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Probably the world’s only catalogue selling this year’s fresh seeds!

Garden pathways became little rivers, wheelbarrows and buckets filled with rain, and that summed up the ‘summer’ of 2012. Frantic volunteers struggled with an ever-encroaching army of fast-growing annual weeds as they exploded with vigour in the unseasonable wet, threatening to engulf whole beds of our valuable new in the nursery and gardens…and so continued the wettest summer ever recorded in Devon, and indeed most of the UK. On the positive side, we collected good crops of many plants that actually thrived during this bizarre so-called summer.

Some of our new discoveries…

 Impatiens ‘Blue Diamond’ - The annual London Marathon, to be held on Recently discovered in Tibet, the April 22nd 2012 was looming, so after an first ever, deepest true-blue unexpected spell in Torbay Hospital, Tessa impatiens, perennial in a decided that it would be appropriate if we could conservatory! raise some much needed funds for their rather  Primula veris hose-in-hose - This bare Oncology Unit waiting room. And in spite amazing ancient cowslip, recently of still recovering from her serious treatment, re-discovered, has one she managed to pull the old Flower Pot man

tucked neatly inside the other. around the 26 miles again, and more than  Meconopsis superba - What an £3,000 was contributed. Thank you very much appropriate name for this tall, indeed to all of you who sent in donations! impressive, ginger-haired plant bearing sumptuous, golden-eyed, pure white .  sphaerostachyum -

Like an improved Thalictrum flavum, but with even better blue-grey foliage, and fluffy heads of pale lemon-yellow  Scabiosa incisa - Creamy flower heads, loved by butterflies, hover above finely-divided, almost fern-like from early spring to the middle of summer.

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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 on BBC’s Gardeners’ World, ITV’s ‘Gardens for All’ and Channel 4’s ‘Bloom’. 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 mid-March to mid-October. Please ring before visiting early or late in the season to check on opening times

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Contents How To Sow 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. 43 Climbers  Do be patient. Some seedlings appear in a few days whilst others may take several months, or

47 & even a year or more. DO NOT throw the seed tray away! 50 Grasses  Store warm-germinating seed in a fridge and sow in March or April in a heated greenhouse or 52 Tomatoes propagator or in a well-lit spot on a window sill.  Do not leave seedlings in a seed tray for too long.

They often simply stop growing. 58 Other Vegetables

72 Terms Of Business Have you discovered 73 Order Form something new? A blue daffodil perhaps?! Abbreviations Key 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 - T - Ray Brown

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Great Value! Save up to £9 with our collections.

HOT COLLECTION Total Value £23.30 You pay £14.95 Our fire collection will brighten up your garden …… ‘Double Rubies’ Moraea huttonii Centaurea macrocephala Oenothera ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Dierama igneum Potentilla ‘Monarch’s Velvet’ Ligularia clivorum ’Desdemona’ Sisyrinchium palmifolium Meconopsis cambrica ‘Frances Perry’ Scabiosa rumellica

COOL COLLECTION Total Value £24.45 You pay £14.95 Always the most popular colours …… Campanula lactiflora ‘Prichard’s Variety’ Lobelia ‘Blue Cardinal’ Echium ‘Blue Steeple’ Meconopsis ‘Lingholm’ ‘Purple-Haze’ Nepeta clarkei Agapanthus ‘Headbourne Hybrids’ Veronica grandis Libertia caerulescens Veronica kiusiana

GIANT COLLECTION Total Value £23.85 You pay £14.95 Land of the Giants for spectacular effects …… Alcea ficifolia Nepeta parnassica Datisca cannabina Peltiphyllum peltatum mertonensis Rheum palmatum tanguticum Echium ‘Blue Steeple’ Rudbeckia grandiflora Lobelia tupa Vernonia gigantea

FRAGRANT COLLECTION Total Value £23.65 You pay £14.95 To please you and the bees …… Agastache ‘Golden Jubilee’ Lavandula angustifolia Aquilegia ‘Fragrant Fantasy’ Nepeta clarkei Aquilegia ‘’Perfumed Garden’ Oenothera ‘Apricot Delight’ Camassia leichtlinii Paradisea lusitanica Euphorbia mellifera Viola ‘Blueberry Cream’

COLOURED FOLIAGE Total Value £23.75 You pay £14.95 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 Total Value £14.00 You pay £11.95 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 X SUNTENSE AGAPANTHUS LILLIPUT £2.35 Malvaceae HHSh 6ft £2.70 Liliceae HP 15-18in This frost hardy plant is surely Seed collected from this the most desirable of all mallow diminutive "African Lily". Short relatives. Large, bowl-shaped stems hold bright blue flowers pale to deep purple flowers, over compact clumps of short with the occasional white thin leaves. flowered form, from late spring to summer over a foil of felted grey-green leaves.

ACONITUM KRYLOWII AGASTACHE AURANTIACA £2.45 HP 18-24 inc (20 seeds) £2.30 Labiatae HP 15-18in This virtually unknown dwarf Massed sprays of flaming grows at over 7,000 ft orange tubular flowers arise on the Altai Mountains of above fragrant leaves for a very Siberia, making a large hardy long period, right into late tuber. It has dark green foliage, autumn. These delightful bearing in summer short stubby flowers will excel for many years spikes of yellow-cream, in a well-drained position. monkshood blooms, each an inch or so across.

ACONITUM VULPARIA AGASTACHE CANA £2.20 Ranunculaceae HP 2-4ft £2.40 Labiatae HP 24-30in Long-lived clumps produce very Dense spikes of rosy pink dense sprays of pale sulphur flowers display themselves yellow hooded flowers in spring above delicate aromatic foliage and early summer, above from midsummer onwards. If attractive, bright green shiny planted in a hot, well-drained foliage. If dead-headed spot these lovely plants will flowering will continue into the steadily improve over the years. autumn.

AGAPANTHUS 'HEADBOURNE HYBRIDS' AGASTACHE 'GOLDEN JUBILEE' £2.65 HP 2ft £2.45 Labiatae HP 2ft Huge true blue globular heads Discovered here and given the flower freely on stout stems 'All America Award'. Early above strap-shaped leaves. This spring crowns of purplish, completely hardy variety forms crinkled leaves transform into thick established clumps which sweetly aromatic golden improve over the years. rosettes, with tubby terminal spikes of fluffy lavender flowers. Superb in a well- drained spot.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 6 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 AGASTACHE 'GREEN CANDLES' ALLIUM CHOICE MIXTURE £2.25 Scrophulariaceae HP 2-3ft £2.30 Alliaceae HBb 9-18in Closed ranks of long green A bumper bag of these trouble pokers bearing pale yellow free ornamental plants. flowers will make a striking Displaying a range of colours feature in any border. This including white, yellow, pink and unusual, fragrant-leaved "bubble purple. Includes Allium mint" will produce a truly aflatunense, cyaneum, dramatic effect when grown as a carolinianum, farreri, flavum, solitary clump. fragrans, karataviense and other rarities.

AGASTACHE 'LIQUORICE BLUE' ALLIUM CHRISTOPHII £2.15 Labiatae HP 24-30in £2.50 Alliaceae HBb 18in Blue flower spikes, adored by Magnificent, ten inch, spherical bees and butterflies, arise in heads composed of glossy profusion above aromatic, amethystine violet stars (which aniseed and liquorice-scented can be dried to give pleasure all leaves. In a well-drained and year) will turn heads for years to preferably sheltered spot this come. Undoubtedly one of the gorgeous plant is soundly most flamboyant members of perennial. this enormous family of plants.

AGROSTEMMA GITHAGO ALLIUM INSUBRICUM £1.75 HA 2-3ft £2.65 Alliaceae HBb 9-15in (10 seeds) "Corn Cockle". Large purple-red This is considered to be possibly flowers on tall branching stems the most desirable of all allium adorn this ancient cottage species, and is a relative of the garden plant which was once a equally beautiful Allium welcome sight in cornfields, but narcissiflorum. Heads of is now very rare in the wild. individually very large flowers of Allow it to naturalise in your bright rose pink hang in clusters garden for a never-ending in summer, when it sadly display year after year. produces very few seeds.

ALCEA FICIFOLIA YELLOW ALSTROEMERIA AURANTIACA £2.35 Malvaceae HP 5-6ft £2.55 Alstroemeriacea HP 2-3ft "Antwerp" or "Fig-leaved A generous bag from our Hollyhock". This plant, which sizeable stock beds of "Peruvian has deeply lobed fig-like leaves, Lilies". Spectacular orchid-like produces more branching stems orange and yellow blooms in than the common hollyhock and clumps which improve is relatively rust resistant, so if unattended over the years. you've failed with the normal one give this a try.

ALCHEMILLA EPIPSILA ALSTROEMERIA MEDIUM VARIETIES £2.55 9-12in £2.55 Alstroemeriacea HP 15-24in (15 seeds) This new compact, clump- A generous packet of medium forming species, has rounded, height forms of these lovely shallowly-lobed, softly hairy, varieties. This selection will grey-green leaves, and loose include seeds of about 15 clusters of tiny, yellow-green different varieties including flowers from June-September. It Alstroemeria garaventae, is noticeably smaller and less huemulina, magnifica maxima, vigorous than Alchemilla mollis, pelegrina, philippii and zoellneri. rather like a large A. alpina.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 7 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ANDEAN CHOICE BULBS ANGELICA GIGAS £2.95 Various HBb 12-18in £2.45 Apiaceae HP 3-4ft A selection of seed of some of This magnificent angelica the most desirable bulbs in the bearing thick shiny leaves has world collected in the Chilean rapidly become a cult plant. In . Includes Placea, midsummer globular, almost Phycella, Rhodophiala, Zephyra. solid heads, of dark crimson Many flamboyant, orchid-like florets erupt on strong stems flowers will be be new to from inflated purple sheaths, cultivation, so surprise yourself! providing a feast for pollinating insects.

ANDEAN CHOICE HERBACEOUS ANGELICA HISPANICA £2.45 Various HP 6in-3ft £1.95 Apiaceae HP 18in Wild collected plants from the Customers unbelievingly touch foothills of the Central and the shining leaves of polished Southern Chilean Andes, many wax to see if they are real on not identified by the botanist this valuable dwarf introduction. who collected them. Some may Plants sell out on foliage alone! flower the first year, but all will Only later do the plates of prefer a well-drained position in yellow flowers appear. the garden. A comprehensive list is included.

ANEMONE BARBULATA ANGELICA URSINA £2.30 Ranunculaceae HP 2ft £2.65 Apiaceae HP 6-9ft China is the home of this Collected on our 2002 delicate new discovery. expedition to Sakhalin Repeatedly branching thin stems (RBS0205) where bears eat the carry clusters of numerous during the Arctic winters. fragile, blue-backed pure white Massive stems hold spreading flowers. Superficially like umbels of white flowers, later a Anemone leveillei, but bearing second, truly spectacular flush smaller and many, many more of radiating florets curls flowers. downwards.

ANEMONE LEVEILLEI ANOMATHECA LAXA £2.45 Ranunculaceae HP 18in £2.20 Iridaceae HP 4-8in This one of the easiest and long- From a flat fan of tiny iris-like lived of the clump-forming leaves arise thin stems carrying anemonies which improves with large, brilliant carmine star- age, bearing dense sprays of shaped flowers. These lovely white waxy-petalled flowers with flowers are very long lived and a blue reverse. An exceptionally hardy in a sheltered spot. In a beautiful flower from China. well-drained rockery these will self-seed and make fabulous drifts.

ANEMONE TOMENTOSA ANTHRISCUS SYLVESTRIS 'RAVENSWING' £2.40 Ranunculaceae HP 3-5ft £2.35 Apiaceae HP 3ft+ (30+ seeds) This lovely Chinese species This exciting recent discovery gives a valuable late summer produces basal sprays of darkest and autumn display of large mahogany-bronze, finely divided rose pink flowers in profuse ferny foliage, making a perfect clusters on long stalks, which foil for the airy umbels of white make perfect cut flowers. heads. Ever since being Clouds of decorative woolly seed revealed at Chelsea this has pods remain on the plant until been an essential plant in shredded by the winter storms. modern gardens.

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AQUILEGIA 'ALCHEMIST'S MIX' AQUILEGIA 'FIREWHEEL' £2.35 Ranunculaceae HP 6in-2ft £2.35 Ranunculaceae HP 2ft Seeds collected from our Another magnificent variation of 'bizarre aquilegia' and 'unusual the clematiflora form. This sport oddities' beds in the trial that appeared here many years grounds, including some new ago bears doubled, darkest very dwarf variegated and pinky-red , resembling coloured foliage forms. Some of licking tongues of flame on these plants will never have branching stems. been seen before. Let us know if anything amazing turns up!

AQUILEGIA CLEMATIFLORA MIX AQUILEGIA 'FRAGRANT FANTASY' £2.35 Ranunculaceae HP 2ft £2.85 Ranunculaceae HP 24-30in A super spectrum selection in all A new and lovely range of colours of these desirable columbines bred from some of clematis-flowered spurless the most fragrant species in beauties. A few may be slightly cultivation. The perfumed or even heavily doubled. flowers come in all shapes and sizes, from tight pom-poms to long-spurred singles and in a wide variety of colours.

AQUILEGIA COTTAGE GARDEN MIX AQUILEGIA 'ORANGES AND LEMONS' £2.35 Ranunculaceae HP 18in-3ft £2.30 Ranunculaceae HP 2-3ft A selection from the range in This completely new colour our catalogue plus other colours range has bicolored flowers in and forms collected from our all shade of reds, oranges and cottage garden. This well-filled yellows. The occasional 'plum' generous packet must surely be pops up but adds to the colour the biggest ever offered by any scheme! Unlike many aquilegias seed company. which give a once-off burst of bloom, these will flower on and on.

AQUILEGIA DISCOLOR AQUILEGIA 'PERFUMED GARDEN' £2.35 Ranunculaceae HP 4-6in £2.50 Ranunculaceae HP 2-3ft One of the dwarfest of all These are the culmination of our aquilegias with elegant blue and breeding progamme using both cream flowers on tiny stems large flowered and fragrant above delicate rosettes of finely aquilegias. Amongst these will cut leaves. probably be the largest perfumed columbines ever seen. Our bees are also noticeably disobedient so expect the occasional amazing freak hybrid!

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AQUILEGIA 'ROYAL PURPLE' ARISAEMA CONSANGUINEUM £2.30 Ranunculaceae HP 2ft+ £2.35 Araceae HP 12-18in (20 seeds) This specially selected spurless A long-lived attractive tuberous form produces flowers almost plant with striking, cobra head- identical to double clematis and like flowers amidst long- in the most deep and rich royal stemmed deeply divided leaves. purple. One of the most Later appear the large heads of outstanding new forms we have bright red which persist recently produced. throughout the winter being especially attractive when it snows.

AQUILEGIA SAXIMONTANA ASTILBE CHINENSIS 'PUMILA' £2.85 Ranunculaceae HP 3-4in (20 seeds) £2.85 Saxifragaceae HP 6-9in A choice and absolutely This exceptional, early summer exquisite dwarf columbine variety makes a dwarf, ground- bearing disproportionately large hugging, rounded clump with blue and white flowers on short feathery plumes of densely stems on very compact, clustered red flowers in late glaucous-leaved plants. Superb summer. This variety has been on a rockery or in a container. awarded an RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM), (Plants of outstanding excellence.)

AQUILEGIA 'WILLIAM GUINESS DOUBLES' ASTILBE CHINENSIS 'WHITE CLOUD' £2.70 Ranunculaceae HP 2-3ft £2.65 Saxifragaceae HP 24-30in We have selected out the This beautiful plant produces attractive doubled and quilled delicate clouds of soft white forms that occasionally occur in flowers that float above lacy, this lovely white and darkest ferny green foliage. These blue flower, producing even spring-blooming beauties, are heavier flower-heads to please ideal for borders, containers, you. and shady gardens where they can perform of their very best.

AQUILEGIA YABEANA ASTRANTIA HADSPEN BLOOD £2.65 Ranunculaceae HP 24-30in £2.85 Umbelliferae HP 2ft A most amazing and vigorous Stout stems hold aloft a level plant from the mountains of sheet of flowers of probably the Japan, carrying deepest inky deepest, darkest, blood-red blue, long spurred flowers on form of this plant. It makes long stems. When planted 'en very long-lived and rewarding masse' it creates an clumps which are completely unforgettable sight. hardy and need no maintenance.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 10 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ASTRANTIA INVOLUCRATA 'SHAGGY' CALENDULA RED BUFF £2.60 Umbelliferae HP 2ft £1.95 Compositae HA 12-18in This most popular and much These most attractive flowers improved form of Astrantia have pale petals with unique red- major has a much larger tips. Easy to grow plants which "collar", with beautifully make a bright splash all summer coloured tips darkly etched in long and are perfect as cut attractive green shades. It is flowers. very long lived indeed and ideal as a cut flower too.

ASTRANTIA MAJOR CALLISTEPHUS 'LILLIPUT BLUE MOON' £2.35 Umbelliferae HP 2ft £1.60 Compositae HHA 18-24in This long-flowering and very A superb Chinese Aster, much long-lived plant displays showy resembling an exotic sunflower, star-like heads with radiating with huge deepest purple discs bracts in shades of green, pink which are held on 2 foot stems and white. Excellent cut flowers and arise all over the plant. are a bonus. This fabulous flower which is easy and fast to grow is quite irresistible to butterflies and bees.

BERKHEYA PURPUREA CAMASSIA LEICHTLINII £2.25 Compositae HP 2ft+ £2.30 Liliaceae HP 3-4ft Dark-eyed mauve dahlia-like Imagine an enormous, strong- flowers arise from clumps of stemmed, fragrant bluebell with prickly thistle leaves. An dense, erect spikes of six- intriguing introduction from high petalled, star-shaped violet in the South African mountains. flowers. Flowering in early This newcomer demands a hot summer with the occasional sunny spot to show its best. We plant giving pure white, green- have included seed from a few eyed flowers. A large, reliably pure white-flowered seedlings. perennial lily relative.

BUPLEURUM 'BRONZE BEAUTY' CAMPANULA ALLIARIFOLIA £2.45 Umbelliferae HP 18-24in £2.25 Campanulaceae HP 24-30in This attractive dwarf form of the From a clump of hairy, heart- totally perennial Bupleurum shaped leaves arise many thin longifolium has lacy, divided, stems from the whole length of yellow, almost astrantia-like which, dangle shapely cream seedheads, which transform in bells. "A picture of poise and early summer into plates of beauty". (G.S.T.) coppery-bronze. Superb in a hot garden where it makes an ideal cut or dried flower.

CALENDULA 'KABLOUNA' CAMPANULA 'CANTERBURY BELLS' £1.45 Compositae HA 15in £2.55 Campanulaceae HBi,HA 24-36in This remarkable, quite new One of the most typical cottage cottage garden delight has garden flowers, this has a large, strikingly-crested, slowly timeless charm and grace. darkening blooms of gold, Masses of bells are produced in lemon, orange and apricot with an astonishing range of blues, a dark, contrasting, pin-cushion whites and pinks. Flowers boss of tightly-quilled petals. appear all summer long and will Easily grown by simply grow in almost any position broadcasting the seeds. whether sun or semi shade.

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CAMPANULA 'FAICHEM LILAC' CAMPANULA LATIFOLIA 'BRANTWOOD' £2.25 Campanulaceae HP 3ft £2.30 Campanulaceae HP 3-4ft This lovely Campanula latifolia Stout spires of very large, deep hybrid was discovered as a violet purple bells open in spring sedling on first small Scottish and early summer. This is the nursery near Invergarry in the darkest and finest form of this Scottish Highlands. The spires of gorgeous flower from high in large white or cream trumpets the Himalayas. all have a dark eye.

CAMPANULA INCURVA CAMPANULA MAKASCHVILII £2.85 Campanulaceae HBi 9-12in £2.60 Campanulaceae HP 18in Our best selling and most A very rare plant from the spectacular bellflower. Caucasus Mountains. Radiating Enormous inflated ice blue arching stems clad in smallish flowers - resembling flared heart-shaped leaves, hold pink- ended wine glasses - in edged, white bells along their profusion all summer, upturned length. Long lived and desirable. on branching prostrate stems. Surprisingly perennial in a suitable well-drained position.

CAMPANULA KEMULARIAE CAMPANULA MOESIACA £2.65 Campanulaceae HP 2-4in £2.35 Campanulaceae HP 15-18in This very rare and beautiful A rare and extremely beautiful plant makes a slowly creeping plant from the Balkans. Bright carpet of flared, deep blue bell ice-blue bellflowers are carried flowers above small, pointed, in tufts up thick hairy stems. deeply-toothed, shiny green, Gently self-seeds producing leathery leaves. It is long-lived gorgeous drifts in spring. and will make a bright choice Greatly admired by an cushion either on a rockery or in appreciative Roy Lancaster a container. when he visited.

CAMPANULA LACTIFLORA 'PRICHARD'S VARIETY' CAMPANULA OCHROLEUCA £2.55 Campanulaceae HP 3-4ft £2.45 Campanulaceae HP 12-18in Seed saved from great This rare colour-break in bell- branching heads of deep violet flowers has proportionately blue flowers atop stout stems large creamy yellowish-white clad in pointed leaves. bells on low arching stems in Invaluable mid-border plant. early to mid-summer and Busy bees will ensure you have spreads, very slowly, with a a quota of pale blue, white or gentle running habit. A long- even pink flowers amongst lived little beauty! these plants.

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CAMPANULA REPENS CHAEROPHYLLUM HIRSUTUM ROSEUM £2.60 Campanulaceae HP 12-15in £2.35 Apiaceae HP 2ft+ This quite unique plant was Unbeatable pink heads on this obtained with this name from exceptional compact umbellifer. the Hungarian Botanic Garden at "To be sought, few herbaceous Vacratot, where it made a plants can hold a candle to it in slowly-spreading carpet of fine early May." (G.S.T.) stems carrying thin-tubed, flared- ended, blue flowers. Any additional identity information is welcomed.

CARDIOCRINUM GIGANTEUM CIMICIFUGA SIMPLEX £2.90 Liliaceae HBb 6-8ft £2.55 Ranunculaceae HP 4ft The fantastic "Giant Yunnan Lily" Purplish stems carrying arching is a stately giant, producing two spires of fragrant white flowers inch thick stems, with dinner in mid-autumn, from September plate sized leaves, above which into October, rise above shiny open numerous eight inch green divided leaves. A magnificent and white waxy, very fragrant and very valuable mid/back of trumpets, followed by enormous border, late season plant. "everlasting", toothed seed-pods when dried.

CENTAUREA MACROCEPHALA CODONOPSIS CLEMATIDEA £2.30 Compositae HP 3ft £2.95 Campanulaceae HCl,HP 18-36in "Yellow Hardhead" or "Great This rarely seen Golden Knapweed". Too rarely scrambling/climbing plant has seen in gardens. From robust the the most exquisite, nodding, clumps arise strong stems bell-shaped flowers in palest ice bearing tennis-ball sized rich blue, with the bell-shaped yellow blooms enclosed in blossoms being veined darker intriguing silver-brown papery blue on the inside, and bracts. Perfect for cutting or sumptous black, orange and drying. maroon-painted centres.

CEPHALARIA GIGANTEA COMMELINA HOPLEY'S VARIEGATED £2.45 Dipsacaceae HP 4ft £2.95 Commelinaceae HP 12-18in (10 seeds) A large, non-spreading clump- Above attractive, rather lily-like forming plant displays long- foliage, arise several thick stems stemmed sprays of large creamy carrying, from summer until late yellow "pincushion scabious" autumn, quite gorgeous, three- flowers over an extended period cornered, indescribably vivid, in the summer. This is an sky-blue flowers. Flowers exceptional specimen plant quickly, the first year from seed either on its own or at the back and makes a hardy perennial of the border. tuber. What value!

