beautiful of the true almost black flowers, with an species. Large, pink - deep rose eye of distinctive white stamens flowers form on erect stalks makes a striking, mid-border above unusual, broadly divided, clump. pale, slim leaves. Originates from Eastern Europe (Turkey). Performs well in rich, well drained soil with full sun.

PAEONIA TENUIFOLIA PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM 'RYE BEANER' £5.10 RanuncluaceaeHP 30-60cm (4 seeds) £2.85 PapaveraceaeHA 60-90cm This unusual peony has finely The colour of the large single divided fern-like leaves which flowers does indeed resemble a explain its common name. The diluted glass of the famous deep cup shaped, scented blackcurrant drink. And every flowers vary from deep red to flower has a black centre to almost pink colour with a yellow guide the bees and butterflies to centre of tightly bunched the ! .

PANCNCRRAATITIUM MARITIMUM PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM ULTIMATE MIXTURE £3.35 Amaryllidaceae HHBb, 45-60cm (8 largeseed £2.50 PapaveraceaeHA 60-75cm In spring, enormous, frilly, very A very generous packet of fragrant, rather daffodil-like seeds, ideal for just sprinking flowers open over attractive, where needed in the garden. flat, blue-grey leaves. This rare Holding probably every known and gorgeous flower is classed cultivar of opium poppy as endangered, and as thus, is including: 'Danish Flag', paeony protected and must not be flowered forms, 'Hen and picked in the wild. Chickens' and every known colour to nearly black.

PAPAVER RHOEAS PENSTEMON GRANDIFLORUS £2.05 PapaveraceaeHA 38-45cm £2.55 ScrophulariaceaHP 60cm This is the fast-growing poppy Vigorous multi-stemmed plants which, after the battles, rapidly carry heavily packed heads of produced flowers amongst the large purple-mauve flowers. trenches in the world wars and Forms large, impressive clumps which is used to commemorate with a prolonged flowering the soldiers who fell. Also period. known as Flanders Poppy, Corn Poppy, Field Poppy and Red Poppy.

PAPAVER RUPIFRAGUM 'ORANGE FEATHERS' PENSTEMON SPECIES MIXED £2.75 PapaveraceaeHP 45-60cm £2.90 ScrophulariaceaHP 15-60cm This sumptuous, many- A wide selection from this stemmed, double-flowered, increasingly popular group of long-lived perennial, bears an plants, including both rockery endless succession of frilly, and border varieties in all many-petalled terracotta-orange colours, e.g. Penstemon flowers. Botanically this is cardinalis, fruticosus, procerus, Papaver rupifragum 'Flore serrulatus, montanus, ovatus, Pleno', but we feel "Orange venustus, virens and many Feathers" is less of a mouthful! more.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 35 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 PHACELIA BOLANDERI POTENTILLA POPORRPHPHYRANTHA £2.85 Hydrophyllaceae HP 12-20cm £3.95 Rosaceae HP 4-8cm (10+ seeds) Flared, lavender-blue trumpets In July and August, from a tight with bright blue pollen on low rosette of white, silky leaves hairy-leafed stems, open until arise tiny stems bearing large, late in the season, May-August. darker-eyed, purple-pink This astonishing, new, rare, flowers. This rare, endemic hardy perennial Phacelia makes crevice-dweller is in the Critically an amazing display in any open Endangered category. Very few spot and why it has only just fertile seeds available of this been discovered amazes us. perfect plant.

PHLOMIS RUSSELIANA PRIPRIMMUULLAA BULLEYANA £2.50 LamiaceaeHP90cm £2.50 PrimulaceaeHP45cm Although it looks tender, this This extremely vigorous and Syrian plant is actually bone- hardy candelabra primula hardy, stout stems bearing thrusts up numerous strong tiered whorls of hooded, butter stems bearing bright orange yellow flowers in summer, flowers with darker eyes. It above rough heart-shaped basal does especially well in waterside leaves. A valuable and easy environments where it will self- plant that thrives in poor dry soil. seed generously!

PIPER NIGRUM PRIMULA CANDELABRA P.W. RAINBOWS 10X PACKET £2.65 Piperaceae HHCl,G £4.25 PrimulaceaeHP60cm Although an attractive flowering A generous packet of this , this plant is usually grown popular flower suitable for for its fruits. When dried and sowing in situ in a damp spot. usually powdered, the dark red Strong stems hold heavy heads peppercorns are used for of bright flowers arranged in flavour and as medicine. Black , whorls. These plants are easy to white, green, pink and red germinate, grow and keep, pepper are all preserved berries especially on moist, well- or seeds of the same plant! manured ground.

PLANTAGO MAJOR RUBRIFOLIA PRPRIIMMUULLAA ELATIOR £2.50 PlantaginaceaeHP 30-45cm £2.65 PrimulaceaeHP15-23cm A deep purple form of the The is seed collected from the "Giant Plantain" coming true British "Oxlip", now completely true from seed. exremely rare in the wild. It is Large shiny purple leaves superficially like a cowslip but produce a most impressive with larger, orange-throated, rosette from which arise long fragrant pale lemon flowers. thin poker-like sead heads. A superb plant where foliage and form are required.

POLLIA JAPONICA PRIMULA FLORINDAE £3.20 Commelinaceae HP 60-90cm (15 seeds) £2.75 PrimulaceaeHP60-90cm Rare and easily grown, this The "Giant Himalayan Cowslip" lovely Japanese native thrives in has large rounded leaves and any shady spot. From late stout stems, carrying immense summer to autumn, upright heads of fragrant flowers which white stalks bearing white are usually yellow but very flowers followed by showy blue occasionally red or orange. In berries. Long, pointed leaves damp soil this is almost certainly look like shiny plastic. Perfect the biggest primula there is! for shady areas or a container.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 36 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 PRIMULA 'GOLD LACED REDS' PUYA BERTEROANA £2.95 PrimulaceaeHP15cm (20 seeds) £3.45 HP,HH 60cm-1.5 Heavy trusses of small, pillar- An absolutely exquisite hardy box red flowers delicately edged pineapple relative producing with golden yellow arise on rosettes of jagged, silvery-green strong stems in early spring. leaves beneath stout spikes of These attractive variations exotic, waxy, emerald- originally appeared here as turquoise, lily-like flowers chance seedlings more than 20 contrasted by bright orange years ago, and have since stamens filled with blue syrupy travelled around the world. nectar for butterflies and bees.

PRIMULA JAPONICA 'MILLAR'S CRIMSON' PUYA CHILENSIS £2.45 PrimulaceaeHP40-60cm £2.95 Bromeliaceae HP 90cm These lovely candelabra-type Another superb hardy pineapple plants make numerous strong relative with rosettes of jagged, stems bearing deepest crimson grey-green leaves. Stout spikes tiers. The basal rosettes make of exotic yellow-green flowers. the most spectacular cabbage- An excellent container or like giants when well fed, rockery plant. increasing in size yearly, and even self-seeding but never being a problem.

PRPRIIMMUULALA PULVERULENTA PUYA COERULEA £2.35 PrimulaceaeHP45-60cm £2.65 Bromeliaceae HP 90cm-1.2 Strong stems holding tiered Puyas are perhaps the hardiest whorls of deep red flowers arise member of the pineapple family, from vigorous rosettes of tooth- making sensational rosettes of edged leaves. A small serrated leaves. Spikes of proportion will be of the lovely exotic blue-green flowers when shell-pink 'Bartley's Strain'. This mature. Plant in a wall or lovely plant from China should bank. "Worth the cost and be long-lived in most gardens. effort to grow this rare plant." (G.S.T.)

PRIMULA PULVERULENTA 'BARTLEY'S STRAIN' REHMANNIA ELATA £3.20 PrimulaceaeHP45-60cm £2.95 ScrophulariaceaHHP,H 60-90cm This is possibly the most Open racemes of very large, desirable and sought after of all tubular, deep pink flowers with of the large primulas. (So yellow throats, open in early valuable in fact that much of a summer on this rarely-seen sizeable bed was dug up and plant, which bears rough, stolen from our gardens!) This palmate leaves. It is perennial in selected form bears tiered a sheltered spot if kept frost whorls of large, yellow-eyed free. pink flowers.

PRIMULA VIALII RHEUM NOBILE £3.15 PrimulaceaeHP25-38cm £3.70 Polygonaceae 1.2m (6 seeds) The "Red-Hot-Poker Primula" This legendary giant herbaceous has long crinkly leaves, from plant erupts with an amazing which erupt dense spikes of tapering spire of bright, creamy violet blue flowers topped by a coloured bracts which are held blood red cone of unopened on strong stems. These extend buds. When in flower in the out even further as soon as the garden this is our best selling seed ripens. It grows high in the alpine primula and surely one of Himalayas. One of the world's the most desirable. most desirable plants!

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 37 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 RHODOPHIALA CCHHIILLEENNSE SALVIA BARRELIERI £2.95 Amaryllidaceae HHBb, 30-38cm £2.85 LamiaceaeHP1.0m These superb amaryllis relatives This stunning herbaceous display large trumpet-shaped perennial has sky blue flowers flowers and thin strap-shaped on showy, tall branched spikes leaves. These seeds have been with large, wavy, grey-green collected from red and pink leaves. In the wild it is found in forms of these plants high in the northern Africa, Morocco, . Plants will do best in Tunisia, Algeria, and well-drained compost in large southwestern Spain, usually pots or a protected scree. between 500-1200 meters.

RICINUS COMMUNIS 'RED GIANT' SALVIA PRATENSE ROSE RHAPSODY £3.70 EuphorbiaceaeHHSh 1.8m (6 seeds) £2.95 Labiatae HP 40-60cm This selected form of the Enchanting, rose-pink hooded "Castor Oil Plant", has brighter blooms open on densely-packed red leaves and seed heads than flower heads on long stems, many others; the deep over dark green, aromatic red/bronze shiny leaves only foliage. Perfect for a mixed producing their strongest leaf border display, they are most colour when in full sun, the first attractive to butterflies and few leaves are always green bees, whilst dead-heading gives though! colour into autumn.

ROEMERIA HYBRIDA SAXIFRAGA SPECIES MIXED £2.95 PapaveraceaeHHA 30-38cm (30+ seeds) £3.20 SaxifragaceaeHP 7-30cm This rare and quite unbelievably- Mixture will include a lot of coloured poppy is an exiting varieties we offer separately, find. Papery violet flowers open also a few rare and unknown with anthers delicately dusted in species which are in too short sky-blue pollen. Deeply-divided, supply to offer individually. ferny foliage, reminiscent of the These should include Spp. such "Californian Poppy" completes as aretioides, canaliculata, this charming picture. What an corymbosa, marginata, amazing colour! opositifolia, and many more.

RUBUS SPECTABILIS FLORE PLENA SCABIOSA RUMELICA £3.50 Rosaceae HSh 1.0-1.3m (10 seeds) £2.90 DipsacaceaeHP60cm A rare, double-flowered form of A gorgeous slowly-spreading this garden-worthy shrub. plant producing pure crimson Grown for its many-petalled, 'pincushion' flowers on many dazzling-red flowers and juicy branching stems over a very, fruits resembling yellow>orange- very long flowering season. red raspberries that can be used This rarely seen colour makes a to make jams and pies. These bright splash even in the fruits are also called Russian darkest corner. Raspberries or Salmon Berries.

RUDBECKIA LACINIATA SCHIZOSTYLIS MIXED COLOURS £2.45 Compositae HP 1.2-1.8m £2.90 IridaceaeHP50-60cm Strong tall stems bear many From clumps of sword-shaped golden flowers with large, black, leaves arise stems of cup- protruding centre cones shaped flowers from white, appearing from midsummer through pinks to deepest right into late autumn. An vermilion. This South African impressive and valuable flower Gladiolus relative provides for late colour. valuable colour from August right through autumn and into winter if it remains mild.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 38 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 SCLERANTHUS BIFLORUS SELINUM WALLICHIANUM £2.30 Caryophyllaceae HP 5cm £3.70 Apiaceae 90cm-1.2 (10 seeds) This truly amazing plant, slowly A rare plant, that grows up to creeping along like a dense and 13,000 feet in the Himalayas, solid green rippling carpet, rising later in the spring than produces wonderful shapes and most perennials, it spreads its forms. Although related to our basal leaves forming tiered pinks, it is reputed to be the mats of fine, lacy foliage. Flower only Australian alpine totally buds emerge in late Summer, hardy in the UK. each flower head consisting of thousands of tiny flowers.

SCLERANTHUS UNIFLORUS SENECIO POLYODON £2.45 Caryophyllaceae HP 3cm £2.40 Compositae HP 30-60cm Probably the most diminutive, A long-flowering dazzler slow-growing and intriguing, discovered on the mountains of ground covering alpine plant South Africa. Numerous erect one can grow. In early summer, stems produce an everlasting the prostrate cushion makes display of carmine rose flowers tiny half inch stems which carry from early spring until the one golden seed each, whilst autumn frosts. any weeds in its path are stifled.

