Possibly the world’s only catalogue selling this year’s fresh seeds! Plant World has had its second major tree felling event since it was planted more than 30 years ago. Although every tree started off as a seedling or young plant, tons of timber were hauled off site or cut into shapes to decorate the gardens. Several large slices of eucalyptus trunk were employed in making a sanctuary for hibernating hedgehogs, a safe winter quarters for these slowly-disappearing creatures. And daylight now fills areas that for years had become dark, unproductive tunnels. Some of our new introductions.... ™ Dierama 'Blood Drops' - An exquisite new Dierama with sprays of pendent bells glowing with the deepest brightest Plantworld actively supports red we have ever seen in a dierama! "Firsland", a local animal sanctuary ™ Red Eros - Ooh Matron! Probably the for unwanted and abandoned pets most suggestive vegetable (or is it a and also injured wild animals. As I fruit?) ever bred, with lots of naughty am getting pretty old, and possess a names, but 'Eros' is the riskiest we dare large collection of plant and flower use and it should break the ice at books, I decided to sell them all to parties.....! raise funds. And so, all summer long, ™ Iris 'Blue Riband' - New, rare kind customers have been buying tetraploid hybrids bear huge, sumptuous them and we are now converting flowers with wide, heavily-marked their donations into sacks of crushed petals. These open over an extended grain and animal food! period from early to late summer. Ray Brown ™ Rehmannia elata - This rare, perennial, foxglove relative bears racemes of very large, tubular, deep pink, flared flowers with yellow throats, which open in early summer. ™ Aubergine Ophelia F1 - An especially compact form which produces small plants suitable for the patio, packed full of black, uniformly-sized baby aubergines.

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 ACONITUM CARMICHAELII £2.75 MalvaceaeHHSh 1.8m £2.50 RanunculaceaeHP 1.2-1.5m This frost hardy plant is surely (Aconitum Wilsonii Fischeri) A the most desirable of all mallow grand and imposing plant. Stout relatives. Clusters of large, bowl- stems hold very late (Aug-Sept) shaped, pale to deep purple spikes of rich violet-blue hooded flowers, with the occasional flowers. Rich green divided white flowered form, open from foliage. Valuable late season late spring to summer over a flowers when most else has foil of felted grey-green leaves. gone.

ABUTILON VITIFOLIUM CHALK BLUES ACONITUM FEROX £2.50 MalvaceaeHSh 1.8-2.4m £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 1.2-2.1m (15 seeds) Trusses of large, saucer-shaped Native to northern India flowers, from almost white to particularly the Himalayas where light blue-mauve, are borne it grows in the high alpine areas profusely from April to at an altitude of between 10- September, with large greyish, 16k feet, the bluish purple rather felted leaves. They do flowers of this very tall plant are well in almost any well drained helmet-like and have a soil, either against a wall or free- short,sharp beak, and grow in standing in a sheltered spot. spirals on a long receptacle.

ACANTHACANTHUUSS MOLLIS ACOACONNIITTUUMM 'IVORINE' £2.95 Acanthaceae HP 1.0-1.5m (4 seeds) £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 90cm-1.2m (10 seeds) This hardy, statuesque, This rare parchment white form handsome plant has large of Aconitum septentrionale is a ornamental glossy leaves and superb variety with an erect strong spikes of very lovely bushy habit bearing clusters of 'hooded' pink and cream flowers ivory white hooded flowers, with which over the years make deeply fingered dark green impressive clumps. A superb, glossy leaves which appear in long-lived plant that makes a early spring. It grows best in perpetual statement. fertile, well-drained soil.

ACIS AUTUMNALIS ACOACONNIITTUUMM NAPELLUS £2.85 Amaryllidaceae HHBb 25-30cm £2.65 RanunculaceaeHP 90cm These delightful, dainty gems The true "Monkshood" flowers are bulbous perennials with from earliest spring, producing linear leaves and nodding, bell- indigo-blue hooded flowers on shaped, pure white or strong stems clad in shiny green occasionally pink, fragrant leaves. This is one of the flowers, which open with or earliest, easiest and most before the leaves in late rewarding flowers you can grow summer. Clumps multiply in the garden and is totally reliably. trouble-free.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 6 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ACONITUM VULPARIA AGAAGAPPAANTNTHHUUSS 'SNOWBALL' £2.85 RanunculaceaeHP 1.0m £2.95 Liliaceae HP 60-90cm Long-lived clumps produce very Balls of delicate, pure white dense sprays of pale sulphur flowers arise on long stout yellow hooded flowers in spring stems in mid and late summer and early summer, above amidst vigorous clumps of attractive, bright green shiny bright green strap-like leaves. foliage. If dead-headed The pure white flowers flowering will continue into the occasionally have the slightest autumn. shade of blushed pink at the tips of the petals.

ADENIUM OBESUM AGASTACHE FOENICULUM 'GOLDEN JUBILEE' £3.95 ApocynaceaeGP 30-40cm (15 seeds) £2.95 Labiatae HP 40-60cm Extremely beautiful, large and Discovered here and given the showy, white-throated carmine 'All America Award'. Early flowers open in succession all spring crowns of purplish, summer on this astonishing crinkled leaves transform into specimen. One of the world's sweetly aromatic golden most amazing plants, it makes a rosettes, with tubby terminal thick, fleshy trunk, the spikes of fluffy lavender spreading branches bearing flowers. Superb in a well- dark green, pointed leaves. drained spot.

ADENOPHORA BULLEYANA AGASTACHE 'GREEN CANDLES' £2.85 CampanulaceaeHP 1.2m £2.40 ScrophulariaceaHP 60-90cm This beautiful downy-leafed Closed ranks of long green perennial, which is native to pokers bearing pale yellow Eurasia, China and Japan, flowers will make a striking flowers all summer, starting in feature in any border. This the spring with marbled red and unusual, fragrant-leaved gold foliage turning green, "bubble mint" will produce a followed by long, nodding, truly dramatic effect when striking china-blue flowers grown as a solitary clump. crowded onto tall, erect stems.

AGAPANTHUS 'HEADBOURNE HYBRIDS' AGASTACHE NEPETOIDES £2.95 Liliaceae HP 60cm (50 seeds) £2.05 Labiatae HP 1.5-1.8m Huge true blue globular heads "Giant Yellow Bubble-Mint". An flower freely on stout stems enormous monster for the back above robust clumps of strap- of the border. Massive, chunky shaped leaves. This seemingly square section stems carry nine completely hardy variety forms inch spikes of creamy yellow- thick established clumps which green flowers much loved by improve over the years and bees. impress all who visit our gardens here.

AGAPANTHUS LILLIPUT ALCEALCEA FICIFOLIA YELLOW £2.90 LiliceaeHP40-50cm £2.50 MalvaceaeHP1.5-1.8m Above neat tufts of narrow "Antwerp" or "Fig-leaved leaves stand rounded heads of Hollyhock". This plant, which rich-blue, star-shaped flowers, has deeply lobed fig-like leaves, showing dark central veins, and produces more branching stems blue stemmed stamens. than the common hollyhock and Seedlings grown from seeds is relatively rust resistant, so if collected from this diminutive you've failed with the normal "African Lily" may vary a little one give this a try. but will all be lovely.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 7 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ALCHALCHEMILLA MOLLIS ALSALSTTRROOEEMMEERRIIAA AURANTIACA £2.40 Rosaceae HP 30-45cm £2.75 AlstroemeriaceaHP 60-90cm ("Thriller") Masses of feathery We offer a generous packet sprays of greenish-yellow starry from our sizeable stock beds of flowers above soft hairy wavy- "Peruvian Lilies". These hardy edged leaves make this one of and trouble-free spectacular the most popular border and plants form slowly expanding ground cover plants of all time. clumps of orchid-like orange and yellow blooms which improve unattended over the years.

ALLIUM CCHHRRIISSTTOOPHIPHII AMARANTHUS CAUDATUS 'RED GARNET' £2.70 Alliaceae HB 45cm £2.05 AMARANTHACE HHA 90cm-1.2m (500 seeds) Magnificent, ten inch, spherical 'Red Garnet' produces heads composed of glossy attractive, long, tassels in pillar- amethystine violet stars (which box red and green shades, can be dried to give pleasure all which gently swish from side to year) will turn heads for years side in the Summer breeze. A to come. Undoubtedly one of long-time favourite, these the most flamboyant members superb plants are ideal for of this enormous family of adding height and interest to plants. Summer bedding displays.

ALLIUM HOLLANDICUM 'PURPLE SENSATION' AMARANTHUS CAUDATUS PONY TAILS £2.85 Alliaceae HB 90cm £1.95 AmaranthaceaeHHA 1.0-1.2m This AGM winner, native to Iran, A selection of these lovely produces a stiff, upright stem flowers bearing long, bearing a sizeable, tight, pendulous, flowing tails in many circular, purple flower head with shades from green to red. umbels three inches across, of These plants are often used to 50 or more star-shaped, deep striking effect in many parks, violet flowers that appear to gardens and stately homes! float through the perennials in any hot dry garden.

ALLIUM SCHUBERTII AMARYLLIS VITTATA 'RED GIANT' (HIPPEASTRUM) £3.50 Alliaceae HB,HP 45-60cm (8 seeds) £3.20 Amaryllidaceae HHP 45-60cm (10 seeds) This astonishing plant bears the Seeds from the largest flowered largest flowers of all of the amaryllis we have ever grown alliums, with absolutely here, with 20 absolutely enormous beach-ball heads gigantic, blood-red flowers on producing hundreds of rose-pink multiple stems as the resulting flowers on radiating stems of bulbs double up yearly. different lengths, resembling an Seedlings should produce their exploding firework. first flowers in year 2 and bulbs increase in size constantly.

ALONSOA MERIDIONALIS REBEL ANEMONE CANADENSIS £2.75 ScrophulariaceaHHP 38-45cm £2.50 RanunculaceaeHP 30-45cm Strong, branching stems with This outstandingly attractive dark green shiny leaves produce introduction bears large ivory a very long succession of waxy petalled flowers, which dazzling crimson/scarlet flowers. have both blue backs to the This vigorous plant, perennial in petals and blue anthers. A warmer countries, will flower in delightful combination. as little as 12 weeks from sowing.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 8 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ANEMONE HUPEHENSIS 'SEPTEMBER CHARM' AQUILEGIA 'ALCHEMIST'S MIX' £2.75 RanunculaceaeHP 50-75cm £2.50 RanunculaceaeHP 15-60cm This anemone brings valuable Seeds collected from our colour to the garden in late 'bizarre aquilegia' and 'unusual summer and autumn, with oddities' beds in the trial masses of large, rosy pink, cup- grounds, including some new shaped flowers on tall, wiry very dwarf variegated and stems from July to September. coloured foliage forms. Some of One of the most reliable and these plants will never have free-flowering of the Japanese been seen before. Let us know anemones. if anything amazing turns up!

ANTHRISCUS SYLVESTRIS 'GOLDEN FLEECE' AQUILEGIA ALPINA ALBA £2.95 Umbelliferae HP 70-90cm (20+ seeds) £2.45 RanunculaceaeHP 45-60cm An old favorite with bright, Disproportionately-large, pure lemony-yellow, fern-like leaves white flowers appear in in early spring making shining, profusion on numerous stems in golden mounds which are totally late spring on this scarce form resistant to burning by the sun, of this vigorous plant. These with sprays of fluffy white plants are quite promiscuous, flowers opening later. Few and assisted by bees, will seeds collected but comes happily hybridise with any other almost 100% true from seed. aquilegias growing in the vicinity.

ANTHANTHRIRISCUS SYLVESTRIS 'RAVENSWING' AQUILEGIA 'BLACKCAP' £2.95 Apiaceae HP 60-90cm (30+ seeds) £2.60 RanunculaceaeHP 40-60cm This exciting recent discovery Compact heads of semi-doubled produces basal sprays of and single flowers open en- darkest mahogany-bronze, masse in early spring. These finely divided ferny foliage, dark flowers make an making a perfect foil for the airy impressive impact when grown umbels of white heads. Ever with lighter coloured flowers. since being revealed at Chelsea They will gently self-seed if this has been an essential plant allowed making impressive drifts. in modern gardens.

AQUILEGIA 'WILLIAM GUINESS' (VULGARIS) AQUILEGIA CHRYSANTHA £2.60 RanunculaceaeHP 60-90cm £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 45-60cm Dense clouds of puckered A delightful clump-forming deepest blue and white flowers herbaceous perennial with finely- open over a long season, divided foliage, from late spring especially if plants are dead- to early summer it bears large, headed. This is one of the most fragrant, nodding, pale lemon distinctive and best-known of flowers. A herbaceous plant the old fashioned forms and was native to the south western rescued from obscurity here. United States.

AQUILEGIA 'ALCHEMIST'S GOLD' AQUILEGIA COTTAGE GARDEN MIX £2.85 RanunculaceaeHP 23-38cm (20+ seeds) £1.95 RanunculaceaeHP 45-90cm The distilled essence from our A selection from the range in beds of Aquilegia 'Alchemists our catalogue plus other colours Mix' with the most impressive of and forms collected from our the dwarf golden and variegated cottage garden. This well-filled leaf forms, some of which have generous packet must surely be pom-pom flowers and are the biggest ever offered by any fragrant. These new plants are seed company. the pot of gold at the end of this line of breeding.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 9 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 AQUILEGIA 'FIREWHEEL' AQUILEGIA ICE-CREAM MIXED £2.50 RanunculaceaeHP 60cm £2.45 RanunculaceaeHP 60-90cm Another magnificent variation of A good selection of our double the clematiflora form. This sport flowered forms in all shades of that appeared here many years pinks, reds, purples and mauves ago bears doubled, darkest and with the odd blue one pinky-red petals, resembling thrown in for good measure. licking tongues of flame on branching stems.

AQUILEGIA 'FRAGRANT FANTASY' AQUILEGIA KUHISTANICA £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 60-75cm £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 30-45cm A new and lovely range of Collected in the wild by famous columbines bred from some of plant hunter Josef Halda, this the most fragrant species in appears to be a selected dwarf cultivation. The perfumed form of Aquilegia vulgaris, with flowers come in all shapes and deepest inky-blue flowers and sizes, from tight pom-poms to thick, glaucous blue-green long-spurred singles and in a foliage. wide variety of colours.

AQUILEGIA 'GREEN APPLES' AQUILEGIA 'PERFUMED GARDEN' £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 60cm £2.70 RanunculaceaeHP 60-90cm Perhaps the first green clematis- These are the culmination of flowered aquilegia. A superlative our breeding programme using form we have selected here. both large flowered and fragrant Compressed buds open pale aquilegias. Amongst these will lime green slowly fading to a probably be the largest creamy green sliced-apple perfumed columbines ever colour, before finally ageing to seen. Our bees are very cream. disobedient so expect the occasional amazing freak hybrid!

AQUILEGIA 'HONEYDEW' AQUILEGIA PINK FLAMINGO £2.85 RanunculaceaeHP 60cm (20+ seeds) £2.75 RanunculaceaeHP 50-60cm The very rare fragrant Aquilegia Large, pink, medium-spurred moorcroftiana, is difficult and flowerheads open in late spring short-lived. So we crossed it on this new columbine variety. with a lovely bi-coloured Coming quite true from seed it Japanese aquilegia to produce should be planted away from these fascinating long-lived other aquilegias with which it plants with sprays of delicate bi- could hybridise. coloured flowers, all deliciously perfumed.

AQUILEGIA 'ICEBERG' AQUILEGIA VULGARIS 'ORANGES AND LEMONS' £3.95 RanunculaceaeHP 45-60cm (20 seeds) £2.45 RanunculaceaeHP 60-90cm Aquilegia fragrans was one of This completely new colour the parents of this lovely new range has bicolored flowers in flower which opens its unusually- all shade of red, orange and large, sweetly-perfumed, palest yellow. The occasional 'plum' blue and white flowers. When pops up but adds to the colour an established bed of these is in scheme! Unlike many flower it can cause a aquilegias which give a once-off sensation...... every garden burst of bloom, these will flower should have one. on and on.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 10 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ARISAEMA CONSAANNGUGUINEUM ASTRANTIA MAJOR HADSPEN BLOOD £2.85 AraceaeHP30-45cm (10 seeds) £2.95 Umbelliferae HP 60cm A long-lived attractive tuberous Stout stems hold aloft a level plant with striking, cobra head- sheet of flowers of probably the like flowers amidst long- deepest, darkest, blood-red stemmed deeply divided leaves. form of this plant. It makes Later appear the large heads of very long-lived and rewarding bright red berries which persist clumps which are completely throughout the winter being hardy and need no maintenance. especially attractive when it snows.

ASCLEPIAS INCARNATA ASTRANTIA MAJOR 'RUBY WEDDING SERIES' £2.85 Acanthaceae 60cm-1.2m £2.95 Umbelliferae HP 60cm The large, bright, terminal Seed from the darkest ruby and blossoms of this showy flower maroon forms in our garden. are made up of small, rose- Invaluable, very long flowering purple flowers which are period (May-October). clustered at the top of a tall, branching stem, bearing numerous narrow, lanceolate leaves, the tan-brown seed pods persisting into winter.

ASPARAGUS ACUTIFOLIUS ASTRANTIA MAXIMA £3.20 Asparagaceae HHP,H 1.0-1.5m (5 seeds) £2.95 Umbelliferae HP 60cm This desirable plant is the Exquisite, upwards facing, green Mediterranean wild species and bracted, pure rose pink flowers is a gourmet delight with are held above compact clumps scrambled eggs, tastier than of bold tripartite foliage. This is asparagus officinalis, the "usual" the most desirable of all of the shop-bought asparagus. An astrantias with a rewardingly evergreen perennial, which long flowering period. "A very flowers from August to beautiful plant." (Graham Stuart September. Thomas)

ASASTTRRAANNTTIIAA INVOLUCRATA 'SHAGGY' ATROPA BELLADONNA £2.95 Umbelliferae HP 60cm £3.20 Solanaceae HP 60cm-1.2m This most popular and much Deadly Nightshade has purple- improved form of Astrantia green bell flowers, hanging on major has a much larger thick stems with soft leaves. "collar", with beautifully Later appear juicy black berries. coloured tips darkly etched in Be warned, its common name is attractive green shades. It is true and appropriate. All parts very long lived indeed and will of this plant are extremely grow under almost any poisonous, do not plant where conditions. children can reach fruit.

ASTRANTIA MAJOR AUBRIETA SNOWDRIFT £2.50 Umbelliferae HP 60cm £2.95 Cruciferae HP 8-15cm (20+ seeds) This long-flowering and very this is possibly the first ever long-lived plant displays showy offering of seed of this pure star-like heads with radiating white form of aubrieta. A very bracts in shades of green, pink rare plant in cultivation, it and white. Excellent cut flowers makes dense cushions of are a bonus. evergreen foliage, studded with creamy white flowers in earliest spring. It does best in poor soil or even on a dry wall.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 11 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 BARBAREA 'WINTER-CREAM' CAMASSIA QUAMASH £1.80 CruciferaeHP30-45cm £2.95 Asparagaceae HP 30-90cm (10 seeds) (Barbarea vulgaris variegata). Tall vivid blue flowers will "Variegated Winter-Cress". naturalise in grass and are even Handsome evergreen winter happy in moist ground. One of rosettes of shiny green leaves the most tolerant and long-lived marbled with cream blotches. bulbs. Quamash refers to the Branching sprays of bright bulbs which were harvested and yellow flowers in spring. A pit-roasted or boiled by women lovely old cottage garden of the Nez Perce, Cree, and favourite. Blackfoot tribes.

BAUHINIA YUNNANENSIS CAMCAMPPAANNUULLAA 'CANTERBURY BELLS' £2.95 Caesalpiniaceae HHCl,H 3.6m (8 seeds) £2.75 CampanulaceaeHBi,HA 60-90cm This rare gem is completely One of the most typical cottage miniature, with tiny leaves garden flowers, this has a which are shaped like little timeless charm and grace. butterflies, the diminutive ivory Masses of bells are produced in white blooms are beautifully an astonishing range of blues, pencilled in purple. Blooming whites and pinks. Flowers throughout summer, it thrives in appear all summer long and will full sun, drought-tolerant once grow in almost any position established. whether sun or semi shade.

BUPLEURUM 'BRONZE BEAUTY' CAMPANULA COTTAGE MIXED £2.95 Umbelliferae HP 45-60cm £2.65 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.

CALENDULA 'KABLOUNA' CAMPANULA INCURVA £1.70 Compositae HA 38cm £2.95 CampanulaceaeHBi 20-30cm This remarkable, quite new Our best selling and most cottage garden delight has spectacular bellflower. large, strikingly-crested, slowly Enormous inflated ice blue darkening blooms of gold, flowers - resembling flared lemon, orange and apricot with ended wine glasses - in a dark, contrasting, pin-cushion profusion all summer, upturned boss of tightly-quilled petals. on branching prostrate stems. Easily grown by simply Surprisingly perennial in a broadcasting the seeds. suitable well-drained position.

