Seeds - Royal Botanic Gardens

Seeds - Royal Botanic Gardens - Kew

Kew : Eryngium giganteum Miss Wilmott's Ghost 1 packet £1.99

A highly ornate border plant with heart-shaped basal foliage from which rise stems of many decorative steel-blue cones surrounded by a collar of prickly, scalloped leaves. During the summer the foliage transforms from mid green to silvery-grey. Wonderful for dried arrangements, especially at Christmas. Plants can be short lived but often self seed before dying. Height: 90-100cm (36-40in).

Kew : Marigold Doubloon 1 packet £2.69

A weather resistant Marigold! Large fully double yellow blooms, standing up to rain and strong sunshine have been unheard of until now. Flowers lasting over a long period, whatever the weather. Ideal for giving height to your annual borders and as a cut flower. Height: 60-90cm (2-3ft).

Kew for Kids : Calendula Porcupine 1 packet £1.69

An exciting new English Marigold with vivid orange, pointed blooms with an attractive quilling that gives a wild, spiky effect. Wonderfully easy to grow in the border or as bedding. The distinct blooms also make a stunning cut flower.

Kew for Kids : Fur Balls (Gomphocarpus) 1 packet £1.69

A slender, deciduous shrub, often treated as an annual. Quick and easy to grow, producing stems of insignificant flowers that magically transform into unusual translucent , soft, spiny balloons. Adds fun to borders and cut flower arrangements.

Kew for Kids : Gourds Russian Dolls 1 packet £1.69

Unusual, doll-shaped gourds that can be harvested at various sizes, dried and painted to your own design, creating a family of Russian dolls. NOT EDIBLE - Use acrylic paints to create your own designs.

Kew for Kids : Mimosa Sensitive Plant 1 packet £1.69

"Sensitive Plant", so called because the leaflets fold up in a most spectacular manner when touched or blown by the wind. Run your hand over the plant and the leaves will fold up and the leaf stalk will drop as if on a hinge. The movements are quickest with young plants in bright sunshine. They return to their normal condition in a few minutes.

Kew for Kids : Nasturtium Tom Thumb 1 packet £1.49

Dwarf compact plants bearing brilliantly coloured single' flowers in a wide colour range. Easy plants, for beds, borders, containers and even dry sunny banks. Height 15-23cm (6-9in).

Kew for Kids : Sunflower Little Dorrit 1 packet £1.49

Little Dorrit produces a large, rich yellow head with a deep chocolate centre above an imposing pyramid of huge foliage. A rather exciting little plant for the border, which will cause intrigue, excitement and evoke comment from all. Easy to grow; ideal for children.

Kew Urban Garden Vegetables : Beet Cardeal F1 Hybrid 1 packet £1.99

Beta vulgaris var.conditiva. Easy to grow, Beet Cardeal produces golf ball sized, succulent baby beets with very sweet, smooth skinned rich red fleshed roots.

Kew Urban Garden Vegetables : Broad Bean Statissa 1 packet £1.89

Vicia faba. Compact, upright plant habit, and producing early setting of short, slender pods. Pick regularly for delicious 'mangetout' pods to eat raw or steamed, or allow pods to fill out with tasty small beans. Broad Bean Statissa is ideal in containers.

Kew Urban Garden Vegetables : Carrot Atlas 1 packet £1.69

Daucus carota. Baby round carrots, deliciously sweet and crunchy and with rich orange, coreless flesh. Just wash under the tap as a raw snack, add Carrot Atlas to salads or as a steamed vegetable.

Kew Urban Garden Vegetables : Courgette Firenze F1 Hybrid 1 packet £1.99

Cucurbita pepo. Easy to grow and very prolific and cost effective for the space each plant takes up. Courgette Firenze produces high yields of small, slender courgettes throughout summer if picked regularly. Perfect for growing in a bucket sized container on a sunny patio.

Kew Urban Garden Vegetables : Cucumber Fanfare F1 Hybrid 1 packet £2.99

Cucumis sativus. Bushy habit, outdoor cucumber ideal in a container/growing bag as well as a sunny site in the garden. Cucumber Fanfare produces a good crop of slender, crisp, flavoursome fruits throughout the summer if picked regularly.