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 13 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 CORYDALIS LUTEA CROCOSMIA NEW HYBRIDS £2.25 HP 9-12in £2.75 Iridaceae HP 2-3ft Spikes of bright yellow flowers A superb collection of different above a delicate filigree of tiny forms of this lovely range of green fern-like leaves. plants collected from our large Exceptional performance in walls collection, including many or dry locations, naturalising colourful and large-flowered well and producing a long such as 'Jackanapes', season of colour from early 'Emily McEnzie', 'Queen of spring to late summer. Spain', 'Moira Reed', and many more.

CORYDALIS OCHROLEUCA CUPHEA 'REGAL PURPLE' £2.30 Papaveraceae HP 9in £2.45 Lythraceae HHA 15-18in This lovely compact plant is "Bat Face", (Cuphea somewhat similar to Corydalis viscossissima.) Impressive lutea, but has greyer foliage in sprays of dark purple, orchid- spring and for most of the like flowers open in progression summer, below a long over a long period into the succession of striking, frosts of autumn. Sticky hairs on bicoloured, greenish-yellow and the leaves can cause plants to white flowers. clump together, resembling one enormous .

COSMOS 'ANTIQUITY' GRAECUM £2.55 Compositae HHA 12-16in £3.35 HP 3in (20+ seeds) A completely new and unique Rosettes of superbly marked colour in cosmos. Rich burgundy and marbled leaves surround flowers change to an antique bunches of rose-petalled bronze-salmon soon after flowers, blotched at the base opening creating a gorgeous and veined in red. Flowering is two-tone effect. Very early encouraged if the plant receives flowering and flowers all a degree of baking in the summer long whether in summer. containers or garden.

COSMOS 'CANDYSTRIPE' CYCLAMEN GRAECUM ALBUM £2.45 Compositae HHA 12-16in £3.60 Primulaceae HP 3-4in (15+ seeds) Large, attractive, perfect-for- Beautifully veined and patterned cutting, drought-tolerant flowers angular leaves display beneath with a varying pink picotee the pure white, fat flowers in edge, appear to almost float October. Native to southern amongst the ferny, filigree , southern Turkey, and foliage. These easy-to-grow neighbouring islands, it has flowers thrive on neglect and superb forms, which include are ideal for hot or neglected some of the most striking of any areas. cyclamen.

CROCOSMIA LUCIFER ALBUM £2.55 Iridaceae HP 3-4ft £3.30 Primulaceae HP 3-5in (20 seeds) From robust clumps of sword- This is the lovely pure white shaped leaves in spring, thrust form of this hardy species which up strong, branching spikes of blooms and sprouts leaves in brilliant red, flared, funnel- autumn, grows through the shaped flowers in mid-summer. winter, and flowers from August A superb and reliable performer to October. Leaf colour varies that is happy in any position. from green to all-silver, but most common is the "Christmas tree" pattern.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 14 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 CYCLAMEN HEDERIFOLIUM NEAPOLITANUM DIANTHUS BARBATUS 'SOOTY' £2.35 Primulaceae HP 4in £2.20 Caryophyllaceae HP 12-15in Handsome silver-marked foliage An astonishing addition to the supports red, pink or ivory white previously available range. flowers in August and Densely packed heads of September. Completely hardy darkest chocolate - almost and naturalising by self-seeding, black, fragrant flowers, and they are very tolerant of dry foliage in deepest mahogany to shade, being summer match! , only re-appearing with the late summer rains.

CYNOGLOSSUM OFFICINALE DIANTHUS CAESIUS £2.45 Boraginaceae HBi,HA 24-30in £2.45 Caryophyllaceae HP 2-3in Strong stems carrying rough, The lovely 'Cheddar Pink' is now hairy, pointed leaves are tipped an extremely rare British native. with clusters of burgundy A spreading carpet of thin grey- flowers in spring and green leaves is studded with midsummer. These vigorous very fragrant pink flowers plants are superb for making a throughout spring. It does best quick-growing statement in the on a rock garden or in a well- garden. drained spot!

DACTYLORHIZA MACULATA DIANTHUS SELECT MIXTURE £1.75 Orchidaceae HP 9-12in £2.65 Caryophyllaceae HP 3-12in This hardy orchid has exquisite Seed collected from the named spikes of bright purple flowers varieties and scarce species in above brown-spotted, lance- our gardens, few of which shaped leaves. A spectacular individually produce enough to British native, now sadly very list, so we offer this choice, rare, it divides readily when fgragrant mixture and include established. We also assist their Dianthus 'Highland Frazer', spread by shaking dried squarosus, pindicola, pinifolius, seedheads around the garden. 'Fairfolly' and many more.

DATISCA CANNABINA DIERAMA BLACKBERRY BELLS £2.40 Datiscaceae HP 7-8ft £2.65 Iridaceae HP Quite an incredible plant for the Seed collected from a vigorous back of the border, or as a test hybrid between 'Cosmos', and to baffle your friends. Tall, probably Dierama robustum, strong cane-like stems sprouting and inheriting some of the large, pendulous, terminal darkness from the former sprays of creamy-yellow flowers, flower, but with much larger, are clad in palmate leaves deep purple-maroon flared resembling, er... cannabis.. trumpets on very tall, strong apparently! springy stems.

DELPHINIUM COTTAGE GARDEN MIX DIERAMA 'BLACKBIRD' £2.35 Ranunculaceae HP 3ft+ £2.35 Iridaceae HP 3-4ft This generous packet contains Seedlings from this famous and all shades, including bicolours, darkest of all dieramas will vary, blue, pink and white singles, and but most plants should produce doubles from our cottage cascades of pendulous, funnel- garden. We have also included a shaped claret purple flowers on few unusual species so expect wiry stems. There will be no the odd surprise. rejects, all will be superb.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 15 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 DIERAMA COSMOS DIERAMA SPECIES MIXED £2.75 Iridaceae HP 3-4ft £2.70 Iridaceae HP 2-6ft This newly discovered plant A superb mixture of all the bears the darkest flowers of any varieties listed here. We are dierama we have ever seen. also including some unusual and Pendulous trumpets of deepest un-named species and hybrids burgundy contrast starkly with from our trial grounds. All will the white papery enclosing be extremely beautiful. Expect bracts from which they some very pleasant surprises, emerged. A superb new colour- colours and forms never before break. seen!

DIERAMA ERECTUM DIERAMA 'SPRING DANCER' £2.50 Iridaceae HP 3-4ft £2.65 Iridaceae HP 3-4ft Stiff, not arching wands, sport This is the earliest of all "Angels' close-packed clusters of Fishing Rods" to flower, in April brightest fluorescent pink, and May. Numerous flared pink outward-facing, not pendant, trumpets dangle on thin stems, starry bells. This extremely which are out-facing rather than desirable introduction is the last, pendulous. This most unusual and perhaps the most unusual, new plant was collected as of all dieramas to flower, giving unknown seed from the colour into October. Mountains.

DIERAMA IGNEUM DIGITALIS 'ANNE REDETZKY' £2.40 Iridaceae HP 2ft £2.95 Scrophulariaceae HP 2-3ft Fiery bunches of flared, tomato- An intriguing and novel dwarf red flowers make an impressive foxglove. The whole of the display on this diminutive creamy trumpet flower is cut in introduction from South Africa. several places along its length, This is a choice and very hardy which then reflexes back, plant which is vigorous and producing an almost orchid-like quick to clump up. appearance. Possibly the most attractive digitalis of all.

DIERAMA ROBUSTUM DIGITALIS FERRUGINEA GIGANTEA £2.65 Iridaceae HP 5ft + £2.20 Scrophulariaceae HP 4-6ft Possibly the tallest of all of the This is a spectacular towering "Angels' Fishing Rods". Flared, form of this excellent perennial deep pink bells hang from long, foxglove. Tall slender spikes in stout arching stems. After many close groups bear many years, will make a huge distinctive pale orange-brown spreading clump. Seed from flowers each with a protruding plants grown from wild-collected white lip. Completely hardy and seed. totally perennial

DIERAMA 'SNOWBELLS' DIGITALIS 'FLASHING SPIRES' £2.50 Iridaceae HP 3-4ft £2.25 Scrophulariaceae HP 2-3ft (D. pulcherrimum album). A Plantworld introduced the first lovely colour-break in dieramas. ever variegated foxglove from Large, flared milky white bells. seed. (Digitalis lutea variegata). Seedlings may also produce the In spring appears a robust odd bicolor or palest pink. rosette of cream-splashed leaves, from which arise spikes of yellow-green flowers.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 16 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 DIGITALIS GRANDIFLORA DIGITALIS PARVIFLORA £2.20 Scrophulariaceae HP 2-3ft £2.45 Scrophulariaceae HP 3ft Spikes of chocolate netted, large Slender spikes hold numerous sulphur yellow flowers over densely massed chocolate rosettes of strongly veined brown tubular flowers. A leaves. This is the largest and distinctive, striking and lovely most spectacular flowered of the . Also called yellow foxgloves. Perennial and 'Chocolate Soldier'. long lived.

DIGITALIS LUTEA DIGITALIS PURPUREA ALBA £2.15 Scrophulariaceae HP 2ft £2.30 Scrophulariaceae HP 3-4ft 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 'RED SKIN' £2.45 Scrophulariaceae HP 2-3ft £2.25 Scrophulariaceae HP 3-4ft Shortish stout spikes of very A superb new, fertile hybrid large flattened trumpets with a developed here. Soundly distinctive squashed perennial clumps produce strong strawberry/coppery colour, open spikes of shiny, waxy-looking, in early summer. This valuable golden flowers, distinctly plant with soft hairy leaves and polished with red on the top, a long-lived habit is one of the rather like a ripe apple. An most magnificent hybrid excellent addition to the current foxgloves. range of foxgloves.

DIGITALIS MIXED DODECATHEON SPECIES MIXED £2.35 Scrophulariaceae HP 18in-6ft £2.95 Primulaceae HP 9-15in (50+ seeds) A well-filled packet of cottage All of these exquisite plants garden forms and species from produce heads of attractive pink our gardens in all shapes and or red flowers on tall stems, colours. A good bet is just to which resemble their cyclamen sprinkle these around the relatives. They are spring and garden as they do best when early summer blooming, after grown without transplanting. which the leaves die away and the plant retreats underground as a tuber for the summer.

DIGITALIS 'PAM'S CHOICE' ECHINOPS TIENSCHANICUM £2.40 Scrophulariaceae HP 3-5ft £2.30 Compositae HP 4-6ft One of the best new foxgloves A tall, imposing "Globe Thistle''. to be found in recent years. Impressive, tennis-ball sized, Stout, strong spires of creamy silvery-white, prickly seedheads white flowers with their throats on strong, stout stems. almost solidly painted in deepest Constantly covered with bees burgundy. En masse it makes an and butterflies. unforgettable sight.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 17 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ECHIUM PININANA 'BLUE STEEPLE' ERODIUM GRUINUM £2.25 Boraginaceae HHP 10-14ft (30 seeds) £2.40 HBi 18in Also known as the 'Tower of A fascinating plant from Sicily. Jewels'. Echium pininana initially Large violet blue flowers are produces a palm tree-like produced all summer, followed rosette on a thick woody stem. by remarkable, enormous A year or two later, the centre, corkscrew seeds which are holding thousands of flowers, commercially used for making shoots upwards, sometimes to hygrometers (to measure 15-20 feet! Bees love this giant. dampness) - wet one and watch what slowly happens!

ECHIUM 'PINK FOUNTAIN' ERODIUM MANESCAVII £2.55 Boraginaceae HHP 7-10ft (30 seeds) £2.35 Geraniaceae HP 15in The most lusted-after plant in Deepest lilac-pink flowers the gardens every June. A cross produced for many months over we made between the fabulous lovely feathery leaves. A long Echium wildpretii with its four flowering, long lived valuable foot, fat red spike and the giant plant. blue Echium pininana. The result is a 15 inch wide, tapering tower of delicate pink flowers.

ECHIUM 'SNOW TOWER' ERODIUM PELARGONIIFLORUM £2.65 Boraginaceae HHP 10-15ft (30 seeds) £2.45 Geraniaceae HP 12in A friend on Guernsey sent us Large violet-veined white some seeds of an absolutely flowers above fragrant crinkly pure white Echium pininana she leaves from the end of winter had discovered. We could barely until midsummer and believe such a plant existed, but spasmodically thereafter. Much were thrilled to finally see an admired in our gardens and enormous 15 foot high snowy bone hardy too, although its cascade. exotic appearance does not give this impression.

ERIGERON KARVINSKIANUS ERYNGIUM AGAVIFOLIUM £2.25 Compositae HP 4-6in £2.25 Umbelliferae HP to 3ft On a gently spreading carpet of From comes what is tiny pointed leaves appear perhaps the king of eryngiums. sheets of white daisies which This statuesque plant, which has open white, turn pink and then evergreen, toothed, sword-like fade to purple. This cushion rich green leaves is in fact very plant is very long-flowering from hardy, whilst having a tender, late spring to autumn and is one exotic tropical look with massed of the best wall or dry-rockery heads of large grey-green spiky plants. flower heads.

ERINUS ALPINUS 'DR. HAHNLE' ERYNGIUM 'BLUE STEEL' £2.15 Scrophulariaceae HP 3-4in £2.60 Umbelliferae HP 3ft This miniature alpine plant is An extremely spiky, very dark sometimes called the "Fairy metallic blue multi-headed plant Foxglove" but you would never collected by Graham Pattison's guess it is in the foxglove family. 1994 Mexico Expedition at Dwarf spikes bear clusters of 10,000ft, near Potrero Nuevo. brilliant red flowers over tiny (PC&H 268) Obviously tufts of hairy leaves. These completely hardy and very gems will grow anywhere, even choice. in the cracks of a wall.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 18 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ERYNGIUM GIGANTEUM 'MISS WILMOTT'S GHOST' ESCHSCHOLZIA 'THAI SILK' £2.45 Umbelliferae HBi 18-24in £1.95 Compositae HHP 9-12in One of the most impressive The "California Poppy" is best summer plants you can grow in sown where it is to flower, this the UK, with unbelievable well-loved flower giving an metallic silvery-blue leaves, endless display of double flowers and stems. The word flowers with fluted petals in gigantea refers refers to the mixed colours over compact, flowers, not the plants which are grey-green glaucous foliage, rarely more than 2 feet high. from June until September.

ERYNGIUM MIXED EUPHORBIA CHARACIAS CHARACIAS £2.35 Umbelliferae HP 2-5ft £2.35 Euphorbiaceae HP 2-3ft (20+ seeds) A large packet taken from all of Probably the most popular and those described here, as well as long-lived of all spurges, some unidentified species in our producing strong stems of trial ground. We have also evergreen, blue-green leaves included unidentified new which terminate in extended species collected by us on our narrow heads of bright yellow Expedition to . flowers.

ERYSIMUM PLANTWORLD RAINBOWS EUPHORBIA CHARACIAS WULFENII £3.50 Cruciferae HP 12-18in (10 seeds) £2.55 Euphorbiaceae HP 2-3ft Years ago we crossed many This outstanding form produces perennial erysimums including imposing clumps of erect stems 'Bowles Mauve', linifolium and clad in narrow grey leaves scoparius, with dwarf terminating in large and almost wallflowers. Many of these new spherical, football-sized heads of plants have been marketed yellow-green flowers. These worldwide and these valuable imposing specimen plants will hand-collected seeds will give all perform reliably where little else colours and habits. will thrive.

ERYSIMUM 'RAY'S EARLY GIANTS' EUPHORBIA 'GOLDEN FOAM' £2.95 Cruciferae HP 2-3ft (10 seeds) £2.25 Euphorbiaceae HP 24-30in By crossing very large perennial Visualise a red-stemmed golden- erysimum species, with some flowered compact gypsophila good-coloured, tall and large- and you will be close to flowered annual ones, we have describing this outstanding new developed some quite enormous introduction. This plant has an hybrids, all carrying differently exciting future - both as a twin-toned flowers, which will garden plant and cut flower. flower before the very earliest commercial varieties,

ERYTHRONIUM REVOLUTUM EUPHORBIA LATHYRIS £2.65 Liliaceae HBb 12in £2.20 Euphorbiaceae HBi 3ft The fabled "trout lily" is perhaps A handsome and extremely the choicest of all erythroniums. rapid-growing plant bearing Lily-like, pastel pink spring symmetrical, pointed, blue- flowers open for a long period green leaves. Umbels of tiny above leaves beautifully mottled yellow flowers produce large in purple, brown and white. This bulbous seed-pods. Also known very long-lived plant will self- as "The Mole Plant" as it is seed making splendid drifts over reputed to deter moles! time.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 19 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 EUPHORBIA MELLIFERA FRITILLARIA MESSANENSIS £2.65 Euphorbiaceae HP 4-6ft £2.85 Liliaceae HBb 12-18in (10 seeds) Large creamy-veined leathery This lovely Mediterranean leaves topped by outstanding species bears flowers that are golden flower heads. Perhaps borne in groups of one to three one of the finest shrubby plants at the apex and are flared in cultivation. The name hanging bells of chequered 'mellifera' refers to the sweet brown and green with a green fragrance of honey produced by stripe down the centre of each the flowers. . It is easily grown outside in a sunny well-drained spot.

EUPHORBIA MIXED FRITILLARIA MIXED £2.95 Euphorbiaceae HP 18in-4ft £3.35 Liliaceae HBb 6in-2ft A really generous bargain bag of A good mixture of seeds from all hardy perennial euphorbias from the varieties we grow, including our range, including some some rarities. Species include unnamed rarities from our trial Fritillaria acmopetala, ground. Exceptional value for camtschatcensis, gracilis, graeca money and a good way to start var. thessalica, involucrata, a collection!. pallidiflora, pontica and others, but not including meleagris.

EUPHORBIA SCHILLINGII FRITILLARIA PERSICA £2.45 Euphorbiaceae HP 2-3ft £3.30 Liliaceae HBb 18-36in (10 seeds) A worthy recipient of the R.H.S. Pendent bells, from chocolate- Award of Garden Merit. brown to dark purple-black, Numerous thick massed stems tower on tall stalks holding with veined rubbery leaves, and silver-green leaves. This superb terminating in compound golden late spring flower flourishes in a yellow florets, radiate in every hot well-drained spot or even in direction producing a dome a large container, which it will fill reaching almost to the ground. with bulbs to bursting in just a few years.

FRANCOA 'PINK GIANT' FUCHSIA ORNAMENTAL MIX £2.60 Saxifragaceae HP 2-3ft £2.95 Onagraceae HHP 3-4ft Several years ago a single These seeds have been seedling flowered with huge collected from plants, some of blossoms and beautifully bi- which are sizeable bushes and coloured petals on attractive which have actually short, stout stems. From this overwintered outside, here in plant we have established a our gardens in Devon, in all superb seed strain with larger, shapes, colours and sizes. You more attractive and longer will get a surprising mixture of lasting flowers. new forms from these seeds.

FRITILLARIA MELEAGRIS GENTIANA ACAULIS £2.45 Liliaceae HBb 15in (30 seeds) £2.25 Gentianaceae HP 3in The nodding bell shaped flowers Seed saved from the darkest of Fritillaria meleagris are blue form we have ever grown. unmistakeable for their nodding Large upward-facing almost heads, sometimes of pure white, midnight blue trumpets with a or more frequently marked with piercingly contrasting white a delicate chequerboard pattern throat. Makes a slowly spreading in shades of purple. This rare carpet. British wild flower is now protected by law.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 20 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 GENTIANA ASCLEPIADEA 'PINK CASCADE' GERANIUM IBERICUM £2.65 Gentianaceae HP 18-24in £2.55 Geraniaceae HP 18in (10+ seeds) This rare and very beautiful pink Large, deep violet flowers with form of this late summer flower notched petals, adorn this bears heavy, arching sprays of handsome, deeply divided trumpet-shaped flowers which leaved plant in midsummer. One appear from July to October. It of the parents of the old and is a very long-lived plant taking sterile, but still favourite, 2 or 3 years to really make an Geranium magnificum which has impressive sight, but is well always been a solid performer worth the wait! with no vices.

GENTIANA LUTEA GERANIUM 'JESTER'S JACKET' £2.25 Gentianaceae HP 3ft £2.75 Geraniaceae HP 6-9in (10+ seeds) "Giant Yellow Gentian". Noble Small, prostrate leaves are spires of large golden star-like prettily spangled in red and flowers. Large basal lily-like white beneath a constant leaves. A very long-lived plant succession of pink flowers which should be in every garden. throughout summer and autumn. This valuable form of Geranium thunbergii really is the first true-from-seed variegated hardy geranium.

GENTIANA VERNA GERANIUM MACRORRHIZUM 'SNOW SPRITE' £2.75 Gentianaceae HP 2-3in £2.40 Geraniaceae HP 12-15in (10+ seeds) This is the classic alpine with This superb miniature has milky sheets of the most brilliant blue white flowers with all other parts starry flowers in spring. The being palest lime green. Along small clumps of tufted leaves with its controllable diminutive slowly spread to produce a solid stature and the aromatic cushion. Easy from fresh seed. perfume from its dainty leaves, this plant should have a place in every garden.

GERANIUM ALBANUM GERANIUM MADERENSE £2.35 Geraniaceae HP 12-18in (10+ seeds) £2.95 Geraniaceae HHP 3-4ft (20 seeds) Large numbers of magenta- This true flamboyant species veined, shocking pink flowers on grows a stout "trunk", which spreading stems are produced radiates strong stalks, much over a far longer season than resembling a small palm tree, most other . "A long with huge trusses of deep pink flowering, underrated plant" flowers in early summer. Prefers ('Hardy Geraniums' - Bath & shelter, or even a big pot, but Jones). worth any trouble to grow for the incredible finale.

GERANIUM HARDY MIXED GERANIUM MADERENSE 'GUERNSEY WHITE' £2.95 Geraniaceae HP 12-36in (30+ seeds) £3.35 Geraniaceae HP 3ft (10+ seeds) A generous selection taken from New from Plant World is this our range including items with gorgeous pink-eyed white- too few seeds to list. This flowered form of this exceptionally good value mix spectacular plant which always contains a few real produces a massed head of rarities and could be the flowers in late spring. Does of cheapest way to start a its best in a sheltered spot or collection of these long-lasting very large pot. plants.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 21 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 GERANIUM 'PURPLE-HAZE' £2.70 Geraniaceae HP 2-3ft (20+ seeds) £2.75 Geraniaceae HP 2ft+ (10+ seeds) This is perhaps the most Years of selecting Geranium impressive and spectacular of all pratense forms has given us leaf hardy geraniums with sprays of colours from mahogany to deepest pink exotic flowers and deepest darkest beetroot. large clumps of glossy divided Plants will vary in size from 12 foliage with reddish stems. It is to 24 inches high with flowers in best in a sheltered spot, but has shades of blue or purple. survived minus 11 C unscathed here.

GERANIUM PHAEUM 'SAMOBOR' GERANIUM PYRENAICUM 'BILL WALLIS' £2.55 Geraniaceae HP 2ft+ (8 seeds) £2.35 Geraniaceae HP 12-15in (10+ seeds) Typical, darkest midnight purple This is the best (coming flowers open over solid mounds true) of the type, with especially of large leaves which are desirable, very deep violet- strikingly zoned in dark purple flowers, which are at chocolate brown. Certainly a their impressive best in the late candidate for the most attractive evening. This cultivar is often foliage of any hardy geranium wrongly spelled 'Bill Wallace'. and very rarely offered from seed.

GERANIUM 'PINK LACE' GERANIUM RUBIFOLIUM £2.35 Geraniaceae HP 18-24in (10+ seeds) £2.75 Geraniaceae HP 2ft (8 seeds) The seedlings from this Masses of thin branching stems strikingly lined and pencilled hold an almost endless new hybrid come quite true in a succession of white-eyed, corner of our cottage garden purple-pink flowers through producing a long succession of summer and autumn. A choice, bright flowers throughout spring rare and fabulous plant from and early summer. A tough Kashmir with soft, bramble-like plant that grows well in shade leaves, hence its name. Superb too! standing alone.