SEDUM AIZOON SILENE 'PURPLE PRINCE' £2.85 Crassulaceae HP 30-45cm £2.65 Caryophyllaceae HP 60-75cm A hardy, herbaceous, trouble We have finally succeeded in free plant from Western Siberia producing a purple-leafed, and Japan. In spring stout fertile 'Red Campion' (Silene stems clad in toothed, fleshy dioica). The leaves of this leaves arise from a stout root superb new Plant World stock. Rich yellow flower heads discovery go darker the brighter are produced from June to Aug. the sun is, giving a perfect foil We offer the 'best form' - S. for the bright pink flowers. Aizoon ssp. Maximowiczii.

SEDUM PILOSUM SISYRINCHIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM £2.65 Crassulaceae HBi 8-10cm (50 seeds) £2.35 IridaceaeHP15-23cm A quite unique, rare and odd This dwarf iris relative could little biennial sedum from the easily be mistaken for a clump Caucasus. Bright pink flowers of grass were it not for the appear in spring on fleshy yellow-centred, bright blue star- rosettes that resemble a small like flowers that appear in sempervivum.The rosettes then succession from May until die but the plant will gently self- August. Over time it can spread seed making a stable colony in slowly by seed or clumps can be sharply drained conditions divided in early spring.

SEDUM SPURIUM VOODOO SISYRINCHIUM PALMIFOLIUM £2.30 Crassulaceae HP 10-13cm £2.95 IridaceaeHP38-45cm Although the common pink form A Plant World introduction. The has always been one of the top "Bird-Of-Paradise" sisyrinchium ten rockery plants, this new can carry up to one hundred variety has much improved, large golden stars on each deepest purplish-red flowers. magnificent head composed of Additionally, its slowly low- repeatedly branching, broad spreading carpet of succulent stems, giving an endless display plum-coloured leaves is always of large, yellow saucer-shaped attractive. flowers.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 39 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 SISYRINCHIUM STRIATUM SUNFLOWER 'F1 KONG' £2.65 IridaceaeHP30-45cm £2.95 Compositae HHA 4.2m (10 seeds) Slender spikes bear numerous Giant, brown-eyed golden heads yellow-eyed palest buttermilk grow atop probably the tallest flowers, with purple veining on multi-stemmed sunflower ever the reverse. Attractive iris-like bred. This giant with a clumps of grey-green foliage. wonderful branching habit ideal Ideal for naturalising. Easy with for cut flowers really is the best this large packet. for 'grow the tallest sunflower' competitions!

SMYRNIUM PERFOLIATUM SUNFLOWER 'ITALIAN WHITE' £2.45 Umbelliferae HBi 60-90cm £2.65 Asteraceae HA 1.0-1.5m (50 seeds) "Perfoliate Alexanders". Old Boldly contrasting, big creamy cottage gardens and flower white flowers with deep arrangers have known of this chocolate centres. Excellent for curious plant for ages. The flower arranging and great at stems, holding umbels of back of borders or against a tall greeny-gold flowers, grow wall where they provide straight through the middles of atmosphere and contrast. the shiny leaves, kebab-style. Flowers summer. Height 4-5ft.

STACHYS LANATA SUNFLOWER MONGOLIAN GIANT £2.35 LamiaceaeHP30cm £2.05 Compositae HHA 3.6-4.2m (10 seeds) (Syn. S. byzantina) Spikes of These plants really are magenta flowers on grey wooly monsters. Not only do they stems over dense mats of grow up to 14 feet tall, they deliciously soft leaves (much also produce the most resembling lamb's ears, one of amazingly enormous flower their common names). The odd heads up to 18" in diameter. If variegated seedling may arise. you want to impress your neighbours just grow some of these against your house wall!

STRELITZIA REGINAE SUNFLOWER 'VALENTINE' £3.95 Musaceae HHP 60-90cm (6 seeds) £2.20 Compositae HHA 1.2-1.5m Spectacular orange and dark Black centres contrast superbly blue flowers are held on very with bright yellow petals on thick stems above most sturdy plants. This medium attractive, leathery, banana-like height sunflower which has leaves. In cold countries it does multi-branching heads is ideal best in a large pot when it for beds, borders and also for should be re-potted annually. In children to grow warmer climes it can make huge evergreen clumps in the garden.

STRELITZIA REGINAE 'MANDELA'S GOLD' TACCA CHANTRIERI £4.80 Musaceae HHP 60-90cm (4 seeds) £2.85 Taccaceae GP 45-60cm (10 seeds) A superb, form of the 'Bird of The 'Bat Plant'. A bizarre but Paradise' plant. Golden yellow quite beautiful plant with flowers rather than orange, aspidistra-like foliage and large, perpetuated by hand-pollination darkest purple, almost black of the parent. Fabulous flowers which resemble container or outdoor plants in Batman's cape. The most warmer countries. A rare and intriguing features though are valuable seed which is the bunches of long 'whiskers' guaranteed to come true. protruding from the centre.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 40 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 TACCA INTEGRIFOLIA THALICTRUM DELAVAYI £2.90 Taccaceae GP 60-90cm (10 seeds) £2.50 RanunculaceaeHP 90cm-1.2 Another incredible flowering (Syn. T. dipterocarpum). oddity with large, green veined Probably the most attractive of white flowers, resembling all of the species. With huge triangular cloaks, sprouting long panicles of nodding lilac flowers trailing whiskers from their appearing in mid to late purple centres. Most definitely summer and elegant, delicate one of the most profoundly ferny foliage. interesting talking points you will ever grow.

TACCA 'NIVEA' THAALALILIICCTTRRUUMM ROCHEBRUNEANUM £3.95 TaccaceaGP30-50cm (8 seeds) £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 1.2-1.8m These tropical evergreen Native to Japan, this clump- flowers produce large, pure forming perennial has lacy, fine- white petals centred by small, textured, bluish-green, sombre, drooping flowers and columbine-like foliage. Sprays of long whiskerlike bracts, all pendulous, lavender-purple resembling a bat's face. These flowers with contrasting yellow amazing blossoms appear from stamens appear in late summer spring and on through summer. in loose, airy clusters, on purple flower stems, 8 feet tall.

TANACETUM PARTHENIUM 'SELMA STAR' TIGRGRIIDDIIAA LILACEA £2.75 Compositae HP,HBi 45-60cm £3.45 IridaceaeHB30-45cm (10 seeds) Cartwheel-like creamy-white These summer-flowering Iris flowers, with short spokes and a relatives from Central America disproportionally large 'hub' have flamboyant showy carmine- open in profusion from May until pink flowers, which are Iris-like August. This rare and quite in structure, but with broad distinct flower is superficially like petals, held widely open. They Malmesbury, but has the added come in a range of bright bonus of a shallow central dome colours often spotted or flecked of crested petals. with a darker tone.

THAALILICTRUM ALPINUM TTORTOORRTTOOIISSEE FOOD FLOWER MIXTURE £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 30-50cm (20 seeds) £3.20 VariousHP,HBi Shimmering heads hold A specially formulated mix of countless flowers each of which seeds to provide plants for a has a bell-shaped calyx of green healthy diet for tortoises. or purplish bearing up to Including Great Plantain, fifteen long purple stamens Common Mallow, Creeping tipped with large yellow Bellflower, Evening Primrose, anthers. This plant has the most Mixed Geraniums, Musk Mallow, beautiful foliage of all of the Globe Thistle, Flowering Maple Thalictrums. and Salsify.

THALICTRUM AQUILEGIIFOLIUM TRACHELIUM CAERULEUM 'BLACK KNIGHT' £2.50 RanunculaceaeHP 75-90cm £2.95 CampanulaceaeHHP 45-60cm (50+ seeds) Branching stems hold large This new spectacular flower has heads of countless, fluffy, rich dark foliage with purple veins, rosy lilac flowers, just like tiny above which open large, dense, powder-puffs, over delicate cloudy sprays of thousands of sprays of maidenhair, columbine- small, fragrant, intensely violet like foliage. This is a choice and flowers, which appear in early exceptionally lovely plant that summer and are magnets for should be in every garden. bees. A superb and exceptional introduction.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 41 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 TRILLIUM CHCHLLOORROPEOPETALUM VERBASCUM BLATATTARTARIIAA ALBA £3.50 Trilliaceae HP 25-30cm (10 seeds) £2.95 ScrophulariaceaHP 60-90cm One of the aristocrats of the Slender spikes of purple-eyed garden with three leaves, petals white flowers arise from and calyces, leaves being rosettes of glossy, crinkly dark wonderfully marbled and green leaves. This plant is an mottled in grey in spring, the absolute must for every cottage three mahogany to rich crimson- garden where it may gently self- maroon petals appearing shortly seed into gravel or empty afterwards. Very rarely offered corners but is never a problem. but long lived when established.

TROLLIUS EUROPAEUS VERBASCUM CHAIXII ALBUM £2.50 RanunculaceaeHP 45-60cm £2.40 ScrophulariaceaHP 60-90cm A most attractive plant with This is one of the perennial dark green, deeply-cut leaves, verbascums bearing spires of bears flowers which resemble purple-eyed white flowers on egg-yolks both in shape and hairy stems and over compact colour, like a paeonia. This easy- rosettes of hairy, jagged-edged to-grow native wild flower of leaves. This is one of the better Europe and Western Asia behaved Mulleins that may prefers moist soil in full sun or gently self-seed but rarely light shade. becomes a nuisance!

TROPAEOLUM MAJUS 'EMPRESS OF INDIA' VERBENA BONARIENSIS £1.60 Tropaeolaceae HHA 23-30cm £2.65 VerbenaceaeHP 1.0-1.4m A perpetually popular Every garden should have this nasturtium, this variety long flowering beauty which produces masses of deep-red, flaunts its sprays of fragrant semi-double flowers over purple- purple flowers, on wiry angular green leaves. Superb in free- branching stems, from June draining or sunny positions until the frost. Acts as a where they are ideal for magnet for butterflies. covering unsightly banks or fences.

TULTULIIPPAA SPRENGERI VERBENA HASTATA ROSEA £2.75 Liliaceae HB,HP 30-38cm (15 seeds) £2.40 VerbenaceaeHP 60-90cm Strong clumps of glossy bright A super, long flowering (June- green leaves stand below goblet- Sept), plant from Nova Scotia. shaped bright red flowers which This is the more unusual are 5-6cm in length in early shocking pink form (usually summer. This is the latest of all blue), with multi-branching of the tulips to open its flowers candelabra-heads, flowers and will self seed to make slowly expand as they ascend remarkable colonies in time. the stems like burning sparklers (in reverse).

VELTHEIMIA BRACTEATA VERONICA GRANDIS £3.20 HHBb, 30-40cm (6 seeds) £2.50 ScrophulariaceaHP 60-90cm This plant is in bloom when Appropriately named, this new other flowers have withered rare plant is from Japan. With away. Racemes of flowers are slowly lengthening royal blue carried on a long stalk above spires, up to 30cm long, and 60- glossy green, fleshy leaves. The 90cm stems lightly clad with flowers can vary from pale pink, pointed sawtooth leaves, it dusky pink and orange-pink to flowers until late September. deep rose pink, and are occasionally greenish-yellow.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 42 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 VIOLA BLUEBERRY CREAM WILD FLOWER MIXES £2.50 ViolaceaeHP8-15cm £1.90 Various This gorgeous new viola has Please order any of these mixes been produced using some of of wild flower seeds for various the very best dwarf violas on habitats and purposes, all are the market as parents. The priced at 1.75 per packet. flowers will vary from plant to Butterfly Meadow Collection. plant, as ornamental violas do, Honey mix. Wetland mix. but almost all of them will have Shaded mix. Late-flowering mix. a cream or white face with a Early-flowering mix. Cornfield distinctive blue or purple edging. mix. Meadow mix.

VIOLA COTTAGE GARDEN MIXED ZINNIA ELEGANS 'JAZZY MIXED' £2.35 ViolaceaeHP10-15cm £3.20 Compositae HHA 38-45cm The complete spectrum from These incredible bi-coloured our cottage garden with small zinnias produce masses of semi or medium-sized flowers, doubled, inch and a half, red- colours ranging from pale tipped burgundy daisies in the yellows through bicolors to dark most sparkling colours blues. If you're feeling really imaginable. Blooming into late lazy - just sprinkle this lot over autumn, they are superb either your worn-out rockery for a for garden colour or cut flowers. beautiful display!

VIOLA 'FUJI DAWN' ZINNIA ELEGANS 'PURPLE PRINCE' £2.95 ViolaceaeHP10-15cm £2.05 Asteraceae HHA 30-50cm Deep purple, early spring A Robust plant with excellent flowers above sprays of garden performance. Produces attractively marbled pink and masses of double, deep pink- cream foliage. A completely new purple, dahlia-like flowers. This colour-break in viola taller variety, adds colour and variegation. Developed and height to borders and floral named here at Plant World and arrangements. Flowering all now grown and copied summer, attracting bees and worldwide! butterflies, until the first frosts.

VIOLA 'TIGEREYE' £2.50 ViolaceaeHP10-15cm "Hello, my seeds arrived yesterday all very nicely Bright golden faces delicately packed and with clear sowing instructions. I really laced and netted in black make like that so thanks until the next order." this one of the new 'Must-Have' plants. We have selected this stunning viola for several generations and it comes rewardingly true from seed. Harrie van der Molen. Heerlen, Netherlands.