Kew Urban Garden Vegetables : Dwarf Bean Bellini 1 packet £1.89

Phaseolus vulgaris. Sturdy, upright plants of compact habit producing beans high on the plant for easy picking and better quality pods as they do not touch the soil surface. Mid-green, round, slender, stringless pods. Dwarf Bean Bellini is superb for growing in containers or windowboxes.

Kew Urban Garden Vegetables : Dwarf Runner Bean Pickwick 1 packet £1.89

Phaseolus coccineus. The bushy, dwarf plants of Dwarf Bean Bellini produce masses of red flowers which look stunning in a container, or direct outside, followed by short succulent beans. Pick regularly for a long season of harvest.

Kew Urban Garden Vegetables : Kale Starbor F1 Hybrid 1 packet £1.89

Brassica oleracea convar. acephala. Grow all the year round as a 'baby leaf' indoors on the windowsill. Outdoors if given wider spacing it will make an abundance of densely curled leaves over a very long period. Winter hardy as a full sized plant.

Kew Urban Garden Vegetables : Leek Lancelot 1 packet £1.89

Allium porrum. An alternative as a milder flavoured spring onion when sown thickly. Leek Lancelot is ideal for growing in containers, use in salads, stir-fries or as a steamed vegetable. Also grow as a full sized leek for autumn and winter harvesting.

Kew Urban Garden Vegetables : Lettuce Dazzle 1 packet £1.89

Lactuca sativa. Stunning 'midi romaine' with burgundy outer leaves with crunchy, sweet, pale green hearts. Sow regularly for delicious lettuce all summer long. Lettuce Dazzle is ideal in containers.

Kew Urban Garden Vegetables : Parsnip Arrow 1 packet £1.49

Pastinaca sativa. Slender, bayonet shaped roots, virtually coreless and tender and sweet. Sow regularly for fresh roots throughout the summer and autumn. Parsnip Arrow is ideal in deeper containers with a minimum depth of 37cm (14 1/2in), or outside in the garden.

Kew Urban Garden Vegetables : Pepper Sweet Ingrid 1 packet £1.89

Capsicum annuum. Compact 'ornamental edible' on the windowsill or outside in a sunny spot, producing abundant green turning black to red sweet peppers throughout the summer. Pepper Sweet Ingrid makes an attractive and edible feature on a windowsill or sunny patio.

Kew Urban Garden Vegetables : Radish Amethyst 1 packet £1.69

Raphanus sativus. Shiny purple skinned round roots with crisp white flesh. The roots of Radish Amethyst are slow to go pithy and have strong tops for easier pulling. Ideal for containers.Sow regularly for continuous succulent roots throughout the summer.

Kew Urban Garden Vegetables : Salad Leaves Cut 'n' Come Again 1 packet £1.49

A quick growing salad leaf mixture, ideal for sowing in containers outdoors throughout the summer, and indoors on a windowsill during the winter. Salad Leaves Cut 'n' Come Again is ready to cut from 25 days in summer and 50 days during winter. Mixture contains: Mizuna, Salad Rocket, Red Mustard, Pak Choi, Red Russian Kale, Golden Yellow Chinese Cabbage.

Kew Urban Garden Vegetables : Spinach Picasso F1 Hybrid 1 packet £1.69

Spinacia oleracea. Dark green, semi-savoy-leaved variety producing plenty of 'baby leaves'. Spinach Picasso is slow to bolt (run to seed). Perfect in containers. Can be grown all year indoors for 'baby leaves'.

Kew Urban Garden Vegetables : Tomato Sweet 'n' Neat Cherry Red 1 packet £2.69

Lycopersicon lycopersicum. An ultra compact, determinate variety only 25-30cm (10-12in) in height. Good crops of sweet 20-25g ( 3/4-1oz), cherry-shaped fruit for continuous picking. Tomato Sweet 'n' Neat Cherry Red is ideal in patio containers and mixed planters and due to its compact habit, can even be grown on a sunny windowsill.