GERANIUM 'PINK SPLASH' GERANIUM 'SILVER CLOAK' £2.65 Geraniaceae HP 24-30in (10+ seeds) £2.65 Geraniaceae HP 18in (10+ seeds) A Plant World introduction This superb geranium is a fertile (Geranium 'Janet's Special'). cross between the beautiful White flowers with radiating pink Geranium incanum, with the streaks make this the perfect finest filigree foliage, and the pink counterpart to the original more robust Geranium 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 PLATYANTHUM GERANIUM WALLICHIANUM 'BUXTON'S BLUE' £2.30 Geraniaceae HP 24-30in (10+ seeds) £2.85 Geraniaceae HP 9in (8 seeds) (Also called G. eriostemon). A On a compact slowly spreading most unusual plant from Korea carpet appears a non-stop and Japan. Large shallowly display from June onwards of lobed toothed leaves grow from upward-facing white-eyed sky a thick rootstock. Dense clusters blue flowers. "A pearl beyond of flat-faced white-eyed mauve- price" (G.S.T.), but alas a blue flowers appear from early reluctant seed producer - the spring through into summer. elusive seeds are collected Spectacular if given space. individually.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 22 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 GUNNERA MANICATA HARDY ROCKERY GEMS £2.35 Haloragidaceae HP 5-10ft £2.35 Various HP 4in-1ft Certainly one of the largest A generous packet of all sorts of hardy herbaceous plants which rockery and front of border can be grown in the U.K. plants. Far too many to list, but producing large, puckered and includes dwarf campanulas, tiny lobed leaves on spiky stems thalictrums, diminutive gentians, above huge statuesque spikes of dianthus and very many more. tiny reddish-green flowers. Near water this plant can grow enormous.

HALORAGIS 'WELLINGTON BRONZE' HELLEBORUS ANEMONE-CENTRED £2.30 Haloragidaceae HP 2ft £3.45 Ranunculaceae HP 12-24in (15 seeds) An attractive foliage form of this This delightful variety of unusual New Zealand plant hellebore has an attractive ring (Haloragis erecta) a relative of of frilly petals (which are in fact gunneras. Bronzed leaves and oversized nectaries) within the spikes of many greenish-yellow usual petals producing an flowers add colour to the border attractive, frilly, doubling effect. both before and after the main The sizeable, upturned flowers flush of garden flowers. come in the usual range of bright colours.

HARDY BULBS TALL MIXED HELLEBORUS 'BLACK BEAUTY' £2.25 Various HBb 18-48in £3.15 Ranunculaceae HP 15-18in (20 seeds) A generous packet of taller These seeds were collected bulbous plants, including such from the darkest plants we rarities as asphodeline, grow, which originated from one eremurus, galtonia, of the country's top hellebore hermodactylis, veratrum, breeders. Deepest plums and watsonia, and dozens more. purples open from slate coloured buds, many plants having the extra bonus of the dark foliage of their parents.

HARDY COTTAGE TALLER MIX HELLEBORUS COTTAGE MIXED £2.30 Various HP 2-6ft. £2.65 Ranunculaceae HP 1-2ft A huge choice selection of A wide and generous selection literally hundreds of different from all of the hellebores taller cottage garden plants. varieties and species on our list. Some of these are collected All colours are included from from famous gardens and white and yellows to deepest stately homes so expect some purples and spotted and mottled surprises! forms. An inexpensive way to start a collection of these attractive favourites.

HARDY ROCK DWARF MIX HELLEBORUS 'DOUBLE ROSES' £2.25 Various HP 1-4in £3.45 Ranunculaceae HP 18in (10+ seeds) A wide selection of lots of our These absolutely superb, fully most desirable and diminutive double hellebores, do indeed rock plants collected in small bear an amazing resemblance to quantities. Examples are roses and come in all shades androsaces, aquilegias (jonesii, from palest pink to red. The saximontana,), asyneumas, long stems are perfect for calceolarias (darwinii, etc.), cutting too. campanulas, cortusas, dianthus, but please do not request a list!

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 23 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 HELLEBORUS FOETIDUS MISS JEKYLL'S SCENTED HELLEBORUS PRIZE WINNERS £2.55 Ranunculaceae HP 24-30in £2.65 Ranunculaceae HP 18in (10 seeds) The overpowering fragrance, Seed from the very best forms similar to mahonia, from the of Helleborus orientalis that we pendulous purple-lipped flowers, grow in our gardens, including fills our cottage garden in pinks, maroons and mottled and earliest spring. This is the rare, patterned heads. This selection sweetly-perfumed form. (Its will impress all who are simply explains fortunate enough to discover that the thick, shiny leaves smell these emerging from March to if bruised!). June each year.

HELLEBORUS 'GOLD BULLION' HESPERIS MATRONALIS £3.25 Ranunculaceae HP 18-24in (10 seeds) £1.90 Cruciferae HP 2-3ft Dazzling shining fingers of The "Dame's Violet" is one of purest gold form the leaves of the indispensable cottage this fabulous new variety of garden flowers. Very fragrant Helleborus foetidus, which we lilac mauve stock-like flowers on developed here. Strong and tall branching stems, which are vigorous even in the brightest produced throughout spring and sunny spot, the normally green early summer. Superb perfumed flowers being a pale sulphur cut flowers from seed the first yellow. year.

HELLEBORUS 'HELEN BALLARD'S' HESPERIS MATRONALIS VARIEGATA £2.95 Ranunculaceae HP 15in (10 seeds) £2.45 Cruciferae HP 2ft Seed from the most beautiful "Dame's Violet", "Sweet plants we have ever grown. Rocket", or "Damask Flower" Large, waxy, extravagantly has been a favourite cottage marked flowers produce gasps garden flower for hundreds of of awe from all who see them. years. We now offer the first These plants are descendants of ever variegated seed strain of many of Helen Ballard's famous this perfumed old cottage named forms. garden favourite.

HELLEBORUS NIGER HEUCHERA 'CRISPY-CURLY' £2.45 Ranunculaceae. HP 6-8in (5 seeds) £2.15 Saxifragaceae HP 18-24in This ever-popular plant is an Quite an unusual form of evergreen perennial flowering heuchera with delightfully plant producing its large, waxy convoluted, sometimes even white flowers on short stems parsley-like green foliage. The with thick shiny leaves in the sprays of greenish-white flowers middle of winter. which appear on long stems, and are ideal in flower arrangements, are an added bonus!

HELLEBORUS PLANTWORLD DOUBLES HEUCHERA 'EMPEROR'S CLOAK' £3.65 Ranunculaceae HP 15-18in (10+ seeds) £2.60 Saxifragaceae HP 12-18in These superb, fully double Puckered, folded and pleated hellebores bear an amazing leaves, from beetroot red to resemblance to roses and come deep purple and which appear in all shades from pure white to to be transparent in the sun, red, and including greens and produce a mound from which yellows and often heavily arise thin stems carrying fluffy marked and shaded. The long white, superbly contrasting stems are perfect for cutting too. flowers.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 24 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 HEUCHERA 'METALLICA' HYPOXIS ROOPERI £2.45 Saxifragaceae HP 15-18in £2.30 Hypoxidaceae HP 8-10in (10 seeds) These plants have been selected Rhodohypoxis come in reds, for the most attractive marbled pinks and white, but we bet and veined leaves. The colours you've never seen a yellow one and shades of mahogany, before! Thin, grassy stalks hold bronze, aluminium and silver are a long succession of distinctive most distinctive on young spring bright yellow stars from spring foliage. Flower sprays in shades to late summer. A little gem of pink and white. from the mountains of South Africa.

HOLLYHOCK 'BLACK BEAUTY' HYSSOPUS OFFICINALIS ROSEUS £2.35 Malvaceae HP 6ft £1.95 Lamiaceae HP 12in Tall spires hold numerous large, This is the more unusual and silky, glistening, almost black incredibly lovely pastel pink trumpets. In addition, this herb form of this floriferous herb can be used in the same manner which is usually blue. In as marshmallow, the flowers, addition, this is one of the most with the calyx removed, are attractive flowers you can grow commonly used to treat colds as to fill your garden with bees and they are a demulcent. butterflies.

HOLLYHOCK 'BURGUNDY TOWERS' IMPATIENS 'AUTUMN CANARIES' £2.25 Malvaceae HP 5-7ft £2.65 Balsaminaceae HA 4-5ft (20+ seeds) This unusual form occurred here A quite astounding new plant some time ago with strong with thousands of tiny buds stems carrying large, deepest which miraculously inflate and crimson flowers and fig-shaped finally open in mid August, and leaves. In common with other incredibly, until late October or fig-leaved hollyhocks, these even November the plant is a have proven to be very resistant picture, smothered in wide- to rust. throated, nodding, canary- yellow flowers.

HOLLYHOCK CHOICE MIX IMPATIENS BALFOURII £2.20 Malvaceae HP 5-10ft £2.35 Balsaminaceae HA 24-30in (10 seeds) A generous packet containing a This new, rare and lovely plant, wide mix of single hollyhock originating in the Himalayas cultivars and species in all produces a long succession of bi- colours from white to deepest coloured pink and white flowers purple. We've also included a from late June until September. few scarcities such as the giant Planted out early in the year in Alcea litwinowii, and hybrid good soil it makes a magnificent forms of Alcea ficifolia and Alcea solid dome absolutely rugosa. smothered with blossoms.

HOLLYHOCK 'REDS AND PINKS' IMPATIENS 'BLUE DIAMOND' £2.15 Malvaceae HP 5-10ft £2.95 Balsaminaceae HHP 18-24in (10 seeds) A generous mixture of various Discovered only in 2003 in the red hollyhock shades, from remote Namcha Barwa Canyon darkest maroons and scarlets, to in Tibet, this is the rare, first palest pinks, all collected from ever, deepest sapphire-blue our cottage gardens. The odd impatiens, with leaves like bee-pollinated intruder may polished jade. Bedding sometimes appear! impatiens have flat flowers but these conservatory-perennials resemble elegant cranes in flight.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 25 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 IMPATIENS SCABRIDA CAULESCENS £2.55 Balsaminaceae HBi,HA 2-4ft (10+ seeds) £2.25 HP 3ft The "Himalayan Jewel Orchid" In September, later than all grows on cool slopes other pokers, arise massive where it forms a large wide solid heads of red, later changing to mound completely studded with greenish-lemon, above very pairs of intriguing, creamy broad grey leaves and elephant- yellow, orchid-like flowers, each trunk-like stems. "Very valuable with two unequal lips. This new and perhaps the only truly hardy gem will add a tropical air to large poker" (G.S.T.). your garden.

IRIS CHRYSOGRAPHES 'BLACK GOLD' KNIPHOFIA NORTHIAE £2.15 Iridaceae HP 2-3ft £2.65 Asphodelaceae HP 2-3ft The flowers are not oil-coloured, Probably the most impressive of but its name alludes to the all red-hot-pokers. Massive, Greek, chrysographes = 'gold wide, heavy leaves make a writing'. Tall sprays of darkest solid, agave-like rosette from blue to almost black velvety which arise very thick-stemmed flowers are delicately marked flower-spikes of yellow and with golden lines. orange. A stunning plant which improves with age.

IRIS 'CLOTTED CREAM' LAVANDULA ANGUSTIFOLIA £2.30 Iridaceae HP 2-3ft £1.95 Labiatae HP 24-30in This lovely palest buttermilk This generous packet of the form of Iris pseudacorus, common lavender will produce coming true from seed, has very many plants of the well- exquisitely marked and veined known plant producing, long- petals. Will grow very large in a stemmed flowers which are damp or wet spot, but does ideal for cutting, drying or to perfectly well in a dry garden. perfume linen.

IRIS SPECIES MIXED LAVANDULA 'MUFFET'S CHILDREN' £2.45 Iridaceae HP 9in-3ft £2.45 Labiatae HP 8-10in A generous packet of all our An amazing dwarf lavender with irises, including some collected short-stemmed fragrant blue in quantities too small to list, flowers studding a football- some very rare, in all sizes and sized, silver-grey bush. The odd colours. More than twenty seedling may vary but most will varieties, but a few examples be very compact indeed. are: Iris chrysographes, forrestii, innominata, shrevei and many more.

KIRENGESHOMA PALMATA LAVANDULA NANA ALBA £2.85 Hydrangeaceae HP 24-30in £2.50 Labiatae HP 9in Arching stems clad in angled Masses of short, pure white opposite leaves terminate in flowers appear on this fragrant, sprays of yellow, crystalline, two very compact, grey-leaved form inch shuttlecock flowers. Grown of Lavandula angustifolia nana well, this is a certain crowd- alba throughout the summer. puller. (RHS AGM) "There is Seedlings will vary but most will nothing like it. A unique plant of be very dwarf indeed. great beauty." (G.S.T.)

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 26 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 LAVATERA ARBOREA VARIEGATA LIGULARIA CLIVORUM 'DESDEMONA' £2.35 Malvaceae HP 2-4ft £2.35 Asteraceae HP 3-4ft This unique plant often stands Three inch wide, bright orange pride of place amongst the flowers on branching purple winter foliage plants, when it stems, stand above glossy, shines like a lantern in the beetroot-coloured, heart-shaped garden. As a bonus, purple leaves. This exceptional back-of- flowers smother the plant in border or even bog plant early summer. Either in a very attracts countless butterflies and large pot or in the garden it is moths, such as the Jersey Tiger- an arresting sight. Moth shown here.

LEWISIA 'BRIGHT-EYES' LILIUM MARTAGON ALBUM £2.45 Portulacaceae HP 6-8in £2.30 Liliaceae HBb 2-3ft Sprays of dark-coloured flowers The lovely soft pink "Turk's Cap in all shades open with a Lily" bearing pendant flowers distinctive pale eye. These have with waxy reflexed petals. Some been selected over many years of the plants produced will be of by a top UK grower. the distinctive and rare, green and white form.

LEWISIA COTYLEDON 'SUNSET STRAIN' LILIUM SELECTED SPECIES £2.45 Portulacaceae HP 6-9in £2.35 Liliaceae HBb 18-60in From evergreen rosettes of This is an excellent value bag of succulent leaves, arise repeating numerous lily species grown sprays of flowers from white both by ourselves and some lily- and yellow to deep pink and mad friends! Includes the orange, dead heading producing following species: L. auratum, almost constant flowering. henryi, longiflorum, pyrenaicum, These tender-looking plants are regale, pumilum, and others we hardy and ideal for the rockery have in small quantities, all of or a container on the patio. them very lovely.

LEWISIA RAINBOW DAZZLERS LINARIA DALMATICA £2.70 Portulacaceae HP 4-8in £2.25 Scrophulariaceae HP 2ft A superb mixture of all of our A vigorous and most attractive best lewisia cotyledon forms, plant forming many blue-green some of them quite dwarf, leaved spikes of large-spurred, ranging from white through all large yellow flowers, all summer shades of pinks, reds and long and indeed up to Christmas yellows to deepest crimson. in our garden here! These plants are completely hardy in spite of their exotic appearance.

LIBERTIA CAERULESCENS LINARIA TRIORNITHOPHORA £2.35 Iridaceae HP 15-18in £2.35 Scrophulariaceae HP 2ft+ This dwarf Chilean libertia Incredible yellow-lipped, long- makes showy clumps in high tailed, purple "snapdragons" on meadows and is very hardy. stout stems. These are arranged From iris-like leaves, arise around the stems in groups of numerous spikes of intriguing three, looking incredibly just like flower heads which are a rare budgerigars! (Look at the shade of palest china blue, with botanic name - 'three birds'). An bright orange anthers. (Syn. exceptional, but rarely seen Libertia sessiliflora.) plant.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 27 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 LOBELIA 'BLUE CARDINAL' LUPINUS SILVER FLEECE £2.35 Campanulaceae HP 2ft+ £2.85 Leguminoseae HP 18in (10 + seeds) Clear blue flowers on strong Lupinus chamissonis has silver stems bearing crinkly leaves. foliage but is often difficult to Will grow equally well in dry or keep going. Using it as a parent wet conditions. Very hardy and we have produced this lovely soundly perennial.(Syn. Lobelia new silver-grey foliaged, syphilitica) creeping, cascading lupin, which is vigorous, hardy, and has gorgeous blue and white stumpy flower spikes.

LOBELIA TUPA LYCHNIS CHALCEDONICA £2.65 Campanulaceae HP 4-8ft £1.85 Caryophylaceae HP 24-30in An incredible giant hardy lobelia This little beauty is one of the from Chile. From a large rosette traditional cottage garden of thick leathery felted leaves plants, and it carries congested arise thick stems carrying heads of brilliant scarlet Maltese- tropical looking orchid-like Cross-like flowers right into late deepest carmine flowers. A summer. valuable late season display from July until the autumn frosts.

LOMELOSIA 'BLUE MOUND' LYCHNIS CHALCEDONICA ALBA £2.95 Dipsacaceae HP 18in (6 seeds) £2.30 Caryophylaceae HP 2-3ft This new, fabulous, previously This is the albino form of the unknown scabious relative, famous "Maltese Cross" flower, collected high in the Taurus having congested heads of ivory- mountains of Turkey, may be white blooms. Very long-lived the rarest plant we have ever and hardy, it can make a truly sold. A dome of leathery leaves dazzling splash of light in the produces a summer-long mid-border, and especially in succession of almost stemless, any dark area needing to be blue scabious flowers. brightened up!

LUNARIA ANNUA LYCHNIS CHALCEDONICA 'PINKIE' £2.05 Cruciferae HBi 2-3ft £2.20 Caryophyllaceae HP 24-30in "Silver Spoons", "White Money The palest pink form of this Plant". Almost too well known popular, normally deepest red, to need describing, this bright cottage garden plant can make pink-flowered plant happily self- an impressive statement in the seeds if allowed, giving its herbaceous border. reliable display of dried papery seed-heads every year.

LUPINUS BLUE JAVELIN LYCHNIS CORONARIA £2.40 Papilionaceae HA 2-4ft £2.10 Caryophyllaceae HP 18-24in (1000 seeds) Vigorous plants produce single Large flowers of deepest rose- spikes of fragrant sky-blue crimson are carried on flowers that change to gold as branching stems bearing they age and which can reach 4 attractive grey woolly leaves. A feet tall. They produce long- must-have plant for the classic blooming plants with showy cottage garden. flowers that are fragrant and much-loved by butterflies and are good for cutting.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 28 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 LYCHNIS CORONARIA ALBA MECONOPSIS ASIATIC SPECIES MIXED £2.15 Caryophyllaceae HP 2-3ft £2.95 Papaveraceae HP 2-5ft The unusual albino form of the This is a generous mix of all of traditional cottage garden plants the flamboyant Asiatic poppies which has massed heads of pure we grow. All colours are here white flowers on grey stems from reds and yellows to white above clumps of grey woolly and blue. These will all perform hairy leaves. best if you make the effort to prepare a deep, well manured, peaty bed, preferably in the shade

LYCHNIS CORONARIA OCULATA 'ANGEL'S BLUSH' MECONOPSIS BAILEYI £2.15 Caryophyllaceae HP 2-3ft £2.80 Papaveraceae HP 3ft The pink-eyed white-flowered (Syn. Meconopsis betonicifolia). form of the woolly, grey-leaved The fabulous "Himalayan Blue Lychnis coronaria comes quite Poppy" forms clumps of hairy true from seed but the pink eye leaves from which arise strong varies quite bizarrely with the stems carrying heads of silky, season and weather conditions. kingfisher-blue, almost A lovely long-lived cottage transparent petals with golden garden plant. eyes. This is one of the most beautiful garden plants.

LYSIMACHIA ATROPURPUREA MECONOPSIS BAILEYI ALBA £2.25 Primulaceae HP 2-3ft £2.65 Papaveraceae HP 3ft One of the the most requested Pure white silky petals surround new plant in our gardens, this a boss of golden on unusual plant bears dark spikes this rarely-seen form of the of very deep purple flowers, set "Himalayan Blue Poppy" which off by fleshy glaucous leaves, makes an outstanding picture in from spring and all through a shady damp corner, hopefully summer. growing in rich, moist, organic soil.

LYSIMACHIA LADY JANE MECONOPSIS BAILEYI 'HENSOL VIOLET' £2.55 Primulaceae HP 24-30in £2.90 Papaveraceae HP 2-3ft (40 approxim This form of L. clethroides has Bright violet-purple flowers, with spikes of pure creamy-white the merest hint of red adorn this flowers, which are held in closed quite exquisite variant of the ranks in midsummer and are all "Himalayan Blue Poppy". turned over at the top like Coming quite true from seed, it walking sticks. A rarely seen but surprises countless poppy-lovers quite spectacular flower albeit a who have never before seen this very infrequent seed-producer. unusual plant which originated from Hensol Castle.

LYTHRUM 'THE BEACON' MECONOPSIS CAMBRICA FL. PL. AURANTIACA £2.15 Lythraceae HP 3-4ft £2.25 Papaveraceae HP 12-18in Spires of rosy-purple flowers are The magnificent deep orange produced from July until double form producing a long September. Grows perfectly in succession of flowers ordinary soil, but in a wet spot throughout spring. One of the will excel. top ten selling plants on our nursery. Will self-seed into places where it is happy and is quite perennial.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 29 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 MECONOPSIS CAMBRICA 'FRANCES PERRY' MECONOPSIS SUPERBA £2.35 Papaveraceae HP 12-18in £2.85 Papaveraceae HP 3-6ft The rare red form of the This fabulous plant has perpetual flowering perennial gorgeous rosettes of grey-green Welsh poppy comes true from leaves and strong, hairy stems seed and will gently seed bearing sprays of sumptuous, around as long as there are non golden-eyed, pure white of the common yellow ones to flowers. Found at altitude in cross with it. Drifts of this Tibet and Bhutan, it has proved beauty are glorious as it flowers easy to grow here in Devon all summer long. from wild collected seed.

MECONOPSIS HORRIDULA MECONOPSIS WALLICHII £2.85 Papaveraceae HP 18in £2.65 Papaveraceae HP 4-7ft Gorgeous, striking cobalt-blue, An enormous giant of a poppy if ivory-eyed, floppy, tissue-paper grown in rich, peaty moist soil flowers suggest that the "horrid" and hopefully a bit of shade. A obviously only applies to the stout, bristly-leaved stem, spiny looking stems. It is one of almost a trunk, holds repeatedly the only drought-resistant branching arms each holding a Asiatic meconopsis, dying down delicate, pale blue tissue-paper to a tuber if conditions are too flower. Flowers often till October hot for it! or later.

MECONOPSIS 'LINGHOLM' MELANOSELINUM DECIPIENS £2.95 Papaveraceae HP 3-4ft £2.25 Apiaceae HP 3-4ft (40 seeds) The true Meconopsis grandis is This new umbellifer is certainly rare in cultivation, but this fertile one of the finds of recent hybrid, which is a quite reliable years. In its second year a thick perennial, has enormous deep strong stem sprouts a broad cobalt blue flowers, up to four crown of several branches inches across, and is certainly carrying finely divided bronzed the best available anywhere. leaves, beneath very large umbels of bright pink flowers. An unforgettable picture.

MECONOPSIS NAPAULENSIS MOLOPOSPERMUM PELOPONNESIACUM £2.70 Papaveraceae HP 4-5ft £2.65 Apiaceae HP 36-48 in (10 seeds se Deeply lobed leaves felted with This strikingly attractive, silvery hairs, form a large and strongly aromatic plant, bears most sumptuous winter rosette. jaggedly-cut, glossy green In early spring the thick, strong, foliage, and in late spring arise main stem of this absolutely umbels of yellowish-white, magnificent specimen arises, sweetly fragrant flowers, which with branching spurs carrying in turn form large intriguing golden-eyed, cherry red flowers heads of sizeable, twisted seeds. in midsummer. And what a brilliant name!

MECONOPSIS REGIA MORAEA HUTTONII £2.85 Papaveraceae HP 3-5ft £2.15 Iridaceae HBb 2-3ft From dense rosettes of silver A valuable find from the South and golden pelted leaves arise African mountains. Large, iris- great spikes of sulphur-yellow, like, bright yellow flowers held silky flowers. One of the most well above the thin strap-like fabulous and impressive plants leaves, but these are different in moist rich soil. (Experts now from other moraeas as you will believe that the true, genuine agreeably discover when you Meconopsis regia may be no smell the overwhelming longer in cultivation.) perfume!