VISCARIA 'BLUE ANGEL' £2.95 Caryophyllaceae HA 25-35cm (20+ seeds) "Just wanted you to know I received the The "Blue Campion" a rare and replacement order and thank you so much for your fantastic dwarf cottage garden wonderful customer service." plant, has a unique colour among this group of flowers, with masses of wide-open, large, two-tone mid blue flowers smothering it. These appear around six to eight weeks after Tricia Burris, Kansas, USA. sowing and then all season long.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 43 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ACTINIDIA KOLOMIKTA BILLARDIERA LONGIFLORA £4.25 Actindiaceae HCl 4.0-8.0m (15 seeds) £2.45 PittosporaceaeHCl A. kolomikta is a large vigorous A choice Tasmanian climber deciduous climber with twining grown outside for twenty years stems. Leaves ovate, those of here. Thin twining stems mature plants tipped with silver, produce creamy-yellow purple- later pink. Flowers white, male tipped waxy flowers in spring. and female on separate plants. In autumn, outstandingly lovely Grown for foliage effect. clusters of deepest violet grape- sized berries appear.

ARISTOLOCHIA FIMBRIATA BOMAREA CALDASII £3.35 GCl,HH 60-90cm (8 seeds) £3.70 AlstroemeriaceaHHCl 3.6m (6 seeds) Quite amazing exotic green This rare Chilean, climbing, flowers with purple-brown, alstroemeria relative has yellow-veined insides, are clusters of flared, lapageria-like surrounded by attractive, silver- red blooms, opening from mid veined leaves festooning this summer onwards, on strong unusual, drought-resistant, twining stems. In late autumn, trailing and climbing plant. This bunches of persistent bright Brazilian native also makes an orange berries appear. excellent hanging basket plant!

AARRIISSTTOOLLOOCCHHIIAA MACROPHYLLA BOMAREA HIRTELLA £2.95 Aristolochiaceae HCl 5.0-9.0m (20 seeds) £3.95 AlstroemeriaceaHCl 2.0-3.6m (6 seeds) Often named "Dutchman’s pipe" This "climbing alstroemeria" due to the 2 inch yellowish- makes a deep hardy tuber and green flowers. Flowers open in gives fabulous value each spring May / June, attracting insects when strong-climbing stems which become trapped inside a wind upwards, each terminating tube forcing pollination. A fruit in a compact bunch of is then produced. Once ripe, gorgeous, speckled, yellow- fruit splits, dispersing its small, throated, orange and green triangular seeds. alstroemeria-like flowers.

BEAUMONTIA GRANDIFLORA CLEMATIS MONTANA ALBA £3.40 ApocynaceaeGCl 7.2m (8 seeds) £2.55 RanunculaceaeHCl A valuable and exceptionally One of the most rewarding and beautiful, evergreen twining also easy-to-grow of all plant for the cool greenhouse or clematis, pure white flowers conservatory, with rich green open in early spring all having leaves that are hairy beneath, the most delicious perfumed bearing an abundance of scent of sweet marshmallows. beautiful, large, white, fragrant, This seed was collected from all bell-shaped flowers from spring the white-flowered cultivars until late summer. throughout our gardens.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 44 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 CLCLEEMMATATIS MONTANA PERFUMED MIXED CODONOPSIS LANCEOLATA £2.55 RanunculaceaeHCl £3.30 CampanulaceaeHCl (10 seeds) One of the easiest-to-grow of all This plant, in a league of its clematis, these flowers open in own, is surely the most early spring in colours ranging magnificent of all climbing from pure white through pinks codonopsis. Twining stems clad to red, with the most delicious in pointed leaves produce perfume reminiscent of sweet countless large, waxy, clematis- marshmallows. Seed collected like bells of greenish-yellow, from all of the different cultivars which are delicately marked in in our gardens. maroon.

CLEMATIS MONTANA PINK DICENTRA SCANDENS £2.55 RanunculaceaeHCl £2.95 Papaveraceae HCl One of the easiest to grow of all This king of climbing dicentras clematis; these flowers open in from Tibet has rapidly early spring in colours ranging ascending stems carrying from pinks to red, all having the clusters of lemon flowers amidst most delicious perfumed scent ferny foliage all summer. Ours of sweet marshmallows. Seed is cloaks a dull conifer, producing collected from all the different numerous sausage-like seed cultivars throughout our pods in late autumn, then gardens. overwinters as a tuber.

CLEMATIS POTANINII ECCREMOCARPUS SCABER FLAME COLOURS £2.85 RanunculaceaeHCl £2.30 HCl Dense clusters of milky white, A vigorous scrambler, perfect golden-eyed flowers appear on for covering an evergreen vigorous climbing stems all shrub, with red, orange or summer and into autumn. This yellow tubular flowers, little-known, but immensely produced freely from June to valuable gem from China, will October in multi-flowered add value and colour by trusses. Makes a hardy covering any boring old overwintering tuber, but flowers evergreen shrub. first year from seed.

CLEMATIS SERRATIFOLIA GLORIOSA LUTEA £2.25 RanunculaceaeHCl £2.50 Liliaceae GCl (10 seeds) This delicate, late flowering A new, rare and very lovely climber produces an endless variation on the normally red- succession of blooms from July flowered climber. Large, golden until October, when the frost flowers with reflexed petals sends it to sleep again. The adorn the numerous vigorous fragrant brown-eyed yellow multi-branching stems in flowers give an unseasonal midsummer. A truly spectacular supply of delicate lemon conservatory plant. perfume.

COBAEA SCANDENS GLORIOSA ROTHSCHILDIANA £2.90 PolemoniaceaeHHA 3.0-6.0m (10 seeds) £3.20 Liliaceae GCl (10 seeds) This stunning Mexican climber This easily grown and has all the assets, being quick- superlative climbing lily bears growing and vigorous (up to very large, reflexed, frilled 6m!) with absolutely enormous yellow and crimson flowers. pale violet or purple "cup-and- Twining stems carry thin leaves saucer" flowers. Usually grown which terminate in a clinging as a half-hardy annual, it often tendrils. This is an ideal plant survives the winter outside in for a sheltered garden or milder areas. conservatory.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 45 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 LAPAGERIA ROSEA MUTISIA ILICIFOLIA £3.95 Philesiaceae HHCl (8 seeds) £5.10 Asteraceae HCl 1.0-3.0m (5 seeds) Chile's national flower is a Very rarely offered, this superb rightful candidate for the world's "Chilean Climbing Gazania" has most beautiful climber. Huge, twining shoots which carry soft, wax-like bell flowers, three- holly-like leaves and large, inches or more of lipstick red, pinkish-mauve "daisy" flowers. decorate the twining stems. These plants make a Grows best in acidic soil outside breathtaking sight, and are with shelter, but may be better surprisingly hardy with thick, in a conservatory. trunk-like stems.

LATHYRUS CHLORANTHUS JASMINOIDES £2.60 LeguminosaeHA (10 seeds) £3.45 Bignoniaceae HHCl,H (8 seeds) Produces flowers in amazing, A profusion of ivory-white/pale lime-green to yellow . Grows pink flowers, with a jasmine-like rapidly when fed, scrambling up scent develop in late spring supports or forms a large through to autumn. A vigorous mound. This rarely-offered climber. Large pointed pods variety has been sold under the filled with papery seeds form. name 'lemonade'. Does best Thrives on a sheltered sunny from an autumn sowing, can be wall, or in a pot that can be sown at any time. moved to a frost-free area.

LATHYRUS SYLVESTRIS PASSIFLORA CAERULEA £1.95 LeguminosaeHCl £2.85 PassifloraceaeHCl 2.0-4.0m (10 seeds) This trouble and maintenance This lovely exotic-looking free, and quite rare British climber is quite hardy in native climber (The Wood sheltered positions where it Pea)improves yearly, throwing displays its fragrant, intricately- out enormous numbers of flesh marked, pale blue flowers in pink flowers on strong stems, summer. In Autumn plum-sized being even more vigorous and orange fruits appear filled with floriferous than Lathyrus edible crunchy pips and sweet, latifolius. tasty pulp. RHS Award winner.

LATHYRUS TINGITANUS RROSOSEUS PASSIFLORA EDULIS £2.55 Fabiaceae HHCl,H 1.5-1.8m (10 seeds) £2.75 PassifloraceaeHCl 6.0-9.0m (10 seeds) These lovely annuals are just as This vigorous climber has easy to grow as traditional deeply 3-lobed leaves, climbing sweet peas. This scarcer, bi- tendrils and purple-centred frilly coloured paler form produces white flowers, followed by a masses of coral-rose-pink crop of purple, edible fruit. blooms which will smother Although it is half hardy and fences or archways throughout may be killed off down to the the summer, or even for long- ground in hard winters, it lasting cut flowers. reliably re-grows from the roots.

MAURANDYA 'MAGIC DRAGON' (ERUBESCENS) PODRANEA RICASOLIANA £2.25 ScrophulariaceaHHCl 2.0-5.0m £3.20 BignoniacaeHHSh, 4.5-6.0m (6 seeds) In the early 1990's we bred A lovely vine, adorned with what is probably the first hybrid trusses of pink-purple flowers climbing maurandya ever year round in warmer countries produced. These incredibly fast / the tropics and from late growing plants, which possess summer to autumn in cooler explosive hybrid vigour, produce regions. Can give a stunning a wide range of large flower late season display if grown in a shapes and sizes in all shades of cold greenhouse, if hard pruned pink and red. after flowering.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 46 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 SWEET PEA PARFUMIERE MIX SPECIOSUM £1.70 LeguminosaeHA (25 seeds) £3.60 Tropaeolaceae HHCl (8 seeds) A mix of numerous heirloom Sheets of dazzling scarlet grandiflora varieties, some old flowers cascading amidst pretty, and some new, that have been delicate, divided leaves adorn especially selected for their this gorgeous plant throughout ability to fill a room with that midsummer. This fabulous heady sweet pea perfume. This Chilean native prefers peat to is probably the best way to be incorporated into the soil, grow a good selection so you when it will make countless, can pick your favourites! long-lived hardy tubers.

SWEET PEA 'PRINCE OF ORANGE' VINCETOXICUM NIGRUM £1.70 LeguminosaeHA (30 seeds) £2.70 ApocynaceaeHCl (8 seeds) One of our favourites Dark purple to black star- grandiflora forms, this sweetly- shaped flowers on terminal perfumed beauty is striking trusses form on this vigorous orange, always a rare colour, climber from May to mid June. with a touch of clashing pink! The fruits are slim, green > light Introduced by famous breeder brown tapered pods, tightly Morse in 1928, this scarce packed with seeds attached to flower has only recently been re- white puffy fibers that carry introduced into circulation! them on the wind.

TROPAEOLUM AZUREUM £3.70 Tropaeolaceae HHCl 1.0-2.0m (20 seeds) "So nice you are honest people! My mail lost my The fabulous blue climbing seed parcel so you sent seeds again, but today perennial nasturtium! Thin first package found in local post office. I report to twining stems produce many you but Helen already sent order again. Thank dazzling cobalt blue flowers you." from the leaf axils of delicate, Roman Sidorov, Moscow. attractively lobed leaves. Dying down to deep resting tubers, this is one of the ultimate alpine house plants.

TRTROOPAPAEOLUM LEPTOPHYLLUM £5.25 Tropaeolaceae HP (4 seeds) "You are amazing! Posted my order 28/4. Order Possibly not in cultivation it mailed back 3/5. Today 11/5 I have all seeds in exists in just a few secret places Greece." in Chile where these few seeds have been collected. Perennial and hardy it makes a steadily- Papadopoulos Lakhs. increasing tuber producing stems with divided blue-green foliage beneath five-petalled yellow flowers.

TRTROOPAPAEOLUM POLYPHYLLUM £5.25 Tropaeolaceae HCl (4 seeds) "I am surprised to receive another identical order, Billowing trails of blue-grey but I understand it is because first order took so leaves cascade along the long to arrive. You have a faithful customer now." ground or scramble through undergrowth, followed by an overwhelming display of golden Chana Zmora, Kfar Vradim, Israel. yellow ochre flowers opening in June. This gorgeous plant is astonishing when established on a hot well-drained bank.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 47 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ABIES KOREANA ARONIA MELANOCARPA £2.95 Pinaceae HP 4.0-12.0m (8 seeds) £3.95 Rosaceae HSh 90cm-1.5m (5 seeds) This exceptionally handsome, This underrated shrub has easily grown and disease- attractive white flowers with resistant tree produces pink anthers and gleaming, extremely ornamental, violet- shiny leaves. Later, clusters of purple cones even on small black berries form. Resistant to trees. It also has highly many diseases, possessing aromatic foliage, which, when multiple medicinal properties. A crushed, has a strong fruity hardy, vigorous plant, it orange smell. survives most conditions.