Kew Urban Garden Vegetables : Turnip Atlantic 1 packet £1.49

Brassica rapa var. rapa. Flatter, globe-shaped roots with purple crowns and white bases, ideal as baby turnips when the taste is sweet and succulent. Dark green, erect leaves are ideal steamed as 'greens'. Turnip Atlantic is ideal for growing in containers.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Alyssum maritima procumbens Sweet White 1 packet £1.99

Absolutely glorious honey fragrance. Sprinkle seed direct into tubs, window boxes, patio areas and borders. Height: 10-20cm (4-8in)

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Antirrhinum pendula multiflora Chinese Lanterns 1 packet £2.69

Trailing. A breeding triumph: cascading Antirrhinums! In a mixture of seven colours, including pure colours and bicolours, the "Snapdragon" flowers are borne on self branching, vigorous plants. Ideally made for hanging baskets, containers and window boxes.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Aquilegia Sweet Rainbows 1 packet £2.69

A breeding breakthrough! The result of merging a full range of top quality Aquileglas, all selected for form, colour and the best fragrance. Ideal for adding sweet scentsation to any border.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Aster chinensis Moonshine Mixed 1 packet £2.69

A colourful combination of Blue Moon and Bright Rose pom-poms, with a paler circle of light around the edge of each flower, shining like a halo around the moon. Outstanding in borders, or as a cut flower.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Dianthus Siberian Blues 1 packet £2.69

Compact, bushy mounds of bluish evergreen foliage erupt into a sea of mauve-blue flowers in late spring and are the closest yet to a true blue Dianthus. Ideal planted in borders, rockeries and containers, flowering over a long period each summer for many, many years.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Diascia Rose Queen 1 packet £1.99

Undoubtedly one of the world's loveliest annuals. Slender spikes of shell like, rose pink flowers spring From a mound of small, glossy, dark green leaves. At the back of the flower are two short spurs and the throat is tinged with purple and marked with a yellow spot. Easy to raise it thrives in ordinary garden soil and Flowers and flowers! Superb for sunny borders and excellent in containers. Flowers early summer to first frosts. Height 30cm (12in).

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Echinops ruthenicus 1 packet £2.49

Tight clusters of deep blue flowers form mini-globes on long, strong straight stems of pure silver. The foliage is amazing and quite unique, giving off a silver sheen whatever the weather. Incredibly ornamental in or out of flower. An all round superb species with ideal height.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Eryngium giganteum Miss Wilmott's Ghost 1 packet £1.99

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Euphorbia Amjilassa 1 packet £2.69

Euphorbia 'Amjilassa' is one of the most spectacular species of this amazing and diverse family. From a sowing in January/February it grows rapidly, and by July/August the huge, chrome yellow flower heads can be over 12in. across. It also features bright reddish stems which add significantly to the beauty of one of the finest Euphorbia introductions for many years. True from seed, it is a hardy perennial (US to Zone 5), and a stunning border plant of explosive potential. Found by a Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, plant hunting expedition nearly 10 years ago in Kashmir, near the village of Amjilassa and exclusively sold by Thompson & Morgan. It is, we believe, the first horticultural plant to be the subject of commercial co-operation, where it is intended that some of the proceeds are returned to the people of the country in which it was found.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Foxglove Milk Chocolate 1 packet £1.99

A delightful species originating from Spain and Portugal. Produces elegant flower spikes covered in small chocolate trumpets circling each stem and attracting beneficial insects.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Godetia Lady In Blue 1 packet £1.99

Silky blue flowers, lightly scalloped and a pure white centre are produced over a long period. From red stems, her lanceolate foliage is light green tipped in maroon.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Grasses (Ornamental) Hare's Tail 1 packet £1.99

Soft, fur-like, silky heads with grace and beauty.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Laurentia Avant-Garde Blue 1 packet £1.99

T&M's flower breeders have struck gold with the first ever F1 Hybrid Laurentia to be entered into the Fleuroselect trials. Both 'Avant-Garde Blue' and 'Pink' have the same uniform, vigorous plant habit and have earlier scented, star shaped blooms which are produced in abundance over a long flowering season. Your garden will be filled with colour all summer. Height: 25-30cm (10-12in).

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Lupin Dwarf Fairy Pink 1 packet £1.99

A unique, fragrant, dwarf annual Lupin in beautiful shades of soft pink. Free flowering, bushy plants, with a delightful sweet pea fragrance in the evenings. Can be enjoyed in a sunny border or large container on the patio. Height: 60-75cm (24-30in).