CAMCAMAASSSSIIAA LEICHTLINII CAMPANULA LACTIFLORA 'PRICHARD'S VARIETY' £2.45 Liliaceae HP 90cm-1.2m £2.75 CampanulaceaeHP 90-1.2cm Imagine an enormous, strong- Seed saved from great stemmed, fragrant bluebell with branching heads of deep violet dense, erect spikes of six- blue flowers atop stout stems petalled, star-shaped violet clad in pointed leaves. flowers. Flowering in early Invaluable mid-border plant. summer with the occasional Busy bees will ensure you have plant giving pure white, green- a quota of pale blue, white or eyed flowers. A large, reliably even pink flowers amongst perennial lily relative. these plants.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 12 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 CAMCAMPPAANNUULLAA LATIFOLIA ALBA CAMPANULA ROTUNDIFOLIA £2.30 CampanulaceaeHP 1.0-1.25m £2.50 CampanulaceaeHP 20-30cm This long lived clump-forming The true wild "Harebell" or plant bears strong spikes of "Bluebell-of-Scotland" is a too- large, white funnel-shaped bell- rarely grown little gem. Long- flowers in early summer. flowering and easy to please in any position, it produces masses of dangling blue bells on long thin stems over an extended mid-summer period.

CAMPANULA MAKASCHVILII CANNA BRASILIENSIS £2.85 CampanulaceaeHP 45cm £2.95 Cannaceae HHP 60-90cm (5 seeds) A very rare plant from the A rare plant and one of the very Caucasus Mountains. Radiating few cannas which is both arching stems clad in smallish attractive and can be easily heart-shaped leaves, hold pink- grown from seed. An endless edged, white bells along their procession of red-tipped yellow length. Long lived and desirable. flowers is produced, each of which forms an intriguing inflated seed pod. Mature plants can be split in spring.

CAMPANULA PERSICIFOLIA CERCERIINNTHTHE MAJOR RHUBARB AND CUSTARD £2.50 CampanulaceaeHP 60-90cm £2.95 BoraginaceaeHHA 30-60cm (10 seeds) An old-fashioned cottage garden Red-blushed yellow flowers with flower making mats of creeping blue-green bracts are packed foliage which is evergreen in all onto stems densely clad with but the worst winters. From late waxy blue-green leaves. This spring to autumn appear the desirable plant is loved by bees, cup-shaped, wide-open, lilac- flowering throughout spring and blue or white bell flowers which summer, and if planted out are very good for cutting. early will turn into a magnificent mound.

CAMPANULA POSCHARSKYANA CHAEROPHYLLUM HIRSUTUMUTUM ROSEUM £2.75 CampanulaceaeHP 10-15cm £2.95 Apiaceae HP 60cm This astonishingly tough rockery Bright pink heads on short plant bears in spring and stems, with ferny, feathery summer sprays of violet starry foliage, make this exceptionally flowers. Vigorous and fast compact umbellifer an absolute growing, it is one of the easiest treasure. It is very slow to and long-flowering of all rockery spread as well as being bone plants, and able to stand almost hardy. "To be sought, few complete drying out once herbaceous plants can hold a established in a wall. candle to it in early May."

CAMPANULA PUNCTATA 'BEETROOT' CHENOPODIUM GIGANTEUM £3.20 CampanulaceaeHP 30-45cm £2.05 Chenopodiaceae HA 1.0-1.5m This real show-stopper of a This very rapid-growing plant opens very large tubular architectural curiosity is often bells which are heavily washed grown as an attractive 'spot with purple outside and liberally plant', or as a fresh vegetable, spotted inside with red and when the continuously- purple. A gorgeous specimen produced, stunning, purple- making a slowly-spreading blotched leaves can be used carpet. "Rare and unusual." young in salads, or as mature (Graham Stuart Thomas). leaves cooked like spinach.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 13 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 CLEMATIS RECTA PURPUREA COSCOSMMOOSS BBIIPPIINNNATUNATUS 'ANTIQUITY' £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 90cm-1.2m (10 seeds) £2.95 Compositae HHA 30-40cm This spectacular but rarely seen A completely new and unique border perennial with purple- colour in cosmos. Rich bronze foliage on strong arching burgundy flowers change to an stems has strongly perfumed antique bronze-salmon soon heads of starry white flowers after opening creating a from May to July give this plant gorgeous two-tone effect. Very exceptional value. This is not a early flowering and flowers all climber like its relatives. summer long whether in containers or garden.

CORYDALIS LUTEA COSMOS BIPINNATUS 'COMPACT SINGLE PINK' £2.40 PapaveraceaeHP 20-30cm £2.55 ASTERACEAE HHA 1.2m Spikes of bright yellow flowers Large, attractive, perfect-for- above a delicate filigree of tiny cutting, drought-tolerant flowers green fern-like leaves. in a dazzling shade of pink, Exceptional performance in appear to almost float amongst walls or dry locations, the ferny, filigree foliage. These naturalising well and producing easy-to-grow flowers thrive on a long season of colour from neglect and are ideal for hot or early spring to late summer. neglected areas.

CORCORYYDDAALLIISS OCHROLEUCA COSMOS 'BRIGHTNESS MIXED' £2.45 PapaveraceaeHP 20cm £2.05 Asteraceae HHA 40-50cm (100 seeds) This lovely compact plant is Possibly the most vigorous and somewhat similar to Corydalis free-flowering cosmos of this lutea, but has greyer foliage in type, dwarf bushy plants are spring and for most of the covered with flowers in a summer, below a long delightful mixture of gold, succession of striking, lemon, orange and red from bicoloured, greenish-yellow and early summer through to the white flowers. autumn frosts.

CORYDALIS SEMPERVIRENS CRCRAAMMBBEE MARITIMA £2.05 PapaveraceaeHA 45-60cm £2.85 CruciferaeHP40cm (8 seeds) A distinctive, rapid growing Purple spring shoots enlarge plant producing large sprays of into glorious glaucous rubbery tubular pink flowers with yellow leaves. Massed heads of honey- tips. Will flower the first year if scented, ivory flowers in June. sown early and also self-seed Superb in the border, ideal for gently where it is happy. cutting, and the tender young leaves are a classic gourmet's delights - the now very rare "sea kale".

COSMOS ATROSANGUINEUS CROCOSMIA LUCIFER £8.50 Compositae HHP,H 30-60cm (4 seeds) £2.85 IridaceaeHP1.0-1.25m Rich-maroon-to-almost-black, From robust clumps of sword- chocolate-scented flowers open shaped leaves in spring, thrust on this legendary plant, but up strong, branching spikes of seedlings will vary in flower brilliant red, flared, funnel- colour, size and habit! This is shaped flowers in mid-summer. probably the first commercial This superb and reliable very seed offering, we are sorry but long-lived performer is happy in there is a limit of only one any position . packet per customer.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 14 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 CROCOSMIA NEW HYBRIDS CYPRIPEDIUM PARVIFLORUM PUBESCENS £2.95 IridaceaeHP60-90cm £2.95 OrchidaceaeHP30-45cm (50+ seeds) A superb collection of different In May this lovely woodland forms of this lovely range of plant produces large fragrant plants obtained from our large flowers with gorgeous inflated collection, including many yellow pouches and brownish colourful and large-flowered petals, on contrasting dark cultivars such as 'Jackanapes', stems above pleated apple 'Emily McEnzie', 'Queen of green leaves. Detailed special Spain', 'Moira Reed', and many sowing instructions are included more. with the seeds.

CYCLAMEN COUM DACTYLORHIZA FOLIOSA £3.95 PrimulaceaeHP10-15cm (20+ seeds) £2.95 Orchidacea HP 40-60cm Spring flowering, unlike the This beautiful spectacular more common C. hederifolium, Madeiran Orchid is a must for it is completely hardy and easy, any flower border as its striking flowering from January onwards flower spikes double up every and is a useful complement to year. It will grow best in snowdrops and other early impoverished soil and prefers spring bulbs, even thriving full sun, flowering in June with under trees and in short grass, truly exceptionally large blooms. where it usually self-seeds!

CYCLAMEN COUM MIXED COLOURS DACTYLORHIZA FUCHSII £3.70 PrimulaceaeHP8-15cm (20+ seeds) £2.95 OrchidaceaeHP30-60cm (100 seeds) This is a complete mix of all Rosettes of purple-spotted lance- colours of this lovely flower shaped leaves arise in spring which is spring flowering, unlike and early summer with shell- the more commonly pink flowers, each of which is encountered Cyclamen intricately spotted and dotted hederifolium. It is completely with candy pink and purple. Sow hardy and relatively easy, directly into a moist sunny soil, flowering from January onwards. then wait till spring, sowing into pots will not work!

CYCLAMEN HEDERIFOLIUM MIXED DACTYLORHIZA PURPLE GIANT £3.20 PrimulaceaeHP8-15cm (20 seeds) £3.20 OrchidaceaeHP60-70cm This valuable mixture contains The most magnificent hardy many different variants of this hybrid orchid we have ever lovely hardy plant. Colours will discovered as a seedling here, range from deepest pink to pure bearing very tall spikes of white with all variations in deeply coloured flowers on between. stems of spotted leaves, it is very hardy, robust and vigorous. It is a hybrid of the old "Orchid Maderense".

CYCLAMEN PERSICUM EX ISRAEL DAHLIA COCCINEA WILD FORM £3.95 PrimulaceaeHP10-15cm £2.75 Compositae HHP,H 60cm-1.5m (12 seeds) These wild plants have large Numerous brightest orange-red heart-shaped leaves, usually flowers open in late summer on green with lighter marbling on plants which have finely the upper surface. Very fragrant dissected, bright green foliage. flowers bloom from winter to Originating from the spring or in autumn and are mountainous regions of Mexico, usually white to pale pink they can grow extrely large in flowers with a band of deep the right conditions, normally in pink to magenta at the base. good soil with shelter of a wall.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 15 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 DATURA 'BALLERINA PURPLE' DENDROSERIS LITORALIS £3.20 Solanaceae HHP 60-90cm (8 seeds) £3.95 Asteraceae HHT 1.0-3.0m (8 seeds) These "Angel's Trumpets" This small, very rare member of produce immense 6-8 inch, the daisy family is a native of doubled, upwards facing, purple Robinson Crusoe Island, where trumpet blooms, which are it grows into a small, gnarled amongst the most beautiful and tree with crowns of large round desirable flowers you can grow. leaves and beautiful bright Whether in a hot garden or a orange flowers. It has recently large container these plants are been rescued from the brink of show-stoppers! extinction.

DATURA INOXIA DIANTHUS BARBATUS 'SOOTY' £2.70 SolanaceaHHP,H 1.5m (12 seeds) £2.35 Caryophyllaceae HP 30-38cm Large, floppy, night-fragrant, An astonishing addition to the trumpet-shaped white flowers previously available range. appear in early summer to late Densely packed heads of autumn, opening upright but darkest chocolate - almost inclining downwards later. black, fragrant flowers, with Amazingly, toxic stems and foliage in deepest mahogany to leaves are covered in peanut- match! butter-flavoured grey hairs!

DAUCUS CAROTA DIANTHUS CRUENTUS £2.35 Umbelliferae HBi 60-90cm £2.65 Caryophyllaceae HP 30-40cm (15 seeds) A beautiful British native with Clusters of deepest blood-red claret-coloured to pale pink flowers open on wiry stems umbels when in bud, then bright above grassy foliage on this white when in full flower. They brilliant new perennial, the then produce their intriguing "Blood Carnation". It made a seed-heads which curl inwards sensation when the Daily making a closed cup holding the Telegraph garden won best in ripe seeds. show with it at Chelsea 2011.

DELPHINIUM COTTAGE GARDEN MIX DIERAMA 'AUTUMN SPARKLER' £2.50 RanunculaceaeHP 90cm £3.45 IridaceaeHP1.0-1.3m This generous packet contains Stiff wands, sport close-packed all shades, including bicolours, clusters of brightest fluorescent blue, pink and white singles, pink, delicately-marked, upward- and doubles from our cottage facing starry bells. This rare and garden. We have also included a desirable introduction is the last few unusual species so expect and the most unusual of all the odd surprise. dieramas, flowering into October and November.

DELPHINIUM REQUIENII DIERAMA 'BLACKBERRY BELLS' £2.85 RanunculaceaeHBi 90cm-1.5m £2.85 IridaceaeHP1.0-1.3m A most unusual and Seed collected from a vigorous impressively tall plant with hairy hybrid between 'Cosmos' and racemes of unreal-looking, Dierama robustum, and densely packed, orchid-like inheriting some of the darkness brownish blue-purple flowers, from the former flower, but with from a large basal leaf rosette much larger, deep purple- of attractive, shiny and marbled maroon flared trumpets on very star-shaped leaves. tall, strong, springy stems.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 16 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 DIERAMA 'BLACKBIRD' DIERAMA STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM £2.50 IridaceaeHP1.0-1.3m £2.40 IridaceaeHP1.0-1.5m Seedlings from this famous and Arching stems carry pendulous darkest of all dieramas will vary, bunches of bell-like flowers in all but most plants should produce shades of pink shading down to cascades of pendulous, funnel- white. A very generous bag to shaped claret purple flowers on grow a large number of these wiry stems. Seedlings most desirable plants. You can occasionally produce paler scatter them where required but flowers but there will be no be careful of the seedlings as rejects as all will be superb. they can resemble grass!

DIERAMA BLOOD DROPS DIGITALIS 'APRICOT' £2.95 IridaceaeHP80cm-1.0m (10 seeds) £2.65 ScrophulariaceaHP 90cm This brilliant new hybrid is the This stunning introduction has a brightest deep red seedling we distinctive colour break bearing have discovered for many years. large, orangey-peach, flared Plants grown from these seeds flowers which are heavily- may vary but they will produce clustered up the tall, strong heavy heads of pendulous stems. If grown alone out of flowers in some startlingly reach of other foxgloves the bright new forms. seedlings will come quite true.

DIERAMA PINK FAIRIES DIGITALIS FERRUGINEA GIGANTEA £2.95 IridaceaeHP60-70cm £2.35 ScrophulariaceaHP 1.2-1.8m Our newest most spectacular This is a spectacular towering dwarf hybrid for some time form of this excellent perennial makes clump of thin leaves foxglove. Tall slender spikes in from which arise short stems close groups bear many carrying terminal sprays of distinctive pale orange-brown large, pendulous, brightest pink flowers each with a protruding bells in spring. This dwarf white lip. Completely hardy and Dierama is quite stunning and totally perennial exclusive to Plant World!

DIERAMA 'SNOWBELLS' (PULCHERRIMUM) DIGITALIS 'FLASHING SPIRES' £2.70 IridaceaeHP1.0-1.3m £2.40 ScrophulariaceaHP 60-90cm This beautiful dierama produces Plantworld introduced the first large, flared milky white bells ever variegated foxglove from over a long period in early and seed. (Digitalis lutea variegata). mid summer, clumps improving In spring appears a robust over the years. Seedlings may rosette of cream-splashed also produce the odd palest leaves, from which arise spikes pink-flowered plant but these of yellow-green flowers. can be easily separated whilst still quite young.

DIERAMA SPECIES MIXED DIGITALIS GRANDIFLORA £2.90 IridaceaeHP1.8m £2.35 ScrophulariaceaHP 60-90cm A superb mixture of all the Spikes of chocolate netted, varieties listed here. We are large sulphur yellow flowers also including some unusual and over rosettes of strongly veined un-named species and hybrids leaves. This is the largest and from our trial grounds. All will most spectacular flowered of be extremely beautiful. Expect the yellow foxgloves. Perennial some very pleasant surprises, and long lived. colours and forms never before seen!

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 17 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 DIGITALIS LAEVIGATA DIGITALIS PURPUREA £2.75 ScrophulariaceaHP 70-90cm £1.85 ScrophulariaceaHP 90cm This fully hardy perennial, semi- The wild foxglove, too well evergreen plant opens its known to need a description, orange and pink, large-lipped, shoots up numerous spikes of bell-shaped flowers all summer large, purple tubular flowers. long, and if sown early flowers Seedlings will vary and the first year. With high drought inevitably include white and pale tolerance, it grows well both in pink forms. semi-shade and direct sun.

DIGITALIS LUTEA DIGITALIS PURPUREA ALBA £2.30 ScrophulariaceaHP 60-90cm £2.45 ScrophulariaceaHP 1.2m A generous packet of this An unusual tight-spiked, white attractive long lived hardy form of the purple foxglove perennial which has greenish- carrying pale purple freckles yellow flowers freely borne on within the throat. Impressive slender spikes. A most unusual drifts can be easily established plant which will naturalise in in the garden. The odd purple parts of the garden where other plant may sometimes occur, but plants may struggle to grow. can be easily removed as soon as the coloured buds appear.

DIGITALIS MERTONENSIS DIGITALIS STEWARTII £2.65 ScrophulariaceaHP 60-90cm £2.50 ScrophulariaceaHP 1.2-1.8m Shortish stout spikes of very This impressive foxglove is large flattened trumpets with a amongst the tallest we have distinctive squashed ever seen. Several long thin strawberry/coppery colour, spires arise, clad along most of open in early summer. This their length with large-lipped, valuable plant with soft hairy dark-veined orange flowers. leaves and a long-lived habit is Soundly perennial and bone one of the most magnificent hardy, this plant will perform hybrid foxgloves. trouble-free for many years.

DIGITALIS 'PAM'S CHOICE' DYSTAENIA TAKESIMANA £2.55 ScrophulariaceaHP 1.5m £2.95 Apiaceae HP 80cm-1.2m One of the best new foxgloves A rare plant, endemic to Ullung to be found in recent years. Island off of Korea in the Sea of Stout, strong spires of creamy Japan. As well as being an white flowers with their throats attractive umbellifer, it almost solidly painted in apparently has leaves and deepest burgundy. En masse it young stems with a good makes an unforgettable sight. flavour, rather like celery but with a bit of a bite, and which apparently are very nutritious.

DIGITALIS PARVIFLORA ECBALLIUM ELATERIUM £2.65 ScrophulariaceaHP 90cm £1.90 CucurbitaceaeHHP 23cm (8 seeds) Slender spikes hold numerous Its name alone is a mouthful. densely massed chocolate And that is precisely what your brown tubular flowers. This curious friends will have when distinctive, striking and lovely they touch the small plum- completely perennial plant is shaped fruits on the amazing appropriately also called and aptly named "Squirting- 'Chocolate Soldier'. Cucumber". Yellow flowers on radiating stems produce intriguing hanging fruits.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 18 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ECHINACEA PURPUREA 'BRILLIANT STAR' ECHIUM PININANA 'BLUE STEEPLE' £2.40 Compositae HP 90cm £3.20 BoraginaceaeHHP 3.0-4.5m (30+ seeds) Very large reddish-purple flower Also known as the 'Tower of with pronounced golden-brown Jewels'. Echium pininana initially cone-centres are produced from produces a palm tree-like July until mid-autumn. Ideal for rosette on a thick woody stem. cutting, these plants will A year or two later, the centre, perform best on well-prepared holding thousands of flowers, humus-rich soil. (aka 'Ruby Star') shoots upwards, sometimes to 15-20 feet! Bees love this giant.

ECHINACEA 'WHITE SWAN' ECHIUM PININANA 'SNOW TOWER' £2.50 ASTERACEAE HP 45-60cm (50 seeds) £3.20 BoraginaceaeHHP 3.0-4.5m (30 seeds) This is a popular variety, A friend on Guernsey sent us producing bronze-centred white some seeds of an absolutely flowers from July to October. pure white Echium pininana she This form is shorter than others, had discovered. We could barely making it a great, easy-to-grow believe such a plant existed, but mid-border plant which will were thrilled to finally see an thrive in any decent soil and enormous 15 foot high snowy does not require staking making cascade. it excellent for cutting.

ECHIUM 'BLUE DWARF' ECHIUM 'PINK FOUNTAIN' £3.60 BoraginaceaeHHP 1.0-1.3m (15 seeds) £3.20 BoraginaceaeHHP 3.0-4.5m (25 seeds) This new diminutive plant The most lusted-after plant in appeared by chance here at the gardens every June. A cross Plant World. Best grown under we made between the fabulous the shelter of a hedge or wall it Echium wildpretii with its four makes a low multi-branched foot, fat red spike and the giant mound of hairy, grey-green blue Echium pininana. The rosettes, the stumpy, fat spikes result is a 15 inch wide, tapering of cobalt-blue flowers appear tower of delicate pink flowers. from April to June.