ACEACERR GRISEUM (PAPER-BARK MAPLE) BAOBAB TREE (ADANSONIA DIGITATA) £2.85 Aceraceae HT 2.4-4.5m (12 seeds) £3.20 BombaceaeGP15.0m (4 seeds) An outstandingly lovely The legendary 'Upside-Down- ornamental tree with orange- Tree' (Adamsonia digitata) cinnamon coloured bark which makes an intriguing, long-lived peels back revealing the smooth bonsai or conservatory plant shiny new bark beneath. In and is easily grown from seed. autumn the entire tree seems to In the wild this tree is a valuable be ablaze as the leaves turn food commodity, the huge deep crimson-red. sausage fruits being the source of cream of tartar.

ALBIZIA JULLIBRISSIN BBRRUUGGMMAANNSSIIAA IOCHROMA AUSTRALE 'BLUE TRUMPETS' £3.95 MIMOSACEAE HT 6.0m (6 seeds) £4.35 Solanaceae HHSh 3.0-5.0m (10 seeds) A wide spreading tree. Very A new, rarely-offered fine, fern like, divided foliage. Brugmansia relative with intense Pink flowers, with a sweet blue flowers. Grows to around perfume form in summer and 5m, smaller specimens will early autumn. Later flat seed produce an abundance of pods form. Leaves gradually flowers. Evergreen in warmer close at night or during periods climates or when grown of rain, bowing down as though indoors, it prefers a moist sleeping. position and plenty of food.

ARAUCARIA ARAUCANA BRUGMANSIA 'ECUADOR PINK' £3.95 Araucariaceae 2.0-20.0m (4 seeds) £3.95 Solanaceae GP,HH 1.0-2.5m (10 seeds) Leathery, spine-tipped leaves With some of the deepest clad long spidery branches, colours of all "Angel's which are geometrically arrayed Trumpets", this rare form has around the trunk like spokes of spectacular pastel pink blooms a wheel. One level is produced in spring which continue until each year enabling the age of autumn, the long trumpets the tree to be calculated. When turning their fluted edges up mature this is one of the most after dark, whilst exuding a graceful and noble trees. deep and potent fragrance.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 48 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 BRUGMANSIA SUAVEOLENS YELLOW TRUMPET DAPHNE TANGUTICA £3.65 Solanaceae HHSh, 75cm-1.2m (10 seeds) £3.20 ThymelaeaceaeHSh 60-90cm (6 seeds) The best yellow variety, they A rare hardy evergreen shrub are slightly more bushy with a bearing clusters of very shorter-growing, floriferous fragrant, white flushed, purple- habit. Huge, highly fragrant, pink flowers from mid spring to bright lemon blooms often hang early summer. Bunches of red at an angle, exposing the flared berries appear later and persist throat. Making superb into late autumn. conservatory plants, they fill the home with scent each evening.

CALLICARPA BODINIERI £3.25 Verbenaceae HSh 1.2-1.8m £2.95 HSh 1.8-3.6m (10 seeds) Spindly, much-dividing branches An unusually large flowered produce relatively insignificant form of the "Chilean Firebush" starry lilac flowers in spring, but originally collected on the banks after the leaves have fallen in of Lago Cucao during our 1994 autumn the extremely attractive Chile Expedition. This seed has bunches of bright violet berries wild diversity so you will find persist through into winter. that in early summer the clusters of tubular flowers vary from crimson to bright red.

CCLCLILIANTHIANTHANTHUS PUNICEUS PINK FLAMINGO FUCHSIA BOLIVIANA £3.85 LeguminosaeHHSh 90cm-1.2m (8 seeds) £3.75 Onagraceae HHSh, 90cm-1.8m "Lobster Claw" or "Parrot's A stunning, showy species, Beak". In a sheltered garden or producing exotic, hanging large pot this absolutely clusters of four inch flowers in a magnificent shrub displays stunning combination of pure hanging groups of very large white and fluorescent red. The curved flowers in the most long trumpet-shaped blooms attractive shade of pink. There open progressively down the are red and white forms but this cluster for several months, is by far the best! followed by tasty green fruits!

CORDYLINE AUSTRALIS FUCHSIA MAGELLANICA £2.75 AgavaceaeHT,HP 90cm-3.0m £3.70 Onagraceae HSh 90cm-1.8m A long lived 'palm' carrying at We collected this most beautiful the top a rosette of strap- and bone-hardy plant, which shaped long leaves. Older plants can flower just four months grow enormous panicles of after sowing, on our Chilean deeply scented white flowers in Expedition of 1994. Scarlet and early summer, producing white purple 'ballerina' flowers open berries in autumn. After severe throughout summer and winters the trunk usually autumn and into winter in mild sprouts several heads. places.

CRCRIINNOODDEENNDDRROONN HOOKERIANUM LUPINUS ARBOREUS (YELLOW) £2.95 Elaeocarpaceae HSh 1.8m (6 seeds) £2.30 Papilionaceae HSh 1.8m The "Chilean Lantern Tree" is Fragrant creamy yellow racemes one of the world's most cover what can become a long attractive shrubs. Garden lived, long flowering small tree, visitors seeing the attractive, complete with thick knobbly crimson, waxy urn-shaped trunk. A haven for bees and pendent flowers in early butterflies throughout summer summer just cannot wait to rush and autumn. into our plant nursery to buy one for themselves.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 49 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 LUPINUS ARBOREUS SNOW QUEEN OBTUTUSSIIFFOOLLIIAA £2.85 Papilionaceae HSh 90cm-1.2m (20 seeds) £3.55 Proteaceae HHSh, 2.0-4.0m (4 seeds) This lovely form has fragrant, A glorious variety, having richly pure white flower spikes which coloured flower heads during appear in early summer. If winter. One of the few pruned back after flowering tree that can tolerate alkaline or lupins will last for many years acidic soils. 2- 4m tall and up to and they may, with care, be 5m spread. Flowering from made into impressive, single- autumn until spring, peaking trunked standards. during midwinter dependent on location.

MANILKARA ZAPOTA 'WHITE' £2.95 SapotaceaeGP3.0-10.0m (4 seeds) £3.60 Proteaceae HHSh, 2.0-4.0m (4 seeds) A tropical / subtropical tree with A sturdy, shrubby Protea with ornamental leaves and year white flowers producing plenty round clusters of white flowers. of nectar to attract birds, bees Resembling the Kiwi Fruit, it can and other insects. Requires well be eaten raw or used in recipes. drained, acidic, low nutrient soil, The ripe, soft brown flesh has a high phosphate or nitrate sweet, malty flavour rather like fertiliser may destroy it ! Prefers brown sugar. Large black seeds full sun on a south facing slope. like beans.

PROTEA CORONATA PRPROOTTEEAA SUBVESTITA £3.65 Proteaceae HHSh, 2.0-5.0m (4 seeds) £3.75 Proteaceae HHSh, 2.0-5.0m (4 seeds) A superb variety with bright A large, upright shrub bearing green flowers and silvery noticeably more flowers in mid - foliage. A sparsely branched late summer. Colours vary from tree growing up to 5m high. pink>orange>creamy white. Requires well drained, acidic, Requires well-drained, acidic, low nutrient soil. Excess low nutrient soil. High phosphates or nitrates may kill phosphate or nitrate fertiliser them !. Full sun, ideally a south may destroy it! Prefers full sun facing slope and an open spot. on an open south facing slope.

PROTEA CYNAROIDES SAMBUCUS NIGRA £3.75 Proteaceae HHSh, 60cm-2.0m (4 seeds) £2.65 Caprifoliaceae HT,HS 1.8-3.0m The 'King Protea' has distinctive Fragrant, flat topped, cream leaves and huge flower heads flower heads appear in May and that open throughout the year. June followed by the purple- Requiring extremely well black berries in September. The drained, acidic, low nutrient soil, flowers are used to make the excess phosphates or nitrates delicately-perfumed elder flower may destroy them!. Preferring champagne, whilst the berries full sun on a south facing slope are used for wine! in an open unshaded spot.

PROTEA EXIMIA ZANTHOXYLUM SIMULANS £3.75 Proteaceae HHSh, 2.0-5.0m (4 seeds) £2.05 RutaceaeHSh 1.8-2.4m A beautiful, easily grown variety A curious and attractive shrub in with pink-purple flower heads the rue family. Sprays of above grey-green foliage. greeny-yellow flowers in spring Requires well drained, acidic, later produce bright red berries very low nutrient soil. Fertiliser amidst shiny aromatic leaves. containing excess phosphates or Enormous thorns are produced nitrates may kill them! Prefers on the old wood. full sun on a south facing slope in an open spot.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 50 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 BAMBUSA ARUNDINACEA CAREX MORROWII 'PINKIE' £2.95 Poacaeae GP 15.0-40.0m (12+ seeds) £2.65 Cyperaceae HP 30cm One of the tallest grasses in the A delectable new grass from world, this giant has numerous Japan. Superb spring foliage branches with one or two being emerges in shades of pink and exceptionally large with many bronze, darkening later. Unlike stems tufted onto a stout root any pictures we have been able stock. Although it thrives in to research, but this new grass tropical to subtropical climates, is absolutely superb whatever it can be easily grown as a pot its true identity. plant in summer.

BRIZA MEDIA LIMOUZI CORTADERIA RICHARDII £2.65 PoaceaeHP60cm £2.05 Gramineae HP 1.8m This new and quite distinctive Yes, a "Pampas Grass" from taller form of the normal New Zealand! New Zealand "perennial quaking grass" (Briza was once connected to South media) has stems which are America (as Gondwanaland), almost double the usual length, hence the "Toetoe" evolved. whilst the most attractive clump Seldom seen in cultivation, its retains the usual compact width. substantial stems bear large woolly plumes.

CALAMCALAMAAGGRROOSSTTIISS () BRACHYTRICHA ELYMUS MAGELLANICUS £2.35 PoaceaeHP90cm-1.2m £4.25 PoaceaeHP30-40cm (10 seeds) "Korean feather reed grass" The bluest leaf of any plant we Flower heads open tinted red grow, this outstanding grass is and pink before fading to silver- native to the mountains of grey, when they last well into Southern Chile and Argentina winter and are ideal for drying where it forms a slow-growing, and cutting. Makes a tight, non- positively non-invasive, well- weeping, well-controlled clump. behaved clump of beautiful Perfect for a shady spot or bank. silvery, chalky, metallic-blue leaves. Well drained soil is best.

CAREX BUCHANANII ERAGROSTIS ELLIOTTII 'WIND DANCER' £2.40 CyperacaeHP45-60cm £2.95 PoaceaeHP40cm-1.0m Dense, erect tussocks of copper- A clump forming narrow bronze make this one of the grey/blue leaved grass which most sought after and grown produces long open panicles of architectural plants. When white flower spikelets in grown as a solitary specimen it summer. As the name suggests makes a stunning effect with these panicles float and dance contrasting flowers or silver in the wind on breezy summers foliage plants. days. Ideal for the mid to back of a border.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 51 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 FESTUCA 'ELIJA BLUE' STIPA GIGANTEA £2.30 Gramineae HP 30-40cm £2.95 PoaceaeHP1.5-2.4m (6 seeds) This superb relatively recent The largest of all feather discovery makes dense tufts of grasses, and certainly one of glaucous blue wiry leaves the most elegant and stately producing a striking display, ornamental grasses, forming either as a specimen or for relatively insignificant basal edging or pot culture. clumps from which arise long, strong stems holding huge, loose panicles of golden spikelets with dangling awns.

LUZULA SYLVATICA SOLAR FLAIR STIPA LESSINGIANA £2.95 JuncaceaeHP30-38cm £2.75 Gramineae HP 60-75cm This new, very precious, golden- This superior and truly leaved form of the "Great Wood- spectacular plant is related to, rush" makes a superb, non- but larger and finer than Stipa spreading specimen that will tenuisima. The massed plumes grow almost anywhere making a of soft feathery seedheads are handsome clump of golden- ideal to whisk your hand yellow foliage, with attractive through, the longer they stand spikes of black seed-heads. the prettier they become.

PENNISETUM PURPLE MAJESTY (GLAUCUM) STIPA TENUIFOLIA/ £3.20 PoaceaeHHA 60cm-1.2m (30 seeds) £2.65 Gramineae HP 45-60cm A fabulous new plant with One of the most graceful and dramatic, almost black, broad delicate of all grasses with leaves, crowned with massive delicate, feathery, fog-like purple flower spikes, the ripe plumes which move with the seeds from which are adored by slightest breath of air upon birds. This heat and drought them. A perfect plant for mass resistant beauty was awarded plantings in stately homes and the All America Gold Medal! parks, but equally good as a single specimen.

SETARIA MACROSTACHYA 'WILL SCARLET' UNCINIA EGMONTIANA £2.55 Gramineae HA 45-60cm £2.85 Cyperaceae HP 20-30cm Thick clumps of attractive foxtail- From Mount Egmont in New like flower heads, perfect for Zealand comes the prettiest cutting, grow on long stems hardy red grass growable from clad in broad leaves. If planted seed. Tight compact erect in a hot, dry spot, or in a clumps of stiff arching crimson- container on a warm patio, the bronze blades, from which arise leaves and stems of this lovely narrow spikes of small, sharply plant will turn bright crimson. pointed black seeds.

