Callicarpa bodinieri var. giraldii 'Profusion'
Find out how to grow Callicarpa bodinieri var. giraldii 'Profusion' The species is not very often grown, partly because several plants need to be grown together to produce good crops of the violet bead-like berries. 'Profusion' is a great ... [... more]
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Asparagus officinalis 'Franklim'
Find out how to grow Asparagus officinalis 'Franklim' Cultivar: 'Franklim' Asparagus does not need traditional wide raised beds, nor is it the luxury crop often assumed. The plants have very decorative ferny foliage and may be grown in single ... [... more]
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Apium graveolens 'Celebrity'
Find out how to grow Apium graveolens 'Celebrity' Cultivar: 'Celebrity' Self-blanching and green celery varieties have removed a lot of the hard work involved in trenching, and made celery crops available from mid-summer onwards. Grown on the ... [... more]
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Phaseolus coccineus 'Red Rum'
Find out how to grow Phaseolus coccineus 'Red Rum' 'Red Rum' is a self-fertilie variety that starts cropping early in the summer and carries on producing heavy crops throughout the season. Its ability to set beans even in poor weather means that ... [... more]
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Solanum tuberosum 'Charlotte'
Find out how to grow Solanum tuberosum 'Charlotte' Cultivar: 'Charlotte' 'Charlotte' is a favourite salad potato and a Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit winner. It produces very early crops of potatoes which have creamy yellow ... [... more]
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Solanum tuberosum 'Swift'
Find out how to grow Solanum tuberosum 'Swift' 'Swift' is one of the first potatoes to crop. It produces a high yield of oval, white skinned potatoes with cream flesh. Plants show resistance to potato virus Y, blackleg, scab, and potato cyst ... [... more]
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Lycopersicon esculentum 'Gardener's Delight'
Find out how to grow Lycopersicon esculentum 'Gardener's Delight' Tomatoes are a favourite summer crop for greenhouses and, if started early enough in heat, can produce six to eight or more trusses of fruit during the summer and autumn. Tall or ... [... more]
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Phaseolus coccineus 'Achievement'
A decorative climbing vine, this was once grown for its flowers and is still useful for covering arches and pillars, as well as traditional bamboo cane rows and wigwams. Crops rotate with other legumes, which include peas and beans, or can stay ... [... more]
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Rubus fruticosus 'Loch Ness'
Blackberries are ideal fruit crops for growing on walls and fences in gardens, where they often produce larger fruits than in the wild, and may also be planted as windbreaks or impenetrable boundary hedges: older vigorous varieties, with their ... [... more]
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Daucus carota 'Mignon'
This is a great variety for growing in pots on the patio as it produces 'baby-sized' carrots which are 5-8cm (2-3in) long and full of flavour. Find out how to grow Daucus carota 'Mignon' or an early crop start sowing in March, if weather permits, ... [... more]
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Sambucus racemosa 'Plumosa Aurea'
The red-berried elder has been cultivated for centuries, both as game cover and as a garden shrub, and is noted for its profuse summer crops of gleaming scarlet berries in large heavy sprays. It is a robust shrub which will grow almost anywhere, ... [... more]
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Apium graveolens 'Victoria'
Find out how to grow Apium graveolens 'Victoria' Self-blanching and green celery varieties have removed a lot of the hard work of trenching, and made celery crops available from mid-summer onwards. Plants are grown on the surface, self-blanching ... [... more]
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