ECHIUM ITALICUM ECHIUM 'RED ROCKET' £2.70 BoraginaceaeHHP 1.2-1.8m £3.40 BoraginaceaeHHP 1.5-2.0m (10 seeds) This suberb specimen plant We have back-crossed E. makes many long impressive wildpretii with "Pink Fountain" rosettes of, branching, hairy, one of its bigger and tougher grey stems. The sprays of icing children, itself a cross between pink flowers around the stems the relatively hardy E. pininana are produced from June until and E. wildpretii. The result is October, with the main, quite an incredible column of spectacular flush, in July. strawberry-red flowers above a rosette of grey narrow leaves.

ECHIUM PININANA 3 COLOURS ECHIUM WILDPRETII £2.85 Boraginaceae 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 echiums, 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.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 19 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ERANTHIS HYEMALIS ERODIUM MANESCAVII £2.35 RanunculaceaeHP 8cm £2.50 GeraniaceaeHP20-35cm (10 seeds) The dazzling "winter aconite", Deepest lilac-pink flowers are competes with the snowdrop as produced for many months over first flower of the year, but is a cascading clump of lovely too seldom grown or seen. feathery leaves. A beautiful, Buttercup yellow shiny flowers long-flowering, very long-lived above tiny posies of cut leaves, plant that will put on a superb sprouting from tubers which show for year after year where slowly multiply over the years. others will not survive.

ERANTHIS HYEMALIS ORANGE GLOW ERODIUM PELARGONIFLORUM £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 4-7cm (8 seeds) £2.65 GeraniaceaeHP30cm This lovely form, has flowers Large, violet-veined, white which open from January to flowers open above fragrant February and are a distinct crinkly leaves from the end of orange colour instead of the winter until midsummer, and normal acid-lemon. This seed spasmodically thereafter. Much has been collected from a new admired in our gardens, this and extremely rare variety of superb plant is bone hardy too. this lovely winter-flowering plant. Although its exotic appearance does not give this impression.

ERIGERON KARVINSKIANUS ERYNGIUM GIGANTEUM 'MISS WILMOTT'S GHOST' £2.85 Compositae HP 10-15cm £2.65 Umbelliferae HBi 45-60cm On a gently spreading carpet of One of the most impressive tiny pointed leaves appear summer plants you can grow in sheets of white daisies which the UK, with unbelievable open white, turn pink and then metallic silvery-blue leaves, fade to purple. This cushion flowers and stems. The word plant is very long-flowering from gigantea refers to the flowers, late spring to autumn and is one not the plant which is rarely of the best wall or dry-rockery more than 2 feet high. plants.

ERODIUM CRCRIINNIITTUUMM ERYNGIUM MIXED £2.85 Geraniaceae HBi,HA 15-20cm (10 seeds) £2.50 Umbelliferae HP 1.0-1.5m Apparently a rare and A large packet taken from all of threatened plant in its Australian those described here, as well as home, this erodium is one of a some unidentified species in our very small number of true-blue trial ground. We have also ones. It flowers very quickly included unidentified new from seed making a long species collected by us on our succession of small cerise Expedition to Chile. flowers which open on long, spreading, trailing stems.

ERODIUM GRUINUM ERYNGIUM VARIIFOLIUM £2.55 Geraniaceae HBi 45cm £2.50 Umbelliferae HP 1.0m A fascinating plant from Sicily. Superlative evergreen, Large violet blue flowers are beautifully variegated and produced all summer, followed marbled, waxy green rosettes, by remarkable, enormous, produce branching angular corkscrew seeds which are sprays of spiky silvery-blue commercially used for making flowers. From the Atlas hygrometers (to measure Mountains of Africa comes this dampness) - wet one and watch completely hardy, loveliest of what slowly happens! the eryngiums.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 20 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ERYSIMUM PLANTWORLD RAINBOWS EUPATORIUM CANABINUM £3.20 CruciferaeHP30-45cm (20+ seeds) £2.50 Compositae HP 90cm-1.2m Years ago we crossed many A vigorous late flowerer carrying perennial erysimums including sprays of deep pink flowers on 'Bowles Mauve', linifolium and strong stems, from June until scoparius, with dwarf September. The thin pointed wallflowers. Many of these new leaves do bear a distinct plants have been marketed resemblance to a commonly worldwide and these valuable smoked substance. The botanic hand-collected seeds will give all name is spelt wrongly to avoid colours and habits. internet filters!

ERYTHRONIUM SPECIES MIX EUPHORORBBIIAA AMYGDALOIDES PURPUREA £2.85 Liliaceae HB,HP 15-25cm £3.20 EuphorbiaceaeHP 40-50cm (5 seeds) A generous selection of these This hardy beauty makes gorgeous plants with flowers in beetroot-coloured spring colours from cream and yellow foliage, contrasting with the to pink, all are spectacular, and golden yellow "flower heads". A even the leaves are attractive, slow-growing gem that spreads being beautifully marbled and mainly by seeds, of which it sets blotched. Forming valuable very few, making an elegant hardy clumps. spring bonus in any border.

ESCHSCHOLZIA CALIFORNICA EUPHORBIA CHARACIAIASS CHARARAACIASACCIIASAS £2.50 PapaveraceaeHHA 30-38cm £2.95 EuphorbiaceaeHP 60-90cm (20+ seeds) This is a vigorous, bushy, Probably the most popular and spreading annual with finely long-lived of all spurges, this old divided blue-green leaves and favourite produces strong stems showy orange, yellow or of evergreen, blue-green leaves sometimes red flowers in which terminate in extended summer. Once established in a narrow heads of bright yellow hot garden these will self-seed flowers. One of the easiest, long- coming up reliably year after lived and trouble-free plants you year. can grow.

ESCHSCHOLZIA 'THAI SILK' EUPHORBIA CHARARAACCIAIAIASS WULFENIIII £2.05 Compositae HHP 20-30cm £2.75 EuphorbiaceaeHP 60-90cm The "California Poppy" is best This outstanding form produces sown where it is to flower, this imposing clumps of erect stems well-loved flower giving an clad in narrow grey leaves endless display of double terminating in large and almost flowers with fluted petals in spherical, football-sized heads mixed colours over compact, of yellow-green flowers. These grey-green glaucous foliage, imposing specimen plants will from June until September. perform reliably where little else will thrive.

EUCOMIS REICHENBACHII EUPHORORBBIIAA LATHYRIS £2.40 Liliaceae HP 30-38cm (10 seeds) £2.35 EuphorbiaceaeHBi 90cm (10+ seeds) This rarely seen lily relative from A handsome and extremely South Africa ("The Pineapple rapid-growing plant bearing Lily") has massive fleshy strap- symmetrical, pointed, blue- shaped leaves from which arise green leaves. Umbels of tiny stout stems carrying very long yellow flowers produce large lasting, purple-edged, green bulbous seed-pods. Also known flowers in late summer and as "The Mole Plant" as it is autumn. reputed to deter moles!

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 21 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 EUPHORBIA MMAARRGGIINNAATATA 'KILIMANJAARROO'' FRITILLARIA IMPERIALIS £2.65 Euphorbiaceae 60-90cm (10 seeds) £4.25 Liliaceae HB,HP 60cm (8 seeds) This stunning annual with a In early summer this fabulous bushy growth habit produces plant bears a prominent whorl showy clusters of small, pale of bright downward facing green and white blossoms which flowers, topped by a 'crown' of make awesome cut flowers small leaves. These seeds have whilst the foliage has been collected from the deepest spectacular white margins. coloured forms in our gardens. Easily propagated from seeds and thrives in well-drained soil.

EUPHORBIA MELLIFERA FRITILLARIA MELEAGRLEAGRIISS £2.85 Euphorbiaceae HP 1.2-1.8m £2.95 Liliaceae HB 40cm (30 seeds) This gem has large, creamy- The nodding bell shaped flowers veined leathery leaves topped of Fritillaria meleagris are by golden, fragrant flower unmistakeable for their nodding heads. The name 'mellifera' heads, sometimes of pure refers to the sweet fragrance of white, or more frequently honey which will drift across the marked with a delicate garden amazing all who are chequerboard pattern in shades nearby. of purple. This rare British wild flower is now protected by law.

FERULA COMMUNIS FRITILLARIA MELEAGRIS ALBA £2.95 Apiaceae HP 2.4-3.6m £2.85 LILIACEAEHB,HP 30-38cm (20 seeds) This superb and spectacular The white form of this rare giant from the Mediterranean British native is rarely found in has dark green leaves, divided the wild. It flowers from March many times, into delicate, to May growing to between 15 feathery segments. The and 40 cm in height. In the wild enormous flower-heads contain it is commonly found growing in countless tiny, bright yellow grasslands in damp soils and flowers in early summer. river meadows and can be found at altitudes up to 800m.

FRANCOA 'ROGERSON'S FORM' FRITILLARIA MIXED £2.50 SaxifragaceaeHP 60cm £3.60 Liliaceae HB 15-60cm A new and impressive form of A good mixture of seeds from the normally pale pink Francoa all the varieties we grow, sonchifolia with large panicles of including some rarities. Species deepest pink, star-shaped include Fritillaria acmopetala, blossoms strikingly marked with camtschatcensis, gracilis, graeca crimson on long stalks. This is var. thessalica, involucrata, an ideal flower for cutting. pallidiflora, pontica and others, but not including meleagris.

FRANCOA SONCHIFOLIA 'PINK GIANANT'ANT'T' FRITILLARIA PERSICA £2.60 SaxifragaceaeHP 60-90cm £3.60 Liliaceae HB 45-90cm (8 seeds) Several years ago a single Pendent bells, from chocolate- seedling flowered with huge brown to dark purple-black, blossoms and beautifully bi- tower on tall stalks holding coloured petals on attractive silver-green leaves. This superb short, stout stems. From this late spring flower flourishes in a plant we have established a hot well-drained spot or even in superb seed strain with larger, a large container, which it will more attractive and longer fill with bulbs to bursting in just lasting flowers. a few years.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 22 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 GAILLARDIA 'ARIZONA RED SHADES' GERANIUM BOHEMICUM £2.60 Compositae HP 30cm (20 seeds) £2.65 GeraniaceaeHP30-45cm (10+ seeds) First year flowering Gaillardia in (Syn. Geranium 'Orchid-Blue'). the most spectacular shades of This new-on-the-scene plant, crimson red. Only about 15" tall often confused with the very it is tailor made for planters and similar Geranium lanuginosum, tubs, the plants are well produces flowers of a rarely branched and have a very seen shade of pure campanula uniform habit which is certainly blue, on low brittle hairy stems. not shy to flower profusely Wonderful in rich damp soil. through the season.

GENTIANA ACAULIS GERANIUM ENDRESSII £2.85 GentianaceaeHP 5-8cm £2.95 GeraniaceaeHP30-60cm (10 seeds) Seed saved from the darkest A really attractive, very, very blue form we have ever grown, long-flowering plant with icing these flowers bear large upward- pink flowers on low, slowly facing, almost midnight blue creeping stems. This plant will trumpets with a piercingly act as a weed-suppressor and contrasting white throat. Makes attractive ground cover where a slowly spreading carpet which few other geraniums will will be quite permanent if survive, even in deep shade or divided in late winter. on a dry bank!

GENTIANA ASCLEPIADEA GERANIUM HARDY MIXED £2.65 GentianaceaeHP 45-60cm £3.20 GeraniaceaeHP30-90cm (30+ seeds) The "Willow Gentian" is one of A generous selection taken from the few plants that really does our range including items with improve with time. Hundreds of too few seeds to list. This upturned deep blue trumpets on exceptionally good value mix arching stems through summer always contains a few real and into late autumn. The rarities and could be the easiest, longest lived, latest cheapest way to start a flowering and most rewarding of collection of these long-lasting the taller gentians. plants.

GENTIANA LUTEA GERANIUM MACRORRHIZUM BEVAN'S VARIETY £2.40 GentianaceaeHP 90cm £2.85 GeraniaceaeHP30cm (10+ seeds) Strong, noble spires of large, An old favourite form of this golden, star-like flowers open in easy-to-grow plant producing late spring over clumps of large sprays of bright pink flowers basal lily-like leaves. A superb which adorn the fragrant gentian and one of the most mounds of low, hairy foliage. magnificent, easy-to-grow, and One of the best ground cover long lived plants you can ever plants available. wish to grow.

GERANIUM ALBANUM GERANIUM MACRORRHIZUM 'CZAKOR' £2.50 Geraniaceae HP 30-45cm (10+ seeds) £2.90 GeraniaceaeHP45cm (10+ seeds) Large numbers of magenta- Very fragrant, rounded, slightly veined, shocking pink flowers hairy leaves (the source of oil-of- on spreading stems are geranium) make a solid, produced over a far longer creeping, evergreen season than most other groundcover foil for the geraniums. "A long flowering, magenta purple blooms on this underrated plant" ('Hardy easily grown, totally hardy plant. Geraniums' - Bath & Jones).

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 23 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 GERANIUM MACRORRHIZUM 'SNOW SPRITE' GERANIUM PALMATUM £2.55 Geraniaceae HP 30-40cm (10+ seeds) £2.95 GeraniaceaeHP60-90cm (20+ seeds) This superb miniature has milky This is perhaps the most white flowers with all other impressive and spectacular of all parts being palest lime green. hardy geraniums with sprays of Along with its controllable deepest pink exotic flowers and diminutive stature and the large clumps of glossy divided aromatic perfume from its foliage with reddish stems. It is dainty leaves, this plant should best in a sheltered spot, but has have a place in every garden. survived minus 11 C unscathed here.

GERANIUM MACULATUM CHOC-LEAF GERANIUM PHAEUM £3.95 Geraniaceae HP 45-60cm (5 seeds) £2.50 GeraniaceaeHP60cm (10+ seeds) A stunning variation on the The very dark maroon nodding normal, already lovely green- flowers give this desirable plant leaved form. Spreading stems, its common name "The bearing attractive, chocolate- Mourning Widow". Very popular brown, shiny leaves, support a and deservedly so, this mixture very long succession of large will produce a proportion of lilac-mauve flowers. Similar to plants with attractively marked the famous cultivar "Elizabeth and variegated leaves. Anne"

GERANIUM MADERENSE GERANIUM PHAEUM 'SAMOBOR' £3.20 Geraniaceae HHP 70cm-1.2m (15+ seeds) £2.75 GeraniaceaeHP60cm (8 seeds) This true flamboyant species Typical, darkest midnight purple grows a stout "trunk", which flowers open over solid mounds radiates strong stalks, much of large leaves which are resembling a small palm tree, strikingly zoned in dark with huge trusses of deep pink chocolate brown. Certainly a flowers in early summer. Prefers candidate for the most shelter, or even a big pot, but attractive foliage of any hardy worth any trouble to grow for geranium and very rarely the incredible finale. offered from seed.

GERANIUM MADERENSE 'GUERNSEY WHITE' GERANIUM PLATYANTHUM £3.60 Geraniaceae HP 90cm (15 seeds) £2.70 GeraniaceaeHP60-75cm (10+ seeds) New from Plant World is the (Also called G. eriostemon). A gorgeous pink-eyed white- most unusual plant from Korea flowered form of this and Japan. Large shallowly spectacular plant which lobed toothed leaves grow from produces a massed head of a thick rootstock. Dense clusters flowers in late spring. It does of of flat-faced white-eyed mauve- its best in a sheltered spot or blue flowers appear from early very large pot, when all who spring through into summer. see it will be amazed. Spectacular if given space.

GERANIUM 'MAVERICK VIOLET' GERANIUM PRATENSE £3.95 Geraniaceae HHA 40-45cm (8 seeds) £2.40 GeraniaceaeHP60cm (15 seeds) Known for massive, grapefruit- The " Meadow Cranesbill". This sized flower clusters and perpetually popular flower bears improved oppressive summer large, sky blue flowers with heat tolerance, the Maverick white eyes and veins above Violet zonal geranium bears clumps of deeply cleft leaves. dark fuchsia blossoms overcast Ever popular and will happily by red-violet hues. Boasting a naturalise. robust, well-branching habit and bright green lobed leaves.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 24 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 GERANIUM PRATENSE 'PINK SPLASH' GERANIUM ROBUSTUM 'SILVER CLOAK' £2.85 Geraniaceae HP 60-75cm (10+ seeds) £2.85 GeraniaceaeHP45cm (10+ seeds) A Plant World introduction This superb geranium is a fertile (Geranium 'Janet's Special'). cross between the beautiful White flowers with radiating Geranium incanum, with the pink streaks make this the finest filigree foliage, and the perfect pink counterpart to the more robust Geranium original G. 'Splish-Splash' which robustum. Vigorous flowing appeared a few years ago. carpets bear flowers from pink (Occasionally a pure pink or to mauve over deeply cut leaves white plant may occur.) in grey and silver.

GERANIUM PRATENSE 'PURPLE-HAZE' GERANIUM SYLVATICUM ALBUM £2.95 Geraniaceae HP 60cm (10+ seeds) £2.95 GeraniaceaeHP40-60cm (6 seeds) Years of selecting Geranium Sprays of snow-white flowers pratense forms has given us leaf open from June until August colours from mahogany to over a neat base of soft leaves. deepest darkest beetroot. Developing a long-lived stout Plants will vary in size from 12 rhizome, it is easy to establish to 24 inches high with flowers in in most conditions, whether in shades of blue or purple. sun or shade. In the wild it grows as far north as the Arctic.

GERANIUM PSILOSTEMON 'RED PROPELLERS' GERANIUM VERSICOLOR £2.95 Geraniaceae HP 60-75cm (10 seeds) £2.85 GeraniaceaeHP38cm (10+ seeds) Hybrid geraniums are usually Large numbers of blood red sterile, so we crossed two veined pink funnel-shaped choice species producing an flowers, from spring and endlessly flowering dome, BUT, throughout summer, adorn this unexpectedly, a few unexpected low spreader, which stifles seeds gave two forms: Quilled weeds whilst hybridising busily petals and Folded "propeller" with other geraniums producing blades, both truly new and fascinating offspring. lovely!

GERANIUM PYRENAICUM 'BILL WALLIS' GLAUGLAUCICIDIUM PALMATUM £2.50 Geraniaceae HP 30-38cm (10+ seeds) £4.25 Papaveraceae HP 38cm (6 seeds) This is the best cultivar (coming This fabulous and choice true) of the type, with especially connoisseur's plant is very rarely desirable, very deep violet- seen or offered. Large and purple flowers, which are at exquisite cup-shaped lavender their impressive best in the late flowers are held above soft evening. This cultivar is often lobed leaves. A priceless wrongly spelled 'Bill Wallace'. specimen for shade and rich soil. "A great treasure." (Graham Stuart Thomas)

GERANIUM ROBERTIANUM ALBUM GUNNERA MANICATA £2.50 Geraniaceae HP 45-60cm £2.30 HaloragidaceaeHP 1.5-3.0m The lovely white flowered form Certainly one of the largest of "Herb Robert" produces hardy herbaceous plants which masses of white flowers on a can be grown in the U.K. dividing network of red stems. producing large, puckered and These are produced in early lobed leaves on spiky stems summer forming a billowing above huge statuesque spikes mass of bloom. of tiny reddish-green flowers. Near water this plant can grow enormous.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 25 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 GYPSOPHILA PANICULATA HELLEBORUS FOETIDUS £2.05 Caryophyllaceae HP 60-90cm £2.05 RanunculaceaeHP (20 seeds) Dividing wiry, branching stems This ever-popular, Cottage- carrying masses of tiny white garden plant has downward flowers wind in between facing, pale green flowers that neighbouring plants from June extend on reddened stems to September. "Baby's Breath" above the darker green, shiny, is an essential flower for every palmately divided foliage. It is border and cottage garden. named thus only because the foliage gives off an unpleasant smell when crushed.

HELLEBORUS ANEMONE-CENTRED HELLEBORUS FOETIDUS MISS JEKYLL'S SCENTED £3.70 RanunculaceaeHP 30-60cm (15 seeds) £2.75 RanunculaceaeHP 60-75cm This delightful variety of The overpowering fragrance, hellebore has an attractive ring similar to mahonia, from the of frilly petals (which are in fact pendulous purple-lipped oversized nectaries) within the flowers, fills our cottage garden usual petals producing an in earliest spring. This is the attractive, frilly, doubling effect. rare, sweetly-perfumed form. The sizeable, upturned flowers (Its botanical name simply come in the usual range of explains that the thick, shiny bright colours. leaves smell if bruised!).

HELLEBORUS 'BLACK BEAUTY' HELLEBORUS 'HELEN BALLARD'S' £3.40 RanunculaceaeHP 38-45cm (20 seeds) £3.20 RanunculaceaeHP 38cm (20 seeds) These seeds were collected Seed from the most beautiful from the darkest plants we plants we have ever grown. grow, which originated from Large, waxy, extravagantly one of the country's top marked flowers produce gasps hellebore breeders. Deepest of awe from all who see them. plums and purples open from These plants are descendants of slate coloured buds, many many of Helen Ballard's famous plants having the extra bonus of named forms. the dark foliage of their parents.