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Nasturtium Whirlybird Cream 1 packet £1.99

A delicious separate colour with creamy butter-milk, semi-double flowers held well above rich green foliage.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Pansy Mello® 21 F1 Hybrid 1 packet £2.69

Mello® 21 has twenty one different shades and bicolours from black through to white. The flowers are an excellent size without being too big, smooth, well rounded, firm and upward facing on compact plants, held clear of the small foliage. A true spring, summer and winter flowering bedding or container pansy. Combining both cold hardy and heat tolerant genetic lines, it features formula mixing of seed to ensure as near as possible a balance of all 21 colours.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Pansy Ocean Series Mixed 1 packet £2.69

A unique series of colours in shades of blue, yellow and red, that when blended together create subtle waves. The mid-sized flowers are borne in abundance on well shaped plants and look their best planted in containers or en masse in beds and borders. Superb for underplanting white tulips.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Penstemon Husker's Red 1 packet £2.69

A plant collector's item for decades. Husker's Red is an unusual Penstemon offering maroon-red , occasionally bronze-green foliage when grown from seed. This is coupled with contrasting spikes of blushed pink flowers making useful late summer colour for borders. Height: 50-75cm (20-30in).

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Petunia Strawberry Sundae 1 packet £2.69

A large flowered multiflora with a gorgeous colour combination of strawberry-red veining in a star pattern, on a blush background. Flowering over a long period on bushy, uniform plants. Height: 23-30cm (9-12in). Growing tip Get the best out of your petunias with our specially formulated Petunia Fertiliser - the perfect balance of nutrients to get them off to a flying start and nourish them through the summer.Click here to buy now.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Poppy (Meconopsis) cambrica Double Mixed 1 packet £2.69

Welsh Poppy. An exclusive and rare mix of silky pom-pom blooms in orange, red and yellow. The Welsh Poppy is a breezy perennial for dappled shade, blooming from mid-spring right through to autumn. Occasionally an odd single flower may also appear.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Poppy (Meconopsis) grandis 1 packet £2.69

Sturdy and long lived, with huge flowers 4-5in across of a wonderful blue, shot with violet, on erect stems.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Poppy (Papaver) bracteatum 1 packet £1.99

Very imposing, sturdy plants with long, strong stems and large flower buds which break open to reveal huge 20cm (8in) flowers of startling red with black blotches. Plants require no support and ideally should be grown in groups at the back of the border. They look excellent when planted next to Red Hot Poker T&M Hybrids, T&M's Michaelmas Daisy Mixed and Rudbeckias. Flowers early summer. Height 122-152cm (4-5ft).

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Salvia Red Arrows 1 packet £1.99

An excellent all-rounder. Red Arrow produces lots of vivid red flowers set-off against deep green foliage and its excellent lateral branching habit makes it very effective in mass displays in beds, borders etc. Recommended also for window boxes, patio tubs, containers etc. Flowers summer. Height 28cm (11 in).

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Sunflower Key Lime Pie 1 packet £1.99

Attractive clusters of small flowers each with primrose-cream petals, surrounding an unusual lime-green centre disk. En-masse, this mouthwatering combination looks great in borders or as a cut flower.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Sweet Pea Bright & Breezy 1 packet £2.69

A very special mixture containing only six colours, especially chosen for their clean, fresh, bright appearance. All have a delightful scent, strong stems and large, wavy petals. Many of the colours have yet to be released in their own right.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Sweet Pea King Size Navy Blue 1 packet £2.69

One of the darkest blue sweet peas in existence. Up to five large, wavy blooms are borne on long, slender stems, making this an excellent cut flower, where its fragrance will pervade the air. A superb performing garden variety. Flowers summer. Climber.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Verbena St George 1 packet £1.99

The best Verbena we have ever seen in our trials. Mildew resistant plants, with deep green foliage and a spreading habit will easily fill an area of 40 x 40cm (16 x 16in). Stunning red and white flowers smother the plants, adding a patriotic feel to your borders or containers. Height: 15-25cm (6-10in).

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Wallflower Sunset Mixed F1 Hybrid 1 packet £3.29

The first ever F1 Hybrid Wallflower! Attractive dwarf, bushy uniform plants with hybrid vigour makes Sunset Mixed perfect for adding to autumn containers. A colourful range of flowers appear in early spring, filling the air with their delightful Wallflower fragrance. Height: 25-30cm (10-12in).

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Range : Wildflower Fragrant Mixture 1 packet £1.99

A new and exciting blend of some of the most 'scentsational' annuals for your garden. With vibrant colour and creating wafts of rich perfume, the Fragrant Mix will be a vital addition to cottage gardens everywhere.

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