STIPA ARUNDINACEA £2.55 Gramineae HP 60-90cm "Last year's seeds are doing well, especially the "Pheasant Tail Grass". Arching Cottage Garden Mixed. I think I must have had sprays of purple feathery 100% ." plumes consist of golden brown fine leaves in compact clumps, this is an absolute beauty set on its own in gravel. Gwyneth Ellery, Tongland, Kircudbright, UK.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 52 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRAD'S BLACK HHEEAARRTT £2.40 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £2.30 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) These delicious, rich, slightly Compact plants with unusually acidic “big reds” are one of the wispy foliage, large purple-black heirloom tomatoes that heart shaped fruit. Early for a produceg huge crops of large to large tomato, ripening usually extra-large, meaty, brilliant red, end of July with a good flavour. round tomatoes. It also resists This is the first known black foliage disease, producing heart-shaped tomato, found by heavily right up to the first frost. Brad Gates (Wild Boar Farms (Cordon) USA). (Cordon)

BLACK CHERRY BRANDYWINE RED £2.05 TOMATO (15 seeds minimum) £1.75 TOMATO (15 seeds minimum) This heavy cropping variety is A very famous potato-leafed everyone's favourite, producing heirloom plant with a complex seemingly endless bunches of history, giving consistently high smallish, ultra-sweet fruits, yields of medium to large, very which resemble dark cherries juicy, fairly crack-tolerant, and which have a very rich slightly flattened red fruits. flavour. A current favourite in Gosh, what a mouthful! (Cordon) up-market shops. (Cordon)

BLACK FROM TULA BRANDYWINE YELLOW £2.05 TOMATO (15 seeds minimum) £2.05 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) Whilst this deep reddish-brown Beautiful, smooth, large, meaty, Russian beefsteak variety is not yellow/gold fruit of exceptional as dark as some other "black" quality with a creamy texture tomatoes, where it really scores and delicious rich flavour. The is on taste which is strong, rich tall have healthy, potato- and sweetly-sharp (!!) with a leaved foliage. Surprisingly this hint of smokiness. (Cordon) is not actually closely related to other Brandywine varieties. (Cordon)

BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAIN BROWN BERRY £2.05 Tomato (20 seeds minimum) £2.05 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) This old heirloom gives heavy A new and exceptional plant yields of large beefsteak fruits with long herringbone trusses of which are pink and globe identical-sized, chocolate- shaped with no cracks or coloured, sweet and juicy fruits blemishes. Ideal for sandwiches, which simply refuse to split. Our it has excellent meaty, sweet- panel remarked that, when tart flesh. The productive, tall picked, they looked just like a plants have good disease box of maltesers! (Cordon) resistance. (Cordon)

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 53 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 COUILLES DE TAUREAU GARDENER'S DELIGHT £2.30 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) £1.75 TOMATO (30 seeds minimum) A large slightly flattened Often existing under different beefsteak which can grow up to name (Sugar Lump, Sugar 2lb in weight and with a good Cherry) this very well-known robust taste. This scored highly and tidy plant reliably produces in our tasting trials. Ideal for 1" diameter, uniform, cherry sandwiches. This heirloom fruits with an incredibly delicious originated in Spain and was sharp flavour. (Cordon) brought into France during the Spanish Civil War. (Cordon)

CCRREEAAMM SAUSAGE GARTENPERLE £2.05 TOMATO (30 seeds minimum) £1.95 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) Bushy, productive plants A compact bush variety which produce crisp-fleshed, creamy will tolerate cooler temperatures coloured, elongated sausage- and does well in tubs, window like fruits. The sweet, juicy, boxes and hanging baskets. golden flesh, with a hint of Produces heavy bunches of lemon flavour, makes them an small red firm-fleshed fruits with ideal choice for creating unusual a strong, unusual, and slightly sauces. (Bush) sharp taste. (Bush)

DELICIOUS GERMAN RED STRAWBERRY £2.05 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) £2.40 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) A really huge red beefsteak fruit Produces large beautiful red which is smooth, nearly solid strawberry-shaped fruits. The and often weighs more than 2 solid-fleshed interior has a lbs. This variety holds the world delicious, sweet flavour with record for the largest tomato little seed and juice, so is ideal ever grown and has excellent in salads. One of our top big flavour, few and tiny seeds, and croppers and best-selling very little cracking. (Cordon) tomatoes. (Cordon)

FERLINE F1 GOLD NUGGET £2.75 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £2.05 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) A valuable F1 giving heavy With a high yield of small, crops of tasty, strong-flavoured, golden-yellow, oval shaped middle-sized, deep red fruits, cherry fruit, which is juicy and with impressive tolerance to seedy, with a mild sweet blight, fusarium and verticillium flavour, these early fruits are wilt, both in the garden or also almost seedless. It is under glass. Is this the answer perfect for growing in to many gardeners' prayers? containers and is one of the first (Cordon) to ripen here. (Bush)

FIRST IN THE FIELD GOLDRUSH CURRANT £1.95 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £1.95 TOMATO (30 seeds minimum) As the name implies, a very Masses of bright golden-orange, early bush variety which will do sweetly flavoured grape-sized well outdoors. This very fruit set in trusses of 10-12. A popular compact plant produces very high yielding plant that can a heavy, long-season crop of also be trained to quite a height small to medium bright red juicy which improves the yield of fruit fruits with a strong and greatly. (Semi-Bush) distinctive wine-like flavour. (Bush)

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 54 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 GREEN SAUSAGE INDIGO APPLE £2.05 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £2.65 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) These "must have" long With supreme shock value as sausage shaped fruit are a well as a good sweet tomato striking lime-green colour with flavour, disease tolerance and a yellow stripes. The high-yielding really good shelf-life, this new tomatoes are thick-fleshed and 'true-black' variety will cavity-free with a sweet eventually turn almost jet black, cucumber-like flavour. Excellent caused by anthocyanins - for cooking. (Bush) antioxidants found in blueberries. (Cordon)

GREEN ZEBRA INDIGO BLUE BERRIES £1.95 TOMATO (15 seeds minimum) £2.85 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) A good cropping early plant with A new and most unusual deep bright amber-gold, two inch purple skinned cherry variety. fruits. Striped in deep lime- Ripening to almost black, with green they make a colourful delectable juicy pink flesh and a statement when sliced in salads. delicious plum-like flavour, it The bright green flesh is soft, contains high levels of the with a strong and tangy flavour. antioxidant anthocyanin. Taste (Cordon) testers describe the flavour as sparkling. (Cordon)

HONEY BUBBLES INDIGO ROSE £2.40 Tomato (10 seeds minimum) £2.95 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) Heavy bunches of true cherry- Wow! No trick photography with sized, as sweet-as-honey fruits this new first-ever jet-black explode in your mouth.The tomato, developed by Oregon colour and size of white grapes, State University. Disease- they are actually smaller than resistant, fruity, antioxidant most cherry tomatoes but filled, large-plum-sized fruits bigger than a currant tomato, ripen in late summer to very are easy-to-grow and heavy deepest purple, with flesh cropping too! (Cordon) resembling ripe plums. (Cordon)

ILDI JAPANESE BLACK TRIFELE £2.05 TOMATO (30 seeds minimum) £1.95 TOMATO (15 seeds minimum) One of the very highest yielding A late season potato-leafed tomato plants we have ever plant (originally "Russian seen. Huge trusses contain Truffle"!), with large pear dozens and dozens of sweet, shaped purple-black fruits with grape sized, thin skinned, non- dark green shoulders, resistance splitting yellow fruit, the whole to cracking, and a strikingly rich plant resembling a Christmas flavour with a hint of chocolate. tree weighed down with (Cordon) baubles. (Cordon)

INDIAN MOON KELLOG'S BREAKFAST £2.05 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £2.35 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) Beautiful, blemish free, medium- A superb, non-splitting, pale to sized, golden-globed fruit ripen deep orange beefsteak, with after only 75 days planting out. few seeds and a fantastic sweet, Bred originally by the Navajo tangy flavour. The juice and Indians this rare heirloom is flesh have the same bright quite disease resistant, with an colour as orange juice. Our trial interior texture which is velvety plants were loaded with fruits smooth with few seeds. and were unusually strong and (Cordon) healthy-looking. (Cordon)

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 55 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 KORALIK MIEL DU MEXIQUE £2.05 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £2.05 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) This early Polish bush variety This round cherry tomato of makes widely held branches Mexican origin produces a large rather like a small oak tree, crop of small to medium, very enabling it to produce abundant sweet fruits and indeed was sweet isolated fruit. It has a originally called Mexican Honey. good tolerance to blight it is This vigorous plant is very perfect for areas where the productive and does well under growing season is short and drought conditions. (Semi-Bush) wetter than normal. (Bush)

LEMON TREE ORANGE OXHEART £2.05 TOMATO (15 seeds minimum) £1.85 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) A quite incredible and distinctive This regular leaf plant yields a tomato with an almost perfect good sized crop of fruits that resemblance to a real lemon, have a superlative flavour, and more so than other "lemon" which are excellent for sauces tomatoes. When sliced, the as they are very meaty with few similarity even extends to the seeds. The tomatoes are sharp, strong taste, which is attractive in salads too because useful for salads. (Cordon) of their heart-like shape. (Cordon)

LONG TOM ORLOV'S YELLOW GIANT £2.20 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £2.20 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) A superb old heirloom variety Sizeable, perfectly shaped with elongated heavy trusses orange-yellow beefsteaks, very packed with fruit late in the little core, buttery orange flesh season. It is ideal either as a with small or no seed cavities, salad tomato with the tomatoes with an outstanding flavour, being absolutely free of that ripens early. It originated cracking, and it came top of 85 with Count Aleksei Orlov, the in a recent USA taste test! famous animal breeder, (Cordon) horticulturist.(Cordon)

MASKOTKA PURPLE RUSSIAN £1.95 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) £1.95 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) This compact bush variety With a chart-topping smooth (which means 'mascot' in Polish) flavour and a famous name, is ideal for growing in hanging these plump, egg-shaped, non- baskets or patio containers. The cracking purple fruits from the plant produces an early and Ukraine have very good cold very heavy crop of vivid red, tolerance, and are probably the attractive, sweet cherry fruit best of all of the 'black' which show a good tolerance to tomatoes for keeping. (Cordon) cracking. (Bush)

MICRO RAVELLO F1 £2.25 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) £2.55 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) Probably the smallest tomato Ravello is a mini San Marzano plant ever! Micro can be grown plum tomato which are perfect in a 6" pot or window box, for cooking or making into growing only 4-5" high, but still sauces. The fruit produced are managing to produce dozens of uniform, weighing 3-4 oz, and tiny fruit. Suitable for people grow in clusters of 12-15 with no growing space, and an tomatoes. The fruit are very astonishing conversation piece. crack resistant and are tolerant (Bush) to Blossom End rot. (Cordon)

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 56 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 SAN MARZANO TOMATOBERRY F1 £2.05 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) £2.95 TOMATO (8 seeds minimum) One of the world's finest paste Tomatoberry is a popular new tomatoes. Compared to Roma F1 tomato variety with long types the fruit are thinner and cascading trusses of glossy red pointier, the flesh being much strawberry-shaped fruit. The thicker with fewer seeds, and early-ripening fruit are very the taste stronger, sweeter and sweet with a thin skin and make less acidic. Many people delicious salad or snacking describe the flavour as bitter- tomatoes. (Cordon) sweet. (Cordon)

ST PIERRE TUMTUMBBLLIINNGG TOM RED £2.05 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) £2.05 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) This traditional French tomato Bred to cascade over hanging variety produces hardy, regular- baskets although remaining leaf plants bearing good yields quite compact, this plant of medium-sized, red, round, produces sweet and tangy fruits fruit with soft, thick, meaty of medium strength with firm flesh. This tomato has a great flesh, and is the perfect tomato flavour producing well in cooler plant for novice growers or growing regions right up to the people short on space. (Bush) frost. (Cordon)

STUPICE TUMBLING TOM YELLOW £1.90 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £2.05 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) The first non-cherry to ripen, An exciting plant with rich, with a very high-yielding golden, apricot-coloured fruit abundance of sweet, luscious, growing on compact pendulous deep-red fruit. Reliably early, trusses. It is best grown in a fruiting constantly over a long hanging basket or tall container season into late September, when its cascading fruit can be setting well even at very low ornamental as well as being temperatures. Very disease sweet and tasty to eat. (Bush) resistant. (Cordon)

TIGERELLA VINTAGE WINE £1.60 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £1.85 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) Amongst the finest medium- A favourite of gourmet grocers, sized tomatoes we've grown. this sensational, potato-leafed Tigerella (aka Mr Stripey) are plant has fruit which is a completely greenback free, gorgeous deep pink with golden have a unique rich flavour, crop streaks, whilst the firm flesh has heavily indoors or out and ripen a strong, unusually fruity more than three weeks earlier flavour. (Cordon) than varieties such as Moneymaker. (Cordon)

TIM'S BLBLAACCKK RUFFLES ZANZIBAR F1 £2.50 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £2.70 Tomato (10 seeds minimum) This rare but fabulous tomato An early plum cherry tomato gives moderate to heavy crops with a deep orange colour. The of fruit, packed with the fruits weigh about 1/2 ounce delicious flavours expected from and have a sharp taste with a one of the best of black thin skin unlike some other tomatoes. This heavily creased cherry tomatoes. The plants are tomato is a cross of Black Krim vigorous and the fruit has good and Zapotec Pink Pleated, plants resistance against cracking. yielding meaty pleated tomatoes. (Cordon)

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 57 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 IZNIK F1 JAPANESE WHITE EGG £3.55 (5 seeds minimum) £2.05 AUBERGINE/EGGPLANT (20 seeds minimum) This superb, all-female "cocktail The Japanese White Egg cucumber" has fresh green, produces large quantities of seedless, finger-like fruits that very attractive 2-3" oval creamy are small (around 4 inches). white fruit all season long. The Exceptionally, intense, old fruit have a delicate flavour with fashioned nutty flavour, little trace of bitterness. Perfect maturing very early on for use in stir frying. productive plants. High resistance to disease.