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 30 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 MORINA LONGIFOLIA NICANDRA 'SPLASH OF CREAM' £2.55 Morinaceae HP 2ft £2.05 Solanaceae HHA 2-3ft A rare and long-lived Nepalese The "Shoo-fly Plant" is reputed plant with thistle-like foliage to deter whitefly. This lovely (but no relation). From the main variation carries large, white- stem leaf axils appear exotic, centred, blue funnel-shaped flared white flowers, which turn flowers over lush foliage to pink inside after . dramatically splashed with Repeat flowering from early creamy yellow. Can reach three summer until the frost, feet in only eight weeks after an especially if dead-headed. early summer sowing!

MYRRHIS ODORATA NICOTIANA LANGSDORFII 'CREAM-SPLASH' £1.95 Umbelliferae HP 2-3ft (10 seeds) £2.40 Solanaceae HHA 2-3ft This uncommon and beautiful The RHS AGM has already been British native, has ornamental, awarded to the top-selling green- much-divided, delicate, aniseed- leaved form. Makes a solid scented, fern-like foliage and bushy thicket with leaves edged crowded umbels of fragrant and splashed in cream, covered white flowers followed by with an endless succession of extremely large, shiny-black, tubular, greenish-yellow decorative seed-heads which pendulous flowers. are fluted and slightly curved.

NEPETA CLARKEI NICOTIANA SYLVESTRIS £2.10 Lamiaceae HP 18in £1.95 Solanaceae HHA 2-4ft This little known but most This lovely plant is actually a welcome newcomer pushes up species of wild tobacco bright spikes of deep violet blue 'Woodland Tobacco' grown in flowers over a very long period gardens for its scented flowers, on compact fragrant leaved which are overpowering at plants. It will grow anywhere night, so as to attract pollinating but thrives in a hot, well-drained moths. This is one of the plants position from which the leaves can be dried.

NEPETA FAASSENII NICOTIANA 'TINKERBELL' £2.25 Labiatae HP 18in £2.75 Solanaceae HHA 12-18in This bushy, clump forming This lovely hybrid with funnel- catmint is probably the best shaped, dusky maroon-red variety for edging and low flowers with pale green backs borders, forming mounds of and blue pollen, was originally small, grey-green leaves with produced here in 1998 at Plant loose spikes of tubular, soft World, by crossing a large- lavender-blue flowers. These flowered red nicotiana with a open all summer long, persisting green, very slim-tubed wild until cut back by frost. species.

NEPETA PARNASSICA OENOTHERA 'APRICOT DELIGHT' £2.40 Lamiaceae HP 3-6ft £2.25 Onagraceae HP 2-3ft A huge catmint, dwarfing "Six Vast three inch fragrant lemon- Hills Giant". Thick strong stems yellow saucers slowly change with fragrant leaves and long colour through apricot to pink spikes of purple-blue flowers in with age. This adorable back-of- summer and autumn. For the the-border plant is unusual in back of a hot border or fill the that the flowers open during the corner of the courtyard to day time when they can be best impress your visitors. admired.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 31 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 OENOTHERA BLOOD ORANGE VALDIVIENSIS £2.25 Onagaceae HP 3-4in £2.25 HP 10in This new and lovely dwarf plant From the Andes east of Valdivia with the same cushion-forming in southern Chile, in 1994, we habit as aubretia, produces an collected this clump forming, extremely long succession of very long-flowering, non- yellow-rimmed, red-eyed invasive plant. A rosette of flowers all season long on trifoliate leaves is surmounted prostrate stems. by a continuous succession of dazzling yellow flowers from spring until late autumn.

OENOTHERA 'SUNSET BOULEVARD' PAPAVER 'ORANGE FEATHERS' £2.25 Onagraceae HP 18-24in £2.20 Papaveraceae HP 18-24in (O. versicolor). An absolute Botanically this is Papaver smasher with orange petals rupifragum 'Flore Pleno', but we ageing to red giving a striking feel "Orange Feathers" is more display. Often, and sayable! This is the sumptuous, understandably, mistaken for a many stemmed, double "Crown Imperial Fritillary" when flowered perennial, bearing an in full flower! endless succession of frilly, many-petalled terracotta-orange flowers.

OMPHALODES CAPPADOCICA PAPAVER ORIENTALE BEST CULTIVARS £2.70 Boraginaceae HP 6-8in (8 seeds seed £2.55 Papaveraceae HP 2-3ft "Blue-eyed Mary". One of the These seed have been collected most desirable spring plants from our many named cultivars (R.H.S. Award of Garden Merit). including 'Patty's Plum', 'Beauty Sprays of bright blue flowers of Livermere', 'Mrs. Perry', from early spring to midsummer 'Pizzicato', 'Rembrandt' and over a slowly creeping carpet of others. You may very well shiny leaves. Viable seed is discover something new and very rarely offered as little is exciting! produced.

OMPHALODES NITIDA PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM 'BLACK BEAUTY' £2.65 Boraginaceae HP 12in £2.30 Papaveraceae HA 2-3ft Introduced by us, this new form The almost-black, fully double of Blue-Eyed Mary is a gorgeous blooms of this spectacular spring performer. From a flower caused a stampede for compact clump of small, shiny the seed being sold at a recent green leaves erupts a low dome Hampton Court Flower Show. of arching sprays studded with You will understand why when countless deepest cobalt blue you grow a bed of these to flowers. A priceless addition to perfection! gardens.

ONOPORDUM ACANTHIUM PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM 'PINK CHIFFON' £2.35 Asteraceae HBi 6-9ft £1.85 Papaveraceae HA 2-3ft "Scotch Thistle" or "Giant Cotton A very popular old favourite Thistle". One of the most producing a summer-long impressive plants if you can give succession of heavily doubled, it room. Candelabras of large icing-pink flowers. Multi-petalled mauve flowers on much- paeony-flowered forms hang on branching white woolly stems. to their petals much longer than single forms too! Performs best if sown thinly where you need it.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 32 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM 'RED CARNATION' PENSTEMON DIGITALIS 'HUSKER RED' £1.75 Papaveraceae HA 2-3ft £2.35 Scrophulariaceae HP 2-3ft Long-lasting, semi-doubled Beetroot-coloured stems and heads of deepest blood red foliage form a superb open throughout the summer. background to the swaying They really do look very much stems of rosy-lipped, palest like enormous carnations, but pastel pink tubular flowers. This without the perfume I'm afraid. imposing and unusual-coloured foliage plant may be seen at its best where it can contrast with other paler flowers

PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM 'RYE BEANER' PENSTEMON 'LILAC FROST' £1.75 Papaveraceae HA 2-3ft £2.55 Scrophulariaceae HP 12-18in The colour of the large single Collected in Mexico below the flowers does indeed resemble a summit of Cerro Potosi, at over diluted glass of the famous 11,000 ft. with winter blackcurrant drink. And every temperatures to nearly -30 C. flower has a black centre to (PC&H 148) A very long guide the bees and butterflies to season of stubby, flared white the ! trumpets, delicately brushed purple on top.

PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM ULTIMATE MIXTURE PENSTEMON LYALLII £1.85 Papaveraceae HA 24-30in £2.25 Scrophulariaceae HP 18in-2ft A very generous packet of An exquisite introduction from seeds, ideal for just sprinking Idaho/Montana. A compact where needed in the garden, overwintering rosette sprouts holding probably every known forth many branching stems cultivar of opium poppy heavily laden with large, slightly including: 'Danish Flag', 'Pink squashed, deep lavender blue Chiffon', paeony flowered forms, flowers. Long flowering in 'Hen and Chickens' and every midsummer. known colour to nearly black.

PARADISEA LUSITANICA PENSTEMON PROCERUS £2.25 Asphodelaceae HP 2-4ft £2.35 Scrophulariaceae HP 15-18in A rare plant, much like a greatly This compact new plant enlarged "St. Bruno's Lily" (P. produces many tight trusses of liliastrum). From a clump of bright purple-blue tubular grassy leaves grow strong stems flowers, which are much loved holding outward facing, fragrant by bees and butterflies, on a white trumpets. Possesses the compact shrubby clump. If valuable ability to gently self- pruned back in early spring it seed producing attractive drifts will delight for years to come. of flowers.

PELTIPHYLLUM PELTATUM PENSTEMON SERRULATUS 'SNOWFLAKES' £2.30 Saxifragaceae HP 3ft+ £2.45 Scrophulariaceae HP 15-18in This giant saxifrage relative This compact new plant starts off with truly gorgeous produces many tight trusses of sprays of pink flowers on thick pure white tubular flowers, stems in earliest spring. It then which are much loved by bees pushes up umbrella-like leaves, and butterflies, on a compact rather like a small gunnera. shrubby clump. If pruned back This stunning plant thrives in the in early spring it will delight for waters edge or equally well in a years to come. dry garden!.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 33 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 PENSTEMON SOUR GRAPES 'SULPHUR TRUMPETS' £2.40 Scrophulariaceae HP 18-24 in £2.15 HP 12-18in One of the all-time favourites, A delightful form of the North this lovely plant provides a American miniature polemonium summer-long succession of truly or "Jacob's Ladder", wonderful lilac-blue flowers, Polemonium pauciflorum. mottled with blush pink, which Silvery-leaved foliage adorns are carried on strong upright stems bearing terminal bunches stems, forming a good solid, of yellow trumpets, striped in bushy plant which will improve brown, with flared mouths. over the course of time.

PENSTEMON SPECIES MIXED POTENTILLA 'ETNA' £2.45 Scrophulariaceae HP 6-24in £2.15 Rosaceae HP 15-18in A wide selection from this Darkest crimson flowers, increasingly popular group of comparable with Cosmos plants, including both rockery atrosanguineus, open on what is and border varieties in all probably the best of all seed- colours, e.g. Penstemon raised herbaceous potentillas. A cardinalis, fruticosus, procerus, valuable front-of-border plant serrulatus, montanus, ovatus, that extends it flopping stems in venustus, virens and many more. all directions.

PENSTEMON 'SUNBURST RUBY' POTENTILLA HELEN JANE £2.55 Scrophulariaceae HP 12-18in £2.65 Rosaceae HP 12-15in A new and completely hardy, This relatively new semi-dwarf long-flowering plant, which cultivar is quite a winner with produces from early summer compact heads displaying into late autumn a seemingly crimson-eyed, bright pink endless succession of white flowers, and petals attractively throated, bright red flowers. crinkled just like crepe paper. New buds open repeatedly in a long succession, from spring until late summer.

PHORMIUM MIXED POTENTILLA 'MONARCH'S VELVET' £2.35 Xanthorrhoeacea HP 3-6ft £2.25 Rosaceae HP 24-30in Bold spires of lanceolate leaves Massed heads of deep raspberry produce architectural clumps. red flowers shade to a crimson Sprays of tubular orange-red velvet centre on these long- flowers are carried on strong flowering and long-lived stems into late autumn. An specimens. Bright green crinkled inexpensive way to grow a wide foliage, reminiscent of selection, including dwarf, strawberries, adds to this purple, green, and variegated attractive illusion. An excellent leaved forms. form of Potentilla thurberi.

PIMPINELLA MAJOR ROSEA 'RED DEVIL' PRIMROSE 'JACK-IN-GREEN' YELLOW £2.30 Umbelliferae HP 18-20 in £2.45 Primulaceae HP 6-8in (20 seeds) This rare and fabulous plant, The very rare original pure which flowers for many weeks in yellow form of these old midsummer, is one of the most Victorian curiosities. Each flower attractive members of the has a small ruff of leaves umbellifers. Very finely-divided replacing the calyx giving an carrot-like leaves form a perfect intriguing posy effect. foil for the solid sprays of delicate, rose-red flowers produced.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 34 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 PRIMULA CANDELABRA 'HARLOW CAR' £2.65 Primulaceae HP 12-18in £2.75 Primulaceae HP 12-18in (200+ seeds) A choice and very fragrant plant This is one of the brightest from the high mountains of selections available, with tall Tibet. Umbels of bell-like flowers stems holding tiered whorls of on strong stems are produced in large bright orange, red or early spring in either violet, scarlet flower,s which appear in yellow or white. April, May and June. In almost any type of soil they will make a dramatic statement to all who see them.

PRIMULA ALPICOLA ALBA PRIMULA CANDELABRA RAINBOWS £2.45 Primulaceae HP 12-18in £2.45 Primulaceae HP to 2ft An extremely beautiful primula Strong stems hold heavy heads with rosettes of long shiny of bright flowers arranged in leaves, powdered underneath, whorls. These plants are easy to supporting tall stems supporting germinate, grow and keep, clusters of very fragrant, pure especially on moist, well- white, slightly-powdered flowers. manured ground. These are collected from our best candelabra colours including scarlet, yellow, pink and purple.

PRIMULA AURANTIACA PRIMULA ELATIOR £2.65 Primulaceae HP 12-18in £2.45 Primulaceae HP 6-9in Massed umbels of fragrant The is seed collected from the reddish-orange flowers open on true British "Oxlip", now probably the most attractive, exremely rare in the wild. It is unusual coloured, and indeed superficially like a cowslip but the easiest to grow of the with larger, orange-throated, candelabra primroses. Native to fragrant pale lemon flowers. West Yunnan, it grows in moist alpine meadows and along stream sides.

PRIMULA BEESIANA £2.50 Primulaceae HP 18-24in £2.25 Primulaceae HP 2-3ft This vigorous and completely A generous packet of the "Giant hardy perennial produced stout Himalayan Cowslip". Large stems carry several umbels of round leaves and stout stems yellow-eyed pink-mauve carry immense heads of fragrant flowers. In good moist soil these flowers which are usually yellow plants can grow to cabbage- but very occasionally red or sized proportions! orange. This is almost certainly the biggest primula there is!

PRIMULA BULLEYANA 'MILLAR'S CRIMSON' £2.35 Primulaceae HP 18in £2.30 Primulaceae HP 2ft This extremely vigorous and These lovely candelabra-type hardy plants shoot up numerous stems thrusts up numerous strong bearing deepest crimson tiers. stems bearing bright orange They can make the most flowers with darker eyes. It spectacular, cabbage-like giants does especially well in waterside when well fed or in moist soil. environments where it will self- seed generously!

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 35 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 PRIMULA JAPONICA 'POSTFORD WHITE' PRIMULA VIALII £2.40 Primulaceae HP 2ft £2.65 Primulaceae HP 15in This hardy, long-lived plant will The "Red-Hot-Poker Primula" become enormous in rich moist has long crinkly leaves, from soil, producing yellow-eyed ivory which erupt dense spikes of white flowers on thick, strong violet blue flowers topped by a stems, and is almost certainly blood red cone of unopened the the most impressive of all of buds. When in flower in the the tall white . garden this is our best selling alpine primula and surely one of the most desirable.

PRIMULA PULVERULENTA PRIMULA 'VICTORIAN SILVER LACE' £2.20 Primulaceae HP 18-24in £2.75 Primulaceae HP 6-9in (30+ seeds) Strong stems holding tiered We have selected many whorls of deep red flowers arise varieties of these old popular from vigorous rosettes of tooth- primroses to offer a wide edged leaves. A small selection of vigorous plants proportion will be of the lovely displaying umbels of flowers in shell-pink 'Bartley's Strain'. This all colours from browns and lovely plant from China should buffs to deepest crimson, all be long-lived in most gardens. being attractively edged in either silver or gold.

PRIMULA PULVERULENTA 'BARTLEY'S STRAIN' PRIMULA VULGARIS £2.95 Primulaceae HP 18-24in £2.35 Primulaceae HP 6in This is possibly the most The true "Devon Primrose" desirable and sought after of all collected from a bank on our of the large primulas. (So nursery. Sheets of delicately valuable in fact that much of a perfumed, pale lemon yellow sizeable bed was dug up and blossoms appear in sheets of stolen, from our gardens!) This colour in earliest spring selected form bears tiered (sometimes at Christmas in whorls of large, yellow-eyed Devon!). sugar pink flowers.

PRIMULA VERIS PULSATILLA 'FRINGED FORMS' £2.10 Primulaceae HP 10in £2.30 Ranunculaceae HP 12in "Wild Devon Cowslip". Dense A new and outstandingly heads of pendent yellow flowers beautiful form of pulsatilla. appear on this quintessential Double and semi-double flowers spring flower, which is ideal for consisting of numerous quilled naturalising in borders or even and finely-cut petals, mostly in in wild grass (its natural home). red and purple, but including a You may even sprinkle them few whites and pinks. where required on to a grassy bank or lawn.

PRIMULA VERIS 'HOSE-IN-HOSE' PULSATILLA VULGARIS MIXED £2.95 Primulaceae HP 6-8 in (20+ seeds) £2.85 Ranunculaceae HP 12in Unlike normal cowslips, each Large rich silky goblets of blue, blossom of these ancient and purple and mauve in early extremely rare plants has a spring turn into large fluffy seed second blossom growing from heads. Finely cut silky leaves within the normal one, enhance this classic early producing an intriguing doubling beauty. (Fresh seed. Warning, effect. Until recently, these rare old seed rarely comes up!) and exquisite flowers had been lost to cultivation.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 36 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 RAMONDA MYCONII SALVIA PATENS 'OXFORD BLUE' £2.45 Gesneriaceae HP 3-4in £2.95 Labiatae HP 18-24in Resembles an "African Violet", This impressive clump-forming but completely hardy. Dark herbaceous perennial produces green rosettes of hairy succulent sprays of fantastic Moroccan- leaves. Round-faced yellow- blue hooded flowers on erect eyed purple-blue flowers. Very stems throughout summer and long lived in walls where it will autumn. Superb both as a slowly get bigger year after year. border plant and as a cut flower. No seed-grown flower has a better blue!

RHEUM PALMATUM TANGUTICUM SAPONARIA OFFICINALIS ROSEA PLENA £2.55 Polygonaceae HP 6-8ft £2.10 Caryophyllaceae HP 2-3ft Superb architecturally slashed This ancient member of the and cut leaves form an carnation family, "Bouncing imposing structure, from which Bett", should be in every in early summer arise immense cottage garden. Sprays of spikes of pink fluffy panicles. sweetly perfumed, double pink "Though any form of this plant flowers are produced from is worth growing, Tanguticum spring until late autumn. Will should be sought." (G.S.T.) form long lived, slowly spreading clumps.

ROSCOEA CAUTLEYOIDES SCABIOSA INCISA £2.55 HP 12-18in £2.45 Dipsacaceae HP 18-24in This very long lived and exotic A succession of flower heads are looking plant is in fact held on long, naked stems completely hardy. Exceedingly above the finely divided, almost lovely, soft yellow, orchid-like fern-like leaves along the lower hooded flowers, arise from tufts part of the stems, gently moving of glossy lanceolate leaves over with the slightest breeze. a long period in early and Butterflies cover these filigree midsummer. mounds from early spring to the middle of summer.

RUDBECKIA GRANDIFLORA SCABIOSA RUMELICA £2.30 Compositae HP 3-5ft £2.55 Dipsacaceae HP 2ft Strong tall stems, bear many A gorgeous slowly-spreading golden flowers with large, black, plant producing pure crimson protruding centre cones. And 'pincushion' flowers on many these appear 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 two good reasons! bright splash even in the darkest corner.

SALVIA HIANS SCHIZOSTYLIS MIXED COLOURS £2.65 Lamiaceae HP 2-3ft £2.40 Iridaceae HP 2ft+ Another hardy, but tender- From clumps of sword-shaped looking salvia. Large deep leaves arise stems of cup- purple and white flowers on shaped flowers from white, stout sticky stems held well through pinks to deepest above the foliage in spring and vermilion. This South African summer. "One of the best gladiolus relative provides border salvias." (William valuable colour from August Robinson) right through autumn and into winter if it remains mild.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 37 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 BIFLORUS SILENE 'PURPLE PRINCE' £2.15 Caryophyllaceae HP 2in £2.45 Caryophyllaceae HP 24-30in This truly amazing plant, slowly We have finally succeeded in creeping along like a dense and producing a purple-leafed, fertile solid green rippling carpet, 'Red Campion' (Silene dioica). produces wonderful shapes and The leaves of this superb new forms. Although related to our Plant World discovery go darker pinks, it is reputed to be the the brighter the sun is, giving a only Australian alpine totally perfect foil for the bright pink hardy in the UK. flowers.

SCLERANTHUS UNIFLORUS SILENE 'RAY'S GOLDEN CAMPION' £2.30 Caryophyllaceae HP 1in £2.65 Caryophyllaceae HP 18in (100 seeds) Probably the most diminutive, Years of trying has succeeding slow-growing and intriguing, in breeding this stunning new ground covering alpine plant plant that comes almost one can grow. In early summer, completely true from seed. Pink the prostrate cushion makes tiny flowers open over a very long half inch stems which carry one period, on contrasting dark golden seed each, whilst any stems, above compact clumps weeds in its path are stifled. of shining, lemon-gold foliage. (Silene dioica aurea)

SCUTELLARIA ALTISSIMA SILYBUM MARIANUM £2.20 Lamiaceae HP 12in £2.15 Compositae HP,HBi 3-6ft Non-invasive clumps of small Strikingly lined and marbled, blue and white "snapdragons" in white-veined prickly leaves close packed spikes. An easy support large heads of trouble free plant to grow, perfumed purple flowers. In which will spread slowly by self- good soil it can tower seeding. frighteningly above you, although on their first encounter with this plant in our gardens, many people crave it.

SEDUM EMPEROR'S WAVE SISYRINCHIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM £3.65 Crassulaceae HP 12-18in £2.20 Iridaceae HP 6-9in Emperor's Wave is a completely This dwarf iris relative could new and different variety of easily be mistaken for a clump Sedum telephium, with its dense of grass were it not for the purple-red umbels, set off by its yellow-centred, bright blue star- darkest purple foliage, making it like flowers that appear in a great attractor of bees and succession from May until butterflies, especially late in the August. Over time it can spread summer, and it is a good cutting slowly by seed or clumps can be flower. divided in early spring.

SENECIO POLYODON SISYRINCHIUM PALMIFOLIUM £2.25 Compositae HP 12-24in £2.35 Iridaceae HP 15-18in A long-flowering dazzler A Plant World introduction. The discovered on the mountains of "Bird-Of-Paradise" sisyrinchium South Africa. Numerous erect can carry up to one hundred stems produce an everlasting large golden stars on each display of carmine rose flowers magnificent head composed of from early spring until the repeatedly branching, broad autumn frosts. stems, giving an endless display of large, yellow saucer-shaped flowers.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 38 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 SMYRNIUM PERFOLIATUM STYLOPHORUM LASIOCARPUM £2.30 Umbelliferae HBi 2-3ft £2.15 Papaveraceae HP 12-18in "Perfoliate Alexanders". Old An ethereal and beautiful poppy cottage gardens and flower relative from China. Elegant arrangers have known of this pinnate leaves beneath curious plant for ages. The unusually large deep yellow stems, holding umbels of greeny- poppy flowers, produced over a gold flowers, grow straight very long season (May-Oct). through the middles of the shiny This too rarely seen plant will leaves, kebab-style. very gently self-seed into shady places if you are lucky.

STRAWBERRY 'GOLDEN ALEXANDRA' SUNFLOWER MONGOLIAN GIANT £2.25 Rosaceae HP 4-6in £1.65 Compositae HHA 12-14ft (10 seeds) This unusual strawberry with These plants really are golden ornamental foliage will monsters. Not only do they brighten up the darkest spot in grow up to 14 feet tall, they also your garden. It will also produce the most amazingly produce a long succession of enormous flower heads up to sweet, tasty throughout 18" in diameter. If you want to the summer. impress, or even upset, your neighbours just grow some of these against your house wall!