HELLEBORUS DOUBLE BALLARDS HELLEBORUS ORIORIENENTALIS 'BEST COLOURS' £3.90 RanunculaceaeHP 30-45cm (6 seeds) £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 30-45cm (10 seeds) These seeds have been hand A selection from some of our collected from these ravishing best Helleborus orientalis plants beauties which have heavily- which are guaranteed to doubled, brightly-speckled white brighten up your garden with a flowers, which open in splash of colour. All the very February, and continue this best forms have been selected awesome display until May or by hand and concentrated in June. this selection.

HELLEBORUS DOUBLE RED FRILLS HELLEBORUS PLANTWORLD DOUBLES £3.70 Ranunculaceae 25-35cm (10 seeds) £3.95 RanunculaceaeHP 38-45cm (10+ seeds) Just one unusually-flowered These superb, fully double plant appeared in our trial beds hellebores bear an amazing with frilled, split red petals. resemblance to roses and come Looking very much like an in all shades from pure white to anemone, to which it is of red, and including greens and course related, it evoked many yellows and often heavily praiseworth comments before it marked and shaded. The long finally set these seeds. stems are perfect for cutting too.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 26 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 HELLEBORUS PRIZE WINNERS HEUCHERA 'EMPEROR'S CLOAK' (AMERICANA) £2.85 RanunculaceaeHP 30-45cm (10 seeds) £2.85 SaxifragaceaeHP 30-45cm Seed from the very best forms Puckered, folded and pleated of Helleborus orientalis that we leaves, from beetroot red to grow in our gardens, including deep purple and which appear pinks, maroons and mottled and to be transparent in the sun, patterned heads. This selection produce a mound from which will impress all who are arise thin stems carrying fluffy fortunate enough to discover white, superbly contrasting these emerging from March to flowers. June each year.

HELLEBORUS VIRIDIS HEUCHERA 'METALLALLIICCA'A' (AMERICANA) £2.65 RanunculaceaeHP 30-45cm £2.65 SaxifragaceaeHP 38-45cm Bunches of open, saucer-like These plants have been flowers, of a startling bright selected for the most attractive green, massed on strong stems marbled and veined leaves. The in early spring. Very early colours and shades of flowering, long-lived flowers mahogany, bronze, aluminium which are excellent for cutting. and silver are most distinctive on young spring foliage. Flower sprays in shades of pink and white.

HHEELLLELEBORUS 'WESTER FLISK' HIERACIUM AURANTIACUM £2.90 RanunculaceaeHP 60cm (20+ seeds) £2.40 Compositae HP 15-23cm Red stalked form of H. foetidus, This favourite old cottage only so called because of the garden plant has brilliant, odour released on breaking the coppery, orange-red flowers foliage. On some plants the with black tips which appear on deep colouration continues from short stems for a long period in the main stem to the leaf spring and summer. It will run petiole and into the flowering slowly and is perfect for a wild head consisting of numerous garden or a rockery. purple rimmed green flowers.

HEPATICA NOBILIS HOLLYHOCK 'BLACK BEAUTY' £3.95 RanunculaceaeHP 5-8cm (5 seeds) £2.50 MalvaceaeHP1.8m This rare, hardy, rhizomatous, Tall spires hold numerous large, semi-evergreen perennial, silky, glistening, almost black displays some of the bluest trumpets. In addition, this herb flowers you can grow. Forming can be used in the same small clumps from which, after manner as marshmallow; the flowering, the hairy new foliage flowers, with the calyx removed, unfurls to produce glossy green are commonly used to treat or marbled three to five lobed colds as they are a demulcent. leaves.

HEUCHERA AMERICANA 'BLOOD-VEIN' HOLLYHOCK 'BURGUNDY TOWERS' £2.65 SaxifraceaeHP38-45cm £2.40 MalvaceaeHP1.5-2.1m A selected form of the rare This unusual form occurred here Heuchera americana with thick some time ago with strong rounded and lobed leaves, stems carrying large, deepest producing sprays of greenish- crimson flowers and fig-shaped pink flowers. Many plants leaves. In common with other though will have leaves brightly fig-leaved hollyhocks, these decorated with deep crimson have proven to be very resistant veins to rust.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 27 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 HOLLLLYYHHOOCCKK 'SNOW PEAKS' IMPATIENS SCABRIDA £2.45 MalvaceaeHP1.8-2.4m £2.75 BalsaminaceaeHBi,HA 60cm-1.2m (10+ seeds) Seed collected from pure white The "Himalayan Jewel Orchid" and palest cream forms of these grows on cool forest slopes well-loved cottage garden where it forms a large wide favourites. solid mound completely studded with pairs of intriguing, creamy yellow, orchid-like flowers, each with two unequal lips. This new gem will add a tropical air to your garden.

IMPATIENS BABALLFFOOURURII IRIS BLUE RIBAND £2.85 BalsaminaceaeHHP,H 60-75cm (10 seeds) £2.85 IridaceaeHP60-70cm (10+ seeds) This new, rare and lovely plant, Huge, sumptuous flowers with originating in the Himalayas wide, heavily marked petals produces a long succession of bi- open over an extended period coloured pink and white flowers from early to late summer. from late June until September. Some years ago we were given Planted out early in the year in a few precious seeds from a good soil it makes a magnificent skilled breeder of these solid dome absolutely desirable plants and these gems smothered with blossoms. were the result.

IMPATIENS GLANDULIFERA 'RED WINE' IRIS CHRYSOGRAPHES 'BLACK GOLD' £2.05 BalsaminaceaeHA 1.2m £2.75 IridaceaeHP60-90cm We have selected a colony of The flowers are certainly not oil- the darkest burgundy coloured coloured, but its name alludes form of this vigorous and rapid to the Greek, chrysographes or growing plant. Large red 'gold writing'. Tall strong stems "snapdragons", with exploding hold sprays of darkest blue to seed-cases, cluster on thick, almost black velvety flowers succulent stems. Self-seeds and which are delicately marked spreads if near water so take with golden lines. care!

IMPATIENS GLANDGLANDULIFERA 'WHITE FACES' IRIS 'CLOTTED CREAM' £2.40 BalsaminaceaeHP 90cm-1.2m £2.65 IridaceaeHP60-90cm This pure white form of This lovely palest buttermilk "Himalayan Balsam" can make form of Iris pseudacorus, an impressive statement in an coming true from seed, has isolated bog garden or pond exquisitely marked and veined margin. White "faces" grow petals. Will grow very large in a atop stout hollow stems, later damp or wet spot, but does producing exploding seed pods perfectly well in a dry garden. which can propel seed for some distance. Can become invasive.

IMPATIENS NAMCHABARWENSIS BLUE DIAMOND IRIS COLCHESTERENSIS £3.20 BalsaminaceaeHHP 45-60cm (10 seeds) £3.20 IridaceaeHP45-60cm (6 seeds) Discovered only in 2003 in the This superb form of Iris remote Namcha Barwa Canyon laevigata which was selected in Tibet, this is the rare, first here and comes pleasingly true ever, deepest sapphire-blue from seed, has gorgeous, impatiens, with leaves like sumptuous white flowers, polished jade. Bedding heavily painted in deepest navy impatiens have flat flowers but blue. It is fine in the ordinary these conservatory-perennials garden but outstanding in damp resemble elegant cranes in flight. or wet soil.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 28 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 IRIS ENSATA CUP WINNERS LAVLAVANAANNDDUULLAA ANANGUGUSTIFOLIA £2.95 IridaceaeHP40-60cm (12 seeds) £2.55 Labiatae HP 60-75cm Rare seed mix by Davor Cetina The common lavender will a top iris breeder from Croatia. produce long-stemmed, bright Includes - Activity, Aiogata, blue flowers which are ideal for Aquamarin, Darling, Emotion, cutting, drying or to perfume Fortune, Fuyijama,Gipsy, linen. Long-lived and easy-to- Kogesho, Laughing Lion, grow, it benefits from a close Loyalty, Moonlight waves, Oase, haircut early each spring to Oriental eyes, Port Arthur, Rose encourage fresh growth. queen, Summer moon.

IRIS SPECIES MIXED LAVANDULA PROVENCE BLUE £2.65 IridaceaeHP23-90cm £2.70 Labiatae HP 30cm-5.0m A generous packet of all our This exceptionally compact, irises, including some collected bushy, clump-forming, in quantities too small to list, evergreen perennial has some very rare, in all sizes and fragrant silver-green leaves and colours. More than twenty bears narrow spires of deep varieties, but a few examples blue flowers in summer which are: Iris chrysographes, are also highly scented and are forrestii, innominata, shrevei very good for drying. It is long- and many more. lived and easy-to-grow.

ISATIS TINCTORIA LAVANDULA SPICATA 'MUFFET'S CHILDREN' £2.05 CruciferaeHP60-90cm £2.65 Labiatae HP 20-25cm This famous plant makes a This amazingly dwarf lavender dividing clump of shiny leaves, has short-stemmed fragrant above which arise masses of blue flowers studding a football- small yellow flowers which sized, silver-grey bush. Ideal produce sprays of unusual for a small rock garden or even elongated seeds. This is the for formal edging, the odd plant made famous for its blue seedling may vary but most will natural dye, used by the Celts of be very compact indeed. the British Isles in ancient times.

KNIPHOFIA MIXED SPECIES LLAAVVATATEERRAA ARBOREA VARIEGATA £2.65 AsphodelaceaeHP 60cm-1.2m £2.50 MalvaceaeHP1.2m A colourful selection of red, This unique plant often stands yellow, green and bicolored pride of place amongst the "pokers" of all sizes from our winter foliage plants, where it African garden. Includes shines like a lantern in the Kniphofia brachystachya, garden. As a bonus, purple northiae, rooperi, triangularis flowers smother the plant in and uvaria. early summer. Either in a very large pot or in the garden it is an arresting sight.

KNIPHOFIA NORTHIAE LEWISIA REDIVIVA PINK FORM £2.95 AsphodelaceaeHP 60-90cm £2.95 Portulacaceae HP 5-8cm (20 seeds) Probably the most impressive of Flowers resembling diminutive all red-hot-pokers. Massive, frilly water lilies appear before wide, heavy leaves, make a the leaves, over an extended solid agave-like rosette from period in the spring, before the which arise very thick-stemmed plant retreats underground for flower-spikes of yellow and the autumn and winter as a orange. A stunning plant which hardy tuber. A rare, pink form improves with age. of this extremely beautiful herbaceous lewisia.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 29 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 LIGULARIA CLIVORUM 'DESDEMONA' LILIUM SELECTED SPECIES £2.65 Asteraceae HP 80cm-1.2m £2.85 Liliaceae HB 45cm-1.5m (30+ seeds) Three inch wide, bright orange This is an excellent value bag of flowers on branching purple numerous lily species grown stems, stand above glossy, both by ourselves and some lily- beetroot-coloured, heart-shaped mad friends! Includes the leaves. This exceptional back- following species: L. auratum, of-border or even bog plant henryi, longiflorum, pyrenaicum, attracts countless butterflies and regale, pumilum, and others we moths, such as the Painted Lady have in small quantities, all of butterfly shown here. them very lovely.

LILIUM MACKLINIAE LINNAARRIIAA 'CANON WENT' £3.60 Liliaceae HB 45-60cm (10 seeds) £2.70 ScrophulariaceaHP 45-60cm Each stem of this rare and This delightful variant bears pink outstandingly beautiful dwarf lily snapdragon-like blooms on carries ivory coloured open upright, slender, pointy spikes bowls, which hang slightly and is in bloom from June until downwards and are sometimes the first frosts. It is a favourite very pale pink inside, and of bees and butterflies, coming flushed reddish purple outside. true if other purpurea varieties When originally collected it was are not grown nearby. thought to be a nomocharis!

LILIUM MARTAGON (PINK) LINARIA PURPUREA £2.75 Liliaceae HB,HP 60cm £1.90 ScrophulariaceaHP 60-90cm This strong-growing lily bears The "Purple Toadflax" is an old whorls of narrow leaves with and popular cottage garden large racemes of nodding, flower with tall, slender spikes glossy, purplish-pink flowers of violet-purple flowers, which with recurved petals in early appear right into the frosts of summer, with the occasional autumn. It will gently self-seed odd plant flowering white. into places it likes but never Hardy and long-lived it is a becomes a nuisance! valuable addition to any garden.

LILIUM MARTAGON ALALBBUUMM LINARIA PURPUREA BROWN'S WHITE £2.75 Liliaceae HB 60-90cm £2.85 ScrophulariaceaHP 50-80cm This is the lovely white form of This lovely plant opens its this excellent plant, bearing pristine, tiny, pure white pendent flowers with waxy, “snapdragons” atop long slender reflexed petals. It is an spikes of delicate, fine, greyish- exceptionally easy, long-lived green foliage. This lovely new plant for the garden, multiplying form is bone hardy, long-lived up over the years. The and drought-resistant and was occasional seedling may selected by Ray Brown, Plant produce pink flowers. Worlds owner.

LILIUM REGALE LOBELIA 'BLUE CARDINAL' £2.85 LILIACEAEHB90cm-1.2m (15+ seeds) £2.75 CampanulaceaeHP 60cm This beautiful plant produces 6 Spires of clear blue, snapdragon- inch long trumpet shaped, like flowers open in succession large, white, yellow-throated on strong stems bearing thick, flowers, flushed purple outside. crinkly leaves. These lovely They are strongly fragrant, flowers will grow equally well in especially at night. Leaves are dry or wet conditions and are borne at irregular intervals on very hardy and soundly the stem, in good conditions perennial. plants can grow to 2m or more.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 30 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 LOBELIA TUPA LYCHNIS CORONARIA ALBA £2.95 CampanulaceaeHP 1.2-2.4m £2.30 Caryophyllaceae HP 60-90cm An incredible giant hardy lobelia The unusual albino form of the from Chile. From a large traditional cottage garden plant rosette of thick leathery felted has massed heads of pure white leaves arise thick stems carrying flowers on grey stems above tropical orchid-like deepest clumps of grey woolly hairy carmine flowers. A valuable late leaves. season display from July until the autumn frosts.

LUPINUS ARBOREUS MIXED COLOURS LYCHNIS CORONARIA 'ANGEL'S BLUSH' £2.35 Papilionaceae HSh 1.0-1.8m £2.30 Caryophyllaceae HP 60-90cm A fantastic mix of shrubby habit The pink-eyed white-flowered tree Lupins. Hardy and form of the woolly, grey-leaved perennial this packet will Lychnis coronaria comes quite produce a mixture of White, true from seed but the pink eye Blue and Yellow tree Lupins with varies quite bizarrely with the a few shades in between. season and weather conditions. A lovely long-lived cottage garden plant.

LYCHNIS CHALCEDONICA 'PINKIE' LYCHNIS VISCARIA £2.35 Caryophyllaceae HP 60-75cm £2.65 Caryophyllaceae HP 30-45cm The palest pink form of this This rare British native is both popular, normally deepest red, soundly perennial and beautiful. cottage garden plant can make In midsummer, massed panicles an impressive statement in the of purple-red flowers are held herbaceous border. atop strong thin stems, which are sticky enough to trap the odd small fly (to no obvious advantage unless you know the reason why. we don't!).

LYCHNIS CHALCEDONICA THE FLASHER LYSIMACHIA CLETHROIDES 'LADY JANE' £2.85 Caryophyllaceae HP 60-90cm (20+ seeds) £2.75 PrimulaceaeHP60-75cm A novelty form of the well- This gorgeous form of L. known "Maltese Cross". Deep clethroides has spikes of pure scarlet flowers open in compact creamy-white flowers, which are bunches on stems clad in white- held in closed ranks in splashed leaves. White flashes midsummer and are all turned sometimes only appear when over at the top like walking mature. This unique mutation is sticks. A rarely seen but quite at times unstable. Remove any spectacular flower albeit a very pure green material. infrequent seed-producer.

LYCHNIS CORONARIA LYTHRUM SALICARIA 'THE BEACON' £2.50 Caryophyllaceae HP 45-60cm £2.65 LythraceaeHP90cm-1.2m Large flowers of deepest rose- Spires of rosy-purple flowers are crimson are carried on produced for a very long and branching stems bearing valuable midsummer period attractive grey woolly leaves. from July until September, when This must-have plant for the many plants are well over classic cottage garden will flowering. This lovely plant gently self-seed into cracks and grows perfectly in ordinary soil, shady corners but rarely but in a wet spot, or even pond becomes a nuisance. edge will excel.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 31 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 MAGMAGNONOLIALIA CHAMPACA MECONOPSIS BAILEYI 'HENSOL VIOLET' £3.95 Magnoliaceae HHT 3.0-5.0m (8 seeds) £2.95 PapaveraceaeHP 60-90cm (40+ seeds) This evergreen, semi tropical Bright violet-purple flowers, with large shrub has large mid-green the merest hint of red adorn this leaves and sweetly fragrant quite exquisite variant of the orange flowers in spring. The "Himalayan Blue Poppy". strongly fragrant flowers from Coming quite true from seed, it this fabulous, exotic tree are surprises countless poppy-lovers used to make the expensive who have never before seen perfume 'Joy'. this unusual plant which originated from Hensol Castle.

MALVA MOSCHATA ALBA MECONOPSIS BAILEYEYII SHADES OF BLUE £2.05 MalvaceaeHP60-90cm £2.95 PapaveraceaeHP 50-90cm White form of the timeless This selection includes both pale fragrant cottage garden plant. blue and violet shades of the This lovely form has a pale pink famous "Himalayan Blue Poppy" eye. as well as the normal kingfisher blue. Clumps of hairy leaves form strong stems carrying heads of silky, almost transparent petals with golden eyes. A beautiful plant to grow.

MARIGOLD (TAGETES) 'PAPRIKA' MECONOPSIS CAMBRICA AURANTIACA £2.05 Asteraceae HHA 20-25cm £2.75 PapaveraceaeHP 30-45cm Masses of small red, golden This is the orange form of the centred, daisy-like flowers normally yellow "Welsh Poppy". smother this bright plant all with delicate orange petals, this summer long. This lovely single may slowly self seed in the marigold has a neat mound- garden, usually only forming habit and finely cut, germinating in the spring. citrus-scented foliage. A long lasting display.

MECONOPSIS BAILEYI MECONOPSIS CAMBRICA 'FRANCES PERRY' £2.95 PapaveraceaeHP 90cm £2.75 PapaveraceaeHP 30-45cm (Syn. Meconopsis betonicifolia). The rare red form of the The fabulous "Himalayan Blue perpetual flowering perennial Poppy" forms clumps of hairy Welsh poppy comes true from leaves from which arise strong seed as long as there are none stems carrying heads of silky, of the common yellow ones to kingfisher-blue, almost cross with it. Drifts of this very transparent petals with golden hardy and long-lived beauty are eyes. This is one of the most glorious, as it flowers all beautiful garden plants. summer long.

MECONOPSIS BAILEYI ALBA MECONOPSIS CAMBRICA YELLOW £2.85 PapaveraceaeHP 90cm £2.50 PapaveraceaeHP 30-45cm Pure white silky petals surround Meconopsis cambrica is perfect a boss of golden stamens on for anyone wanting to create a this rarely seen form of the woodland garden and with its "Himalayan Blue Poppy" which gorgeous yellow flowers and makes an outstanding picture in fine, fern-like foliage, the Welsh a shady damp corner, hopefully Poppy is ideal. It spreads easily growing in rich, moist, organic and is well adapted to colonising soil. gaps and crevices in rocks and stones.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 32 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 MECONOPSIS GRANDIS MECONOPSIS NAPAULENSIS 'PINKY' £2.95 PapaveraceaeHP 60-90cm £2.95 PapaveraceaeHBi 1.2-1.5m This seed has been collected This beautiful bright pink variant from garden-grown plants of opens its golden-eyed flowers the true form of this rare blue on branching spurs which sprout poppy. Large saucer flowers in from a thick strong main stem deepest blue arise on thick, in late spring. Deeply-lobed strong stems. Quite perennial leaves felted with silvery hairs when it is in slightly acidic, form a sumptuous evergreen organic soil, it is one of the winter rosette. classic blue flowers.

MECONOPSIS GRANDIS BURGUNDY MECONOPSIS PUNICEA £3.20 PapaveraceaeHP 60-90cm (10 seeds) £3.95 PapaveraceaeHBi,HA 23-38cm (10 seeds) A spontaneous mutation has This seldom offered, brilliant caused this superb, brand new lipstick-red Meconopsis from colour-break in this legendary China is one of the rarest and plant. The colour comes most desirable garden plants. rewardingly true from seed Numerous, solitary, pendulous although the odd blue one may flowers arise from a basal still appear. rosette of hairy leaves. The seeds should be sown immediately in a cool position.