CONNOVER'S COLOSSAL OPHELIA F1 £1.90 ASPARAGUS (100 seeds minimum) £2.55 AUBERGINE/EGGPLANT (20 seeds minimum) These bright green spears with This compact aubergine is ideal succulent, deep purple tips and for growing in a large pot on a a huge yield are one of the patio or where space is tight. most sought-after vegetables, The two foot tall dwarf plants and are not difficult to grow if produce lots of egg-sized, baby kept well-fed and weed-free, aubergines. The fruit have no plants remain productive for at bitter after taste and store well least 15 to 20 years. RHS AGM after picking. winner.

BLACK BEAUTY AVAALLAANNCHCHE F1 £1.85 AUBERGINE/EGGPLANT (40 seeds minimum) £1.90 BEETROOT (200 seeds minimum) Popular and reliable with Produces pure white roots with gardeners since Edwardian a round uniform shape and a times, Black Beauty is an early- fantastic sweet flavour. This medium variety of aubergine. high yielding white beetroot The sturdy plants grow to about perfectly complements fish and 4 feet tall and produce good poultry dishes whilst retaining crops of 4" to 6" long glossy, its flavour through cooking. purple-black, oval fruit.

BRAZILIAN OVAL ORANGE BOLTARDY £2.05 AUBERGINE/EGGPLANT (10 seeds minimum) £1.80 BEETROOT (200 seeds minimum) The attractive oval aubergine Boltardy can be sown earlier in fruit of this rare variety are the year than all others, then borne in heavy clusters on right through to mid summer bushy habit plants with dark and is slow to run to seed. green foliage that provides Yielding perfect, globe-shaped plenty of cover from the sun. beets of superb flavour and Despite the name, the fruit colour. Young leaves can be changes colour from green used for baby leaf production. through orange to scarlet. RHS award winner.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 58 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 BULL'S BLOOD BLACKBERRY TUPI £1.80 BEETROOT (200 seeds minimum) £2.70 BERRY (30+ seeds minimum) A Victorian heirloom, which is These seeds, which have been often grown as an ornamental, stratified ready to sow, have on account of its dark crimson, been collected from Tupi, one almost black leaves which taste of the best cultivars sold for sweet if picked young. The sweet snacking. They produce globe-shaped roots have a good thorny upright plants bearing flavour and on being cut open really large, black, sweetest and reveal attractive pink rings. most succulent luscious fruits quite late in the season.

CHELTENHAM GREEN TOP BLUEBERRY £1.70 BEETROOT (250 seeds minimum) £2.55 BERRY (30 seeds minimum) This very heavy cropping old Blueberries (Vaccinium show bench variety has been corymbosum) are high in around since well before the vitamin C and anti-oxidants 1880s in . It has long which can defeat bladder and red parsnip-like roots and an cystitis problems. These are excellent, delicate flavour, and very heavy-cropping plants with is paler red in colour when a diversity of different habits cooked than most modern globe and include early and late beetroots. fruiting varieties.

CHIOGGIA CRANBERRY £1.90 BEETROOT (200 seeds minimum) £2.50 BERRY (10 seeds minimum) The ball-shaped, mild and sweet Large, red, vitamin-filled berries roots of this Italian (1840's) are produced on evergreen heirloom are resistant to bolting plants in mid to late summer. and have light red skin. Cutting The wild cranberry (Vaccinium open reveals attractive macrocarpon) is an evergreen, alternating dark pink and white ground-cover plant native to rings (another name is Candy North America which flourishes Stripe Beet). in boggy conditions and contains very few seeds indeed.

DETROIT RED GLOBE GOJI BERRY £1.80 BEETROOT (250 seeds minimum) £2.65 BERRY (100 seeds minimum) A 19th century US heirloom (Lycium barbarum) Compact beetroot producing fantastic, long-lived bushes bear small smooth, uniform, ox-blood purple and white flowers in globular beet with luxuriant red- early summer followed by veined leaves. This variety is plump, juicy, sweet red resistant to downy mildew and 'superfruits' bursting with does well in all kinds of soils. vitamins and minerals, which are produced all summer long, right up to the first frosts.

GOLDEN BEET GOJI BERRY BLACK PEARLS £2.05 BEETROOT (200 seeds minimum) £2.95 BERRY (30 seeds minimum) A globe-rooted, 19th century, Exclusive NEW release by Plant USA heirloom beet with golden- World! Jealously guarded for orange skin, sweet golden- many years in a small area of yellow flesh and bright green China, these compact, long- leaves which are tasty when lived bushes bear heavy, cooked. It is resistant to bolting hanging branches dripping with and if harvested young retains clusters of plump, juicy, pearl- its flavour well. sized, sweet black fruits.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 59 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 GOLDEN BERRY 'GIGANTE' GREEN SPROUTING CALABRESE £2.30 BERRY (25 seeds minimum) £1.70 BROCCOLI (250 seeds minimum) Tall, erect, sticky-haired stems Producing a long succession of carry sizeable 'paper lanterns' bluish-green heads averaging 3 which contain the largest and to 5 inches across, these tall, juiciest fruits of all the golden erect plants with an excellent berries. This is the physalis flavour and long cropping variety sold at inflated prices in season are the original forms, supermarkets and used to adorn which are still firm favourites in expensive desserts in spite of the appearance of restaurants. modern F1 hybrids.

GOLDEN PEARLS RED ARROW £2.70 BERRY (50 seeds minimum) £1.90 BROCCOLI (150 seeds minimum) This brand new sweet golden Red Arrow is an improved form of the Wonderberry variety of purple sprouting (Solanum villosum) grows in broccoli which produces high bunches resembling yellow quality medium-sized spears currants, which appear soon from mid-February to mid-April after being grown, either in a and yields up to 20% more than pot or open ground. In Africa previous types. Easy to grow the leaves are apparently eaten giving vigorous vitamin-rich like spinach. plants.

WONDERBERRY ROMANESCO £2.50 BERRY (50 seeds minimum) £1.95 BROCCOLI (150 seeds minimum) A superb newcomer, resembling This celebrated Italian heirloom the garden huckleberry, but produces attractive lime green with a far superior taste, heads made up of a mass of especially when cooked. Quick small conical florets. It has a and easy to grow in a container, superb flavour and a more garden or greenhouse, tender texture than regular producing thousands of small, broccoli and grows exceptionally unusual-flavoured, sweet well in cool Northern areas. blackcurrant-like fruits.

MASTERPIECE GREEN LONGPOD DARKMAR 21 £1.90 BROAD BEAN (25 seeds minimum) £1.75 BRUSSELS SPROUTS (150 seeds minimum) Arguably the best green-seeded A high quality Bedfordshire variety, growing well in most variety of mid-late main crop conditions, and producing good Brussels Sprouts which pod lengths with up to 7 beans produces a heavy yield of large, per pod, with superb flavour fine-flavoured, deep green and table qualities. This top RHS sprouts from late November and AGM variety grows to about on through the winter, even in three feet high and is excellent the harshest weather. for freezing.

THE SUTTON GOLDEN ACRE £1.90 BROAD BEAN (25 seeds minimum) £1.80 CABBAGE (400 seeds minimum) A dwarf (18"-24") self- An excellent summer ball head supporting, bushy broad bean cabbage with solid heads which which can be spring-sown, or are more uniformly round than overwintered if protected using other summer varieties with cloches. It produces compact fewer outer leaves. This variety plants with multi-heads of beans is easy to grow and does very with around 5 beans per pod. A well indeed in cool weather. heavy yielding plant.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 60 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 RED DRUMHEAD RED SAMURAI £1.80 CABBAGE (300 seeds minimum) £2.05 CARROT (400 seeds minimum) This popular heirloom variety A slender tapering red-skinned produces a round solid heart in Japanese carrot with lovely pink stunning red with dense leafy flesh which holds its colour even heads in a variety of red/purple after steaming. This main-crop shades. This versatile cabbage carrot can also be used raw to is adaptable to heat, whilst also enliven a salad. producing crops between mid summer and winter.

ATOMIC RED ROMANCE F1 £1.95 CARROT (400 seeds minimum) £2.05 CARROT (200 seeds minimum) A long red carrot, rich in A strong-tasting carrot with vitamins and minerals - excellent uniformity, good skin especially high in the anti- finish and bright colour. For the oxidant lycopene. When peeled second time in a row, Romance and cooked the carrots turn was awarded the 'Best tasting deeper blood red in colour and carrot' at the yearly field day of are particularly suitable for stir the British Carrot Grower frying. Association.

CHANTENAY ROYAL SNOWMAN F1 £1.85 CARROT (400 seeds minimum) £2.85 Carrot (200 seeds minimum) A short, stump-shaped carrot This new F1 carrot forms a which gives heavy yields, the good, uniform tapered, bright- roots having golden-orange white coloured root with no flesh with a sweet taste and external or internal greening. retaining their flavour even The roots are vigorous and when large. These carrots, tasty with less erect foliage than which rarely split, are the ones other carrots. Certainly worth to choose if your soil is heavy. trying it you want a little novelty in your carrot patch.

NIGHT BIRD F1 SOLAR YELLOW £2.05 CARROT (200 seeds minimum) £2.05 CARROT (400 seeds minimum) Probably the darkest carrot Solar Yellow carrots have a we've ever seen with deep unique juicy buttery flavour and purple flesh, appearing almost characteristic crunch. The 6"-7" black, and a small white core. roots are broad at the top and This very vigorous Imperator through most of their length. hybrid carrot grows 6 to 10 Harvest young finger-sized inches long and reaches carrots if eating them raw. maturity in ten weeks.

PARIS MARKET BARON ALLALL YEAR ROUND £1.65 CARROT (400 seeds minimum) £1.70 CAULIFLOWER (100 seeds minimum) A 19th century French heirloom, A popular, versatile variety, Paris Market Baron are ideal for successional sowing, deliciously tender, bite-sized, which produces large velvety- round carrots, with a very white, well protected heads with smooth skin. Early maturing and an exceptional flavour. These uniform, even in a window box, are great for shows, freezing or they are ideal for growing in eating fresh from the garden as shallow or stony soil. they retain their flavour when boiled or steamed.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 61 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 SNOWBALL STRAWBERRY SPINACH £1.60 CAULIFLOWER (100 seeds minimum) £2.05 CHENOPODIACEAE (50 seeds minimum) A versatile early cauliflower Confound your friends at dinner which can be used all season. parties with "fruit" in the salad Introduced in 1888, the bowl! And you can eat the compact plants form 6" wide leaves of the same plant like snow white heads with crisp, spinach. This very quick tender curds which are well- growing and amusing plant protected by the outer leaves. produces little red The variety is downy mildew "strawberries" all the way along resistant. its stems.

GOLDEN SELF-BLANCHING TATSOI £1.70 CELERY (500 seeds minimum) £1.65 CHINESE LEAVES (150 seeds minimum) This favourite heirloom (1884) This attractive, easy-to-grow, variety produces creamy white hardy Asian variety produces a stalks which are tender, high thick rosette of dark green quality and plentiful with a nutritious oval leaves which deliciously sweet taste. They are have a creamy texture and a easy to grow and self blanching, mild but distinctive flavour that making them a lot easier than makes them perfect for eating other varieties which require raw or cooked whether in constant of attention. salads, stir fries or in soups.

GREEN UTAH WHITE PAK CHOI £1.80 CELERY (500 seeds minimum) £1.90 CHINESE LEAVES (250 seeds minimum) Green Utah is a very popular A popular Chinese variety American celery producing tall, producing striking, clean white delicious, string-less, well- stalks holding fabulous, rich, rounded solid stalks which are dark green leaves which can be easily blanched and have a eaten raw when young in distinctive nutty flavour. This salads, or left to mature and compact variety has excellent then cooked. The compact disease resistance. plants are resistant to weather changes and are slow to bolt.

RHUBARB CHARD WONG BOK £1.85 CHARD (150 seeds minimum) £1.85 CHINESE LEAVES (250 seeds minimum) A colourful and tasty form of Large barrel shaped heads, with Swiss Chard with rich ruby-red crisp light green leaves grow leaf stalks and dark waxy green- typically up to 2.5kg. Fast purple leaves. The succulent growing and ready for harvest mid-ribs can be cooked like in 10 weeks, this versatile asparagus and can also be vegetable adds crunch to harvested at the baby leaf stage salads, coleslaws and flavour to for micro greens. Absolutely stir fries, and is a useful delicious! steamed vegetable.

