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NEW! NEWNEW! ! PLANT WORLD TOMECHIATO:UM 'CANDBLACKYFSELOAMSS'CAN SEEDS PEPPEOBR:AEATABAL'SCANUGADENS'F1 NEWNEW!! 2018 CORPROTEAN SA'CYNARLAD: GROIDESANON'ARISTOLOCHITOMAATO:'FIMCOYBRIATOTEA' NEW! NEWNEW! ! TOMPUYAATO:'BERTBAERSEOALBNA'IETER ROTELI DIERAMARA'ADDISELH:PHICICLICUM'E NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! CUROCUEMERMBERIA :'HIZNIKYBRIDA'F1 EMILIA 'SCARPEPPELER:TMPEAGTERIC' www.plant-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.... Echium 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 flowers. Aristolochia 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 leaves festooning this unusual, unique new plants 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 species recently collected from coming years. Watch this space! Swaziland, with shocking-pink, flared, bell-shaped flowers in compact clusters, The seed 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 Puya 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 Flower 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 & Shrubs 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 Meconopsis 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 - Bulb 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 - Shrub 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 …… Aquilegia ‘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 Libertia 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 Digitalis 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 bees …… 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 Liliaceae 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 .