MECONOPSIS HORRIDULA MECONOPSIS QUINTUPLINERVIA FARRER'S FORM £2.95 PapaveraceaeHBi,HP 45cm £3.95 PapaveraceaeHP 15-30cm (10 seeds) Gorgeous, striking cobalt-blue, The rare "Farrer's Harebell ivory-eyed, floppy, tissue-paper Poppy". In early spring, small flowers suggest that the "horrid" tufted rosettes of long, golden- obviously only applies to the haired leaves thrust up delicate spiny looking stems. It is one stems holding pendulous of the only drought-resistant lavender-blue bells, each with a Asiatic meconopsis, dying down golden eye. Very hardy and to a tuber if too hot in its first completely perennial. year!

MECONOPSIS 'LINGHOLM' (EX MM.. GRANDIS) MECONOPSIS REGIA £3.20 PapaveraceaeHP 1.0-1.2m £2.95 PapaveraceaeHP,HBi 90cm-1.5m The true Meconopsis grandis is From dense rosettes of silver rare in cultivation, but this fertile and golden pelted leaves arise hybrid, which is a quite reliable great spikes of sulphur-yellow, perennial, has enormous deep silky flowers. One of the most cobalt blue flowers, up to four fabulous and impressive plants inches across, and is certainly in moist rich soil. (Experts now the best available anywhere. believe that the true, genuine Meconopsis regia may be no longer in cultivation.)

MECONOPSIS NAPAULENSIS MECONOPSIS WALLICHII £2.95 PapaveraceaeHP,HBi 1.2-1.5m £2.85 PapaveraceaeHP 1.2-2.1m Deeply lobed leaves felted with An enormous giant of a poppy if silvery hairs, form a large and grown in rich, peaty moist soil most sumptuous winter and hopefully a bit of shade. A rosette. In early spring the stout, bristly-leaved stem, thick, strong, main stem of this almost a trunk, holds repeatedly absolutely magnificent specimen branching arms each holding a arises, with branching spurs delicate, pale blue tissue-paper carrying golden-eyed, cherry flower. Flowers last often until red flowers in midsummer. October or later.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 33 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 MECONOPSIS WILSONII NASNASTTUURRTTIIUUMM MINMINUUSS 'PH'PHOOEOENNIIXX'' £3.60 PapaveraceaeHP,HBi 1.2-1.5m (20+ seeds) £2.05 Tropaeolaceae HHA 20-30cm (18 seeds) Newly-described, this rare, Curiously-split petals make exciting and unbelievably these really unusual flame-like exquisite flower bears flowers particularly eye spectacular heads of closely- catching. Prolific and free packed, golden-eyed, blue- flowering blooms are produced purple flowers, which open over in abundance in dazzling fiery an extended period in late shades of gold, orange and red spring on stout hairy stems, and all summer long. is worth any trouble to grow.

MELANOSELINUM DECIPIENS NIGELLA DAMASCENA £2.65 Apiaceae, UmbelHP 1.2m (20+ seeds) £2.05 RanunculaceaeHA 45cm This new umbellifer is certainly Large showy blue flowers open one of the finds of recent over finely-cut, feathery, almost years. In its second year a thick fern-like foliage and are perfect strong stem sprouts a broad for cutting, whilst the inflated crown of several branches seed-pods are also popular with carrying finely divided bronzed flower arrangers. They may leaves, beneath very large gently self-seed but very rarely umbels of bright pink flowers. become a nuisance! An unforgettable picture.

MELIANTHUS MAJOR OENOTHERA BLOOD ORANGE £2.90 Melianthaceae HHSh 1.2-1.8m (10 seeds) £2.40 OnagaceaeHP8-10cm The giant with deeply-cut grey This new and lovely dwarf plant leaves. Bizarre, brownish with the same cushion-forming flowers produce inflated seed- habit as aubreieta, produces an pods in late summer. extremely long succession of "Melianthus has probably the yellow-rimmed, red-eyed most beautiful large foliage of flowers all season long on any plant that can be grown out prostrate stems. of doors in these islands". (Graham Stuart Thomas).

MORINA LONGIFOLIA OMPHALODES CAPPADOCICA £2.85 MorinaceaeHP60cm (15 seeds) £2.90 BoraginaceaeHP 15-20cm (8 seeds) A rare and long-lived Nepalese "Blue-eyed Mary". One of the plant with thistle-like foliage most desirable spring plants (but no relation). From the main (R.H.S. Award of Garden Merit). stem leaf axils appear exotic, Sprays of bright blue flowers flared white flowers, which turn from early spring to midsummer to pink inside after pollination. over a slowly creeping carpet of Repeat flowering from early shiny leaves. Viable seed is summer until the frost, very rarely offered as little is especially if dead-headed. produced.

NASTURTIUM MAJUS 'FIREBIRD' OMPHALODES LINIFOLIA £2.05 Tropaeolaceae HHA 30-40cm (30+ seeds) £2.75 BoraginaceaeHBi,HA 15-30cm (15 seeds) An eye-catching trailing A quite spectacular small flower Nasturtium, this one is superb with grey-green leaves, above for hanging baskets where it will which arise profuse sprays of create vigorous cascades of faintly sweet-scented, pure fiery blooms above unusual white flowers all summer long. variegated foliage. It is perfect This lovely thing will gently self- in baskets, window boxes and seed around the garden but containers. never, ever becomes a nuisance!

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 34 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ONOPORDUM ACANTHIUM PAPAVER RHOEAS £2.50 Asteraceae HBi 1.8-2.7m £2.05 PapaveraceaeHA 38-45cm This is truly one of the most This is the fast-growing poppy impressive plants you can grow which, after the battles, rapidly in the UK if you can give it produced flowers amongst the room. Candelabras of large trenches in the world wars and mauve flowers open on much- which is used to commemorate branching white woolly stems the soldiers who fell. Also which arise from a huge grey known as Flanders Poppy, Corn spiky rosette in spring. Poppy, Field Poppy and Red Poppy.

ORNITHOGALUM PYRENAICUM PAPAVER RUPIFRAGUM 'ORANGE FEATHERS' £2.65 HYACINTHACEAHB 45-60cm £2.75 PapaveraceaeHP 45-60cm Tall spikes of starry pale green This sumptuous, many- and white flowers appear early stemmed, double-flowered, in the year, sometimes as early long-lived perennial, bears an as Christmas. This rare and endless succession of frilly, fascinating British native has the many-petalled terracotta-orange extraordinary quality of having flowers. Botanically this is young flower shoots which may Papaver rupifragum 'Flore be eaten as a vegetable, similar Pleno', but we feel "Orange to asparagus. Feathers" is less of a mouthful!

PAEONIA TENUIFOLIA PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM 'BLACK BEAUTY' £5.10 RanuncluaceaeHP 30-60cm (4 seeds) £2.65 PapaveraceaeHA 60-90cm This unusual peony has finely The almost-black, fully double divided fern-like leaves which blooms of this spectacular explain its common name. The flower caused a stampede for deep cup shaped, scented the seed being sold at a recent flowers vary from deep red to Hampton Court Flower Show. almost pink colour with a yellow You will understand why when centre of tightly bunched you grow a bed of these to stamen. perfection!

PANCNCRRAATITIUM MARITIMUM PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM 'MIDNIGHT' £2.85 Amaryllidaceae HHBb, 45-60cm (10 seeds) £2.60 PapaveraceaeHA 60-90cm In spring, enormous, frilly, very A bed of these unusually dark, fragrant, rather daffodil-like almost black flowers, with an flowers open over attractive, eye of distinctive white stamens flat, blue-grey leaves. This makes a striking, mid-border gorgeous flower is classed as clump. endangered, and as thus, is protected and must not be picked in the wild.

PAPAVER LASIOTHRIX PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM ULTIMATE MIXTURE £2.90 PapaveraceaeHP 30-40cm £2.50 PapaveraceaeHA 60-75cm This tough, rare variant of A very generous packet of Papaver orientale has smaller, seeds, ideal for just sprinking blood-red, black-eyed flowers where needed in the garden. atop short, thick, hairy stems, Holding probably every known which are erect rather than cultivar of opium poppy floppy. A beautiful, rarely including: 'Danish Flag', paeony offered flower, it is native to the flowered forms, 'Hen and mountains of eastern Turkey Chickens' and every known and northern Iran. colour to nearly black.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 35 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 PENSTEMON DIGITALIS 'GOLD FOFOIILL'' POLYGONUM BISTORTA 'SUPERBA' £3.20 ScrophulariaceaHP 35-45cm £2.65 PolygonaceaeHP 60cm Sprays of lilac-pink tubular Sizeable, cool pink "bottle- flowers open on shortish stems brush" heads are produced over clad in golden yellow, non- an extended period during May scorching leaves, which age to and June over strong clumps of burnished bronze in bright broad basal leaves. Graham sunshine. This new plant was Stuart Thomas says, "Useful and discovered here as a sport some beautiful". Its Latin name is years ago and is a perfect most appropriate. addition to P. Husker's Red.

PETUNITUNIA EXSERTA POTENTNTIILLLLAA HELEN JANE £2.95 Solanaceae GP,HH 30-60cm (20+ seeds) £2.85 Rosaceae HP 30-38cm Countless star-shaped lipstick- This beautiful semi-dwarf red flowers open over a very cultivar is quite a winner with long season into late autumn on compact heads displaying bushy, spreading plants. A very crimson-eyed, bright pink rare flower, it was only flowers, and petals attractively discovered as recently as 2007 crinkled just like crepe paper. in the remote jungles of Brazil. New buds open repeatedly in a This gorgeous plant is under long succession, from spring threat of extinction. until late summer.

PHACELIA BOLANDERI PRIMROSE COTTAGE MIXED AND DOUBLES £2.85 Hydrophyllaceae HP 12-20cm £2.40 PrimulaceaeHP15cm (20+ seeds) Flared, lavender-blue trumpets Trial ground observations with bright blue pollen on low predict that this seed should hairy-leafed stems, open until produce up to 10% double late in the season, May-August. flowered plants, these usually This astonishing, new, rare, being the smallest, slowest hardy perennial Phacelia makes growing seedlings. The majority an amazing display in any open though will be single primroses spot and why it has only just in many colours, so plant all out been discovered amazes us. and wait!

PHLOMIS RUSSELIANA PRIPRIMMRROOSSEE VICTORIAN SHADES £2.50 LamiaceaeHP90cm £2.85 PrimulaceaeHP6-10cm Although it looks tender, this Originally grown from the Syrian plant is actually bone- famous Barnhaven range of hardy, stout stems bearing primrose seeds, these spring tiered whorls of hooded, butter flowers open in all colours of yellow flowers in summer, the rainbow. Many flowers will above rough heart-shaped basal have curiously-striped petals leaves. A valuable and easy too! Always a favourite in plant that thrives in poor dry soil. Victorian times!

PLANTAGO MAJOR RUBRIFOLIA PRIMULA ALPICOLA £2.50 PlantaginaceaeHP 30-45cm £2.85 PrimulaceaeHP30-45cm A deep purple form of the A choice and very fragrant plant "Giant Plantain" coming from the high mountains of completely true from seed. Tibet. Umbels of bell-like violet Large shiny purple leaves flowers, powdered in the throat, produce a most impressive are produced on long stems in rosette from which arise long early spring. thin poker-like sead heads. A superb plant where foliage and form are required.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 36 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 PRIMULA AURANTIACA PRIMULA DENTICULATA BEST BLEND £2.85 PrimulaceaeHP30-45cm £2.65 PrimulaceaeHP30-45cm Massed umbels of fragrant The universally popular reddish-orange flowers open on "Drumstick Primula" spring probably the most attractive, flower, which has dense unusual coloured, and indeed globular heads of flowers in the easiest to grow of the early spring. Seed collected candelabra primroses. Native to from the many different West Yunnan, it grows in moist coloured beds in our gardens, alpine meadows and along including white, lilac, lavender, stream sides. blue and ruby.

PRIMULA BEESIANA PRIMULA FLACCIDA (NUTANS) £2.70 PrimulaceaeHP45-60cm £3.20 PrimulaceaeHP15-23cm This vigorous and completely Spikes of powdered, pale blue hardy perennial produces stout bells arise from compact clumps stems carrying several umbels of hairy leaves, and surprisingly, of yellow-eyed pink-mauve it is very adaptable to our flowers. In good moist soil lowland gardens. One of the these plants can grow to most delicate, beautiful and cabbage-sized proportions! fragrant of all primulas, this gem lives at higher than 10,000 feet in the Himalayas.

PRIMULA BULLEYANA PRIMULA FLORINDAE £2.50 PrimulaceaeHP45cm £2.75 PrimulaceaeHP60-90cm This extremely vigorous and A generous packet of the "Giant hardy candelabra primula Himalayan Cowslip". Large thrusts up numerous strong round leaves and stout stems stems bearing bright orange carry immense heads of flowers with darker eyes. It fragrant flowers which are does especially well in waterside usually yellow but very environments where it will self- occasionally red or orange. This seed generously! is almost certainly the biggest primula there is!

PRPRIIMMUULALA BURMANICA PRIMULA FLORINDAE 'RAY'S RUBY' £2.65 PrimulaceaeHP60-90cm £2.90 PrimulaceaeHP60-90cm Rather resembling beesiana, Deepest ruby-red flowers on this plant opens its fuchsia- long, strong stems open in their coloured flowers on strong full glory in May, June and July stems that can be up to nearly 3 and even later. This dark form, feet tall. It prefers moist to found here, is a lovely easy-to- even wet soil for extreme grow plant for a moist place or growth and is native to high, pond edge in the garden. wet meadows and the sides of Although it will do well in the streams in Yunnan and Burma. dry it will be smaller!

PRIMULA CANDELABRA P.W. RAINBOWS 10X PACKET PRPRIIMMUULLAA 'GOLD LACED' (veris) £4.25 PrimulaceaeHP60cm £2.95 PrimulaceaeHP15-20cm (10 seeds) A generous packet of this These very few seeds have popular flower suitable for been collected from the best sowing in situ in a damp spot. show-quality plants, which all Strong stems hold heavy heads have darkest chocolate brown of bright flowers arranged in centres edged with delicate whorls. These plants are easy to golden yellow. These plants will germinate, grow and keep, improve over the years and especially on moist, well- make an impressive statement manured ground. each spring.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 37 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 PRPRIIMMUULLAA HELODOXA (PROLIFERA) PRPRIIMMUULLAA PULVERULENTA £2.65 PrimulaceaeHP60-90cm £2.35 PrimulaceaeHP45-60cm Whorls of bright yellow fragrant Strong stems holding tiered flowers are held on tall strong whorls of deep red flowers arise stems above shiny toothed from vigorous rosettes of tooth- leaves. One of the easiest edged leaves. A small Asiatic primulas, this one is long- proportion will be of the lovely lived and in good soil or moist shell-pink 'Bartley's Strain'. This conditions, one of the world's lovely plant from China should biggest and most impressive be long-lived in most gardens. primulas.

PRIMULA JAPONICA 'MILLAR'S CRIMSON' PRIMULA PULVERULENTA 'BARTLEY'S STRAIN' £2.45 PrimulaceaeHP40-60cm £3.20 PrimulaceaeHP45-60cm These lovely candelabra-type This is possibly the most plants make numerous strong desirable and sought after of all stems bearing deepest crimson of the large primulas. (So tiers. The basal rosettes make valuable in fact that much of a the most spectacular cabbage- sizeable bed was dug up and like giants when well fed, stolen from our gardens!) This increasing in size yearly, and selected form bears tiered even self-seeding but never whorls of large, yellow-eyed being a problem. sugar pink flowers.

PRIMULA JAPONICA MIX 5X pkt PRIMULA VIALII £2.75 PrimulaceaeHP30-50cm £3.15 PrimulaceaeHP25-38cm These lovely candelabra-type The "Red-Hot-Poker Primula" plants shoot up numerous has long crinkly leaves, from strong stems bearing tiers of which erupt dense spikes of blossoms in all colours from violet blue flowers topped by a white to red. The basal rosettes blood red cone of unopened make the most spectacular, buds. When in flower in the cabbage-like giants when well- garden this is our best selling fed or in moist soil. alpine primula and surely one of the most desirable.

PRIMULA JAPONICA 'POSTFORD WHITE' PRIMULA VULGARIS £2.55 PrimulaceaeHP60cm £2.50 PrimulaceaeHP15cm This hardy, long-lived plant will The true "Devon Primrose" become enormous in rich moist collected from a bank on our soil, producing yellow-eyed nursery. Sheets of delicately ivory white flowers on thick, perfumed, pale lemon yellow strong stems, and is almost blossoms appear in sheets of certainly the the most colour in earliest spring impressive of all of the tall white (sometimes at Christmas in primulas. Devon!).

PRIMULA MAXIMOWICZII REHMANNIA ELATA £3.95 PrimulaceaeHP30-45cm (15 seeds) £2.95 ScrophulariaceaHHP,H 60-90cm New, extremely rare and very Open racemes of very large, unusual Chinese gem has tubular, deep pink flowers with rosettes of long, shiny, sharp- yellow throats, open in early toothed leaves and umbels of summer on this rarely-seen dazzlingly rich red, strongly plant, which bears rough, fragrant, nodding flowers, that palmate leaves. It is perennial in are narrowly tubular but flare a sheltered spot if kept frost widely at the tips. Does best in free. moist (not wet) soil with shade.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 38 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 RHEUM NOBILE SALVIA PRATENSE ROSE RHAPSODY £3.70 Polygonaceae 1.2m (6 seeds) £2.95 Labiatae HP 40-60cm This legendary giant herbaceous Enchanting, rose-pink hooded plant erupts with an amazing blooms open on densely-packed tapering spire of bright, creamy flower heads on long stems, coloured bracts which are held over dark green, aromatic on strong stems. These extend foliage. Perfect for a mixed out even further as soon as the border display, they are most seed ripens. It grows high in the attractive to butterflies and Himalayas. One of the world's bees, whilst dead-heading gives most desirable plants! colour into autumn.

RICINUS COMMUNIS SALVIA SCLAREA £2.85 EuphorbiaceaeHHP 90cm-1.8m (10large see £2.90 LamiaceaeHP1.2m Huge, bright green, shiny leaves Possibly the easiest and most adorn this lovely thick-trunked impressive of all hardy salvias. Cretian form of the "Castor Oil From large furry rosettes arise Plant". This is the quite rarely superb branching spikes of large offered, true wild form, bearing pink-bracted blue and white dazzling, bright red flower buds flowers. An unforgettable sight. and seed pods amongst large dark green leaves.

RICINUS COMMUNIS 'RED GIANT' SAUROMATUM VENOSUM £3.70 EuphorbiaceaeHHSh 1.8m (6 seeds) £4.25 Aracea HP 40-70cm (3 seeds) This selected form of the Also known as the Voodoo Lily, "Castor Oil Plant", has brighter this exotic, tropical looking plant red leaves and seed heads than will do well in most sunny British many others; the deep gardens. In late spring, alien- red/bronze shiny leaves only looking green stems appear producing their strongest leaf covered in black spots, followed colour when in full sun, the first by bushy leaves, then finally the few leaves are always green flowers later in the year. though!

RUDBECKIA LACINIATA SCABIOSA RUMELICA £2.45 Compositae HP 1.2-1.8m £2.90 DipsacaceaeHP60cm Strong tall stems bear many A gorgeous slowly-spreading golden flowers with large, black, plant producing pure crimson protruding centre cones 'pincushion' flowers on many appearing from midsummer branching stems over a very, right into late autumn. An very long flowering season. impressive and valuable flower This rarely seen colour makes a for late colour. bright splash even in the darkest corner.

SALVIA AZUREA SCHIZOSTYLIS MIXED COLOURS £2.35 LamiaceaeHP45-60cm £2.90 IridaceaeHP50-60cm This easy, long lived and From clumps of sword-shaped popular plant carries many leaves arise stems of cup- divided short spikes of deep shaped flowers from white, purple-blue flowers, with low, through pinks to deepest sage-like basal leaves. vermilion. This South African Gladiolus relative provides valuable colour from August right through autumn and into winter if it remains mild.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 39 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 SCLERANTHUS BIFLORUS STRELITZIA REGINAE £2.30 Caryophyllaceae HP 5cm £3.95 Musaceae HHP 60-90cm (6 seeds) This truly amazing plant, slowly Spectacular orange and dark creeping along like a dense and blue flowers are held on very solid green rippling carpet, thick stems above most produces wonderful shapes and attractive, leathery, banana-like forms. Although related to our leaves. In cold countries it does pinks, it is reputed to be the best in a large pot when it only Australian alpine totally should be re-potted annually. In hardy in the UK. warmer climes it can make huge evergreen clumps in the garden.