STRAWBERRY 'WHITE DELIGHT' SUNFLOWER 'SUNSPOTS' £2.20 Rosaceae HP 6-9in £1.95 Compositae HA 5-7ft (Fragaria vesca alba). An This Plant World original incredible form of the perpetual introduction was the first ever fruiting strawberry which stays variegated sunflower! Enormous white when it is ripe. Just as golden heads on tall strong sweet and juicy as the red form. stems with dappled and cream- And no race with the birds, who splashed foliage. Plant it in a usually get to the ripe ones first, sheltered spot for example because they cannot see and against a wall, and feed and eat them! water well!

STRELITZIA REGINAE TACCA CHANTRIERI £3.65 Musaceae HHP 2-3ft (6 seeds) £2.60 Taccaceae GP 18-24in (10 seeds) Spectacular orange and dark The 'Bat Plant'. A bizarre but blue flowers are held on very quite beautiful plant with thick stems above most aspidistra-like foliage and large, attractive, leathery, banana-like darkest purple, almost black leaves. In cold countries it does flowers which resemble best in a large pot when it Batman's cape. The most should be re-potted annually, in intriguing features though are warmer climes it can make huge the bunches of long 'whiskers' evergreen clumps in the garden. protruding from the centre.

STROBILANTHES ATROPURPUREA TARAXACUM PSEUDOROSEUM £2.35 Acanthaceae HP 3-5ft £2.30 Compositae HP 4-6in (10 seeds) Baffle friends with this late A pink dandelion with a yellow summer treasure. A sturdy eye? Whatever next? This newly- dome of stems carries salvia-like discovered little charmer will leaves, then from July until capture your heart though. A October white buds inflate into leafy rosette, just like a masses of spectacular deep dandelion, pushes forth a never- violet ramshorn-like flowers. ending succession of gorgeous This is an unlikely relative of bicoloured flowers. acanthus ("Bear's Breeches")!

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 39 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 TARAXACUM RUBRIFOLIUM (FAEROENSE) THALICTRUM UCHIYAMAE £2.35 Compositae HP 2-4in (10 seeds) £2.95 Ranunculaceae HP 3-5ft This most unusual dwarf This new species from the Far "dandelion" makes a tiny rosette East grows a delicate basal of beetroot-red, almost black spread of incredibly fine leaves, with short-stemmed maidenhair foliage, with yellow flowers. An attractive repeatedly branching sprays, little gem which could certainly carrying a unique colour break: never become a weed, it sets showers of countless, tiny, very few seeds for a start!! shimmering, tasselated pink and yellow flowers.

TEUCRIUM HIRCANICUM TRILLIUM CAMSCHATCENSE £2.15 Lamiaceae HP 18-24in £2.95 Trilliaceae HP 18-24in The only one Graham Stuart Originally collected on our 2002 Thomas cares to describe and trip to Sakhalin (RBS0281), what a beauty it is! A priceless these gorgeous specimens bear mid and late summer plant, with large, white, three-petalled crowded spikes of deep purplish- flowers in spring, which slowly red flowers above a low bush of age to purple. These grow best aromatic sage-like growth. in shade in deciduous woodland, a situation they will prefer whenever they are planted out.

THALICTRUM AQUILEGIIFOLIUM 'LADYBIRD CREAM PURPLE SPOT' £2.35 Ranunculaceae HP 30-36in £1.60 Tropaeolaceae HHA 8-10in Branching stems hold large Dwarf, bushy plants are covered heads of countless, fluffy, rich in unique cream blooms with rosy lilac flowers, (just like tiny dark purple central markings, powder-puffs) over delicate from May until October. These sprays of maidenhair, columbine- miniature plants are ideal for like foliage. An extremely lovely containers or small gardens. plant. Both the leaves and brightly- coloured flowers are edible!

THALICTRUM DELAVAYI VERATRUM NIGRUM £2.35 Ranunculaceae HP 3-4ft £2.75 Liliaceae HBb 3-4ft (Syn. T. dipterocarpum). A superb, very long lived border Probably the most attractive of plant, with strong spikes arising all of the species with huge from leathery green leaves and panicles of nodding lilac flowers carrying dark purple, almost in mid to late summer. Elegant, black, star-shaped flowers. This delicate ferny foliage. superb lily relative will improve in stature and size over the years if planted in well-prepared ground

THALICTRUM SPHAEROSTACHYUM VERBASCUM COTTAGE GARDEN MIX £2.90 Ranunculaceae HP £2.45 Scrophulariaceae HP 3-6ft This tall species with strong A wide assortment of all of the stems is like a much improved medium and larger verbascums, Thalictrum flavum, but has in many colours, collected from better blue-grey foliage and our gardens. The lazy gardener fluffy heads of pale lemon- can just sprinkle this large yellow which are fuller and more packet where required. massed, right through June to August. It is ideal for sun or partial shade in any fertile soil.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 40 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 VERBASCUM NIGRUM VERBENA HASTATA ROSEA £2.20 Scrophulariaceae HP 3-6ft £2.25 Verbenaceae HP 2-3ft This most attractive mullein A super, long flowering (June- pushes up long, strong spires Sept), plant from Nova Scotia. carrying numerous side This is the more unusual branches each up to 2 feet long, shocking pink form (usually bearing purple-centred yellow blue), with multi-branching flowers until late autumn. You candelabra-heads, flowers could even just sprinkle them slowly expand as they ascend around and let them come up as the stems like burning sparklers nature intended! (in reverse).

VERBASCUM PHOENICEUM VIOLETTA VERNONIA GIGANTEA £1.95 Scrophulariaceae HP 2-3ft £2.20 Compositae HP 5-7ft Dividing spikes of dark purple- This new plant carries flat heads violet flowers over crinkly-shiny- of deepest purple daisies leaved rosettes. By far the flowering on strong stems in darkest flowered mullein September and October. available. Valuable late colour when almost everything else in the garden has died away. Associates well with late cimicifugas and aconitums.

VERBENA BONARIENSIS VERONICA GRANDIS £2.15 Verbenaceae HP 3-4ft £2.35 Scrophulariaceae HP 2-3ft Every garden should have this Appropriately named, this long flowering beauty which completely new rare plant from flaunts its sprays of fragrant Japan produces until late purple flowers, on wiry angular September, slowly lengthening branching stems, from June spires, up to twelve inches long, until the frost. Acts as a magnet of deep royal blue, on many two for butterflies. to three foot stems, each of which is lightly clad with pointed sawtooth leaves.

VERBENA DWARF JEWELS VERONICA KIUSIANA £2.10 Verbenaceae HP 10-12in (100+ seeds) £2.15 Scrophulariaceae HP 20-30in These dwarf, spreading, early A unique introduction from blooming plants, produce vividly Japan making a solid dome of coloured flowers in a mix numerous, radiating two foot carefully formulated to maintain stems clad in jagged-edged a range of bright colours. The pointed leaves, branching flowers which appear endlessly terminally into stubby three inch all summer long, are invaluable spikes of china blue flowers. for massing in beds or borders, window boxes and baskets.

VERBENA HASTATA ALBA VIOLA BIFLORA £2.20 Verbenaceae HP 2-3ft £2.20 Violaceae HP 4-6in This is the pure white form of "Twin-flowered violet" Masses this lovely perennial which is of dark brown-veined, deep usually blue, with multi- lemon-yellow flowers, grow on a branching candelabra-heads. sprawling carpet of delicate These plants can carry on kidney-shaped leaves over a flowering right into late autumn, prolonged period in spring and especially if they are dead- early summer. Will self-seed if headed when a second flush will you are really lucky! appear.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 41 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 VIOLA BLUEBERRY CREAM VIOLA ODORATA £2.35 Violaceae HP 3-6in £2.15 Violaceae HP 6in This gorgeous new viola has The "Devon Violet" or "Sweet been produced using some of Violet" must be too well know to the very best dwarf violas on need a description...... but for the market as parents. The the record, makes a creeping flowers will vary from plant to carpet of fragrant leaves (yes!), plant, as ornamental violas do, and long-stemmed, perfumed but almost all of them will have blue flowers opening with the a cream or white face with a snowdrops in February, and on distinctive blue or purple edging. into spring.

VIOLA 'BOWLES' BLACK' VIOLA PAPUANUM £2.25 Violaceae HP 4in £2.55 Violaceae HP 1-2in (30 seeds) Very reliable from seed. Obtained only as 'Seed Collected Compact plants carry many Alpine Papua New Guinea' and small velvety flowers varying probably not yet in cultivation! from deepest midnight blue to In a shady corner or a pot out almost black. Will self-sow, and of the sun it makes an eventually hybridise with other attractive, slowly creeping violas, so keep it apart from carpet of tiny hairy leaves with lesser varieties. miniature blue flowers in the spring!

VIOLA CORSICA VIOLA 'TIGEREYE' £2.20 Violaceae HP 4in £2.35 Violaceae HP 4-6in Must be the largest of all viola Bright golden faces delicately blooms. Deepest blue almost laced and netted in black make pansy-like flowers with dark this one of the new 'Must-Have' markings. Compact tufts of plants. We have selected this shiny foliage. stunning viola for several generations and it comes rewardingly true from seed.

VIOLA COTTAGE GARDEN MIXED WILD FLOWER MIXES £2.20 Violaceae HP 4-6in £1.75 VARIOUS The complete spectrum from Please order any of these mixes our cottage garden with small or of wild flower seeds for various medium-sized flowers, colours habitats and purposes, all are at ranging from pale yellows £1.75 each. Butterfly Meadow through bicolors to dark blues. Collection. Honey Bee mix. If you're feeling really lazy - just Wetland mix. Shaded mix. Late- sprinkle this lot over your worn- flowering mix. Early-flowering out rockery for a beautiful mix. Cornfield mix. Meadow mix. display!

VIOLA 'FUJI DAWN' £2.45 Violaceae HP 4-6in “A very big thank you for excellent customer Deep purple, early spring service. I always recommend you to others, and flowers above sprays of believe that you can tell more about a company attractively marbled pink and from the way it handles queries rather than how cream foliage. A completely new they sell - both are brilliant in your case. The seeds colour-break in viola always do really well, and I manage to grow lots of variegation. Developed and plants to fund raise for our local ME support group.” named here at Plant World and now grown and copied Sue Hogben, Weymouth worldwide!

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 42 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ADLUMIA FUNGOSA CLEMATIS MONTANA PERFUMED FORMS £2.35 Papaveraceae HCl £2.35 Ranunculaceae HCl "Allegheny ". A rare and We have collected seed from all climbing poppy relative from of the cultivars throughout our North America. In spring rapidly gardens. Colours range from ascending stems carrying pure white through pinks to red, corydalis-like ferny leaves and and all flowers have the most thousands of pink, dicentra-like delicious perfume reminiscent of flowers can quickly cover a marshmallows. framework or shrub. Biennial, but self-seeds readily!!

ANDEAN CHOICE CLIMBERS CLEMATIS POTANINII £3.45 HCl £2.55 Ranunculaceae HCl A mouthwatering selection of Dense clusters of milky white, seed of rare, hardy exotic golden-eyed flowers appear on climbers from the Andean vigorous climbing stems all foothills. Should include; summer and into autumn. This chilensis (purple- little-known, but immensely black trumpet flowers), valuable gem from China, will Dioscorea araucana (pink lily- add value and colour by like flowers), and Herreria covering any boring old stellata, a climbing lily. evergreen shrub.

BILLARDIERA LONGIFLORA CLEMATIS SERRATIFOLIA £2.30 HCl £2.25 Ranunculaceae HCl A choice Tasmanian climber This delicate, late flowering grown outside for twenty years climber produces an endless here. Thin twining stems succession of blooms from July produce creamy-yellow purple- until October, when the frost tipped waxy flowers in spring. sends it to sleep again. The In autumn, outstandingly lovely fragrant brown-eyed yellow clusters of deepest violet grape- flowers give an unseasonal sized berries appear. supply of delicate lemon perfume.

BOMAREA HIRTELLA CODONOPSIS LANCEOLATA £3.55 Alstroemeriacea HCl 12ft (8 seeds) £2.40 Campanulaceae HCl (10 seeds) This "climbing alstroemeria" This plant, in a league of its makes a deep tuber and gives own, is surely the most predictably fabulous value each magnificent of all climbing spring when strong climbing codonopsis. Twining stems clad stems wind upwards, each in pointed leaves produce terminating in a compact bunch countless large, waxy, clematis- of gorgeous, speckled orange like bells of greenish-yellow, and green alstroemeria-like which are delicately marked in flowers. maroon.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 43 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 DICENTRA SCANDENS IPOMOEA 'CLARKE'S HEAVENLY BLUE' £2.75 Papaveraceae HCl £1.95 Convolvulaceae HHCl 15ft This king of climbing dicentras This showy climber produces a from Tibet has rapidly ascending seemingly endless succession of stems carrying hanging clusters huge, 4-5 inch, white-throated of lemon flowers amidst ferny blue trumpets. Plants climb to foliage all summer long. Ours more than 15 feet, producing cloaks a boring eight foot flowers which open in the conifer, produces numerous morning before fading in the sausage-like seed pods, then afternoon, from July until overwinters as a hardy tuber. October.

ECCREMOCARPUS SCABER FLAME COLOURS LAPAGERIA ROSEA £1.95 Bignoniaceae HCl £3.65 Philesiaceae HHCl (10 seeds) A vigorous scrambler, perfect Chile's national flower is a for covering an evergreen rightful candidate for the world's shrub, with red, orange or most beautiful climber. Huge, yellow tubular flowers, produced wax-like bell flowers, three- freely from June to October in inches or more of lipstick red, multi-flowered trusses. Makes a decorate the twining hardy overwintering tuber, but stems.Grow outside with flowers first year from seed. shelter, but better displayed in a conservatory or greenhouse.

ELYTROPUS CHILENSIS LATHYRUS DAVIDII £2.95 Apocynaceae HCl (8 seeds) £3.35 Leguminosae HCl (5 seeds) This exquisite, woody, A new and very rare, hardy evergreen climber from the cold perennial climber which Southern Chilean has produces typical pea-like foliage, strong, twining stems clad in but the sprays of flowers are of hairy, leathery, triangular a very unusual, yellow-brown, leaves, with trusses of delicately- almost toffee-colour. perfumed, intriguing, purple- Fascinating and unique! throated creamy flowers.

GLORIOSA LUTEA LATHYRUS LATIFOLIUS 'RED PEARL' £2.35 Liliaceae GCl (10 seeds) £1.95 Leguminosae HCl A new, rare and very lovely Heavy trusses of bright red, variation on the normally red- fleshy, substantial flowers, on flowered climber. Large, golden long, strong stems grow for an flowers with reflexed petals long time in spring and adorn the numerous vigorous midsummer on this perpetual, multi-branching stems in bone hardy, very perennial old midsummer. A truly spectacular favourite. If possible try to conservatory plant. plant where it has good strong climbing support.

GLORIOSA ROTHSCHILDIANA LATHYRUS SYLVESTRIS £2.95 Liliaceae GCl (10 seeds) £2.15 Leguminosae HCl This easily grown and This trouble and maintenance superlative climbing lily bears free, and quite rare British very large, reflexed, frilled native climber (The Wood yellow and crimson flowers. Pea)improves yearly, throwing Twining stems carry thin leaves out enormous numbers of flesh which terminate in a clinging pink flowers on strong stems, tendrils. This is an ideal plant being even more vigorous and for a sheltered garden or floriferous than Lathyrus conservatory. latifolius.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 44 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 MAURANDYA 'MAGIC DRAGON' SWEET PEA 'HENRY ECKFORD' £2.65 Scrophulariaceae HHCl £1.40 Leguminosae HA (25 seeds) In the early 1990's we bred This dazzling fragrant flower what is probably the first hybrid was the first uniquely coloured, climbing maurandya ever really bright orange sweet pea produced. These incredibly fast bred by the famous sweet pea growing plants, which possess breeder Henry Eckford in 1906. explosive hybrid vigour, produce a wide range of large flower shapes and sizes in all shades of pink and red.

MITRARIA COCCINEA SWEET PEA MATUCANA £2.65 Gesneriaceae HCl 3-6ft (15 seeds) £1.95 Leguminosae HA A very rare and lovely "African This famous old heirloom is a Violet" relative from the cold striking, very strongly scented, forests of southern Chile. This bi-coloured Peruvian sweet pea. fascinating scrambling/climbing, It is best grown alone as its slowly suckering, evergreen gorgeous, velvety, deep colours, plant opens dazzling red and which appear until late in the yellow tubular flowers from season cannot compete with early spring until late autumn. some of the bright modern forms.

MUTISIA ILICIFOLIA SWEET PEA 'OXFORD BLUE' £2.85 Asteraceae HCl (10 seeds) £1.40 Leguminoseae HA (25 seeds) "Chilean Climbing Gazania". This Spencer variety has very Rarely offered. Twining shoots large, strongly perfumed, strong- carry soft, holly-like leaves and stalked blooms, that are large, pinkish-mauve long brightest blue with lavender petalled "daisy" flowers. These shades, and are perfect for make a breathtaking sight and exhibiting. The red-blushed are surprisingly hardy when old petals are gently twisted, and with thick, trunk-like stems. gently veined with slightly deeper shades.

SWEET PEA 'BLACK KNIGHT' SWEET PEA 'PAINTED LADY' £1.40 Leguminosae HA (25 seeds) £1.40 Leguminosae HA (25 seeds) One of the 'more modern' A lovely old-fashioned heirloom heirloom varieties from 1898. variety dating back to 1737. A Sprays of heavily perfumed, profusion of rose/white bicolor bicolored deep maroon/violet flowers which are smaller than flowers. those of modern forms, but this is more than compensated for by their entrancing perfume.

SWEET PEA 'CUPID MIXED' SWEET PEA 'PASTEL SUNSET' £1.40 Leguminosae HA 18-24in (25 seeds) £1.40 Leguminosae HA (25 seeds) These dwarf sweet peas, all with A deliciously perfumed mixture a compact bushy habit, display of Spencer types. These pastel an attractive colour range over a shades include cream, almond, long season. They are perfect pink, lavender and white. for scrambling over a low fence, through shrubs, or even cascading from a container on the patio.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 45 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 SWEET PEA 'RIPPLE MIXED' TROPAEOLUM POLYPHYLLUM £1.40 Leguminosae HA (25 seeds) £3.95 Tropaeolaceae HCl (4 seeds) This vibrant mixture of striped Billowing trails of blue-grey and speckled flowers comes in leaves cascade along the ground shades of burgundy, pink, rose or scramble through and lilac. Also included are undergrowth, followed by an some superb new introductions overwhelming display of golden in this class. yellow ochre flowers opening in June. This gorgeous plant is astonishing when established on a hot well-drained bank.

SWEET PEA 'ROYAL WEDDING' TROPAEOLUM SPECIOSUM £1.40 Leguminosae HA (25 seeds) £3.35 Tropaeolaceae HHCl (8 seeds) The best long-stemmed, This fabulous Chilean native fragrant pure white sweet pea prefers peat to be incorporated available today. Awarded into the soil, when it will make Certificate of Merit by the countless hardy tubers. It is Scottish National Sweet Pea happiest scrambling over Society. Ideal for exhibition or shrubs, when masses of dainty garden use. scarlet nasturtiums will dance on quick climbing delicate stems for weeks in midsummer.

SWEET PEA SPENCER MIXED TROPAEOLUM TRICOLORUM £1.40 Leguminosae HA (25 seeds) £2.95 Tropaeolaceae HHCl (10 seeds) A superb formula mixture of Swarms of small but gorgeous Spencer sweet peas, including red flowers, with distinctive some of the new introductions black and yellow lips, and from the world's best breeders. delicate leaves on thin twining stems. Tubers burrow deep for protection. A spectacular beauty for pot, conservatory or sheltered well-drained garden.

SWEET PEA 'STYLISH' £1.40 Legumnoseae HA (25 seeds) “I have ordered your seeds for years and there A truly 'stylish' Spencer variety have always been far more in every packet than sweet pea with very fragrant ‘shop’ bought ones, with a fantastic and full-bodied flowers on long rate.” Pat Silvester, Eastchurch, Kent. stems and all of the guaranteed performance and breeding you “I am truly surprised by the number that have might expect from this stable. germinated.” Alan Read, Ampthill, Bedfordshire.

TROPAEOLUM AZUREUM £2.85 Tropaeolaceae HHCl (12 seeds) “A marvellous year, very pleased with the Weigela The fabulous blue climbing Florida Versicolor and Silene Ray’s Golden Campion perennial nasturtium! Thin – so many plants from each packet!!” Mrs Helen twining stems produce many Wilson, Alton, Hampshire. dazzling cobalt blue flowers from the leaf axils of delicate, “Another order enclosed. Great success with the attractively lobed leaves. Dying seed ordered earlier in the year and help was very down to deep resting tubers, gratefully received.” David Sutcliffe, Melbourne, this is one of the ultimate alpine . house plants.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 46 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ABUTILON VITIFOLIUM CHALK BLUES CAMELLIA JAPONICA £2.35 Malvaceae HSh 6-8ft £2.90 Theaceae HSh 20ft (6 seeds) Trusses of large, saucer-shaped The glossy foliage of this lovely flowers, from almost white to shrub makes it one of the most light blue-mauve, are borne decorative evergreens which is profusely from April to very hardy. In addition it September, with large greyish, produces its normally lipstick- rather felted leaves. They do red flowers when very young. well in almost any well drained It is not widely known that it is a soil, either against a wall or free- member of the Theaceae or tea standing in a sheltered spot. family!

AZALEA EXBURY HYBRIDS CISTUS 'PINK SILK' £2.75 Ericaceae HSh 3-6ft £1.95 Cistaceae HSh 2-3ft Seed collected from our own An exceptional pink hybrid twenty year old plants which seedling here years ago, were originally grown from seed possibly with some of the blood collected from the famous of the rare Cistus palhinhae we Exbury Gardens. Colours in all collected in Portugal. Huge, shades from pale lemon to frilly, paler-eyed pink flowers deepest red and every one cover this dwarf shrub in spring dripping with heady perfume in and early summer. Will thrive in spring and early summer. a baking hot position.

CALLICARPA BODINIERI CLIANTHUS PUNICEUS PINK FLAMINGO £2.30 Verbenaceae HSh 4-6ft £2.85 Leguminosae HHSh 3-4ft (8 seeds) Spindly, much-dividing branches "Lobster Claw" or " Parrot's produce relatively insignificant Beak". In a sheltered garden or starry lilac flowers in spring, but large pot this absolutely after the leaves have fallen in magnificent shrub displays autumn the extremely attractive hanging groups of very large bunches of bright violet berries curved flowers in the most persist through into winter. attractive shade of pink. There are red and white forms but this is by far the best!

CALLISTEMON RIGIDUS CORDYLINE AUSTRALIS £2.30 Myrtaceae HSh 6ft+ £2.25 Agavaceae HT,HP 3-10ft This spectacular, and A long lived 'palm' carrying at unexpectedly hardy shrub, bears the top a rosette of strap- dense spikes of flamboyant red shaped long leaves. Older plants bottle-brush flowers that appear grow enormous panicles of in late spring and early summer. deeply scented white flowers in Narrow, sharply pointed leaves early summer, producing white adorn this dazzling shrub that is berries in autumn. After severe possibly the hardiest of all bottle winters the trunk usually sprouts brushes. several heads.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 47 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 CORNUS CAPITATA EXOCHORDA MACRANTHA 'THE BRIDE' £1.95 Cornaceae HSh 5-8ft £2.35 Rosaceae HSh 4-6ft Outstanding shrub/small tree, The pure white flowers of this with long lived "flowerheads" of early summer-flowering shrub enormous, impressive, give it its common name as the buttercup-shaped flowers, buds have an amazing consisting of waxy, creamy resemblance to strings of pearls butter-coloured bracts, followed wrapped around the branches. by red, strawberry-like fruits. In April and May it produces a The best of all the cornus cascading waterfall of sweetly species. Seed ready stratified. perfumed, ivory-white flowers.