SWISS CHARD SILVER WHITE BARLOTTA LINGUA DI FUFUOOCCOO £1.70 CHARD (150 seeds minimum) £1.95 CLIMBING FRENCH BEAN (50 seeds minimum) Actually native to the "Tongues of fire" is an Italian Mediterranean, this is one of the climbing French bean, with easiest varieties to grow and is attractive red-purple and green an excellent source of vitamins speckled pods. This versatile and iron. The beautiful, emerald bean can be cropped young and green leaves have a strong the pods eaten as flageolets or agreeable flavour making it allowed to mature when the ripe perfect for eating raw or cooked. beans can be eaten as haricots.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 62 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 BLUE LAKE MARKETMORE £1.90 CLIMBING FRENCH BEAN (50 seeds minimum) £1.85 CUCUMBER (20 seeds minimum) This drought-resistant A very reliable English heirloom gardeners' favourite produces a outdoor ridge variety of high yield of string-less full cucumber with good resistance flavoured beans which retain to Mosaic Virus and mildew, their sweet taste and tender which also tolerate dry texture when cooked. If left on conditions, making them easy to the plant their dried white seeds grow. They produce rich, can be used as haricot beans. prickly, emerald green cylindrical fruits.

ROYAL FLUSH F1 MASTERPIECE £2.05 COURGETTE (10 seeds minimum) £1.80 CUCUMBER (20 seeds minimum) These baby courgettes were An early outdoor British ridge specially bred to produce huge cucumber. This reliable cultivar crops of tender dark green fruit. produces heavy yields of 8 inch The plant's compact size means long, plump, dark green-skinned they are ideal for growing in cucumbers. The flesh is crisp containers or patio tubs. They and white and perfect when can be harvested with the sliced up in summer salads. flower either left on or taken off.

ZUCCHINI BLACK CUCAMELON £2.35 COURGETTE (20 seeds minimum) £2.60 CUCURBITACEAE (20 seeds minimum) An Italian, early, fast growing, These small Central American long-season, high yield fruits look like tiny watermelons courgette with rich, shiny, but taste of cucumber with a dramatic midnight black fruits hint of citrus fruit. They can be perfect for steaming, baking grown like regular cucumbers and stuffing or even freezing. and trained up canes or wires. These fruits containing Beta They are hardy enough to grow Carotene to keep you healthy well outside and are drought whilst also tasting delicious. resistant.

ZUCCHINI GOLD NASSAU £2.75 COURGETTE (20 seeds minimum) £1.80 DWARF FRENCH BEAN (50 seeds minimum) A beautiful golden-sunshine This flat podded vigorous coloured, 'less watery' variety produces long straight courgette, containing fewer pods which are renowned for seeds than other yellow their flavour. They are resistant varieties. The easy-to-grow to Halo Blight and Bean compact plants are resistant to Common Mosaic virus. They many garden pests and produce have a high production rate and a high number of full-textured the high-growing pods make fruits. them easy to pick.

ZUCCHINI GREY ROYALTY PURPLE £2.05 COURGETTE (20 seeds minimum) £1.75 DWARF FRENCH BEAN (50 seeds minimum) This heirloom American A sprawling bush habit plant courgette has fruits with a producing vivid purple, 5 inch beautiful speckled silvery- green long, slightly curved pods with skin. Zucchini Grey is one of the beige seed. Pods contain a very best yielding open- natural blanching indicator pollinated courgettes producing causing them to change to many fruit in the course of a green on boiling. season if picked when young.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 63 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 BORAGE GARLIC CHIVES £2.05 HERB (150 seeds minimum) £1.80 HERB (200 seeds minimum) This popular herb has attractive This versatile herb can be either white edged hairy leaves which a house plant or a herb, with are tender and juicy and can be broad, flat leaves which are used in salads and drinks. perfect to use as ordinary chives Delicate star-shaped blue and bulbs which can be fried flowers (perfect in cold drinks!) like an onion. The fragrant appear all summer long. An white flowers capable of intriguing talking point whether perfuming a whole room can be in the herb or flower garden. used in salads.

CHAMOMILE GOLDEN PURSLANE £2.05 HERB (500 seeds minimum) £2.05 HERB (1000 seeds minimum) This attractive herb produces The succulent leaves have a pretty white flowers with yellow more subtle golden hue cone-shaped centres and light compared to Garden Purslane green feathery foliage. The and are more tender although flowers give off an apple-like with a superior flavour and very fragrance when crushed. It is popular in French cuisine. Raw widely used in herbal medicine, the leaves have a a peppery often as an aid to sleep and tang which gives them a nice digestive problems. contrast to other salad leaves.

CHIVES ITALIAN GIANT PARSLEY £1.90 HERB (750 seeds minimum) £1.85 HERB (300 seeds minimum) An indispensable grass-like herb This hardy flat-leaved parsley with a hollow centre that with high pest and disease produces beautiful purple resistance is extremely easy to flowers, chives have a tasty, grow producing large, dark gentle onion flavour that green and smooth leaves with complements a huge range of an intense flavour that makes it foods whilst the attractive perfect for cooking. The flowers can also be used in versatile leaves can be used salads. fresh, dried or frozen.

CORIANDER OREGANO £1.90 HERB (90 seeds minimum) £1.95 HERB (500 seeds minimum) This highly fragrant herb, This sweetly-smelling, aromatic originates from the foliage is commonly used in Mediterranean and Asia where Mediterranean cuisine and is the leaves (Cilantro) are grown perfect sprinkled on lamb or to be used raw in salads and pork before cooking and with salsa, or cooked into bread or rich meat dishes, grilled fish and curries. The seeds (Coriander) for flavouring oils. The dried are also often used to add flowers are used for flavouring. flavour and dimension to dishes.

DILL RED RUBIN BASIL £1.90 HERB (300 seeds minimum) £1.75 HERB (300 seeds minimum) Giving a tangy addition to This fragrant basil with vibrant pickles, salad dressing and fish purple leaves and a strong taste dishes, fresh dill is easy-to-grow blended with a hint of the during summer/early autumn sharpness of cloves also and it is easy to dry to make it produces pink flowers making it available throughout the year. a superb ornamental plant. It is Its green leaves are wispy and perfect when used fresh for fern-like with a soft, sweet taste. making vinegar and oils as well as adding colour to salads.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 64 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ROSEMARY TRTRIIPPLELE CURLED PARSLEY £1.80 HERB (100 seeds minimum) £1.70 HERB (750 seeds minimum) This hardy herb withstands A large and bushy vigorous droughts well and can survive variety of parsley with closely for many years with only the curled dark green leaves. It is most basic of tending making it fast growing and holds for a an excellent addition to any long time when mature, making herb garden. The fragrant harvesting easy. Excellent taste. leaves, ideal for drying, are perfect for meat, fish, soups and stews.

RUSSIAN TARRAGON NERO DI TOSCANA £1.85 HERB (500 seeds minimum) £1.85 KALE (150 seeds minimum) A vigorous and easy to grow This very resilient, easy to grow variety of tarragon, this plant kale is resistant to heat and produces branching stems of aphids. The dark, deliciously narrow pointed, aromatic flavoured, emerald-green loose emerald green leaves which leaves, which appear an eye- have a milder flavour than other catching black at a distance, are varieties making them perfect perfect in many cooked dishes, for fish, poultry, sauces and or when small in salads. tarragon vinegar.

SPEARMINT SCARLET KALE £1.80 HERB (500 seeds minimum) £2.05 KALE (150 seeds minimum) This common, attractive variety This attractive hardy variety of mint has aromatic forest sports curly, dark-green/purple green, serrated leaves and leaves streaked with red veins violet-blue flowers. Easy to which intensify in colour after grow and surviving well in the first frost. The vitamin-rich nearly all climates spearmint can leaves can be harvested young be used dried or fresh to as salad leaves or harvested complement potatoes and peas later as winter greens. and add flavour to sauces.

SWEET GENOVESE BASIL SIBERIAN IMPROVED KALE £1.85 HERB (750 seeds minimum) £1.80 KALE (150 seeds minimum) Often known as the best variety This extremely cold-hardy of basil for home-made pesto, Siberian Kale, which originated this variety produces oval in , has flat, broad, aromatic leaves which are deeply-cut and ruffled blue curved inwards and are perfect green leaves which grow on in salads or tomato dishes. Easy long, succulent, sweet stalks. A to grow, this basil is the perfect heavy frost just improves the companion to home grown flavour of the leaves. tomatoes.

THYME BLUE SOLAISE £1.80 HERB (500 seeds minimum) £1.80 LEEK (200 seeds minimum) This hardy perennial can be A traditional French winter picked and used all year round. heirloom that is hardy and cold- With attractive, small green, resistant as well as being an clustered leaves and pastel pink attractive addition to the flowers it is an attractive cottage garden. The flags are addition to any herb garden and blue-green which turn violet is perfect for stuffings, poultry after a cold spell whilst the dishes and stews. shanks are thick/medium length.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 65 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 MUSSELBURGH LOLLO ROSSO £1.85 LEEK (200 seeds minimum) £1.90 LETTUCE (200 seeds minimum) This famous and delicious Lollo Rossa is a pretty Italian Scottish 19th century heirloom loose-leaf lettuce with frilly variety of winter leek has large, bordeaux red leaves that taper very thick stems which have a to green hearts.The crisp fantastic sweet yet mild flavour. texture, mild taste and This variety is winter hardy and attractive appearance make is slow to bolt. them an essential addition to salads.

CONSUL REINE DES GLACES £1.70 LETTUCE (300 seeds minimum) £1.90 LETTUCE (250 seeds minimum) This Iceberg lettuce is very Supreme among crispheads, the versatile and quickly reaches 'Queen of the Ice', is ideal for maturity producing lovely, early spring sowing, remaining uniform, well-rounded heads. crisp and resisting bolting later. The leaves are deep green in The lighter green, sweet, colour and the mature lettuce succulent heart has a crunchy features a well closed base. This texture and distinctive mild variety is suitable for succession bitter taste, making it a sowing from spring to autumn. favourite amongst chefs.

FORELLENSCHLUSS TOM THUMB £2.05 LETTUCE (200 seeds minimum) £1.80 LETTUCE (250 seeds minimum) An Austrian romaine lettuce, Tom Thumb, a still very popular with the excellent taste and Victorian English heirloom texture of a butterhead. The lettuce, is a very compact, early name means "speckled like a butterhead with a small tightly trout" and comes from the bunched head. The ruffled outer leaves' distinctive appearance leaves are light medium green with large splashes of deep red while the centres are creamy on green. white with a pleasant buttery taste.

LITTLE LEPRECHAUN YUGOSLAVIAN RED £1.85 LETTUCE (250 seeds minimum) £1.90 LETTUCE (250 seeds minimum) This 8 inch award-winning baby One of the most beautiful red Romaine lettuce has a butterhead lettuces you can sweet and crunchy centre and grow with bright green cupped stunning leaves which fade to leaves splashed with rosy-red. deep red-purple at the tips. It The succulent leaves are survives in almost any climate superb, buttery and mild, the with the leaves kept well away loose heads grow to around from the ground and is larger 30cm across and can be than its name suggests. harvested in about 55 days.

LOLLO BIONDA EARLY SILVERLINE £1.95 LETTUCE (250 seeds minimum) £1.80 MELON (10 seeds minimum) This attractive Italian lettuce A unique, elongated oriental produces an emerald mound of early melon with white, crisp, frilly leaves with a loose heart sweet and fragrant flesh. This making it less appealing to slugs tiny, delicious, gourmet melon is than Butterhead varieties. An rarely found in markets. The eye-catching lettuce producing yellow skin is lined with silvery leaves for more than 3 months furrows, and is so thin it can be if they are taken from the peeled like an apple. outside.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 66 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 EDEN'S GEM LONG RED FLORENCE £1.90 MELON (10 seeds minimum) £1.70 ONION (300 seeds minimum) This early variety has small, This Tuscany heirloom has long cricket-ball-sized fruits of a red bottle-shaped bulbs with an pound or more, with a complex excellent mild-sweet flavour, so spicy flavour, green flesh, and a is particularly suited for use raw heavily netted skin. Amy in salads. Can either be pulled Goldman, author of 'Melons for young as spring onions or the Passionate Grower', says allowed to mature for August this variety 'may cause drooling!' cropping.

PETIT GRIS DE RENNES RED BRUNSWICK £2.05 MELON (10 seeds minimum) £1.75 ONION (300 seeds minimum) A 17th century French strain A medium to large German originally from the garden of the variety of dark red onion with Bishop of Rennes. An early blood-red skin and white, spicy variety which is well adapted to flesh with a flattened top that cooler climates. The fruit are stores very well. It is best smooth-skinned with slight planted in spring, harvested in ribbing and weigh about 2 lbs. autumn and doesn't mind being The orange flesh has a superb planted closely together. flavour and delightful scent.