SENECIO POLYODON SYMPHYTUM 'SKY-BLUE-PINK' £2.40 Compositae HP 30-60cm £2.55 BoraginaceaeHP 20-30cm A long-flowering dazzler This unusual form of the old discovered on the mountains of cottage garden plant South Africa. Numerous erect (Symphytum grandiflorum) is stems produce an everlasting one of the first spring flowers to display of carmine rose flowers appear in March. Short, rough from early spring until the stems bearing hairy leaves carry autumn frosts. terminal bunches of long pink buds opening to blue and white tubular flowers.

SISYRINCHIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM TACCA CHANTRIERI £2.35 IridaceaeHP15-23cm £2.85 Taccaceae GP 45-60cm (10 seeds) This dwarf iris relative could The 'Bat Plant'. A bizarre but easily be mistaken for a clump quite beautiful plant with of grass were it not for the aspidistra-like foliage and large, yellow-centred, bright blue star- darkest purple, almost black like flowers that appear in flowers which resemble succession from May until Batman's cape. The most August. Over time it can spread intriguing features though are slowly by seed or clumps can be the bunches of long 'whiskers' divided in early spring. protruding from the centre.

SISYRINCHIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM ALBUM TACCA INTEGRIFOLIA £2.40 IridaceaeHP15-23cm £2.90 Taccaceae GP 60-90cm (10 seeds) This is the rarer pure white- Another incredible flowering flowered form of the dwarf iris oddity with large, green veined relative and could easily be white flowers, resembling mistaken for a clump of grass. triangular cloaks, sprouting long It bears masses of yellow- trailing whiskers from their centred, pure white, star-like purple centres. Most definitely flowers that appear in one of the most profoundly succession from May until interesting talking points you August. will ever grow.

STEVIA REBAUDIANA TACCA 'NIVEA' £2.95 Asteraceae HHP 30-60cm (8 seeds) £3.95 TaccaceaGP30-50cm (8 seeds) Highly prized in South America, These tropical evergreen Stevia has been grown there for flowers produce large, pure centuries for its incredibly sweet- white petals centred by small, tasting leaves. It is now used sombre, drooping flowers and widely in food and drinks as a long whiskerlike bracts, all sugar substitute. This branching resembling a bat's face. These cultivar will happily over-winter amazing blossoms appear from on a bright windowsill in a cool spring and on through summer. room.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 40 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 TARAXACUM RUBRIFOLIUM (FAEROENSE) THAALALILIICCTTRRUUMM ROCHEBRUNEANUM £2.50 Compositae HP 5-10cm (10 seeds) £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 1.2-1.8m This most unusual dwarf Native to Japan, this clump- "dandelion" makes a tiny rosette forming perennial has lacy, fine- of beetroot-red, almost black textured, bluish-green, leaves, with short-stemmed columbine-like foliage. Sprays of yellow flowers. An attractive pendulous, lavender-purple little gem which could certainly flowers with contrasting yellow never become a weed, it sets stamens appear in late summer very few seeds for a start!! in loose, airy clusters, on purple flower stems, 8 feet tall.

TARAXACUM 'WHITE FLASH' TIGRGRIIDDIIAA LILACEA £1.95 Compositae HP 10cm (10 seeds) £2.90 IridaceaeHB30-45cm (10 seeds) Yes, a variegated Dandelion, These summer-flowering Iris and as expected, rosettes of relatives from Central America brightly-splashed, toothed have flamboyant showy carmine- leaves produce the good old pink flowers, which are Iris-like fashioned yellow flowers. This in structure, but with broad newly discovered plant will be a petals, held widely open. They bit like Marmite...you will either come in a range of bright love it or hate it! colours often spotted or flecked with a darker tone.

THALALIICCTTRRUUMM 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 sepals 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 'BLIZZARD' TRILLIUM CHLOROPETALUM £2.95 RanunculaceaeHP 60-90cm (20 seeds) £3.50 Trilliaceae HP 25-30cm (10 seeds) An absolutely exquisite pure One of the aristocrats of the white variety of Thalictrum garden with three leaves, petals delavayi. This is more compact and calyces, leaves being than the pink variety and wonderfully marbled and produces thousands of small, mottled in grey in spring, the shimmering, umbrella-like three mahogany to rich crimson- flowers, amongst delicate, maroon petals appearing shortly gossamer-like, ferny foliage, afterwards. Very rarely offered right into late autumn. but long lived when established.

THALICTRUM DELAVAYI TRILLIUM ERECTUM £2.50 RanunculaceaeHP 90cm-1.2m £3.70 Trilliaceae HP 23-30cm (8 seeds) (Syn. T. dipterocarpum). This rather more diminutive but Probably the most attractive of most handsome trillium bears all of the species. With huge sizeable maroon flowers with panicles of nodding lilac flowers recurving segments and paler appearing in mid to late anthers. It is superb in a shady summer and elegant, delicate organic bed where in time it will ferny foliage. spread to make impressive clumps.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 41 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 TRTRIILLLLIIUUMM OVATUM VERBASCUM CHAIXII YELLOW £3.60 Trilliaceae HP 30-60cm (6 seeds) £2.65 ScrophulariaceaHP 90cm-1.5m A sumptuous beauty that never One of the few truly perennial fails to stop people in full stride. species of mullein, it has It produces gorgeous, white, sulphur-yellow blossoms with flowers fading to wine purple on purple and red filaments, which lovely rich green leaves. Tubers bloom profusely on long flower usually sit deeply when stalks in mid- and late summer established, but should only be above its rosettes of hairy, planted very shallow as jagged-edged leaves which are seedlings. semi-evergreen.

TROLLIUS EUROPAEUS VERBASCUM PHOENICEUM VIOLETTA £2.50 RanunculaceaeHP 45-60cm £2.55 ScrophulariaceaHP 60-90cm A most attractive plant with Numerous shortish dividing dark green, deeply-cut leaves, spikes of dark purple-violet bears flowers which resemble flowers open over an extended egg-yolks both in shape and period above crinkly-shiny- colour, like a paeonia. This easy- leaved rosettes. By far the to-grow native wild flower of darkest flowered mullein Europe and Western Asia available, it is a long-lived gem prefers moist soil in full sun or for the front of the border. light shade.

TULTULIIPPAA SPRENGERI VERBENA BONARIENSIS £2.75 Liliaceae HB,HP 30-38cm (15 seeds) £2.65 VerbenaceaeHP 1.0-1.4m Strong clumps of glossy bright Every garden should have this green leaves stand below goblet- long flowering beauty which shaped bright red flowers which flaunts its sprays of fragrant are 5-6cm in length in early purple flowers, on wiry angular summer. This is the latest of all branching stems, from June of the tulips to open its flowers until the frost. Acts as a and will self seed to make magnet for butterflies. remarkable colonies in time.

VELTHEIMIA BRACTEATA VERBENA HASTATA ROSEA £3.20 Asparagaceae HHBb, 30-40cm (6 seeds) £2.40 VerbenaceaeHP 60-90cm This plant is in bloom when A super, long flowering (June- other flowers have withered Sept), plant from Nova Scotia. away. Racemes of flowers are This is the more unusual carried on a long stalk above shocking pink form (usually glossy green, fleshy leaves. The blue), with multi-branching flowers can vary from pale pink, candelabra-heads, flowers dusky pink and orange-pink to slowly expand as they ascend deep rose pink, and are the stems like burning sparklers occasionally greenish-yellow. (in reverse).

VERBASCUM CHAIXII ALBUM VERONICA GRANDIS £2.40 ScrophulariaceaHP 60-90cm £2.50 ScrophulariaceaHP 60-90cm This is one of the perennial Appropriately named, this new verbascums bearing spires of rare plant is from Japan. With purple-eyed white flowers on slowly lengthening royal blue hairy stems and over compact spires, up to 30cm long, and 60- rosettes of hairy, jagged-edged 90cm stems lightly clad with leaves. This is one of the better pointed sawtooth leaves, it behaved Mulleins that may flowers until late September. gently self-seed but rarely becomes a nuisance!

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 42 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 VINCA ROSEA VISCARIA 'BLUE ANGEL' £2.85 ApocynaceaeHHP 1.0m (50+ seeds) £2.95 Caryophyllaceae HA 25-35cm (20+ seeds) This lovely perennial can be The "Blue Campion" a rare and easily-grown as an annual, fantastic dwarf cottage garden flowering in hot, dry climates plant, has a unique colour and relatively infertile soils. The among this group of flowers, glossy green leaves provide a with masses of wide-open, background for attractive, five- large, two-tone mid blue flowers petaled flowers, which range smothering it. These appear from pink, red, purple to white around six to eight weeks after and bi-coloured flowers. sowing and then all season long.

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 Bee 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 'FUJI DAWN' XEXERRONONEMA CALLISTEMON £2.95 ViolaceaeHP10-15cm £3.85 Xeronemataceae HHP 35-45cm (20+ seeds) Deep purple, early spring This very rare plant lives in the flowers above sprays of Taranga Islands of New Zealand attractively marbled pink and and is seldom, if ever, offered cream foliage. A completely new as plants or seeds. The stalks colour-break in viola grow vertically then sideways variegation. Developed and displaying dazzling red flowers named here at Plant World and tipped with orange pollen. now grown and copied These unique plants can reach worldwide! 40cm in height.

VIOLA SELKIRKII £2.75 ViolaceaeHP5-8cm (20 seeds) "How happy, satisfied and appreciative I am with Smaller than V. koreana, this the seeds that were sent back from Jakarta to the tiny plant from North America Philippines. I am amazed of the excellent service has dappled and variegated you are providing and I will ever be loyal in buying small olive green leaves. Very seeds from you" Daniel Laurente, Philippines early, reflexed, deep violet flowers. This small jewel should "Yes Ray and your team, your seeds are of have a place in every garden. excellent quality and highly recommended. 10 out of 10 for service." David Inglis, Northumberland.

VIOLA 'TIGEREYE' £2.50 ViolaceaeHP10-15cm "Gentlemen, I am very surprised with the speed of Bright golden faces delicately delivery - Venezuela in just 15 days, also with a laced and netted in black make happy gift. Be recommended at every opportunity this one of the new 'Must-Have' and thank you very much." Xiomara Villarroel, plants. We have selected this Venezuela stunning viola for several generations and it comes " I confirm receipt of my seeds ordered two weeks rewardingly true from seed. ago. I am very impressed with Plant World Seeds and look forward to ordering my next batch of seeds with you. Best regards from Thailand." James

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 43 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ACOACONNIITTUMUM HEMSLEYANUM BOMAREA HIRTELLA £3.95 RanunculaceaeHCl,HP 2.4-3.0m (8 seeds) £3.95 AlstroemeriaceaHCl 2.0-3.6m (6 seeds) This unique herbaceous twining This "climbing alstroemeria" plant will climb to 10ft, makes a deep hardy tuber and flowering summer to autumn gives fabulous value each spring with long hanging clusters of when strong-climbing stems flowers. In addition to having wind upwards, each terminating attractive shining green foliage in a compact bunch of all season long,this selected gorgeous, speckled, yellow- form has intensely deep blue throated, orange and green flowers. alstroemeria-like flowers.

ADLUMIA FUNGOSA CLEMATIS CIRRHOSA £2.65 PapaveraceaeHCl £2.95 RanunculaceaeHHCl,H "Allegheny vine". A rare Most of our winter clematis are climbing poppy relative from varieties of Clematis cirrhosa, an North America. In spring rapidly ugly name for the prettiest of ascending stems carrying plants. This Mediterranean corydalis-like ferny leaves and evergreen looks an improbable thousands of pink, dicentra-like candidate for the winter garden flowers can quickly cover a – so fine of foliage, with such framework or shrub. Biennial, luscious bells, but self-seeds readily!!

BEAUMONTIA GRANDIFLORA CLEMATIS MONTANA ALBA £3.40 ApocynaceaeGCl 7.2m (8 seeds) £2.95 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.

BILLARDIERA LONGIFLORA CLEMATIS MONTANA PINK £2.45 PittosporaceaeHCl £2.95 RanunculaceaeHCl A choice Tasmanian climber One of the easiest to grow of all grown outside for twenty years clematis; these flowers open in here. Thin twining stems early spring in colours ranging produce creamy-yellow purple- from pinks to red, all having the tipped waxy flowers in spring. most delicious perfumed scent In autumn, outstandingly lovely of sweet marshmallows. Seed is clusters of deepest violet grape- collected from all the different sized berries appear. cultivars throughout our gardens.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 44 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 CODONOPSIS BHUTANICA GLORIOSA GREENII £2.85 CampanulaceaeHP 90cm £2.95 Colchicaceae GCl,HH 1.0-1.5m (15+ seeds) An easy-to-grow low climber or This beautiful, slender, tuberous scrambler, that from June until climber opens exquisite, exotic August will twine around less lemon-yellow-green flowers, on interesting shrubs bearing long pedicels usually angled longish, downwards-facing downward with swept-back flowers, which are slightly flared petals. It is happy either in open and delicately marked, containers or in warm soil, and deep in the throat, in purple and is guaranteed to provoke a black. good amount of attention.

CODONOPSIS GREY-WILSONII GLOGLORRIIOOSSAA ROTHSCHILDIANA £2.95 CampanulaceaeHCl 2.0-3.0m (20 seeds) £3.20 Liliaceae GCl (10 seeds) Bearing the largest flowers of all This easily grown and codonopsis, each sky-blue star superlative climbing lily bears has a central eye, pencilled in very large, reflexed, frilled violet and growing to 2" (5 cm) yellow and crimson flowers. wide or more. Flowering in their Twining stems carry thin leaves second or third year, these which terminate in a clinging tuberous, herbaceous perennials tendrils. This is an ideal plant grow to a height of at least 3m for a sheltered garden or when mature. conservatory.

CODONOPSIS TANGSHEN IPOMOEA 'CLARKE'S HEAVENLY BLUE' £2.95 CampanulaceaeHCl,HP 3.0m (10 seeds) £2.05 Convolvulaceae HHCl 4.5m This beautiful and unusual hardy This showy climber produces a climber from Western China seemingly endless succession of makes long, hairy, ascending huge, 4-5 inch, white-throated stems from which dangle blue trumpets. Plants climb to unusually large, delicate, more than 15 feet, producing yellowish-green bells, soft milky- flowers which open in the blue inside, which are morning before fading in the beautifully striped and spotted afternoon, from July until purple within. October.

DICENTRA SCANDENS IPOMOEA 'GRANDPA OTT'S' £2.95 PapaveraceaeHCl £2.55 CONVOLVULACE HHCl,H 3.0-4.5m (6 seeds) This king of climbing dicentras A vigorous climber that thrives from Tibet has rapidly in the heat of summer,'Grandpa ascending stems carrying Ott's' is an old heirloom morning clusters of lemon flowers amidst glory from Iowa.From summer ferny foliage all summer. Ours to autumn, the vines produce cloaks a dull conifer, producing small, deep purple-blue blooms, numerous sausage-like seed each with a red star in its pods in late autumn, then throat, providing a lovely foil for overwinters as a tuber. the heart-shaped leaves.

DICENTRA TORULOSA LAPAGERIA ROSEA £2.65 PapaveraceaeHA £3.95 Philesiaceae HHCl (8 seeds) A fascinating, rapid-growing Chile's national flower is a annual climber which will often rightful candidate for the world's self-seed. Rapidly-ascending, most beautiful climber. Huge, twining stems carry a summer- wax-like bell flowers, three- long succession of yellow inches or more of lipstick red, lockets. These grow into decorate the twining stems. absolutely amazing large seed- Grows best in acidic soil outside pods resembling wrinkled red with shelter, but may be better sausages! in a conservatory.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 45 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 LATHYRUS LATIFOLIUS 'RED PEARL' MUTISIA ILICIFOLIA £2.05 LeguminosaeHCl £5.10 Asteraceae HCl (5 seeds) Heavy trusses of bright red, Very rarely offered, this superb fleshy, substantial flowers, on "Chilean Climbing Gazania" has long, strong stems grow for an twining shoots which carry soft, long time in spring and holly-like leaves and large, midsummer on this perpetual, pinkish-mauve "daisy" flowers. bone hardy, very perennial old These plants make a favourite. If possible try to breathtaking sight, and are plant where it has good strong surprisingly hardy with thick, climbing support. trunk-like stems.

LATHYRUS SYLVESTRIS PASSIFLORA CAERULEA £2.30 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 VERNUS ALBO ROSROSEUS PASSIFLORA EDULIS £2.95 Leguminoseae HP 30-38cm (10 seeds) £2.75 PassifloraceaeHCl 6.0-9.0m (10 seeds) One of the most beautiful spring This vigorous climber has flowers, this totally non-invasive deeply 3-lobed leaves, climbing and very long-lived plant tendrils and purple-centred frilly produces a solid dome of white flowers, followed by a foliage, which is is smothered crop of purple, edible fruit. with two-tone pink and white Although it is half hardy and flowers in earliest spring, may be killed off down to the making a valuable, trouble-free ground in hard winters, it burst of colour. reliably re-grows from the roots.

MAURANDYA 'BRIDAL BOUQUET' (ERUBESCENS ALBA) PASSIFLORA POPENOVII £2.90 ScrophulariaceaHHCl 2.0-4.0m £5.10 RanunculaceaeGP,HH (5 seeds) The dazzling, pure white form of Fragrant, pendulous flowers on Magic Dragon has large flared this rare plant open in clusters white trumpets decorating the in spring with white petals with twining clinging stems from late pale green sepals. So far, no spring until winter. The large wild plants of this almost tuberous roots should be kept unknown species have ever frost free in winter either in a been found, and its origin is large pot or by mulching in the presently a mystery. garden.

MAURANDYA 'MAGIC DRAGON' (ERUBESCENS) SWEET PEA MATUCANA £2.95 ScrophulariaceaHHCl 2.0-5.0m £2.05 LeguminosaeHA (25 seeds) In the early 1990's we bred This famous old heirloom is a what is probably the first hybrid striking, very strongly scented, climbing maurandya ever bi-coloured Peruvian sweet pea. produced. These incredibly fast It is best grown alone as its growing plants, which possess gorgeous, velvety, deep explosive hybrid vigour, produce colours, which appear until late a wide range of large flower in the season cannot compete shapes and sizes in all shades of with some of the bright modern pink and red. forms.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 46 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 SWEET PEA PARFUMIERE MIX TROPAEOLUM 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' TROPAEOLUM TRICOLORUM £1.70 LeguminosaeHA (30 seeds) £3.20 Tropaeolaceae HHCl (10 seeds) One of our favourites Swarms of small but gorgeous grandiflora forms, this sweetly- red flowers, with distinctive perfumed beauty is striking black and yellow lips, and orange, always a rare colour, delicate leaves on thin twining with a touch of clashing pink! stems. Tubers burrow deep for Introduced by famous breeder protection. A spectacular Morse in 1928, this scarce beauty for pot, conservatory or flower has only recently been re- sheltered well-drained garden. introduced into circulation!

SWEET PEA 'ROYAL WEDDING' £1.55 LeguminosaeHA (25 seeds) "Just to let you know that my seed arrived safely - The best long-stemmed, thank you for your excellent service." Anna fragrant pure white sweet pea Mouton, South Africa available today. Awarded Certificate of Merit by the Scottish National Sweet Pea "Thank you for you excellent service - can't fault it! Society. Ideal for exhibition or Kind regards from OZ." Patricia Bromley-Marks, garden use. Australia

TROPAEOLUM AZUREUM £3.70 Tropaeolaceae HHCl 1.0-2.0m (20 seeds) "Just a short note to advise you seeds all arrived The fabulous blue climbing safely. Thank you for your care labelling for perennial nasturtium! Thin Australian importation quarantine requirements. twining stems produce many Sincere thanks." Michael Hudson, Australia dazzling cobalt blue flowers from the leaf axils of delicate, "We received the replacement order in about 10 attractively lobed leaves. Dying days. Thank you very much for your wonderful down to deep resting tubers, customer service." Catherine Franklin. USA this is one of the ultimate alpine house plants.

TRTROOPAPAEOLUM LEPTOPHYLLUM £5.25 Tropaeolaceae HP (4 seeds) "Thank you very much for sending me my seeds Possibly not in cultivation it which came quickly after 9 days. You are a great exists in just a few secret places team. I will order again soon. God bless you all." in Chile where these few seeds Elie Makhlouf, Lebanon have been collected. Perennial and hardy it makes a steadily- "You guys are great! Seed arrived extremely increasing tuber producing quickly and am very happy with your service. Will stems with divided blue-green definitely order all of my seeds from you in the foliage beneath five-petalled future. Thank you again!" Jina Lee, Hong Kong yellow flowers.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 47 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ABIES KOREANA AZALEA EXBURY HYBRIDS £2.95 Pinaceae HP 4.0-12.0m (8 seeds) £2.95 EricaceaeHSh 90cm-1.8m This exceptionally handsome, Seed collected from our own easily grown and disease- twenty year old plants which resistant tree produces were originally grown from seed extremely ornamental, violet- collected from the famous purple cones even on small Exbury Gardens. Colours in all trees. It also has highly shades from pale lemon to aromatic foliage, which, when deepest red and every one crushed, has a strong fruity dripping with heady perfume in orange smell. spring and early summer.