CRINODENDRON HOOKERIANUM FUCHSIA MAGELLANICA £2.75 HSh 6ft+ (6 big seeds) £3.45 Onagraceae HSh 3-6ft The "Chilean Lantern Tree" is We collected this most beautiful one of the world's most and bone-hardy plant, which can attractive shrubs. Garden flower just four months after visitors seeing the attractive, sowing, on our Chilean crimson, waxy urn-shaped Expedition of 1994. Scarlet and pendent flowers in early purple 'ballerina' flowers open summer just cannot wait to rush throughout summer and autumn into our plant nursery to buy and into winter in mild places. one for themselves.

CRINODENDRON PATAGUA GOMPHOSTIGMA 'WHITE CANDY' £2.65 Elaeocarpaceae HSh 6-10ft £2.35 Buddlejaceae HSh 3-4ft A close but much rarer relative Stiff stems with grey leaves of the "Chilean Lantern Tree" carry bunches of starry white, predictably from the cold fragrant flowers excellent for country of Patagonia! Pretty cutting. This rare buddleia sprays of fragrant, frilly white relative from alpine South Africa bell-shaped flowers appear in (the 'River Star'), is traditionally late summer followed by red used to restore strength. We locket-like seed-pods, which grow a lot here! persist into late autumn.

DAPHNE TANGUTICA LANTANA CAMARA £2.75 Thymelaeaceae HSh 2-3ft (6 seeds) £2.25 Verbenaceae GP 2-4ft A rare hardy evergreen shrub These spectacular shrubby bearing clusters of very fragrant, plants have aromatic flower white flushed, purple-pink clusters in a mixture of red, flowers from mid spring to early orange, yellow, and white which summer. Bunches of red berries typically change colour as they appear later and persist into late mature. Often seen in gardens autumn. in warmer countries, but in the UK they are better-grown in a large pot in the conservatory.

EMBOTHRIUM COCCINEUM LEYCESTERIA CROCOTHYRSOS £2.65 Proteaceae HSh 6-12ft £2.45 Caprifoliaceae HSh 4ft+ An unusually large flowered A challenge for your form of the "Chilean Firebush" knowledgeable friends to name. originally collected on the banks Whilst related to L.formosa, this of Lago Cucao during our 1994 beauty bears no comparison, Chile Expedition. This seed has with trusses of golden yellow wild diversity so you will find trumpets showing prominent that in early summer the stamens, amidst distinctive clusters of tubular flowers vary bronzed foliage which clads the from crimson to bright red. cane-like stems.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 48 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 LEYCESTERIA FORMOSA PITTOSPORUM TENUIFOLIUM £1.85 Caprifoliaceae HSh 6ft £2.15 Pittosporaceae HT 6-12ft A multi-value plant. Bright green One of the few trees worth bamboo-like stems in winter. growing from seed. Sprays of Delicate white pendent flowers rounded, wavy-edged, silvery- amidst tasselled, ruby-coloured green, evergreen leaves, so bracts in summer. Soft bunches beloved of florists as cut foliage, of purple-brown caramel produce honey-scented, flavoured berries (loved by chocolate-coloured flowers in birds) in autumn. spring, then pods of sticky black seeds.

LEYCESTERIA FORMOSA 'GOLD LEAF' ROSA GLAUCA £2.85 Caprifoliaceae HSh 4-6ft £1.95 Rosaceae HSh 6ft A gorgeous form of this already (Syn. Rosa rubrifolia). One of multi-value plant bearing purple- the only species roses worth bracted white flowers amongst growing from seed, all aspects crimson-tinged, bright golden being desirable. Thornless, leaves. Coming completely true purple-red stems of grey leaves from seed this exciting new and pale centred cerise pink plant is perfect to brighten up a flowers age to bunches of dark shady corner. red hips. Superb as a standard.

LUPINUS ARBOREUS (YELLOW) SAMBUCUS 'BLACK FRILLS' £2.15 Papilionaceae HSh to 6ft+ £2.55 Caprifoliaceae HSh 4-10ft Fragrant creamy yellow racemes Seeds from the very best cover what can become a long cultivars of the dark, narrow- lived, long flowering small tree, leaved forms of the fragrant- complete with thick knobbly flowered elder (Sambucus nigra) trunk. A haven for bees and such as 'Black Lace'. Seedlings butterflies throughout summer will vary, with many having pink and autumn. or dark pink flowers and dark or very dark foliage, which develops slowly as they age.

MELIANTHUS MAJOR CASHMIRIANA £2.70 Melianthaceae HHSh 4-6ft (10 seeds) £2.45 Rosaceae HT 8-10ft The giant with deeply-cut grey The "Kashmir " displays leaves. Bizarre, brownish clusters of soft pink flowers in flowers produce inflated seed- spring, followed in midsummer pods in late summer. by heavy bunches of attractive "Melianthus has probably the pure white fruits which persist most beautiful large foliage of right into the winter, even after any plant that can be grown out the leaves have fallen. of doors in these islands". (Graham Stuart Thomas).

PAULOWNIA TOMENTOSA SYMPHORICARPOS ALBUS £2.45 Scrophulariaceae HT 6-12ft £2.30 Caprifoliaceae HSh 3-5ft This truly spectacular tree During early summer, clusters of produces large, pale mauve pink flowers bloom amongst "foxglove" flowers on naked the attractive blue-green leaves, branches in early spring, the followed by bunches of pure large, dinner-plate-sized, soft white round fruits, 1-2cm in furry leaves appearing later. If diameter, which persist into the cut to the ground in spring, autumn. This bushy shrub will enormous leaves develop on the soon make a fast-growing, multi- shoots sprouting from the soil. stemmed deciduous hedge.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 49 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 AGROSTIS NEBULOSA 'FIBRE OPTICS' CAREX 'FROSTED CURLS' £2.65 HP £2.40 Cyperaceae HP 15in This superb, newly discovered From New Zealand comes grass is a quite incredible foliage another lovely specimen which specimen and also a wonderful forms a compact and amusing cut flower. If you need an yellow "haystack", perhaps ethereal, delicate, mist-like "weeping willow" would be more plant, that drifts like smoke accurate, from which protrude across your garden, this is the long, whip-like stems studded one you have been looking for! with terminal brown seed heads. Absolutely stunning!

CAREX BUCHANANII CHIONOCHLOA CONSPICUA £2.25 Cyperacae HP 18-24in £2.25 Poaceae HP 5-7ft Dense, erect tussocks of copper- From New Zealand comes the bronze make this one of the amazing legendary most sought after and grown "Hunangemoho Grass". Low, architectural plants. When tidy clumps of sharp green grown as a solitary specimen it blades erupt into thick, strong, makes a stunning effect with arching stems, supporting contrasting flowers or silver massive 18 inch divided golden foliage plants. sprays. Impresses all our visitors here.

CAREX CHATHAMICA FESTUCA 'ELIJA BLUE' £2.55 Cyperaceae HP 18in £1.90 Gramineae HP 15in A gorgeous new grass from the This superb relatively recent beaches of the Chatham Islands discovery makes dense tufts of of New Zealand. Strong stems glaucous blue wiry leaves hold broad, metallic blue-green producing a striking display, blades with silvery undersides either as a specimen or for and large terminal brown seed edging or pot culture. heads. Makes a stunning specimen plant in gravel or an open spot.

CAREX 'COMAN'S BRONZE' MELICA ALTISSIMA ATROPURPUREA £2.35 Cyperaceae HP 12in £1.95 Poaceae HP 3-4ft A delightful tufted plant Very handsome and valuable producing an evergreen clump showpiece specimen. From a of whippy, bronzed reddish clump of broad green leaves leaves. One of the desirable, which age to bronze, arise many often expensive grasses - but thin stems from which dangle easily grown from seed. fascinating terminal deep purple flaky seed cases.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 50 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 MILIUM EFFUSUM 'AUREUM' LESSINGIANA £2.65 Poaceae HP 12-18in £1.95 Gramineae HP 24-30in The best golden grass growable Massed plumes of soft feathery from seed has dazzlingly bright, seedheads, ideal to whisk your canary-yellow leaves. Of its best hand through. The longer they in spring and especially in a stand the prettier they become. shady spot. In commerce A really spectacular plant, "Bowles' Golden Grass" is often similar to, but larger and finer the most expensive grass seed than Stipa tenuisima. in the world!

PENNISETUM PURPLE MAJESTY STIPA TENUIFOLIA £2.85 Poaceae HHA 2-5ft (30+ seeds) £2.45 Gramineae HP 18-24in A fabulous new plant with One of the most graceful and dramatic, almost black, broad delicate of all grasses with leaves, crowned with massive delicate, feathery, fog-like purple flower spikes, the ripe plumes which move with the seeds from which are adored by slightest breath of air upon birds. This heat and drought them. A perfect plant for mass resistant beauty was awarded plantings in stately homes and the All America Gold Medal! parks, but equally good as a single specimen.

PENNISETUM THUNBERGII 'RED BUTTONS' UNCINIA EGMONTIANA £2.30 Poaceae HP 15-20in £2.45 Cyperaceae HP 8-12in Pennisetum 'Red Buttons' or From Mount Egmont in New "Fountain Grass" produces deep Zealand comes the prettiest reddish-black flowers that hardy red grass growable from resemble rabbits' tails which seed. Tight compact erect persist throughout the season, clumps of stiff arching crimson- the whole plant forming an bronze blades, from which arise attractive evergreen clump of narrow spikes of small, sharply green foliage with burgundy pointed black seeds. highlights.

SETARIA MACROSTACHYA 'WILL SCARLET' £2.40 Gramineae HHP 18-24in “Your seed has the best germination rate of any Thick clumps of attractive foxtail- source I have used……and I’m still getting good like flower heads, perfect for germination from some of your old seeds I’ve had cutting, grow on long stems clad for years!” Ian Miller, Galashiels. in broad leaves. If planted in a hot, dry spot, or in a container on a warm patio, the leaves and “Thanks, that was quick, you must have posted stems of this lovely plant will these seeds before I even ordered them!” Ms turn bright crimson. Hilda Verschoore, Bordon, Hampshire.

STIPA ARUNDINACEA £2.40 Gramineae HP 2-3ft “I must have been dealing with you since 1990 and "Pheasant Tail Grass". Arching every year I have almost 90% success with seeds sprays of purple feathery bought from Plant World. Keep it up!” Eileen Ball, plumes consist of golden brown Hurley, Warwickshire. fine leaves in compact clumps, this is an absolute beauty set on its own in gravel. “I know from experience that your seeds will guarantee a successful growing season ahead.” D Willcocks, Tenby.

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 51 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 ANANAS NOIRE BLONDKOPFCHEN £1.85 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) £1.75 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) This unique tomato displays a This very productive old East rainbow of marbled colours from German variety ('blondie') gives green and yellow through red huge bunches of smallish, grape- and purple and is gorgeous sized golden fruits, which do not when sliced. The outstanding split, and are borne in flavour is very, very sweet and succession until late autumn. smokey with hints of citrus and Our tasting panel said 'strong, the yield is one of the heaviest tasty and not over sweet fruits'. we have ever seen. (Cordon) (Cordon)

AUSTIN'S YELLOW PEAR BRANDYWINE SUDDUTH'S STRAIN £1.80 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £1.90 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) An impressive-cropping tomato No gardener should be without giving an almost endless supply this Brandywine tomato that is of big symmetrical trusses of legendary for its strong delicious baby, pear-shaped golden taste and this one is considered fruits. Lovely for eating, just by many to be the most like grapes, straight off the delicious strain available. The vine! A superb salad tomato. large deep pink beefsteak (Cordon) can grow 1-2 pounds and are quite late maturing. (Cordon)

BLACK CHERRY CARBONCARBONCARBON £1.80 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £1.90 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) This heavy cropping variety is These large unusually shaped everyone's favourite, producing fruits have a strong complex seemingly endless bunches of tangy flavour. Winner of the smallish, ultra-sweet fruits, 2005 'USA Heirloom Best which resemble dark cherries Tasting Tomato' award. Not and which have a very rich actually black but as dark as flavour. A current favourite in these 'black' tomatoes get, and up-market shops. (Cordon) producing attractive dappled patterns when sliced! (Cordon)

BLACK FROM TULA CHOCOLATE CHERRY £1.85 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £1.80 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) Whilst this deep reddish-brown Probably one of the most Russian beefsteak variety is not attractive tomatoes you will ever as dark as some other "black" grow, this is the 'next tomatoes, where it really scores generation' Black Cherry. Heavy is on taste which is strong, rich crops of uniform, round, sweet, and sweetly-sharp (!!) with a acid-free cherry tomatoes are hint of smokiness. (Cordon) produced, in a burgundy-brown shade, and seemingly resistant to cracking or splitting. (Cordon)

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 52 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 CHOCOLATE STRIPES DELICIOUS £1.75 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) £1.95 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) This absolute beauty has a quite A really huge red beefsteak fruit unique appearance being which is smooth, nearly solid dramatically striped and slashed and often weighs more than 2 in brown, with almost no seeds lbs. This variety holds the world and firm thick flesh. The record for the largest tomato distinctive flavour is strong but ever grown and has excellent not acidic. (Cordon) flavour, few and tiny seeds, and very little cracking. (Cordon)

CHRISTMAS GRAPES DRUZBADRUZBADRUZBA £1.85 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £1.75 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) Large bright scarlet-red cherry This mid-season Bulgarian fruits grow in grape-like clusters heirloom is more resistant to on this high-yielding plant. The disease, pests and adverse fruit is sweet and juicy with a weather conditions than most strong and delicious flavour. other varieties making it an ideal These tomato plants produce choice for the novice tomato fruit right up to the first frost grower. It produces heavy crops giving the variety its of uniform, blemish-free 8-10 oz name.(Cordon) salad tomatoes. (Cordon)

COSMONAUT VOLKOV EARL OF EDGECOMBE £1.75 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £1.90 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) This variety is one of our top 3 These gorgeous tomatoes are a really impressive big croppers deep orange color, with dark giving strong-flavoured medium- green shoulders on un-ripe large fruit. Certainly not a G.M. fruits. The taste is neither too plant but seeds originally carried sweet nor too tart with 4-6 fruits to the International Space per cluster. This seed was Station by Russian Cosmonaut presented by the Earl of Alexander Volkov! (Cordon) Edgecombe to the Henry Doubleday Foundation. (Cordon)

COSTOLUTO GENOVESE EVA PURPLE BALL £1.80 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £1.80 TOMATO (15 seeds minimum) This 19th century Italian Brought to the USA from The heirloom is one of the best Black Forest, Germany, in the tomatoes for making sauces and late 1800's this wonderful all- cooking in general. The large, purpose variety produces deep red, fluted fruit are heavily smooth, blemish and crack-free ridged and lobed with meaty full- fruit which, despite the name, flavoured, slightly tart flesh and are deep-pink in colour. These few seeds. (Cordon) tomatoes are ideal for use in salads or sandwiches. (Cordon)

CREAM SAUSAGE FATHER FROST £1.95 TOMATO (30 seeds minimum) £1.75 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) Bushy, productive plants This potato-leaved semi-bush produce crisp-fleshed, creamy variety, of Eastern European coloured, elongated sausage- origin (Ded Moroz) is renowned like fruits. The sweet, juicy, for its tolerance to the cold. The golden flesh, with a hint of fruit range in size from 2-3 oz lemon flavour, makes them an on a plant which is surprisingly ideal choice for creating unusual heavy cropping for such an early sauces. (Bush) variety. (Semi-Bush)

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 53 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 FIRST IN THE FIELD GOLD NUGGET £1.75 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £1.85 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) As the name implies, a very With a high yield of small, early bush variety which will do golden-yellow, oval shaped well outdoors. This very cherry fruit, which is juicy and popular compact plant produces seedy, with a mild sweet flavour a heavy, long-season crop of and the early fruits being small to medium bright red juicy seedless. It is perfect for fruits with a strong and growing in containers and is one distinctive wine-like flavour. of the first to ripen here. (Bush) (Bush)

GARDEN PEACH GOLDEN GRAPE £1.75 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) £1.85 TOMATO (30 seeds minimum) Very attractive pale yellow 2-3oz One of the heaviest cropping peach-like tomatoes, which are tomatoes we've ever seen or sweet and succulent and are grown, this cherry tomato bears complemented by a fuzzy skin, hundreds and hundreds of grow in clusters of 4 or 5. The golden grape-shaped fruit. The plants grow vigorously and have skin is thin while the flesh tastes a good resistance to disease. sharp and refreshing. (Cordon) (Cordon)

GARTENPERLE GOLDRUSH CURRANT £1.75 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £1.75 TOMATO (30 seeds minimum) A compact bush variety which Masses of bright golden-orange, will tolerate cooler temperatures sweetly flavoured grape-sized and does well in tubs, window fruit set in trusses of 10-12. A boxes and hanging baskets. very high yielding plant that can Produces heavy bunches of also be trained to quite a height small red firm-fleshed fruits with which improves the yield of fruit a strong, unusual, and slightly greatly. (Semi-Bush) sharp taste. (Bush)

GERMAN RED STRAWBERRY GOOSE CREEK £1.80 TOMATO (15 seeds minimum) £1.90 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) Produces large beautiful red Thin outer walls hold a massive strawberry-shaped fruits. The solid core tasting tart and tangy, solid-fleshed interior has a rather like a slightly under ripe delicious, sweet flavour with melon. A mid-season heirloom little seed and juice, so is ideal from the early 1800s, it has in salads. One of our top big good heat and cold tolerance, croppers. (Cordon) and fruit that can set and ripen through November and even December.

GIANT SYRIAN GREEN GRAPE £1.95 TOMATO (15 seeds minimum) £1.80 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) An exceptional plant giving Green Grape is a compact semi- heavy yields of large, meaty, bush variety, ideal for growing sweet, heart-shaped pink fruits in a container on the patio, with green shoulders, up to 1 lb, producing a prolific harvest of but can be up to 3 or 4 pounds. small, yellow-green, sweet, These fruits rarely crack and tangy-tasting tomatoes excel as a fabulous slicer. resembling Muscat grapes. (Cordon) (Semi-Bush)

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 54 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 GREEN ZEBRA ILDIILDIILDI £1.80 TOMATO (15 seeds minimum) £1.85 TOMATO (30 seeds minimum) A good cropping early plant with One of the very highest yielding bright amber-gold, two inch tomato plants we have ever fruits, striped in deep lime-green seen. Huge trusses contain which make a colourful dozens and dozens of sweet, statement when sliced in salads. grape sized, thin skinned, non- The bright green flesh is soft, splitting yellow fruit, the whole with a strong and tangy flavour. plant resembling a Christmas (Cordon) tree weighed down with baubles. (Cordon)

GREENWICH JAUNE FLAMME £1.80 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) £1.85 TOMATO (15 seeds minimum) These irregularly shaped, amber This old French variety gives coloured beefsteaks hide an early crops of apricot-coloured, attractive secret. Cutting them four ounce fruits the size of a open reveals a labyrinth-like, golf ball, the yellow-orange skin vivid lime-green interior. And enclosing beautiful red-mottled, they scored here extremely well intense-flavoured flesh inside, with their strong, sweet fruity and this plant appears resistant traditional flavour. (Cordon) to many tomato diseases. (Cordon)

HARTMAN'S YELLOW GOOSEBERRY KORALIKKORALIKKORALIK £1.75 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £1.85 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) These extremely rare, lemon This early Polish bush variety coloured, medium-large, yellow makes widely held branches cherry tomatoes are very tasty rather like a small oak tree, with a good, sweet and mild enabling it to produce abundant flavour, and when immature sweet isolated fruit. It has a have some faint striping similar good tolerance to blight it is to gooseberries, hence the perfect for areas where the name. (Cordon) growing season is short and wetter than normal. (Bush)

HENDERSON'S WINSALL LATAHLATAHLATAH £1.95 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £1.75 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) This classic heirloom beefsteak The fruits of this early compact tomato originated in Hungary tomato, which originated in but was renamed by Peter Latah County Idaho, are roughly Henderson in his 1926 US seed spherical, with a sharp lemony catalogue. The attractive fruit taste. The plants appear unusual are large, with meaty flesh, a due to the large spacing sweet flavour and are excellent between the leaves but this for use in salads and helps early ripening. (Bush) sandwiches. (Cordon)

HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS LEMON TREE £1.80 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £1.95 TOMATO (15 seeds minimum) Thousands of sweet, juicy, bite- A quite incredible and distinctive sized tomatoes appear in an tomato with an almost perfect inexhaustible supply throughout resemblance to a real lemon, the summer on this brand new, more so than other "lemon" easy-to-grow variety. These tomatoes, especially when amazing cascading plants are sliced, and which extends even perfect for baskets, window to the sharp, strong taste, which boxes, tubs or even patio is useful for salads. (Cordon) containers. (Bush)

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 55 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 MARIANNA'S PEACE NYAGOUSNYAGOUSNYAGOUS £1.85 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £1.75 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) A Czech beefsteak tomato with A rare old Russian variety with a great tangy "Brandywine"-like neat trusses of perfectly- taste. The dense, luscious, formed, blemish-free, tennis-ball creamy flesh has a complex, rich sized fruits. Possibly the sugary flavour with good prettiest of the 'black' tomatoes, sweet/acid balance. (Cordon) the thick-fleshed fruits having a distinctive and delicious, salty- smoky flavour. (Cordon)

MERVEILLE DES MARCHES OLD IVORY EGG £1.80 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £1.70 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) This vigorous, 19th century This old and most attractive and French variety ('Market distinctive plum variety of Wonder') is easy to grow, tomato with thick, soft sweet showing good resistance to flesh is most versatile in the disease. The medium sized, fruit kitchen. With its astonishing grow in attractive clusters, their resemblance to a chicken's egg sweet taste and small number of it is useful both for salads and seeds making them ideal for use for cooking. (Cordon) in sauces. (Cordon)

MICROMICROMICRO PAUL ROBESON £1.80 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £1.85 TOMATO (15 seeds minimum) Probably the smallest tomato This famous Russian tomato, plant ever! Micro can be grown named after the famous singer, in a 6" pot or window box, has almost a cult following growing only 4-5" high, but still amongst tomato connoisseurs. managing to produce dozens of Large, black-brick, solid-fleshed tiny fruit. Suitable for people fruit have a fabulous, distinctive, with no growing space, and an sweet smoky flavour. Very astonishing conversation piece. rarely available. (Cordon) (Bush)

MIEL DU MEXIQUE PINK ACCORDION £1.80 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) £1.75 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) This round cherry tomato of One of the most beautiful and Mexican origin produces a large expensive of all tomatoes, this crop of small to medium very unique, non-splitting fruit is sweet fruits and indeed was ruffled like an accordion. The originally called Mexican Honey. mild-tasting, soft, pink-fleshed This vigorous plant is very fruit, with few seeds, are also productive and does well under semi-hollow so can be used for drought conditions. (Semi-Bush) stuffing like a pepper. (Cordon)

MOONGLOW RED FIGRED FIG £1.95 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) £1.90 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) This bright orange, high yielding This rare plant yields hundreds heirloom tomato really does of 1.5 inch, pear-shaped, bright- seem to glow, producing red cherry tomatoes with a medium to large very sweet and wonderful, delicious, sweet meaty fruits, with just a hint of flavour with a very sweet skin. , tartness, ideal for salads and making this a delightful snacking sandwiches. Winners of the tomato. It is a tasty and Heirloom Tomato Tasting in the colourful complement to Beam's USA! (Cordon) Yellow Pear. (Cordon)

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 56 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 RUTH'S PERFECT TOMMY TOE £1.85 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £1.65 TOMATO (30 seeds minimum) Produces a mid-season crop of This heirloom from the Ozark large, almost perfectly round mountains of America is an fruit with a distinctive, fruity almost disease-free cherry flavour. A strong-growing plant tomato, with good resistance to with an appropriate name, bred early and late blight. The high- by biodynamic farmer Ruth yielding small to medium-sized Zinniker of Wisconsin USA. Very soft sweet fruits have won heavy-cropping here. (Cordon) competitions for flavour. (Cordon)

SOLDACKISOLDACKISOLDACKI TUMBLING TOM RED £1.75 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) £1.85 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) This ancient Polish heirloom, Bred to cascade over hanging potato leaf variety has large, baskets although remaining blemish free, pink, beefsteak- quite compact, this plant type fruits with yellow/green on produces sweet and tangy fruits top fading into pink. The thin- of medium strength with firm skinned, firm, meaty flesh has a flesh, and is the perfect tomato very refreshing flavor and a plant for novice growers or higher yield then Brandywine. people short on space. (Bush) (Cordon)

SUNSET'S RED HORIZON TUMBLING TOM YELLOW £1.80 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) £1.85 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) From Rostov via Oregon come An exciting plant with rich, these very big, very strong- golden, apricot-coloured fruit flavoured, thin-fleshed, meaty, growing on compact pendulous heart-shaped, yellow-blotched trusses. It is best grown in a tomatoes. These amazing hanging basket or tall container plants, which cropped very when its cascading fruit can be heavily here, are resistant to ornamental as well as being frost, blossom end rot and sweet and tasty to eat. (Bush) cracking. (Cordon)

SWEET PEA CURRANT WHITE CURRANT £1.75 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) £1.55 TOMATO (20 seeds minimum) A fabulous performer, producing A bush variety producing a huge thousands of pea-sized, sweet yield of hundreds of creamy off- red berries like beads on a white, almost transparent, large- necklace! Irresistible eating. cherry-sized fruits with an Truly 'once popped you can't exceptionally sweet taste. stop!' Can be easily trained to These continue to grow and make a 6 foot waterfall ripen, astonishingly, on and on, constantly dripping with fruit. right into late autumn. (Cordon) (Cordon)

TLACOLULA ZAPOTEC PLEATED £1.85 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) £1.80 TOMATO (10 seeds minimum) From Tlacolula, Oaxaca, Mexico, The large, mild-tasting, deep comes this good-tasting, quite pink fruit are very attractive incredibly-formed, heavily ribbed indeed, especially when sliced, and fluted pink tomato. Most of with pronounced pleats and these late season Mexican hollows within the flesh. Named heirloom fruits are also bell after the Zapotec people of shaped, some being fused Oaxaca, Mexico, who developed together. (Cordon) this attractive tomato. (Cordon)

Shop online at www.plant-world-seeds.com 57 tel: +44(0)1803 872939 fax: +44(0)1803 875018 BLACKBEAUTY BULL'SBLOOD £1.55 AUBERGINE/EGGPLANT (40seedsminimum) £1.50 BEETROOT (200seedsminimum) Popularandreliablewith AVictorianheirloom,whichis gardenerssinceEdwardian oftengrownasanornamental, times,BlackBeautyisanearly onaccountofitsdarkcrimson, mediumvarietyofaubergine. almostblackleaveswhichtaste Thesturdyplantsgrowtoabout sweetifpickedyoung.The 4feettallandproducegood globeshapedrootshaveagood cropsof4"to6"longglossy, flavourandonbeingcutopen purpleblack,ovalfruit. revealattractivepinkrings.

