Pea 'Serge' - Pea Shoots - Seeds
Perfect pea variety for harvest of the shoots, which can be grown as a cut and come again crop. The tender, crispy shoots and tendrils are ideal for adding to salads and or eating as a super-healthy snack. From sowing to cropping just 3 weeks.
Sowing/Flowering Info:
For the shoots, sow indoors all-year-round in trays. Cover the seeds with 15mm of compost, leaving a small gap between them. Within 3-4 weeks, the shoots will be ready to harvest. Alternatively, grow as a traditional pea outside. Sow seeds April-June once the soil has warmed up, 15cm apart in flat bottomed, pre-watered drills, 5cm deep. Sow two seeds per sowing and thin out weaker seedling.
Aftercare:
For shoots, harvest when each plant is 30cm tall. Pick the top 2-5cm of every tip. After the 1st harvest allow the plant to recover for 2 weeks, then harvest weekly. If growing for pea harvest, give plants support to climb, and protect from birds with netting.
Noble Serenity
A simple grouping of three flowers that will return year after year in purple, blue and white.
- Echinops ritro - Globe Thistle
- Omphalodes linifolia 'Little Snow White'
- Lavandula 'Hidcote'
Power of Purple - Grow the Bouquet
A mixture of 6 cutting garden flowers that look great in the border, but can be cut and arranged for the vase.
- Verbena bonariensis - Purple Top
- Lathyrus 'High Scent' - Sweet Pea
- Salvia 'Blue Monday' - Blue Clary Sage
- Echinops ritro - Globe Thistle
- Consolida ajacis 'Purple Spire' - Larkspur
- Centaurea cyanus 'Double Blue' - Cornflowers
Amberboa 'The Bride' Seeds
An unusual white-flowered form of Cornflower, with fluffy white flowers that will attract beneficial insects such as bees. Useful for companion planting in vegetable gardens, incorporating into meadows, or filling gaps in borders. Enjoys full sun to partial shade. An excellent cut flower.
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Sowing/Flowering Info:
Best sown directly as does not like root disturbance. Sow March-May for flowers in the summer, or Aug-Sep for flowers the following year. Sow sparingly 5mm deep into pre-watered, finely raked soil. Thin seedlings to 25-30cm apart.
Aftercare:
Regular deadheading and harvesting of flowers will extend the blooming season.
Salvia sclarea - Clary Sage Seeds
This hardy biennial send up spikes of pale lavender-pink flowers above rosette of woolly grey-green leaves. Strong fragranced foliage said to be soothing/relaxing. Attracts and provides nectar for bees.
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Sowing/Flowering Info:
Sow under cover Feb-Apr onto the surface of moist seed compost and press lightly into the surface. Seeds require light to germinate. Can also be sown direct Apr-Jun in their flowering position. Rosettes of woolly leaves appear in the first year, spikes of pale lavender pink flowers in the second year.
Aftercare:
Cut back after first flowering and you can be rewarded with a second flush of flowers lasting through to autumn.
Delphinium consolida 'Fancy Purple Picotee' Seeds
This sturdy Larkspur produces abundant, pale-purple flowers all summer, and can keep going to the first hard frost. They make lovely cottage-garden flowers and superb cut flowers. Cut young they should last over a week in fresh water. The flower spires can also be dried and used in dry flower arrangements.
Caution: All parts of the plant are poisonous if ingested
Sowing/Flowering Info:
Jan-April or Sep-Oct, surface sow in seed compost under glass. Lightly cover with thin layer of compost and keep at 15-18°C. Germination can take 1-2 months. Acclimatise young plants before planting out when risk of frost has passed. Sow in-situ April-May, in drills 6mm deep, in prepared soil, raked to a fine tilth. Thin out seedlings to 15cm apart. Overwinter autumn-sown seeds for flowers the following year.
Aftercare:
Deadhead faded flowers just above flowering side shoots to encourage more flowers.