ACEACERR GRISEUM (PAPER-BARK MAPLE) BRUGMANSIA 'ECUADOR PINK' £2.85 Aceraceae HT 2.4-4.5m £3.95 Solanaceae GP,HH 1.0-2.5m (10 seeds) An outstandingly lovely With some of the deepest ornamental tree with orange- colours of all "Angel's cinnamon coloured bark which Trumpets", this rare form has peels back revealing the smooth spectacular pastel pink blooms shiny new bark beneath. In in spring which continue until autumn the entire tree seems to autumn, the long trumpets be ablaze as the leaves turn turning their fluted edges up deep crimson-red. after dark, whilst exuding a deep and potent fragrance.

ACER PALMATUM BRUGMANSIA VERSICOLOR £2.95 Aceraceae HT 1.8-6.0m (10 seeds) £4.25 Solanaceae HHSh 2.0-3.5m (6 seeds) These beautiful ornamental Enormous trumpet-flowers open trees include some of the most white before ageing to pink, decorative of foliage trees and peach or apricot and pouring shrubs. As well as having a out a rich daffodil perfume. large variety of ornamental They can withstand a wide barks, autumn turns the leaves, range of temperatures but a which are often finely divided, moderate frost will damage the all shades of red, scarlet, yellow plant in colder climates. Suitable and bronze. for conservatories.

ARAUCARIA ARAUCANA CALLICARPA BODINIERI £3.95 Araucariaceae 2.0-20.0m (4 seeds) £3.25 VerbenaceaeHSh 1.2-1.8m Leathery, spine-tipped leaves Spindly, much-dividing branches clad long spidery branches, produce relatively insignificant which are geometrically arrayed starry lilac flowers in spring, but around the trunk like spokes of after the leaves have fallen in a wheel. One level is produced autumn the extremely attractive each year enabling the age of bunches of bright violet berries the tree to be calculated. When persist through into winter. mature this is one of the most graceful and noble trees.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 48 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 CESTRUM PARQUI EMBOTHRIUM COCCINEUM £3.95 Solanaceae HSh 1.8-2.7m (6 seeds) £2.95 Proteaceae HSh 1.8-3.6m (10+ seeds) Amidst light green shiny leaves An unusually large flowered arise, small, fragrant, yellow- form of the "Chilean Firebush" green flowers, from late spring originally collected on the banks to autumn, and which produce of Lago Cucao during our 1994 clusters of small, black, egg- Chile Expedition. This seed has shaped berries during summer wild diversity so you will find and autumn. This hardy, that in early summer the evergreen shrub is the hardiest clusters of tubular flowers vary and longest blooming Cestrum. from crimson to bright red.

CCLCLILIANTHIANTHANTHUS PUNICEUS PINK FLAMINGO FATSIA JAPONICA £3.95 LeguminosaeHHSh 90cm-1.2m (8 seeds) £2.95 Araliaceae HSh 90cm-1.8m (20 seeds) "Lobster Claw" or "Parrot's A tropical-looking, frost-hardy Beak". In a sheltered garden or evergreen shrub with large, large pot this absolutely leathery, brightly-polished magnificent shrub displays leaves. Panicles of white flowers hanging groups of very large appear late in the year and curved flowers in the most much later still, in March and attractive shade of pink. There April, come the large clusters of are red and white forms but this jet-back berries. is by far the best!

CORNUS CAPITATA FUCHSIA MAGELLANICA £2.65 CornaceaeHSh 1.5-3.5m £3.70 Onagraceae HSh 90cm-1.8m This outstanding shrub or small We collected this most beautiful tree bears long-lived heads of and bone-hardy plant, which enormous, impressive, can flower just four months buttercup-shaped flowers, after sowing, on our Chilean consisting of waxy, creamy Expedition of 1994. Scarlet and butter-coloured bracts, followed purple 'ballerina' flowers open by red, strawberry-like fruits. throughout summer and This is certainly the best one autumn and into winter in mild growable from seed. places.

CRCRIINNOODDEENNDDRROONN HOOKERIANUM HIPPOPHAE RHAMNOIDES £2.95 Elaeocarpaceae HSh 1.8m (6 seeds) £3.20 EleagnaceaeHSh 1.0-2.5m (8 seeds) The "Chilean Lantern Tree" is One of the most unusual shrubs one of the world's most in the UK, this beauty bears attractive shrubs. Garden willow-like leaves, arranged visitors seeing the attractive, tight to the branches. Both male crimson, waxy urn-shaped and female plants occur, but pendent flowers in early only the females bear the solid summer just cannot wait to rush clusters of golden berries. They into our plant nursery to buy are famous for their many one for themselves. health benefits.

DAVIDIA INVOLUCRATA JOVELLANA VIOLACEA £2.95 CornaceaeHT3.0-12.0m (3 seeds) £2.95 ScrophulariaceaHHSh, 60cm-1.2m (20 seeds) Med-sized deciduous tree with A rare and beautiful plant from flowers that are insignificant, Chile and New Zealand. Thin less than an inch across but branching stems with attractive framed by a remarkable pair of wavy-edged leaves produce large white bracts. These drape clusters of countless delicate this famous tree impressing all orchid-like cream flowers gently who see it in May and June. marked with yellow and purple, Native to South Central and which appear throughout spring south west China. and early summer.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 49 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 LANTANA CAMARA ROSA GLAUCA £2.40 Verbenaceae GP 60cm-1.2m £2.05 Rosaceae HSh 1.8m These spectacular shrubby (Syn. Rosa rubrifolia). One of plants have aromatic flower the only species roses worth clusters in a mixture of red, growing from seed, all aspects orange, yellow, and white which being desirable. Thornless, typically change colour as they purple-red stems of grey leaves mature. Often seen in gardens and pale centred cerise pink in warmer countries, in the UK flowers age to bunches of dark they are better-grown in a large red hips. Superb as a standard. pot in the conservatory.

LEYLEYCCEESSTTEERRIIAA FORMOSA 'GOLD LEAAFF'' SAMBUCUS 'BLACK FRILLS' £2.95 Caprifoliaceae HSh 1.2-1.8m £2.75 Caprifoliaceae HSh 1.2-3.0m A gorgeous form of this already Seeds from the best cultivars of multi-value plant bearing purple- the dark, narrow-leaved forms bracted white flowers amongst of the fragrant-flowered elder crimson-tinged, bright golden (Sambucus nigra) such as 'Black leaves. Coming completely true Lace'. Seedlings vary, with from seed this exciting new many having pink or dark pink plant is perfect to brighten up a flowers and dark or very dark shady corner. foliage, which develops slowly as they age.

LUPINUS ARBOREUS SNOW QUEEN SAMBUCUS NIGRA £2.85 Papilionaceae HSh 90cm-1.2m (20 seeds) £2.65 Caprifoliaceae HT,HS 1.8-3.0m This lovely form has fragrant, Fragrant, flat topped, cream pure white flower spikes which flower heads appear in May and appear in early summer. If June followed by the purple- pruned back after flowering tree black berries in September. The lupins will last for many years flowers are used to make the and they may, with care, be delicately-perfumed elder flower made into impressive, single- champagne, whilst the berries trunked standards. are used for wine!

METROSIDEROS EXCELSA WEIGELA FLORIDA VERSICOLOR £3.50 MyrtaceaeHHT,H 1.8-6.0m £2.65 Caprifoliaceae HSh 1.2-2.4m A beautiful member of the A truly outstanding deciduous myrtle family, this lovely shrub bearing showy funnel- shrub/tree has oblong, leathery shaped flowers. But this form is leaves which are covered in special! The buds open to give dense white hairs underneath. white flowers which age to pink The vivid, paintbrush-like, and finally to red. The whole crimson-red blossoms appear effect is quite stunning with around December. These plants flowers of all colours on the are extremely tough. same plant!

PAULOWNIA TOMENTOSA ZANTHOXYLUM SIMULANS £2.65 ScrophulariaceaHT 1.8-3.6m (50+ seeds) £2.05 RutaceaeHSh 1.8-2.4m This truly spectacular tree A curious and attractive shrub in produces large, pale mauve the rue family. Sprays of "foxglove" flowers on naked greeny-yellow flowers in spring branches in early spring, the later produce bright red berries large, dinner-plate-sized, soft amidst shiny aromatic leaves. furry leaves appearing later. If Enormous thorns are produced cut to the ground in spring, on the old wood. enormous leaves develop on the shoots sprouting from the soil.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 50 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 BAMBUSA ARUNDINACEA CAREX BUCHANANII £2.95 Poacaeae GP 15.0-40.0m (12+ seeds) £2.40 CyperacaeHP45-60cm One of the tallest grasses in the Dense, erect tussocks of copper- world, this giant has numerous bronze make this one of the branches with one or two being most sought after and grown exceptionally large with many architectural plants. When stems tufted onto a stout root grown as a solitary specimen it stock. Although it thrives in makes a stunning effect with tropical to subtropical climates, contrasting flowers or silver it can be easily grown as a pot foliage plants. plant in summer.

BRIZA MAXIMA CAREX 'COMAN'S BBRROONNZZEE'' £1.95 Gramineae HA 30-45cm £2.50 Cyperaceae HP 30cm "Quaking Grass". An attractive A delightful tufted plant and lovely annual grass bearing producing an evergreen clump large trembling lockets on many of whippy, bronzed reddish stems. Gently self-seeds, leaves. One of the desirable, moving around the garden until often expensive grasses - but it finds a place where it is easily grown from seed. happy, but is shallow rooted and very easy to pull out should the need arise.

BRIZA MEDIA LIMOUZI CAREX DIPSACEA £2.65 PoaceaeHP60cm £2.40 Cyperaceae HP 30-45cm This new and quite distinctive This hardy specimen produces taller form of the normal long knobbly bronze seedheads "perennial quaking grass" (Briza on a tight growing clump of media) has stems which are stiff, dark green whippy stems. almost double the usual length, It is ideal as an isolated whilst the most attractive clump specimen either in gravel or retains the usual compact width. hanging over the edge of a pond.

BRIZA SUBARISTATA CAREX 'FROSTED CURLS' £2.05 PoaceaeHP30cm £2.55 Cyperaceae HP 30-40cm "Chilean Quaking Grass". We From New Zealand comes collected this new grass from another lovely form of Carex the foothills of Volcano Antuco comans, which forms a compact on our Chilean Seed Expedition and most attractive yellow in 1994 (RB94154). Nodding "haystack", perhaps "weeping panicles of seedheads appear, willow" would be more some plants even producing accurate, from which protrude darker plum coloured forms. long, whip-like stems studded with terminal brown seed heads.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 51 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 CAREX MORROWII 'PINKIE' STIPA ARUNDINACEA £2.65 Cyperaceae HP 30cm £2.55 Gramineae HP 60-90cm A delectable new grass from "Pheasant Tail Grass". Arching Japan. Superb spring foliage sprays of purple feathery emerges in shades of pink and plumes consist of golden brown bronze, darkening later. Unlike fine leaves in compact clumps, any pictures we have been able this is an absolute beauty set on to research, but this new grass its own in gravel. is absolutely superb whatever its true identity.

CORTADERIA RICHARDII STIPA GIGANTEA £2.05 Gramineae HP 1.8m £2.95 PoaceaeHP1.5-2.4m (15 seeds) Yes, a "Pampas Grass" from The largest of all feather New Zealand! New Zealand grasses, and certainly one of was once connected to South the most elegant and stately America (as Gondwanaland), ornamental grasses, forming hence the "Toetoe" evolved. relatively insignificant basal Seldom seen in cultivation, its clumps from which arise long, substantial stems bear large strong stems holding huge, woolly plumes. loose panicles of golden spikelets with dangling awns.

ELYMUS MAGELLANICUS STIPA LESSINGIANA £4.25 PoaceaeHP30-40cm (10 seeds) £2.75 Gramineae HP 60-75cm The bluest leaf of any plant we This superior and truly grow, this outstanding grass is spectacular plant is related to, native to the mountains of but larger and finer than Stipa Southern Chile and Argentina tenuisima. The massed plumes where it forms a slow-growing, of soft feathery seedheads are positively non-invasive, well- ideal to whisk your hand behaved clump of beautiful through, the longer they stand silvery, chalky, metallic-blue the prettier they become. leaves. Well drained soil is best.

FESTUCA GAUTIERI UNCINIA EGMONTIANA £2.45 PoaceaeHP15cm £2.85 Cyperaceae HP 20-30cm A new, dwarf, and very From Mount Egmont in New distinctive grass forming tight Zealand comes the prettiest domes of thin, bright green hardy red grass growable from leaves, very much like a green seed. Tight compact erect hedgehog. Later, numerous clumps of stiff arching crimson- short stems of brown seedheads bronze blades, from which arise appear. A little beauty for a narrow spikes of small, sharply rockery or small garden. pointed black seeds.

SETARIA MMAACCRROOSSTTAACCHHYYAA 'WILL SCARLET' £2.55 Gramineae HA 45-60cm "Thank you! I am very pleased with the quality of Thick clumps of attractive foxtail- all the seeds I have bought from you, both this like flower heads, perfect for year and last year, and I will be placing orders for cutting, grow on long stems next season as well:)" Karianne Gjelsvik, Hustad, clad in broad leaves. If planted Norway in a hot, dry spot, or in a container on a warm patio, the "Happiness is having packets of seeds delivered leaves and stems of this lovely from UK faster than a note from my daughter in plant will turn bright crimson. Vancouver!" Al Horner, Victoria, British Columbia

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 vines 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 BLUE BERRIES £2.05 TOMATO (30 seeds minimum) £2.85 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) These "must have" long A new and most unusual deep sausage shaped fruit are a purple skinned cherry variety. striking lime-green colour with Ripening to almost black, with yellow stripes. The high-yielding delectable juicy pink flesh and a tomatoes are thick-fleshed and delicious plum-like flavour, it cavity-free with a sweet contains high levels of the cucumber-like flavour. Excellent antioxidant anthocyanin. Taste for cooking. (Bush) testers describe the flavour as sparkling. (Cordon)

GREEN ZEBRA INDIGO ROSE £1.95 TOMATO (15 seeds minimum) £2.95 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) A good cropping early plant with Wow! No trick photography bright amber-gold, two inch needed with this new first-ever fruits. Striped in deep lime- jet-black tomato, developed by green they make a colourful Oregon State University. statement when sliced in salads. Disease-resistant, fruity, The bright green flesh is soft, antioxidant filled, large-plum- with a strong and tangy flavour. sized fruits ripen in late summer (Cordon) to deepest purple, with flesh 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)

INDIGO APPLE KORALIK £2.65 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) £2.05 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) With supreme shock value as This early Polish bush variety well as a good sweet tomato makes widely held branches flavour, disease tolerance and a rather like a small oak tree, really good shelf-life, this new enabling it to produce abundant 'true-black' variety will sweet isolated fruit. It has a eventually turn almost jet black, good tolerance to blight it is caused by anthocyanins - perfect for areas where the antioxidants found in growing season is short and blueberries. (Cordon) wetter than normal. (Bush)

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 55 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 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 £2.05 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)

MIEL DU MEXIQUE RED EROS £2.05 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) £2.30 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) This round cherry tomato of Ooh Matron! Very rarely Mexican origin produces a large offered, and probably the most crop of small to medium, very suggestive vegetable (or is it a sweet fruits and indeed was fruit?) ever bred, with lots of originally called Mexican Honey. naughty names, but 'Eros' is the This vigorous plant is very riskiest we dare use. Served productive and does well under unsliced will definitely break the drought conditions. (Semi-Bush) ice at parties.....! High yield, mid-season. (Cordon)

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 56 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 SAN MARZANO TUMTUMBBLLIINNGG TOM RED £2.05 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) £2.05 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) One of the world's finest paste Bred to cascade over hanging tomatoes. Compared to Roma baskets although remaining types the fruit are thinner and quite compact, this plant pointier, the flesh being much produces sweet and tangy fruits thicker with fewer seeds, and of medium strength with firm the taste stronger, sweeter and flesh, and is the perfect tomato less acidic. Many people plant for novice growers or describe the flavour as bitter- people short on space. (Bush) sweet. (Cordon)

ST PIERRE TUMBLING TOM YELLOW £2.05 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) £2.05 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) This traditional French tomato An exciting plant with rich, variety produces hardy, regular- golden, apricot-coloured fruit leaf plants bearing good yields growing on compact pendulous of medium-sized, red, round, trusses. It is best grown in a fruit with soft, thick, meaty hanging basket or tall container flesh. This tomato has a great when its cascading fruit can be flavour producing well in cooler ornamental as well as being growing regions right up to the sweet and tasty to eat. (Bush) frost. (Cordon)

STUPICE VINTAGE WINE £1.90 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £1.85 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) The first non-cherry to ripen, A favourite of gourmet grocers, with a very high-yielding this sensational, potato-leafed abundance of sweet, luscious, plant has fruit which is a deep-red fruit. Reliably early, gorgeous deep pink with golden fruiting constantly over a long streaks, whilst the firm flesh has season into late September, a strong, unusually fruity setting well even at very low flavour. (Cordon) temperatures. Very disease resistant. (Cordon)

TIGERELLA ZANZIBAR F1 £1.60 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £2.70 Tomato (10 seeds minimum) Amongst the finest medium- An early plum cherry tomato sized tomatoes we've grown. with a deep orange colour. The Tigerella (aka Mr Stripey) are fruits weigh about 1/2 ounce completely greenback free, and have a sharp taste with a have a unique rich flavour, crop thin skin unlike some other heavily indoors or out and ripen cherry tomatoes. The plants are more than three weeks earlier vigorous and the fruit has good than varieties such as resistance against cracking. Moneymaker. (Cordon) (Cordon)

TOMATOBERRY F1 ZAPOTEC PLEATED £2.95 TOMATO (8 seeds minimum) £1.95 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) Tomatoberry is a popular new The large, mild-tasting, deep F1 tomato variety with long pink fruits are very attractive cascading trusses of glossy red indeed, especially when sliced, strawberry-shaped fruit. The with pronounced pleats and early-ripening fruit are very hollows within the flesh. They sweet with a thin skin and make were named after the Zapotec delicious salad or snacking people of Oaxaca, Mexico, who tomatoes. (Cordon) developed this rare gourmet tomato. (Cordon)

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 57 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 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 remaining productive for bitter after taste and store well at least 15 to 20 years. RHS after picking. AGM 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.

JAPANESE WHITE EGG BULL'S BLOOD £2.05 AUBERGINE/EGGPLANT (20 seeds minimum) £1.80 BEETROOT (200 seeds minimum) The Japanese White Egg A Victorian heirloom, which is produces large quantities of often grown as an ornamental, very attractive 2-3" oval creamy on account of its dark crimson, white fruit all season long. The almost black leaves which taste fruit have a delicate flavour with sweet if picked young. The little trace of bitterness. Perfect globe-shaped roots have a good for use in stir frying. flavour and on being cut open reveal attractive pink rings.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 58 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 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 England. 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- Wold! 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

BLACKBERRY TUPI GOLDEN BERRY 'GIGANTE' £2.70 BERRY (30+ seeds minimum) £2.30 BERRY (25 seeds minimum) These seeds, which have been Tall, erect, sticky-haired stems stratified ready to sow, have carry sizeable 'paper lanterns' been collected from Tupi, one which contain the largest and of the best cultivars sold for juiciest fruits of all the golden sweet snacking. They produce berries. This is the physalis thorny upright plants bearing variety sold at inflated prices in really large, black, sweetest and supermarkets and used to adorn most succulent luscious fruits expensive desserts in quite late in the season. restaurants.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 59 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 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.

GREEN SPROUTING CALABRESE RED DRUMHEAD £1.70 BROCCOLI (250 seeds minimum) £1.80 CABBAGE (300 seeds minimum) Producing a long succession of This popular heirloom variety bluish-green heads averaging 3 produces a round solid heart in to 5 inches across, these tall, stunning red with dense leafy erect plants with an excellent heads in a variety of red/purple flavour and long cropping shades. This versatile cabbage season are the original forms, is adaptable to heat, whilst also which are still firm favourites in producing crops between mid spite of the appearance of summer and winter. modern F1 hybrids

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 60 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ATOMIC RED RED SAMURAI £1.95 CARROT (400 seeds minimum) £2.05 CARROT (400 seeds minimum) A long red carrot, rich in A slender tapering red-skinned vitamins and minerals - Japanese carrot with lovely pink especially high in the anti- flesh which holds its colour even oxidant lycopene. When peeled after steaming. This main-crop and cooked the carrots turn carrot can also be used raw to deeper blood red in colour and enliven a salad. are particularly suitable for stir frying.