BRAZILIANOVALORANGE CHELTENHAMGREENTOP £1.85 AUBERGINE/EGGPLANT (10seedsminimum) £1.45 BEETROOT (250seedsminimum) Theattractiveovalaubergine Thisveryheavycroppingold fruitofthisrarevarietyare showbenchvarietyhasbeen borneinheavyclustersonvery aroundsincewellbeforethe tallerectplantswithdarkgreen 1880sinEngland.Ithaslong foliagethatprovidesplentyof redparsniplikerootsandan coverfromthesun.Despitethe excellent,delicateflavour,andis name,thefruitchangescolour palerredincolourwhencooked fromgreenthroughorangeto thanmostmodernglobe scarlet. beetroots.

JAPANESEWHITEEGG CHIOGGIACHIOGGIACHIOGGIA £1.80 AUBERGINE/EGGPLANT (10seedsminimum) £1.50 BEETROOT (200seedsminimum) TheJapaneseWhiteEgg Theballshaped,mildandsweet produceslargequantitiesofvery rootsofthisItalian(1840's) attractive23"ovalcreamy heirloomareresistanttobolting whitefruitallseasonlong.The andhavelightredskin.Cutting fruithaveadelicateflavourwith openrevealsattractive littletraceofbitterness.Perfect alternatingdarkpinkandwhite foruseinstirfrying. rings(anothernameisCandy StripeBeet).

BOLTARDYBOLTARDYBOLTARDY DETROITREDGLOBE £1.45 BEETROOT (200seedsminimum) £1.50 BEETROOT (250seedsminimum) Boltardycanbesownearlierin A19thcenturyUSheirloom theyearthanallothers,then beetrootproducingfantastic, rightthroughtomidsummer, smooth,uniform,oxblood andisslowtoruntoseed, globularbeetwithluxuriantred yieldingperfect,globeshaped veinedleaves.Thisvarietyis beetsofsuperbflavourand resistanttodownymildewand colour.Youngleavescanbe doeswellinallkindsofsoils. usedforbabyleafproduction. RHSawardwinner.

Shoponlineatwww.plantworldseeds.com 585858 tel:+44(0)1803872939fax:+44(0)1803875018 GOLDENBEET GOJI £1.55 BEETROOT (200seedsminimum) £2.45 BERRY (100seedsminimum) Agloberooted,19thcentury, (Lyciumbarbarum)Compact USAheirloombeetwithgolden longlivedbushesbearsmall orangeskinandsweetgolden purpleandwhiteflowersinearly yellowfleshandbrightgreen summerfollowedbyplump, leaveswhicharetastywhen juicy,sweetred'superfruits' cooked.Itisresistanttobolting burstingwithvitaminsand andifharvestedyoungretains minerals,whichareproducedall itsflavourwell. summerlong,rightuptothe firstfrosts.

WHITEDETROIT GOLDENBERRY'GIGANTE' £1.50 BEETROOT (200seedsminimum) £2.15 BERRY (25seedsminimum) Thishighyielding,white Tall,erect,stickyhairedstems beetroothasamild,sweet carrysizeable'paperlanterns' flavourthatperfectly whichcontainthelargestand complementsfishandpoultry juiciestfruitsofallthegolden disheswhilstretainingitsflavour berries.Thisisthephysalis throughcookingandisperfect varietysoldatinflatedpricesin fordisheswhereyoudonot supermarketsandusedtoadorn wishthenormalpurplebeetroot expensivedessertsin stain. restaurants.

YELLOWCYLINDRICAL GOLDENPEARLS £1.45 BEETROOT (200seedsminimum) £2.25 BERRY (50seedsminimum) Produceslargecylindricalgolden Thisbrandnewsweetgolden yellowrootswithcrispwhite formoftheWonderberry flesh.Pickearlyassmallroots (Solanumvillosum)growsin aresweetandtasty,withless bunchesresemblingyellow riskofstainingthantraditional currants,whichappearsoon purplebeet.Ifleft,theywill afterbeinggrown,eitherina growtoahugesize.Thegreens potoropenground.InAfrica canalsobeeaten. theleavesareapparentlyeaten likespinach.

BLUEBERRY KIWIBERRY(ACTINIDIAARGUTA) £2.40 BERRY (30seedsminimum) £2.35 BERRY (20seedsminimum) Blueberries(Vaccinium Kiwiberries,alsoknownas corymbosum,arehighin HardyKiwis,areabreedofkiwi vitaminCandantioxidants fruitsthatripenwhilestillsmall, whichcandefeatbladderand andtheyarethesweetest, cystitisproblems.Therearevery tastiestkiwiyou'veeverhad! heavycroppingplantswitha Theseminikiwishaveallthe diversityofdifferenthabitsand benefitsoftheirlargercousins, includeearlyandlatefruiting butaremucheasiertoeatand varieties. grow.

CRANBERRY WONDERBERRY £2.35 BERRY (10seedsminimum) £1.75 BERRY (50seedsminimum) Large,red,vitaminfilledberries Asuperbnewcomer,resembling areproducedonevergreen thegardenhuckleberry,butwith plantsinmidtolatesummer. afarsuperiortaste,especially Thewildcranberry(Vaccinium whencooked.Quickandeasyto macrocarpon)isanevergreen, growinacontainer,gardenor groundcoverplantnativeto greenhouse,producing NorthAmericawhichflourishes thousandsofsmall,unusual inboggyconditionsandcontains flavoured,sweetblackcurrant veryfewseedsindeed. likefruits.

Shoponlineatwww.plantworldseeds.com 595959 tel:+44(0)1803872939fax:+44(0)1803875018 MASTERPIECEGREENLONGPOD DARKMAR21 £1.55 BROADBEAN (25seedsminimum) £1.45 BRUSSELSSPROUTS (150seedsminimum) Arguablythebestgreenseeded AhighqualityBedfordshire variety,growingwellinmost varietyofmidlatemaincrop conditions,andproducinggood BrusselsSproutswhichproduces podlengthswithupto7beans aheavyyieldoflarge,fine perpod,withsuperbflavourand flavoured,deepgreensprouts tablequalities.ThistopRHS fromlateNovemberandon AGMvarietygrowstoabout throughthewinter,eveninthe threefeethighandisexcellent harshestweather. forfreezing.

THESUTTON GOLDENACRE £1.55 BROADBEAN (25seedsminimum) £1.55 CABBAGE (400seedsminimum) Adwarf(18"24")self Anexcellentsummerballhead supporting,bushybroadbean cabbagewithsolidheadswhich whichcanbespringsown,or aremoreuniformlyroundthan overwinteredifprotectedusing othersummervarietieswith cloches.Itproducescompact fewerouterleaves.Thisvariety plantswithmultiheadsofbeans iseasytogrowanddoesvery witharound5beansperpod.A wellindeedincoolweather. heavyyieldingplant.

GREENSPROUTINGCALABRESE REDDRUMHEAD £1.40 BROCCOLI (250seedsminimum) £1.55 CABBAGE (300seedsminimum) Producingalongsuccessionof Thispopularheirloomvariety bluishgreenheadsaveraging3 producesaroundsolidheartin to5inchesacross,thesetall, stunningredwithdenseleafy erectplantswithanexcellent headsinavarietyofred/purple flavourandlongcropping shades.Thisversatilecabbageis seasonaretheoriginalforms, adaptabletoheat,whilstalso whicharestillfirmfavouritesin producingcropsbetweenmid spiteoftheappearanceof summerandwinter. modernF1hybrids

REDARROW WHEELERSIMPERIAL £1.55 BROCCOLI (150seedsminimum) £1.50 CABBAGE (400seedsminimum) RedArrowisanimproved AlthoughaVictorianvariety,this varietyofpurplesprouting stillremainsoneofthebest broccoliwhichproduceshigh varietiesforautumnsowingto qualitymediumsizedspears standthewinter.Forms frommidFebruarytomidApril compactplantswhichproduce andyieldsupto20%morethan solidpointedhearts.Canalsobe previoustypes.Easytogrow sowninspringforautumn givingvigorousvitaminrich cropping. plants.

ROMANESCO CHANTENAYROYAL £1.60 BROCCOLI (150seedsminimum) £1.45 CARROT (400seedsminimum) ThiscelebratedItalianheirloom Ashort,stumpshapedcarrot producesattractivelimegreen whichgivesheavyyields,the headsmadeupofamassof rootshavinggoldenorange smallconicalflorets.Ithasa fleshwithasweettasteand superbflavourandamore retainingtheirflavoureven tendertexturethanregular whenlarge.Thesecarrots, broccoliandgrowsexceptionally whichrarelysplit,aretheones wellincoolNorthernareas. tochooseifyoursoilisheavy.

Shoponlineatwww.plantworldseeds.com 606060 tel:+44(0)1803872939fax:+44(0)1803875018 LUNARWHITE SNOWBALL £1.75 CARROT (400seedsminimum) £1.40 CAULIFLOWER (100seedsminimum) 19thcenturyBelgianheirloom Aversatileearlycauliflower produceslong(12to24inch) whichcanusedallseason.First creamywhiterootswithgreen introducedin1888,thecompact shoulders.Averyhighyielding plantsform6"widesnowwhite varietyoftenoutperforming headswithcrisp,tendercurds mostorangecarrots,althoughit whicharewellprotectedbythe ismoresusceptibletofrost outerleaves.Thevarietyis damage.Tender,almost downymildewresistant. coreless,mildtastingflesh.

PARISMARKETBARON GOLDENSELFBLANCHING £1.50 CARROT (400seedsminimum) £1.45 CELERY (500seedsminimum) A19thcenturyFrenchheirloom, Thisfavouriteheirloom(1884) ParisMarketBaronare varietyproducescreamywhite deliciouslytender,bitesized, stalkswhicharetender,high roundcarrots,withavery qualityandplentifulwitha smoothskin.Earlymaturingand deliciouslysweettaste.Theyare uniform,eveninawindowbox, easytogrowandselfblanching, theyareidealforgrowingin makingthemaloteasierthan shalloworstonysoil. othervarietieswhichrequire constantofattention.

REDSAMURAI GREENUTAH £1.70 CARROT (400seedsminimum) £1.45 CELERY (500seedsminimum) Aslendertaperingredskinned GreenUtahisaverypopular Japanesecarrotwithlovelypink Americanceleryproducingtall, fleshwhichholdsitscoloureven delicious,stringless,well aftersteaming.Thismaincrop roundedsolidstalkswhichare carrotcanalsobeusedrawto easilyblanchedandhavea enlivenasalad. distinctivenuttyflavourThis compactvarietyhasexcellent diseaseresistance.

SOLARYELLOW RAINBOWCHARD £1.75 CARROT (400seedsminimum) £1.60 CHARD (150seedsminimum) SolarYellowcarrotshavea ThisRHSAwardwinnerhaspale uniquejuicybutteryflavourand greenandbronzesucculent characteristiccrunch.The6"7" stemmed,mildtastingleaves, rootsarebroadatthetopand eachstemcominginadifferent throughmostoftheirlength. colouroftherainbow,ranging Harvestyoungfingersized frompinkandgoldtopurple carrotsifeatingthemraw. andred.Awinnerwhetherused incookingorasanornamental borderplant.

ALLYEARROUND RHUBARBCHARD £1.40 CAULIFLOWER (100seedsminimum) £1.60 CHARD (150seedsminimum) Apopular,versatilevariety,ideal Acolourfulandtastyformof forsuccessionalsowing,which SwissChardwithrichrubyred produceslargevelvetywhite, leafstalksanddarkwaxygreen wellprotectedheadswithan purpleleaves.Thesucculent exceptionalflavour.Theseare midribscanbecookedlike greatforshows,freezingor asparagusandcanalsobe eatingfreshfromthegardenas harvestedatthebabyleafstage theyretaintheirflavourwhen formicrogreens.Absolutely boiledorsteamed. delicious!

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STRAWBERRYSPINACH BLUELAKEBLUELAKEBLUELAKE £1.65 Chenopodiaceae (50seedsminimum) £1.60 CLIMBINGFRENCHBEAN (50seedsminimum) (Chenopodiumfoliosum). Thisdroughtresistant Confoundyourfriendsatdinner gardeners'favouriteproducesa partieswith"fruit"inthesalad highyieldofstringless,full bowl!Andyoucaneatthe flavouredbeanswhichretain leavesofthesameplantlike theirsweettasteandtender spinach.Thisveryquickgrowing texturewhencooked.Iflefton andamusingplantproduces theplant,theirdriedwhite littlered"strawberries"allthe seedscanbeusedasharicot wayalongitsstems. beans.

TATSOITATSOITATSOI BAMBINOF1 £1.40 CHINESELEAVES (150seedsminimum) £1.95 COURGETTE (10seedsminimum) Thisattractive,easytogrow, Anexcellentvarietyof hardyAsianvarietyproducesa courgette.Theplantsproduce thickrosetteofdarkgreen, heavycropsofdarkgreenbaby nutritiousovalleaveswhich courgettesallsummerlong. haveacreamytexture,anda Idealforslicinginstirfriesor mildbutdistinctiveflavourthat usinginaratatouille. makesthemperfectforeating raworcookedwhetherin salads,stirfriesorinsoups.

WHITEPAKCHOI ZUCCHINIGOLD £1.50 CHINESELEAVES (250seedsminimum) £1.85 COURGETTE (20seedsminimum) ApopularChinesevariety Abeautifulgoldensunshine producingstriking,cleanwhite coloured,'lesswatery' stalksholdingfabulous,rich, courgette,containingfewer darkgreenleaveswhichcanbe seedsthanotheryellow eatenrawwhenyoungin varieties.Theeasytogrow salads,orlefttomatureand compactplantsareresistantto thencooked.Thecompact manygardenpestsandproduce plantsareresistanttoweather ahighnumberoffulltextured changesandareslowtobolt. fruits.

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IVORYKING ROYALTYPURPLE £1.55 CUCUMBER (20seedsminimum) £1.55 DWARFFRENCHBEAN (50seedsminimum) 19thcenturyUSvarietyof Asprawlingbushhabitplant cucumberwhichgivesgood producingvividpurple,5inch yieldsofnovel,sweetwhite long,slightlycurvedpodswith fruit.Theycangrowupto8" beigeseed.Podscontaina longbutarebestharvested naturalblanchingindicator whenonly34"long.Suitable causingthemtochangeto forsaladsorpickles.(AKAWhite greenonboiling. Wonder)

MARKETMORE CHIVESCHIVESCHIVES £1.60 CUCUMBER (20seedsminimum) £1.50 HERB (750seedsminimum) AveryreliableEnglishheirloom Anindispensablegrasslikeherb outdoorridgevarietyof withahollowcentrethat cucumberwithgoodresistance producesbeautifulpurple toMosaicVirusandmildew, flowers,chiveshaveatasty, whichalsotoleratedry gentleonionflavourthat conditions,makingthemeasyto complementsahugerangeof grow.Theyproducerich, foodswhilsttheattractive prickly,emeraldgreen flowerscanalsobeusedin cylindricalfruits. salads.

MASTERPIECE CORIANDER £1.60 CUCUMBER (20seedsminimum) £1.50 HERB (90seedsminimum) AnearlyoutdoorBritishridge Thishighlyfragrantherb, cucumber.Thisreliablecultivar originatesfromthe producesheavyyieldsof8inch MediterraneanandAsiawhere long,plump,darkgreenskinned theleaves(Cilantro)aregrown cucumbers.Thefleshiscrisp tobeusedrawinsaladsand andwhiteandperfectwhen salsa,orcookedintobreadsor slicedupinsummersalads. curries.Theseeds(Coriander) arealsooftenusedtoadd flavouranddimensiontodishes

GOLDENTEPEE GARLICCHIVES £1.65 DWARFFRENCHBEAN (50seedsminimum) £1.50 HERB (200seedsminimum) AmostattractivedwarfFrench Thisversatileherbcanbeeither beanwithdistinctivegolden ahouseplantoraherb,with yellowpods,heldinbunches broad,flatleaveswhichare wellabovethefoliageforeasy perfecttouseasordinarychives picking.Ifsownevery4050 andbulbswhichcanbefriedlike daysthroughoutthespringand anonion.Thefragrantwhite summeritwillgiveasteady flowers,capableofperfuminga successionoftenderbeans. wholeroom,canbeusedin salads.

Shoponlineatwww.plantworldseeds.com 636363 tel:+44(0)1803872939fax:+44(0)1803875018 ITALIANGIANTPARSLEY SWEETGENOVESEBASIL £1.45 HERB (300seedsminimum) £1.45 HERB (750seedsminimum) Thishardyflatleavedparsley Oftenknownasthebestvariety withhighpestanddisease ofbasilforhomemadepesto, resistanceisextremelyeasyto thisvarietyproducesoval growproducinglarge,dark aromaticleaveswhichare greenandsmoothleaveswith curvedinwards,andareperfect anintenseflavourthatmakesit insaladsortomatodishes.Easy perfectforcooking.The togrow,thisbasilistheperfect versatileleavescanbeused companiontohomegrown fresh,driedorfrozen. tomatoes.

REDRUBINBASIL THYMETHYMETHYME £1.45 HERB (300seedsminimum) £1.50 HERB (500seedsminimum) Thisfragrantbasilwithvibrant Thishardyperennialcanbe purpleleavesandastrongtaste pickedandusedallyearround. blendedwithahintofthe Withattractive,smallgreen sharpnessofcloves,also clusteredleavesandpastelpink producespinkflowersmakingit flowersitisanattractive asuperbornamentalplant.Itis additiontoanyherbgardenand perfectwhenusedfreshfor isperfectforstuffings,poultry makingvinegarandoilsaswell dishesandstews. asaddingcolourtosalads.

ROSEMARY TRIPLECURLEDPARSLEY £1.50 HERB (100seedsminimum) £1.45 HERB (750seedsminimum) Thishardyherbwithstands Alargeandbushyvigorous droughtswellandcansurvive varietyofparsleywithclosely formanyyearswithonlythe curleddarkgreenleaves.Itis mostbasicoftendingmakingit fastgrowingandholdsfora anexcellentadditiontoany longtimewhenmature,making herbgarden.Thefragrant harvestingeasy.Excellenttaste. leaves,idealfordrying,are perfectformeat,fish,soupsand stews.

RUSSIANTARRAGON NERODITOSCANA £1.50 HERB (500seedsminimum) £1.50 KALE (150seedsminimum) Avigorousandeasytogrow Thisveryresilient,easytogrow varietyoftarragon,thisplant kaleisresistanttoheatand producesbranchingstemsof aphids.Thedark,deliciously narrowpointed,aromatic flavoured,emeraldgreenloose emeraldgreenleaveswhich leaves,whichappearaneye haveamilderflavourthanother catchingblackatadistance,are varietiesmakingthemperfect perfectinmanycookeddishes, forfish,poultry,saucesand orwhensmallinsalads. tarragonvinegar.

SPEARMINT SCARLETKALE £1.50 HERB (500seedsminimum) £1.45 KALE (150seedsminimum) Thiscommon,attractivevariety Thisattractivehardyvariety ofminthasaromaticforest sportscurly,darkgreen/purple green,serratedleavesand leavesstreakedwithredveins violetblueflowers.Easytogrow whichintensifyincolourafter andsurvivingwellinnearlyall thefirstfrost.Thevitaminrich climatesspearmintcanbeused leavescanbeharvestedyoung driedorfreshtocomplement assaladleavesorharvested potatoesandpeasandadd lateraswintergreens. flavourtosauces.

Shoponlineatwww.plantworldseeds.com 646464 tel:+44(0)1803872939fax:+44(0)1803875018 SIBERIANIMPROVEDKALE FORELLENSCHLUSS £1.50 KALE (150seedsminimum) £1.60 LETTUCE (200seedsminimum) Thisextremelycoldhardy AnAustrianromainelettuce, SiberianKale,whichoriginated withtheexcellenttasteand inRussia,hasflat,broad,deeply textureofabutterhead.The cutandruffledbluegreen namemeans"speckledlikea leaves,whichgrowonlong, trout"andcomesfromthe succulent,sweetstalks.Aheavy leaves'distinctiveappearance frostjustimprovestheflavourof withlargesplashesofdeepred theleaves. ongreen.

BLUESOLAISE LITTLELEPRECHAUN £1.50 LEEK (200seedsminimum) £1.50 LETTUCE (250seedsminimum) AtraditionalFrenchwinter This8inchawardwinningbaby heirloomthatishardyandcold redRomainelettucehasasweet resistantaswellasbeingan andcrunchycentreand attractiveadditiontothecottage stunningleaveswhichfadeto garden.Theflagsareblue deepredpurpleatthetips.It greenwhichturnvioletaftera survivesinalmostanyclimate coldspellwhilsttheshanksare withtheleaveskeptwellaway thick/mediumlength. fromthegroundandislarger thanitsnamesuggests.

MUSSELBURGH LOLLOBIONDA £1.50 LEEK (200seedsminimum) £1.55 LETTUCE (250seedsminimum) Thisfamousanddelicious ThisattractiveItalianlettuce Scottish19thcenturyheirloom producesanemeraldmoundof varietyofwinterleekhaslarge, frillyleaveswithalooseheart verythickstemswhichhavea makingitlessappealingtoslugs fantasticsweetyetmildflavour. thanButterheadvarieties.An Thisvarietyiswinterhardyand eyecatchinglettuceproducing isslowtobolt. leavesformorethan3monthsif theyaretakenfromtheoutside.

