Growing chicory
This bitter leaved salad plant is really easy to grow in the soil, raised beds or pots. Sow seed in early summer and you'll have lots of tasty pickings from autumn to early winter. Here's how. Prepare soil the winter before sowing, digging well ... [... more]
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Eremurus stenophyllus
These are magnificent plants, with a stately grandeur similar to delphiniums and sometimes reaching an even greater height as their stout spikes of dense 4cm (1.5in) blooms soars above all else in the early summer border. To do well, these Asian ... [... more]
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Beetroot Red Ace Seeds
 A main crop variety with round to oval high quality roots with a dark red colour. The hybrid vigour makes it a very strong grower which will do well in most sites and soils; good in dry seasons. Sow from spring to early summer very thinly in drills [... more]
£1.99
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Calendula Fiesta Gitana Mixed Seeds
A vigorous bushy marigold in mixed colours that can last from early summer to autumn. This easy to grow hardy annual will flower virtually all the summer. A wide colour range of fully double blooms with a compact habit of 30cm(12in) height by 23cm [... more]
£1.99
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Clematis Montana Primrose Star
Prolific flowering Clematis reaching a height of 2-3 metres. Suitable in either sun or shade this is excellent for arches & pergolas. The double flowers are primrose first fading to white in late spring through to early summer. [... more]
£9.00
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Godetia Azalea Flowered Mixed Seeds
A beautiful and easy annual producing lots of large luxurious stylish semi-double waved blooms which flower in summer to a height of 38cm (15in). Sow early spring to early summer outdoors where they are to flower. Prepare the ground well and rake [... more]
£1.69
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Weigela Florida Variegata
An award winning shrub with attractive foliage that is grey-green with a white marginal variegation. The flowers are trumpet or funnel shaped and pink in colour. They appear in early summer. The shrub grows up to 2m high. [... more]
£6.00
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Hemerocallis 'Golden Chimes'
While the individual blooms of daylilies last just 24 hours, they are produced in such profusion that the plant is seldom without colour in early summer. 'Golden Chimes' is a well-loved variety that the Royal Horticultural Society has given it ... [... more]
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Clematis florida var flore pleno
This sought after clematis has creamy white flowers with double centres which appear from early summer to early autumn. The plant's thin stems mean that it is best grown through a wall-trained shrub for support. Alternatively it can be grown in a ... [... more]
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Fraxinus ornus
It makes a perfectly decent, bushy, deciduous tree which doesn't get outrageously tall. It has dark green leaves but stands out in late spring and early summer when it has lashings of gently scented, creamy white flowers. Even better, the leaves ... [... more]
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Broad Bean The Sutton Seeds
An excellent dwarf variety only 30cm (12in) high that produces lots of 13-15cm (5-6in) pods each bearing five small but deliciously tender beans. Very suitable for successional sowings commencing late autumn (under cloches) or late winter/early summer in [... more]
£2.29
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Lycopersicon esculentum 'Sungold'
Find out how to grow Lycopersicon esculentum 'Sungold' 'Sungold' tomatoes look like sweets and taste like ones too. It is one of the sweetest flavoured tomatoes available and it produces small orange fruits from early summer to late autumn. It is ... [... more]
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