CHANTENAY ROYAL ROMANCE F1 £1.85 CARROT (400 seeds minimum) £2.05 CARROT (200 seeds minimum) A short, stump-shaped carrot A strong-tasting carrot with which gives heavy yields, the excellent uniformity, good skin roots having golden-orange finish and bright colour. For the flesh with a sweet taste and second time in a row, Romance retaining their flavour even was awarded the 'Best tasting when large. These carrots, carrot' at the yearly field day of which rarely split, are the ones the British Carrot Grower to choose if your soil is heavy. Association.

FLYAWAY F1 SNOWMAN F1 £2.05 CARROT (200 seeds minimum) £2.85 Carrot (200 seeds minimum) Naturally succulent and sweet, This new F1 carrot forms a with good skin and flesh colour, good, uniform tapered, bright- and high levels of antioxidant white coloured root with no beta-carotene. These are external or internal greening. possibly the most carrot-fly- The roots are vigorous and resistant variety ever produced tasty with less erect foliage than coming out top when grown in other carrots. Certainly worth trials against over 20 other trying it you want a little novelty 'resistant' varieties. 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 SWISS CHARD SILVER WHITE £1.60 CAULIFLOWER (100 seeds minimum) £1.70 CHARD (150 seeds minimum) A versatile early cauliflower Actually native to the which can be used all season. Mediterranean, this is one of the Introduced in 1888, the easiest varieties to grow and is compact plants form 6" wide an excellent source of vitamins snow white heads with crisp, and iron. The beautiful, emerald tender curds which are well- green leaves have a strong protected by the outer leaves. agreeable flavour making it The variety is downy mildew perfect for eating raw or cooked. resistant.

GOLDEN SELF-BLANCHING STRAWBERRY SPINACH £1.70 CELERY (500 seeds minimum) £2.05 CHENOPODIACEAE (50 seeds minimum) This favourite heirloom (1884) Confound your friends at dinner variety produces creamy white parties with "fruit" in the salad stalks which are tender, high bowl! And you can eat the quality and plentiful with a leaves of the same plant like deliciously sweet taste. They are spinach. This very quick easy to grow and self blanching, growing and amusing plant making them a lot easier than produces little red other varieties which require "strawberries" all the way along constant of attention. its stems.

GREEN UTAH OKAHIJIKI £1.80 CELERY (500 seeds minimum) £1.90 CHINESE LEAVES (120 seeds minimum) Green Utah is a very popular Similar to the expensive American celery producing tall, samphire found in seaside areas delicious, string-less, well- of Britain especially in Cornwall rounded solid stalks which are and East Anglia, the long easily blanched and have a succulent leaves have a mild, distinctive nutty flavour. This peppery, rocket-like salty taste compact variety has excellent with a crunchy texture and are disease resistance. rich in vitamins and minerals. A new cut-and-come-again veg!

RAINBOW CHARD TATSOI £1.95 CHARD (150 seeds minimum) £1.65 CHINESE LEAVES (150 seeds minimum) This RHS Award winner has pale This attractive, easy-to-grow, green and bronze succulent- hardy Asian variety produces a stemmed, mild tasting leaves, thick rosette of dark green each stem coming in a different nutritious oval leaves which colour of the rainbow, ranging have a creamy texture and a from pink and gold to purple mild but distinctive flavour that and red. A winner whether used makes them perfect for eating in cooking or as an ornamental raw or cooked whether in border plant. salads, stir fries or in soups.

RHUBARB CHARD WHITE PAK CHOI £1.85 CHARD (150 seeds minimum) £1.90 CHINESE LEAVES (250 seeds minimum) A colourful and tasty form of A popular Chinese variety Swiss Chard with rich ruby-red producing striking, clean white leaf stalks and dark waxy green- stalks holding fabulous, rich, purple leaves. The succulent dark green leaves which can be mid-ribs can be cooked like eaten raw when young in asparagus and can also be salads, or left to mature and harvested at the baby leaf stage then cooked. The compact for micro greens. Absolutely plants are resistant to weather delicious! changes and are slow to bolt.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 62 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 WONG BOK ZUCCHINI GOLD £1.85 CHINESE LEAVES (250 seeds minimum) £2.75 COURGETTE (20 seeds minimum) Large barrel shaped heads, with A beautiful golden-sunshine crisp light green leaves grow coloured, 'less watery' typically up to 2.5kg. Fast courgette, containing fewer growing and ready for harvest seeds than other yellow in 10 weeks, this versatile varieties. The easy-to-grow vegetable adds crunch to compact plants are resistant to salads, coleslaws and flavour to many garden pests and produce stir fries, and is a useful a high number of full-textured steamed veg. fruits.

BARLOTTA LINGUA DI FUOCO ZUCCHINI GREY £1.95 CLIMBING FRENCH BEAN (50 seeds minimum) £2.05 COURGETTE (20 seeds minimum) "Tongues of fire" is an Italian This heirloom American climbing French bean, with courgette has fruits with a attractive red-purple and green beautiful speckled silvery- green speckled pods. This versatile skin. Zucchini Grey is one of the bean can be cropped young and very best yielding open- the pods eaten as flageolets or pollinated courgettes producing allowed to mature when the ripe many fruit in the course of a beans can be eaten as haricots. season if picked when young.

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.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 63 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 NASSAU CORIANDER £1.80 DWARF FRENCH BEAN (50 seeds minimum) £1.90 HERB (90 seeds minimum) This flat podded vigorous This highly fragrant herb, variety produces long straight originates from the pods which are renowned for Mediterranean and Asia where their flavour. They are resistant the leaves (Cilantro) are grown to Halo Blight and Bean to be used raw in salads and Common Mosaic virus. They salsa, or cooked into breads or have a high production rate and curries. The seeds (Coriander) the high-growing pods make are also often used to add them easy to pick. flavour and dimension to dishes

ROYALTY PUPURPLE DILL £1.75 DWARF FRENCH BEAN (50 seeds minimum) £1.90 HERB (300 seeds minimum) A sprawling bush habit plant Giving a tangy addition to producing vivid purple, 5 inch pickles, salad dressing and fish long, slightly curved pods with dishes, fresh dill is easy-to-grow beige seed. Pods contain a during summer/early autumn natural blanching indicator and it is easy to dry to make it causing them to change to available throughout the year. green on boiling. Its green leaves are wispy and fern-like with a soft, sweet taste.

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.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 64 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 OREGANO SWEET GGEENNOVESE BASIL £1.95 HERB (500 seeds minimum) £1.85 HERB (750 seeds minimum) This sweetly-smelling, aromatic Often known as the best variety foliage is commonly used in of basil for home-made pesto, Mediterranean cuisine and is this variety produces oval perfect sprinkled on lamb or aromatic leaves which are pork before cooking and with curved inwards and are perfect rich meat dishes, grilled fish and in salads or tomato dishes. Easy for flavouring oils. The dried to grow, this basil is the perfect flowers are used for flavouring. companion to home grown tomatoes.

RED RUBIN BASIL THYME £1.75 HERB (300 seeds minimum) £1.80 HERB (500 seeds minimum) This fragrant basil with vibrant This hardy perennial can be purple leaves and a strong taste picked and used all year round. blended with a hint of the With attractive, small green, sharpness of cloves also clustered leaves and pastel pink produces pink flowers making it flowers it is an attractive a superb ornamental plant. It is addition to any herb garden and perfect when used fresh for is perfect for stuffings, poultry making vinegar and oils as well dishes and stews. as adding colour to salads.

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.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 65 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 SIBERIAN IMPROVED KALE LITTLE LEPRECHAUN £1.80 KALE (150 seeds minimum) £1.85 LETTUCE (250 seeds minimum) This extremely cold-hardy This 8 inch award-winning baby Siberian Kale, which originated red Romaine lettuce has a in Russia, has flat, broad, sweet and crunchy centre and deeply-cut and ruffled blue stunning leaves which fade to green leaves which grow on deep red-purple at the tips. It long, succulent, sweet stalks. A survives in almost any climate heavy frost just improves the with the leaves kept well away flavour of the leaves. from the ground and is larger than its name suggests.

BLUE SOLAISE LOLLO BIONDA £1.80 LEEK (200 seeds minimum) £1.95 LETTUCE (250 seeds minimum) A traditional French winter This attractive Italian lettuce heirloom that is hardy and cold- produces an emerald mound of resistant as well as being an frilly leaves with a loose heart attractive addition to the making it less appealing to slugs cottage garden. The flags are than Butterhead varieties. An blue-green which turn violet eye-catching lettuce producing after a cold spell whilst the leaves for more than 3 months shanks are thick/medium length. if they are taken from the outside.

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.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 66 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 YUGOSLAVIAN RED TIGGEGGERR £1.90 LETTUCE (250 seeds minimum) £1.95 MELON (10 seeds minimum) One of the most beautiful The most amazing looking butterhead lettuces you can melon you can grow with fruits grow with bright green cupped that are vibrant yellow with leaves splashed with rosy-red. brilliant fire-red, zigzag stripes. The succulent leaves are Heavy yielding, they are also superb, buttery and mild, the the most fragrant melons you loose heads grow to around can taste, with a rich, sweet, 30cm across and can be intoxicating aroma that will fill a harvested in about 55 days. room.

EARLY SILVERLINE AILSA CRAIG £1.80 MELON (10 seeds minimum) £1.80 ONION (300 seeds minimum) A unique, elongated oriental This traditional favourite, named early melon with white, crisp, after a small island off the sweet and fragrant flesh. This Scottish coast, has a distinctive tiny, delicious, gourmet melon is globe shape with straw coloured rarely found in markets. The skin and white flesh. The bulbs yellow skin is lined with silvery can grow very large and be furrows, and is so thin it can be used for exhibition, while their peeled like an apple. tolerance to cool weather makes them very reliable.

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)

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 67 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 GREENSHAFT (HURST) RED PADRON £1.80 PEA (200 seeds minimum) £2.40 PEPPER (20 seeds minimum) If you're going to sow only one Pick these small conical fruits, pea, it should be 'Hurst Green with a long curled pedicle, small Shaft'. A sweet-tasting, wrinkle- and green for low levels of heat, seeded, tall, super heavy- as the heat increases as the yielding variety, with long, 4-5 fruits get larger and redder. Play inch pods, with 9-11 peas in a Spanish Roulette! Every batch pod, and double podded too, of 10 or so peppers contains a and it even resists downy hot one! (Heat-3) (but watch mildew and fusarium wilt. the odd one!)

LINCOLN SCOTCH BONNET - RED £1.75 PEA (250 seeds minimum) £2.05 PEPPER (20 seeds minimum) A compact, heavy-yielding main- Named for its resemblance to crop which stands the heat the Scottish Tam o'Shanter hat, better than most and also this one is really very, very hot resists wilt. The plants produce and tastes best fresh, but can 6-9 sweetly flavoured peas in also be frozen or pickled or dark green curved pods and are even put in olive oil very great for follow-on sowings, successfully. They are especially producing peas until September. useful in hot sauces and condiments. (Heat-4)

OROREEGGOONN SUGAR POD SWEET CHOCOLATE £2.05 PEA (150 seeds minimum) £2.05 PEPPER (25 seeds minimum) An award-winning mange-tout This uniquely-coloured, early- sugar pea which produces pods fruiting, sweet and delicious in clusters of two rather than mild-flavoured pepper has thick- the usual one. Consequently, a walled red flesh, and when ripe very heavy yielding variety with turns a gorgeous chocolate- good disease resistance. The brown on the outside. Ideal for sweet, crunchy pods are ideal Northern gardeners. (Heat-0) for use in stir-fries.

ALMA PAPRIKA WISCONSIN LAKES £2.05 PEPPER (25 seeds minimum) £2.40 PEPPER (20 seeds minimum) Extremely productive plants are This reliable and heavy yielding loaded with small, rounded, sweet red pepper, bred thick-walled peppers, ripening especially for northern gardens, from creamy-white to red, and has thick, meaty, juicy sweet with a mild flavour that is a walls. A heavy producer. Our wonderful combination of trial plants at Plant World had so slightly warm but sweet and many fruits they had to be tangy. (Heat-1) caned to stop them falling over! (Heat-0)

JIMMY NARDELLO'S ATLANTIC GIAANNTT £2.40 PEPPER (10 seeds minimum) £1.70 PUMPKIN (10 seeds minimum) Producing 25-35cm fruits, which Giant pinky-yellow pumpkins are sweet and light when eaten which have been developed raw, this lovely variety is also over the years to grow to considered one of the very best produce the maximum sized sweet peppers for frying, and is fruit of any plant. Although still registered as 'endangered' grown primarily for competition, on the USA Slow Food Ark of the dark flesh of the mature Tastes. (Heat-0) pumpkin is tasty enough when 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 WHITE HAILSTONE £1.75 PUMPKIN (10 seeds minimum) £1.65 RADISH (150 seeds minimum) As its name suggests these An excellent early (3-4 weeks) heirloom pumpkins are very white spring radish. Very mild large. They often grow to taste and maintains its crisp between 40-100lbs although texture for a long time. The prize specimens have topped radish itself is slightly larger 200lb. Excellent in pies due to than similar early globe types. great yield. Skin is yellow with mottled patches of pink-orange.

ROUGE VIF D'ETAMPES VICTORIA £1.95 PUMPKIN (10 seeds minimum) £2.05 RHUBARB (50 seeds minimum) French heirloom variety The gold standard, best resembling Cinderella's carriage rhubarb, with large, fat stems, and earning it its nickname bright red skin, lack of 'Cinderella' this pumpkin has stringiness, and an apple- attractive flame-orange-red gooseberry flavor with a hint of flesh, low seed content and full, lemon or grapefruit. This moderately sweet flavour, and famous heirloom was bred in so is excellent for cooking! the 1830's by Joseph Myatt in Deptford, England.

BLACK SPANISH ROUND STRAWBERRY ''TTEEMMPPTTAATITION' F1 £1.75 RADISH (250 seeds minimum) £2.75 ROSACEAE (30 seeds minimum) A sweet and mild, very hardy An excellent 'sweetheart' variety winter radish with snowy-white producing dark red sweet- succulent flesh and a near black tasting fruit on compact dark skin which lacks the fieriness green plants. This variety is found so often in summer almost runner-less so is ideal for varieties. It has probably been use in hanging baskets, grow grown since at least the 16th bags or patio containers. Century.

PINK SLIPPER DESIREE £1.85 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!

TOPSI LADY DI £1.70 RADISH (300 seeds minimum) £1.85 RUNNER BEAN (25 seeds minimum) Topsi produces a scarlet round These superb long, slim and radish with fine roots, thin skin fleshy runner beans tolerates and firm crunchy white flesh, heat well and are completely and can be grown as a "catch string-less. They give a heavy crop" between other slow crop of tender delicious dark growing vegetables. As its name green pods over a very long suggests this is a fast-growing season and received the RHS and early radish. 1999 Award of Garden Merit.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 69 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 SCARLET EMPEROR NEW ZEALAND SPINACH £1.90 RUNNER BEAN (25 seeds minimum) £1.95 SPINACH (50 seeds minimum) A popular, good-yielding, old Vitamin-filled New Zealand favourite English runner bean spinach is milder tasting than its with striking red blossom and distant relation 'true spinach' large pods which contain deep and does not bolt in dry soils, purple beans speckled with red making a triangular-leaved bush or lavender when mature. spreading 2-3 feet in all directions. (Discovered by Captain Cook in the 18th century!)

SALAD ROCKET WHITE LISBSBOONN WINTNTEERR HARDY £1.65 SALAD LEAF (1000 seeds minimum) £1.75 SPRING ONION (500 seeds minimum) This quick-growing, deeply- This quick-growing, award- notched leaf (also called winning salad onion produces Cultivated Rocket) is becoming crisp succulent stems with a a firm favourite either for salad characteristic 'bite' to them. use or cooked, when it makes a Seed can be sown in succession good spinach substitute. With a for a continuous crop all spring, delicious nutty, peppery taste it summer and autumn. is ideal for window-sill or garden.

WILD ROCKET BLACK FUTSU £1.65 SALAD LEAF (1000 seeds minimum) £2.05 SQUASH (10 seeds minimum) Spice up your salads with wild A rare black Japanese squash. rocket, with deep green, The fruit are round with a serrated foliage which has the flattened top and have heavy same distinctive flavour as its ribbing. The black of the mature standard namesake but is more fruit turns a rich chestnut colour intense. Wild Rocket is perfect while in storage. The flesh is for 'cut and come again', golden and has the rich taste of growing right through the year hazelnuts. with protection.

PEPINO (MELON PEAR) CORNELL'S DDEELLIICCATAATA £2.90 SOLANACEAE (10 seeds minimum) £1.85 SQUASH (10 seeds minimum) The gorgeous round fruits of These very pretty, elongated the Melon Pear are cream white and green striped, dwarf skinned with purple streaks and fruit contain yellow flesh with a have deliciously sweet and juicy delicate and sumptuously nutty flesh which is a succulent flavour, rich in vitamin A. This mixture of honeydew melon and award winning compact Cornell cucumber. It is grown in a strain gives excellent yields and manner similar to its relatives has good disease resistance. such as the bush habit tomato.

BLOOMSDALE SAVOY POTIMARRON £1.90 SPINACH (300 seeds minimum) £2.05 SQUASH (10 seeds minimum) These large, dark, glossy green A French Heirloom winter and very crinkled leaves are squash with a delicate chestnut excellent in salads, soufflés, flavour. Its French name in fact stuffing or as a cooked green. derives from potiron (pumpkin) There is a very good chance and marron (chestnut). that when you purchase the Apparently, the longer it is best fresh spinach it is stored the higher its sugar and Bloomsdale Long Standing vitamins increase. (AKA spinach. Hokkaido Squash).

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 70 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 QUEENSLAND BLUE FIESTA £1.90 SQUASH (10 seeds minimum) £2.05 SWEEICORN (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 EARLIBIRD F1 £2.05 SQUASH (10 seeds minimum) £2.05 SWEETCORN (40 seeds minimum) This distinctive grey-green Earlibird is an excellent, early- squash from Australia is easy to maturing, super-sweet hybrid, grow sending out long vines on early variety producing 3 or which 3-4 fruit grow. The skin is more high-quality cobs, typically hard and difficult to cut but 8" in length. Along with Swift, gives the harvested fruit a long this is probably the best variety shelf-life.The orange flesh is to grow in most UK situations. sweet and suits baking. (AKA Shamrock or Triangle).

VEGETABLE SPAGHETTI GOLDEN BALL £1.90 SQUASH (10 seeds minimum) £1.80 TURNIP (300 seeds minimum) When cooked, the flesh of this Very hardy, dwarf, compact Chinese vegetable, (actually a plants produce round roots with winter squash), falls away from tender, yellow, mild-flavoured the fruit in ribbons and strands, flesh and with outstanding just like spaghetti for which it keeping and exhibition qualities. makes a perfect substitute in This is the best of the main countless cooking roles. It crops, and is recommended by contains folic acid, vitamin A the National Institute of and beta carotene. Agricultural Botany.

WALTHAM BUTTERNUT PUPURRPPLLEE TOP MILAN £2.05 SQUASH (10 seeds minimum) £1.65 TURNIP (300 seeds minimum) 'Waltham' is an improved earlier A 19th century Italian heirloom version of the common which is quick maturing and well Butternut squash with very little suited for cooler climes. The seed cavity which stores very medium-sized roots, with a well too. The rich nutty- sweet and mild flavour are very flavoured, orange flesh stays flat with a bright purple top and firm when cooked. Nothing a white base below soil level, beats the rich, sweet flavour of and store well. winter squash.

WHITE SCALLOP RED STAR F1 £1.85 SQUASH (10 seeds minimum) £2.05 WATERMELON (10 seeds minimum) A Patty Pan heirloom summer This hybrid variety has been squash. First grown by the developed to grow well under native Americans and depicted cooler conditions than those by European settler as far back favoured by most watermelons. as 1591. It remains one of the This vigorous plant has a long best tasting and yielding harvesting period producing varieties around today! Great large round fruit with a uniform fried and baked. Very attractive dark green skin colour and flat fruit with scalloped edges. sweet, intense red flesh.

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FROM EXETER: Follow A380 dual carriageway (signed to Torquay) until it ends at the traffic light controlled Penn Inn Roundabout. Plant World has brown signs from here.

FROM THE PENN INN ROUNDABOUT: Follow signs to Milber and Combeinteignhead up the hill for only a few metres, then take a sharp right at the traffic lights. This road is signed to Plant World and leads slowly uphill, initially through housing then through mature woodland. Plant World is about one and a half miles out in the rolling countryside, at the very top of the long hill, on the left hand side past the aquatic nursery.

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