BLACKSEEDEDSIMPSON LOLLOROSSA £1.55 LETTUCE (250seedsminimum) £1.45 LETTUCE (200seedsminimum) Sweetandtender,withlight LolloRossaisaprettyItalian greenleaveswhichmaybeused looseleaflettucewithfrilly asanearlymaincroporasa bordeauxredleavesthattaper cutandcomeagainbabyleaf. togreenhearts.Thecrisp Itisboltresistantandcangrow texture,mildtasteandattractive quitelarge.Performswellin appearancemaketheman growbagsoreveninpoorsoil. essentialadditiontosalads.

COCARDECOCARDECOCARDE TOMTHUMB £1.50 LETTUCE (500seedsminimum) £1.50 LETTUCE (250seedsminimum) AstunningFrenchredoakleaf TomThumb,astillverypopular lettucewithlargeuprightheads. VictorianEnglishheirloom Thedarkgreen,deeplylobed lettuce,isaverycompact,early leaveshaveastrongredoverlay butterheadwithasmalltightly andareslowtobolt.Theheads bunchedhead.Theruffledouter ofthisveryadaptablelettuce leavesarelightmediumgreen aretrumpetshapedandare whilethecentresarecreamy superbinsalads. whitewithapleasantbuttery taste.

Shoponlineatwww.plantworldseeds.com 656565 tel:+44(0)1803872939fax:+44(0)1803875018 WALDMANN'SDARKGREEN PLUMGRANNY £1.50 LETTUCE (250seedsminimum) £1.75 MELON (10seedsminimum) Mediumlargeplantsproduce Sometimesalsoknownas wavy,frilled,deeplycut,light QueenAnne'sPocketMelon,this greenleaveswithgood veryfragrantwhitefleshed,long uniformitywhicharecrispy, establishedheirloomvarietyhas tenderandtasty.Itisidealfor quitesmallapplesizedfruits coldframes,greenhouse withanattractiveyellowand growingorthegardenandthe orangeredstripedskin. leavesstaycrispaftercutting.

BUSHBABYF1 AILSACRAIG £1.70 MARROW (10seedsminimum) £1.50 ONION (300seedsminimum) Anattractivebabymarrow Thistraditionalfavourite,named whichonlygrowstothree afterasmallislandoffthe quartersthesizeofanormal Scottishcoast,hasadistinctive marrow.Thebushhabitand globeshapewithstrawcoloured relativelysmallsize,buthigh skinandwhiteflesh.Thebulbs yield,makeitanidealchoicefor cangrowverylargeandbe growingintubsorcontainers. usedforexhibition,whiletheir tolerancetocoolweathermakes themveryreliable.

EARLYSILVERLINE LONGREDFLORENCE £1.60 MELON (10seedsminimum) £1.50 ONION (300seedsminimum) Aunique,elongatedoriental ThisTuscanyheirloomhaslong earlymelonwithwhite,crisp, redbottleshapedbulbswithan sweetandfragrantflesh.This excellentmildsweetflavour,so tiny,delicious,gourmetmelonis isparticularlysuitedforuseraw rarelyfoundinmarkets.The insalads.Caneitherbepulled yellowskinislinedwithsilvery youngasspringonionsor furrows,andissothinitcanbe allowedtomatureforAugust peeledlikeanapple. cropping.

EDEN'SGEM REDBRUNSWICK £1.65 MELON (10seedsminimum) £1.50 ONION (300seedsminimum) Thisearlyvarietyhassmall, AmediumtolargeGerman cricketballsizedfruitsofa varietyofdarkredonionwith poundormore,withacomplex bloodredskinandwhite,spicy spicyflavour,greenflesh,anda fleshwithaflattenedtopthat heavilynettedskin.Amy storesverywell.Itisbest Goldman,authorof'Melonsfor plantedinspring,harvestedin thePassionateGrower',says autumnanddoesn'tmindbeing thisvariety'maycausedrooling!' plantedcloselytogether.

PETITGRISDERENNES HARRISMODELPARSNIP £1.95 MELON (10seedsminimum) £1.55 PARSNIP (500seedsminimum) A17thcenturyFrenchstrain Thispurewhiteparsnipwithfine originallyfromthegardenofthe grainedfleshandnosideroots BishopofRennes.Anearly hasasweetnutlikeflavourand varietywhichiswelladaptedto canbeboiled,friedorsauteed coolerclimates.Thefruitare inbutter.Itcanalsobeleftin smoothskinnedwithslight thegroundallwinterwithout ribbingandweighabout2lbs. protectionforspringuseas Theorangefleshhasasuperb freezinggreatlyimprovesthe flavouranddelightfulscent. flavour.

Shoponlineatwww.plantworldseeds.com 666666 tel:+44(0)1803872939fax:+44(0)1803875018 TENDERANDTRUE OREGONSUGARPOD £1.55 PARSNIP (500seedsminimum) £1.70 PEA (150seedsminimum) Firstintroducedin1897this Anawardwinningmangetout parsnip,withagoodresistance sugarpeawhichproducespods tocanker,haslong,tapered, inclustersoftworatherthan smoothskinnedrootsfroma theusualone.Consequently,a broad3"shoulder.Thefleshis veryheavyyieldingvarietywith finegrainedandsweettasting gooddiseaseresistance.The withverylittlecore. sweet,crunchypodsareideal foruseinstirfries.

WHITEKING ALMAPAPRIKA £1.55 PARSNIP (500seedsminimum) £1.75 PEPPER (25seedsminimum) WhiteKingisafineflavoured, Extremelyproductiveplantsare intermediatelength,stump loadedwithsmall,rounded, endedparsnip.Asitsname thickwalledpeppers,ripening suggestsithassmoothcreamy fromcreamywhitetored,and whiteskinandfleshandisa withamildflavourthatisa veryreliableandhighyielding wonderfulcombinationof variety. slightlywarmbutsweetand tangy.(Heat1)

CANOECANOECANOE BULGARIANCARROT £1.70 PEA (200seedsminimum) £1.75 PEPPER (25seedsminimum) Thissecondearly/maincrop Avery,veryhighyielding,dwarf producesafineharvestof heirloomplantabsolutely slightlycurved,boatshaped drippingwithbigclustersof pods,whichgivethevarietyits small,crunchyfruitsthatlook name,whichareabsolutely justlikecarrotsbuthavea crammedfullofsweetflavoured spicy,fierybite!Perfectfor peas.Theplantsgrowto30 containersorgreenhouse.(Heat inchesandaresemileafless 4) makingpickingeasy.

GREENSHAFT(HURST) GOLDENMARCONI £1.50 PEA (200seedsminimum) £1.80 PEPPER (25seedsminimum) Ifyou'regoingtosowonlyone Alate,goldenorange,lobed, pea,itshouldbe'HurstGreen Italiantraditionalpepper.These Shaft'.Asweettasting,wrinkle typicallygrowto7"inlength seeded,tall,superheavy andtheirfleshissweetand yieldingvariety,withlong,45 mild.Canbeeatenfreshor inchpods,with911peasina fried.(Heat0) pod,anddoublepoddedtoo, anditevenresistsdowny mildewandfusariumwilt.

LINCOLNLINCOLNLINCOLN JIMMYNARDELLO'S £1.40 PEA (250seedsminimum) £2.25 PEPPER (10seedsminimum) Acompact,heavyyieldingmain Thisvarietyofsweetpepperis cropwhichstandstheheat stillregisteredas'endangered' betterthanmostandalsoresists onSlowFoodUSAÆsArkof wilt.Theplantsproduce69 Tastes.Itproduces10"12" sweetlyflavouredpeasindark fruitswhicharesweetandlight greencurvedpodsandare wheneatenraw,andis Greatforfollowonsowings, consideredoneoftheverybest producingpeasuntilSeptember. fryingpeppers.(Heat0)

Shoponlineatwww.plantworldseeds.com 676767 tel:+44(0)1803872939fax:+44(0)1803875018 REDPADRON WEEBEELITTLEF1 £2.25 PEPPER (20seedsminimum) £1.90 PUMPKIN (10seedsminimum) Pickthesesmallconicalfruits, Thissweetfleshed,new, withalongcurledpedicle,small incrediblydiminutivepumpkin, andgreenforlowlevelsofheat, wasspeciallybredtobeideal astheheatincreasesasthe forindividualservings.Youcan fruitsgetlargerandredder.Play alsomakelotsandlotsofmini SpanishRoulette!Everybatchof Halloweenheadswiththese! 10orsopepperscontainsahot one!(Heat3)(butwatchthe oddone!)

SWEETCHOCOLATE BLACKSPANISHROUND £1.75 PEPPER (25seedsminimum) £1.55 RADISH (250seedsminimum) Thisuniquelycoloured,early Asweetandmild,veryhardy fruiting,sweetanddelicious winterradishwithsnowywhite mildflavouredpepperhasthick succulentfleshandanearblack walledredflesh,andwhenripe skinwhichlacksthefieriness turnsagorgeouschocolate foundsoofteninsummer brownontheoutside.Idealfor varieties.Ithasprobablybeen Northerngardeners.(Heat0) grownsinceatleastthe16th Century.

ATLANTICGIANT GERMANGIANT £1.50 PUMPKIN (10seedsminimum) £1.45 RADISH (150seedsminimum) Giantpinkyyellowpumpkins Verylarge,roundredradishthat whichhavebeendeveloped wascollectedinGermany. overtheyearstogrowto Thesekeeptheirfinequality producethemaximumsized evenwhenlarge.Thisheirloom fruitofanyplant.Although isverypopularwiththeAmish. grownprimarilyforcompetition, Mildandtastyandgrowsto thedarkfleshofthemature maturityinfourweeks. pumpkinistastyenoughwhen usedaspiefilling.

JAUNEGROSDEPARIS PINKSLIPPER £1.95 PUMPKIN (10seedsminimum) £1.50 RADISH (250seedsminimum) Thesebeautifulgiantpumpkins Thisvarietyproducesvery cangrowtoover100lbsand pretty,blushpink,ovalshaped aresupposedlytheancestorof radishes,whichwhencutopen mostofthereallybigpumpkins. revealwhitecrunchyflesh.The Thesegoodkeepersareround, mildtasteisfarlesspeppery flattened,andhavelightribbing. thansomeothervarieties, AnAmericangrowerreports makingthemaperfectaddition havinghadnopestsattackthe toallsalads. ,andnowilteither!

KINGOFMAMMOTH WATERMELON £1.50 PUMPKIN (10seedsminimum) £1.55 RADISH (150seedsminimum) Asitsnamesuggeststhese Alarge,sweetheirloomChinese heirloompumpkinsarevery Daikonradishwhichiswhite large.Theyoftengrowto outsidewithgreenshoulders, between40100lbsalthough whilsttheinsideisredgivinga prizespecimenshavetopped stylishgourmetpresentation 200lb.Excellentinpiesdueto whensliced.Alsocalled"red greatyield.Skinisyellowwith meat"radish,butcansafelybe mottledpatchesofpinkorange. eatenbyvegetarians!

Shoponlineatwww.plantworldseeds.com 686868 tel:+44(0)1803872939fax:+44(0)1803875018 STRAWBERRY'TEMPTATION'F1 SCARLETEMPEROR £2.55 Rosaceae (30seedsminimum) £1.65 RUNNERBEAN (25seedsminimum) Anexcellent'sweetheart'variety Apopular,goodyielding,old producingdarkredsweet favouriteEnglishrunnerbean tastingfruitoncompactdark withstrikingredblossomand greenplants.Thisvarietyis largepodswhichcontaindeep almostrunnerlesssoisidealfor purplebeansspeckledwithred useinhangingbaskets,grow orlavenderwhenmature. bagsorpatiocontainers.

DESIREEDESIREEDESIREE WHITELADY £1.60 RUNNERBEAN (25seedsminimum) £1.65 RUNNERBEAN (25seedsminimum) Thisfavourite,whiteflowered, Theseheavycroppingrunner fewwhiteseeded,totally beanssetbetterthananyother stringlessrunnerbeanhaslong, athightemperatures,giving tender,broadpodsupto30cm long,smooth,succulent,string long,andwillbearveryheavy less,midgreenpodshangingin crops,evenfromasmallarea, clusters.Thepurewhiteflowers, andespeciallyindryconditions. (givingwhitebeans)arerarely Asuperbvegetable! pickedbybirds.

ENORMAENORMAENORMA SALADROCKET £1.55 RUNNERBEAN (25seedsminimum) £1.45 SALADLEAF (1000seedsminimum) Anearlycroppingvarietyof Thisquickgrowing,deeply runnerbeangivingahighyield notchedleaf(alsocalled ofverylong,smooth,slender CultivatedRocket)isbecominga beans,upto20incheslong,of firmfavouriteeitherforsalad excellentshapeandcolour. useorcooked,whenitmakesa Thebrilliantredflowersarean goodspinachsubstitute.Witha addedbonus. deliciousnutty,pepperytasteit isidealforwindowsillorgarden.

LADYDILADYDILADYDI WILDROCKET £1.60 RUNNERBEAN (25seedsminimum) £1.45 SALADLEAF (1000seedsminimum) Thesesuperblong,slimand Spiceupyoursaladswithwild fleshyrunnerbeanstolerates rocket,withdeepgreen, heatwellandarecompletely serratedfoliagewhichhasthe stringless.Theygiveaheavy samedistinctiveflavourasits cropoftenderdeliciousdark standardnamesakebutismore greenpodsoveraverylong intense.WildRocketisperfect seasonandreceivedtheRHS for'cutandcomeagain', 1999AwardofGardenMerit. growingrightthroughtheyear withprotection.

PAINTEDLADY BLOOMSDALESAVOY £1.55 RUNNERBEAN (25seedsminimum) £1.70 SPINACH (300seedsminimum) AnancientHeirloomEnglish Theselarge,dark,glossygreen varietyofrunnerbeandating andverycrinkledleavesare backtothe17thcenturywith excellentinsalads,soufflΘs, attractivebicolouredredand stuffingorasacookedgreen. whiteflowers.Compactplants Thereisaverygoodchance producetenderpodsbest thatwhenyoupurchasethe pickedyoungforfreshflavour. bestfreshspinachitis BloomsdaleLongStanding spinach.

Shoponlineatwww.plantworldseeds.com 696969 tel:+44(0)1803872939fax:+44(0)1803875018 NEWZEALANDSPINACH CORNELL'SDELICATA £1.70 SPINACH (50seedsminimum) £1.60 SQUASH (10seedsminimum) VitaminfilledNewZealand Theseverypretty,elongated spinachismildertastingthanits whiteandgreenstriped,dwarf distantrelation'truespinach' fruitcontainyellowfleshwitha anddoesnotboltindrysoils, delicateandsumptuouslynutty makingatriangularleavedbush flavour,richinvitaminA.This spreading23feetinall awardwinningcompactCornell directions.(Discoveredby straingivesexcellentyieldsand CaptainCookinthe18th hasgooddiseaseresistance. century!)

WHITELISBONWINTERHARDY GALEUXD'EYSINES £1.50 SPRINGONION (500seedsminimum) £1.95 SQUASH (10seedsminimum) Thisquickgrowing,award AstunningFrenchheirloomwith winningsaladonionproduces beautifulsalmonpeachskinand crispsucculentstemswitha sweet,orangeflesh,assmooth characteristic'bite'tothem. asvelvet,thenamemeaning Seedcanbesowninsuccession "embroideredwithwartsfrom foracontinuouscropallspring, Eysines",astheskindevelops summerandautumn. peanutlikenodesasthesugar contentbuildsintheripening process.

BABYBLUE POTIMARRON £1.90 SQUASH (10seedsminimum) £1.60 SQUASH (10seedsminimum) Thiscrossbetweenabuttercup AFrenchHeirloomwinter squashandtheBlueHubbard squashwithadelicatechestnut hassmooth,greyblueskinand flavour.ItsFrenchnameinfact sweeterorangefleshthanthe derivesfrompotiron(pumpkin) standardBlueHubbard.More andmarron(chestnut). marketableandhighyielding, Apparently,thelongeritis thisscaleddown57pound storedthehigheritssugarand squashtasteswonderfulbaked vitaminsincrease.(AKA orroasted. HokkaidoSquash).

BLACKFOREST QUEENSLANDBLUE £1.90 SQUASH (10seedsminimum) £1.60 SQUASH (10seedsminimum) Thisdarkgreen,flatround, Agoodkeeping,turbanshaped kabochatypewintersquash, Australiangunmetalgreywinter averages34lbandhasdeep squashwithafinedeepgolden orangefleshwhichismedium fleshthatisbothsweetandfine dryandsweet.Itispopularfor flavouredandpackedwith itsstrongyetsweet,moist, vitaminA.Thehighsugar fluffytexture,whichbearsa contentofthefleshmakesit remarkableresemblanceto idealforpumpkinpie. chestnuts.

BLACKFUTSU VEGETABLESPAGHETTI £1.95 SQUASH (10seedsminimum) £1.75 SQUASH (10seedsminimum) ArareblackJapanesesquash. Whencooked,thefleshofthis Thefruitareroundwitha Chinesevegetable,(actuallya flattenedtopandhaveheavy wintersquash),fallsawayfrom ribbing.Theblackofthemature thefruitinribbonsandstrands, fruitturnsarichchestnutcolour justlikespaghettiforwhichit whileinstorage.Thefleshis makesaperfectsubstitutein goldenandhastherichtasteof countlesscookingroles.It hazelnuts. containsfolicacid,vitaminAand betacarotene.

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WHITESCALLOP GOLDENBALL £1.50 SQUASH (10seedsminimum) £1.55 TURNIP (300seedsminimum) APattyPanheirloomsummer Veryhardy,dwarf,compact squash.Firstgrownbythe plantsproduceroundrootswith nativeAmericansanddepicted tender,yellow,mildflavoured byEuropeansettlerasfarback fleshandwithoutstanding as1591.Itremainsoneofthe keepingandexhibition besttastingandyielding qualities.Thisisthebestofthe varietiesaroundtoday!Great maincrops,andis friedandbaked.Veryattractive recommendedbytheNational flatfruitwithscallopededges. InstituteofAgriculturalBotany.

YELLOWSCALLOP MANCHESTERMARKET £1.75 SQUASH (10seedsminimum) £1.55 TURNIP (300seedsminimum) YellowBushScallopSquashis AlsoknownasGreenTopStone, anextremelyhardy,oldsummer thishighyielding,hardyvariety squashvarietythatwas producesaheavycropoflarge introducedpriorto1860.It creamwhiteroundedturnips producesanabundanceof withadelicateflavour.They goldenyellowsquashon areeasytogrow,storewellin compactplantsoveralonger winterandcanbeplantedlate seasonthanothervarieties. andtheneatenthroughout (AKAGoldenCustard). winterandspring.

EARLIBIRDF1 PURPLETOPMILAN £1.95 SWEETCORN (40seedsminimum) £1.45 TURNIP (300seedsminimum) Earlibirdisanexcellent,early A19thcenturyItalianheirloom maturing,supersweethybrid, whichisquickmaturingandwell earlyvarietyproducing3or suitedforcoolerclimes.The morehighqualitycobs,typically mediumsizedroots,witha 8"inlength.AlongwithSwift, sweetandmildflavourarevery thisisprobablythebestvariety flatwithabrightpurpletopand togrowinmostUKsituations. awhitebasebelowsoillevel, andstorewell.

INDIANSUMMERF1 VEITCHESREDGLOBE £1.95 SWEETCORN (40seedsminimum) £1.50 TURNIP (300seedsminimum) 'IndianSummer'isamodern Anearlymaturing,globular supersweetvarietyofanold turnipwhichwasfirstbredin favourite.Astheseason the1860'sinDevon.Theroots progressesandtheearmatures, arereddishpurpleabove thecobturnsintoa groundandwhitebelow.The kaleidoscopeofwhite,red, fleshissolidwithadelicate brown,yellowandpurple flavourespeciallyiftherootsare kernels,whichslowlydeepenin harvestedwhenyoung. colour.

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PLEASE READ CAREFULLY  We believe all seeds are correctly named, but because many are open-pollinated, occasional variations may occur and we cannot be held responsible other than for replacement of the seeds.  Quantity per packet varies greatly with rarity and amount collected from our plants.  ALL orders MUST be accompanied by either Credit Card details, International Giro, Bank Draft (in Pounds Sterling), Personal Cheque in UK Pounds, or Cash (UK Pounds, US Dollars or Euros). Please note that it is advisable to register cash.  All orders of 10 packets or more will receive a surprise FREE packet extra.  Three packets of the same variety of seed in our catalogue may be purchased for the price of two. e.g. if one packet is £2.00, pay £4.00 and get the THIRD packet FREE. Simply write 3T in the quantity column.  IMPORTANT: Don’t forget that some seeds may run out. When ordering by mail YOU MUST enclose EITHER a list of substitute seeds OR a limited amount cheque (see below) and we will fill in the correct amount. Failure to do this may delay your order and you may receive a credit note.  Commercial growers: please see trade terms on the web site.  PLEASE NOTE: Only customers ORDERING seed this year will automatically receive next year’s seed list, which is sent out in October.  You may send in orders by fax on 01803 875018 (24 hour line) but ONLY if you pay by CREDIT CARD.  Further orders are welcome on plain paper.  If you move please tell us your NEW address and also your OLD one.  GIFTS: Please send us a list of seeds with payment (minimum of £10.00), recipient’s name and address and the date they are required. We will despatch them with a greeting card and also a message if required.  TOKENS: Order these from us with payment of any value desired (minimum of £10.00). A token to this value will be sent to the recipient with a copy of our seed catalogue and also a card or message if requested.  Heirloom and Heritage Vegetable seeds are strictly for private use and not for commercial fruit production. By their very nature you may get the odd variant plant.  All images and text within the catalogue are the copyright of Plant World Devon Limited.  The images from our extensive library are available for purchase. Please contact us for details.  POSTAGE: UK customers please add £1.90 postage and packaging for ALL orders.  Overseas customers please add £3.50 towards postage.

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I ENCLOSE CHEQUE / CASH / POSTAL ORDER Total Page 1 TO FAX PLEASE DEBIT MY CREDIT CARD NUMBER: Total Page 2 / / Post & Packing START DATE: EXPIRY DATE: (See terms of business) SECURITY CODE (last 3 digits on reverse of card): TOTAL: BANK: ...... ACCESS MASTERCARD VISA EURO CARD Tick if claiming for surprise packet: AMERICAN EXPRESS MAESTRO + ISSUE NO. 10 or more packets CARDHOLDER SIGNATURE: ...... If friend's name entered overleaf Please writePlease your e-mailwrite your address email here address ...... here ...... Do you also have a website? Write its address below, link to our site and you will receive 5 extra packets free! ‘Like’ Plant World Seeds on Facebook and receive a free surprise packet of seeds with your order. Web addressFind (NOT our email Facebook address) pagewww. by Googling for ‘Plant World Seeds Facebook’ (It will be the first result). Check this box to let us know you have done this >>> Plant World Seeds 2007 www.plant-world-seeds.com / tel: +44(0)1803 872939 / fax: +44(0)1803 875018 Have you a keen friend who would enjoy our catalogue? Write their name and address in the large space on the right and we will send them one, as a thank you we will send YOU an extra surprise pack of seeds completely free with this order! This catalogue requested by: Please write YOUR name ONLY here: QTY SEED ORDER (PAGE 2) AMOUNT £ p : FEED ORDER FORM SIDEWAYS INTO MACHINE TO FAX (CONTINUE THIS ORDER ON PLAIN PAPER) TOTAL PAGE 2 SUBSTITUTES (You may include packets of higher value - the more you list, the more generous we will be!)

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FROM NEWTON ABBOT:

Follow Torquay signs to Penn Inn Roundabout (Traffic light controlled)

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.

Plant World St. Marychurch Road, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 4SE, UK Tel: 01803 872939 Fax: 01803 875018 www.plant-world-seeds.com

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