PLUM GGRRAANNNNYY COUNTESS F1 £1.95 MELON (10 seeds minimum) £2.40 Parsnip (200 seeds minimum) Sometimes also known as A superb main-crop variety of Queen Anne's Pocket Melon, Parsnip known for its uniform, this very fragrant white-fleshed, conical, white-skinned roots. Its long-established heirloom flavour and taste are first rate variety has quite small apple- and it is noted for its vigour and sized fruits with an attractive yield. It is resistant to disease yellow and orange-red striped and adaptable to a wide range skin. of soils and conditions. (RHS AGM winner).

TIGGEGGERR GREENSHAFT (HUR(HURSSTT)) £1.95 MELON (10 seeds minimum) £1.80 PEA (200 seeds minimum) The most amazing looking If you're going to sow only one melon you can grow with fruits pea, it should be 'Hurst Green that are vibrant yellow with Shaft'. A sweet-tasting, wrinkle- brilliant fire-red, zigzag stripes. seeded, tall, super heavy- Heavy yielding, they are also yielding variety, with long, 4-5 the most fragrant melons you inch pods, with 9-11 peas in a can taste, with a rich, sweet, pod, and double podded too, intoxicating aroma that will fill a and it even resists downy room. mildew and fusarium wilt.

AILSA CRCRAAIIGG LINCOLN £1.80 ONION (300 seeds minimum) £1.75 PEA (250 seeds minimum) This traditional favourite, named A compact, heavy-yielding main- after a small island off the crop which stands the heat Scottish coast, has a distinctive better than most and also globe shape with straw coloured resists wilt. The plants produce skin and white flesh. The bulbs 6-9 sweetly flavoured peas in can grow very large and be dark green curved pods and are used for exhibition, while their great for follow-on sowings, tolerance to cool weather producing peas until September. makes them very reliable.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 67 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 OROREEGGOONN SUGAR POD SCOTCH BONNET - RED £1.95 PEA (150 seeds minimum) £2.05 PEPPER (20 seeds minimum) An award-winning mange-tout Named for its resemblance to sugar pea which produces pods the Scottish Tam o'Shanter hat, in clusters of two rather than this one is really very, very hot the usual one. Consequently, a and tastes best fresh, but can very heavy yielding variety with also be frozen or pickled or good disease resistance. The even put in olive oil very sweet, crunchy pods are ideal successfully. They are especially for use in stir-fries. useful in hot sauces and condiments. (Heat-4)

ALMA PAPRIKA SWEET CHOCOLATE £2.05 PEPPER (25 seeds minimum) £2.05 PEPPER (25 seeds minimum) Extremely productive plants are This uniquely-coloured, early- loaded with small, rounded, fruiting, sweet and delicious thick-walled peppers, ripening mild-flavoured pepper has thick- from creamy-white to red, and walled red flesh, and when ripe with a mild flavour that is a turns a gorgeous chocolate- wonderful combination of brown on the outside. Ideal for slightly warm but sweet and Northern gardeners. (Heat-0) tangy. (Heat-1)

AURELIO F1 TABALUGA F1 £2.45 Pepper (8 seeds minimum) £2.85 Pepper (8 seeds minimum) This early Lamuyo-type-fruiting Hot Pepper. F1 variety. green pepper with and average Excellent patio variety. Open fruit weight of 400gms, quickly plant habit, decorative plant turns to shiny red, High Fruits are spicy, they ripe from yielding, and ideal for growing light green into deep red in the open or greenhouse, it is andhave a weight of approx. 60 easy to pick with a high gr. Fruit length is approx. 15 tolerance to heat, skin cracking cm. Eye catching for any and blossom end rot. balcony. Use in soups, sauces.

JIMMY NARDELLO'S WISCONSIN LAKES £2.40 PEPPER (10 seeds minimum) £2.40 PEPPER (20 seeds minimum) Producing 25-35cm fruits, which This reliable and heavy yielding are sweet and light when eaten sweet red pepper, bred raw, this lovely variety is also especially for northern gardens, considered one of the very best has thick, meaty, juicy sweet sweet peppers for frying, and is walls. A heavy producer. Our still registered as 'endangered' trial plants at Plant World had so on the USA Slow Food Ark of many fruits they had to be Tastes. (Heat-0) caned to stop them falling over! (Heat-0)

PETER PEPPER ATLANTIC GIAANNTT £2.65 Pepper (10 seeds minimum) £1.70 PUMPKIN (10 seeds minimum) This rather rude-looking , very Giant pinky-yellow pumpkins hot pepper, grows to between which have been developed four and six inches long, in over the years to grow to shocking-red, (hence called produce the maximum sized "The Most Pornographic fruit of any plant. Although Pepper" by Organic Gardening grown primarily for competition, Magazine.) We hope you will the dark flesh of the mature forgive us for selling such an pumpkin is tasty enough when offensive-looking item, used as pie filling.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 68 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 KING OF MAMMOTH TOPSI £1.75 PUMPKIN (10 seeds minimum) £1.70 RADISH (300 seeds minimum) As its name suggests these Topsi produces a scarlet round heirloom pumpkins are very radish with fine roots, thin skin large. They often grow to and firm crunchy white flesh, between 40-100lbs although and can be grown as a "catch prize specimens have topped crop" between other slow 200lb. Excellent in pies due to growing vegetables. As its name great yield. Skin is yellow with suggests this is a fast-growing mottled patches of pink-orange. and early radish.

ROUGE VIF D'ETAMPES WHITE HAILSTONE £1.95 PUMPKIN (10 seeds minimum) £1.65 RADISH (150 seeds minimum) French heirloom variety An excellent early (3-4 weeks) resembling Cinderella's carriage white spring radish. Very mild and earning it its nickname taste and maintains its crisp 'Cinderella' this pumpkin has texture for a long time. The attractive flame-orange-red radish itself is slightly larger flesh, low seed content and full, than similar early globe types. moderately sweet flavour, and so is excellent for cooking!

BLACK SPANISH ROUND VICTORIA £1.75 RADISH (250 seeds minimum) £2.05 RHUBARB (50 seeds minimum) A sweet and mild, very hardy The gold standard, best winter radish with snowy-white rhubarb, with large, fat stems, succulent flesh and a near black bright red skin, lack of skin which lacks the fieriness stringiness, and an apple- found so often in summer gooseberry flavor with a hint of varieties. It has probably been lemon or grapefruit. This grown since at least the 16th famous heirloom was bred in Century. the 1830's by Joseph Myatt in Deptford, England.

ICICLE STRAWBERRY ''TTEEMMPPTTAATITION' F1 £1.75 Radish (300 seeds minimum) £2.75 ROSACEAE (30 seeds minimum) These gorgeous slender An excellent 'sweetheart' variety radishes are very rapid-growing, producing dark red sweet- with uniformly-thick, cone- tasting fruit on compact dark shaped pointed roots, which are green plants. This variety is so crisp and tender that you can almost runner-less so is ideal for snap them in half.They are firm use in hanging baskets, grow and long with a spicy mild- bags or patio containers. flavour, with just a hint of pepper.

PINK SLIPPER DESIREE £2.05 RADISH (250 seeds minimum) £1.90 RUNNER BEAN (25 seeds minimum) This variety produces very This favourite, white flowered, pretty, blush-pink, oval-shaped few white-seeded, totally radishes, which when cut open stringless runner bean has long, reveal white crunchy flesh. The tender, broad pods up to 30cm mild taste is far less peppery long, and will bear very heavy than some other varieties, crops, even from a small area, making them a perfect addition and especially in dry conditions. to all salads. A superb vegetable!

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 69 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 LADY DI PEPINO (MELON PEAR) £1.85 RUNNER BEAN (25 seeds minimum) £2.90 SOLANACEAE (10 seeds minimum) These superb long, slim and The gorgeous round fruits of fleshy runner beans tolerates the Melon Pear are cream heat well and are completely skinned with purple streaks and string-less. They give a heavy have deliciously sweet and juicy crop of tender delicious dark flesh which is a succulent green pods over a very long mixture of honeydew melon and season and received the RHS cucumber. It is grown in a 1999 Award of Garden Merit. manner similar to its relatives such as the bush habit tomato.

SCARLET EMPEROR BLOOMSDALE SAVOY £1.90 RUNNER BEAN (25 seeds minimum) £1.90 SPINACH (300 seeds minimum) A popular, good-yielding, old These large, dark, glossy green favourite English runner bean and very crinkled leaves are with striking red blossom and excellent in salads, soufflés, large pods which contain deep stuffing or as a cooked green. purple beans speckled with red There is a very good chance or lavender when mature. that when you purchase the best fresh spinach it is Bloomsdale Long Standing spinach.

SALAD ROCKET NEW ZEALAND SPINACH £1.65 SALAD LEAF (1000 seeds minimum) £1.95 SPINACH (50 seeds minimum) This quick-growing, deeply- Vitamin-filled New Zealand notched leaf (also called spinach is milder tasting than its Cultivated Rocket) is becoming distant relation 'true spinach' a firm favourite either for salad and does not bolt in dry soils, use or cooked, when it makes a making a triangular-leaved bush good spinach substitute. With a spreading 2-3 feet in all delicious nutty, peppery taste it directions. (Discovered by is ideal for window-sill or garden. Captain Cook in the 18th century!).

WILD ROCKET WHITE LISBSBOONN WINTNTEERR HARDY £1.65 SALAD LEAF (1000 seeds minimum) £1.75 SPRING ONION (500 seeds minimum) Spice up your salads with wild This quick-growing, award- rocket, with deep green, winning salad onion produces serrated foliage which has the crisp succulent stems with a same distinctive flavour as its characteristic 'bite' to them. standard namesake but is more Seed can be sown in succession intense. Wild Rocket is perfect for a continuous crop all spring, for 'cut and come again', summer and autumn. growing right through the year with protection.

GRANON BLACK FUTSU £1.85 SALAD LEAVES (300 seeds minimum) £2.05 SQUASH (10 seeds minimum) A fantastic quite unique flavour, A rare black Japanese squash. and high yields, this robust plant The fruit are round with a produces small compact flattened top and have heavy rosettes with tender leaves that ribbing. The black of the mature stay round and succulent even fruit turns a rich chestnut colour when old. Maturing in 35 days , while in storage. The flesh is plants may be cut whole, but it golden and has the rich taste of is also perfect for cut-and- hazelnuts. come-again.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 70 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 CORNELL'S DELICATA WALTHAM BUTTERNUT £1.85 SQUASH (10 seeds minimum) £2.05 SQUASH (10 seeds minimum) These very pretty, elongated 'Waltham' is an improved earlier white and green striped, dwarf version of the common fruit contain yellow flesh with a Butternut squash with very little delicate and sumptuously nutty seed cavity which stores very flavour, rich in vitamin A. This well too. The rich nutty- award winning compact Cornell flavoured, orange flesh stays strain gives excellent yields and firm when cooked. Nothing has good disease resistance. beats the rich, sweet flavour of winter squash.

POTIMARRON WHITE SCALLOP £2.05 SQUASH (10 seeds minimum) £1.85 SQUASH (10 seeds minimum) A French Heirloom winter A Patty Pan heirloom summer squash with a delicate chestnut squash. First grown by the flavour. Its French name in fact native Americans and depicted derives from potiron (pumpkin) by European settler as far back and marron (chestnut). as 1591. It remains one of the Apparently, the longer it is best tasting and yielding stored the higher its sugar and varieties around today! Great vitamins increase. (AKA fried and baked. Very attractive Hokkaido Squash). flat fruit with scalloped edges.

QUEENSLAND BLUE FIESTA £1.90 SQUASH (10 seeds minimum) £2.05 SWEETCORN (40 seeds minimum) A good-keeping, turban-shaped This multi-coloured variety was Australian gunmetal-grey winter developed from traditional squash with a fine deep golden Indian corn and produces long flesh that is both sweet and fine cobs with kernels of yellow, red, flavoured and packed with black, purple, pink, even vitamin A. The high sugar marbled! The cobs are used for content of the flesh makes it decorative purposes but the ideal for pumpkin pie. kernels are edible if you want a change from uniform cobs.

TRIAMBLE GOLDEN BALL £2.05 SQUASH (10 seeds minimum) £1.80 TURNIP (300 seeds minimum) This distinctive grey-green Very hardy, dwarf, compact squash from Australia is easy to plants produce round roots with grow sending out long vines on tender, yellow, mild-flavoured which 3-4 fruit grow. The skin is flesh and with outstanding hard and difficult to cut but keeping and exhibition qualities. gives the harvested fruit a long This is the best of the main shelf-life.The orange flesh is crops, and is recommended by sweet and suits baking. (AKA the National Institute of Shamrock or Triangle). Agricultural Botany.

VEGETABLE SPAGHETTI PUPURRPPLLEE TOP MILAN £1.90 SQUASH (10 seeds minimum) £1.65 TURNIP (300 seeds minimum) When cooked, the flesh of this A 19th century Italian heirloom Chinese vegetable, (actually a which is quick maturing and well winter squash), falls away from suited for cooler climes. The the fruit in ribbons and strands, medium-sized roots, with a just like spaghetti for which it sweet and mild flavour are very makes a perfect substitute in flat with a bright purple top and countless cooking roles. It a white base below soil level, contains folic acid, vitamin A and store well. and beta carotene.

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