Prunella Freelander Mix

A remarkable yet relatively unknown, first-year flowering perennial. Plants are bushy and compact. Flowers spring and summer. Grows well in all soils and handles frost. Great value.

Pumpkin Atlantic Giant

True pumpkin colour and shape - but in giant form! Very large vine. Bright orange with shallow ribs. To grow "Giant" pumpkins it is best to limit the vines to one pumpkin each. Interesting notes and helpful hints included with each packet. Can grow pumpkins up to 100kg!!! For show only - not suitable for eating.

Pumpkin Crown F1 Hybrid

The advanced Whangaparaoa Crown. Modern breeding makes Crown F1 Hybrid tastier, higher yielding and better for storage than the standard Whangaparaoa.

Pumpkin Jack O Lantern

Pumpkins are a great vegetable to grow, as most store readily for months on end! This is the case with Jack O Lantern, not only that, it has a great flavour and is also a good carving variety, making it perfect for carving out decorations for Halloween and such like. Very versatile, pumpkin can be eaten as a vegetable, baked in muffins and scones or turned into delicious pumpkin pie!

Pumpkin Jarrahdale

An Australian heirloom. This pumpkin is drum shape, silvery bluish-grey in colour, with deep ribbing. Pumpkins are large growing to 5kg. Flesh is deep orange and quite sweet. Good steamed, roasted, pureed, or used to make desserts.

Pumpkin Kumi Kumi F1 Hybrid

Vigourous plants are more tolerant of extreme weather conditions. The standard Kumi Kumi has been updated with new breeding programs. Fruit is green and ribbed, growing to approx 30cm. Mild in flavour, Kumi Kumi has a curious creamy-nutty undertone, pick when younger while they retain their sweetness. Very mature fruit will turn orange. A good keeper

Pumpkin Queensland Blue

An old Australian heirloom variety with medium sized, blue-green fruit with deep ribbing. Fruit size is approx. 3-5kg. Tasty, golden orange flesh. An excellent keeper.

Pumpkin Squash Buttercup Burgess Trailing

A home variety producing green fruit with orange flesh - sweet and dry to eat. Not a great keeper.

Pumpkin Squash Butternut Buffy's Gold

This variety is high yielding with excellent eating qualities. Fruit size is 1.5-1.8kg and takes 100-110 days to mature. New improved Waltham type. CMV and black-rot resistant.

Pumpkin Squash Butternut Little Dipper

A delightful small, meal-sized butternut for the smaller household. This personal-sized wee beauty weighs approx 900g, it has a vigourous vine that produces high numbers of fruits. The fruit are cream with orange flesh.

Pumpkin Squash Delica F1 Hybrid Buttercup

Top quality buttercup squash. Vigourous grower and heavy cropper, producing uniform large (approx 1.8kg) fruit. Delica has a dark green skin with deep yellow flesh. It is flat globe shaped, and has good storage ability. Delica has a nutty, sweet taste.

Pumpkin Squash Gold Nugget

An award winning buttercup squash sometimes referred to as a 'oriental pumpkin' due to its unique appearance. Sweet yellow-orange flesh and compact vines. The skin should be colourful but have a dull finish, indicating the fruit has reached maturity. (If the surface is shiny, the flesh will be flavourless!) Small fruit up to 1.5kg.

Pumpkin Squash Rambling Roger

A vigourous Delica type pumpkin, which has dark green mottled colour skin, with deep yellow flesh.

Pumpkin Sugar Pie

Sugar pumpkins have a firm, sweet flesh that is much smoother than that of larger pumpkins. Sugar pumpkins are only about 15cm to 20cm in diameter. Although they don’t boast being the biggest of all, they have a good pumpkin flavour, this combined with their firmer and less stringy flesh, means they have a much more pleasant consistency than that of the larger pumpkin varieties. They’re great for roasting, making soups and for making pumpkin puree for delicious homemade pumpkin pies.

Pumpkin Triamble

Another old fashioned favourite returns. Large, three-lobed fruit weighing up to 6kg!  Tough grey rind (excellent for storage), deep orange flesh that is sweet, firm and dry.... what more can one expect from a high grade pumpkin. Fruit are kept for winter eating. Likes rich soil.

Pumpkin Whangaparoa Crown

Best known as a "Standard Storage Pumpkin" Whangaparoa Crown has a grey skin colour and is very popular.

Radicchio Palla Rosa

Though growth habit and colour may be somewhat variable in this variety, Palla Rosa has an excellent tangy flavour and is easy to grow. The green wrapper leaves on the heads enclose red hearts with pure white ribs. Great for adding colour and zing to your coleslaws.

Radicchio Red Traviso

A classic tall Italian Radicchio. Upright with red and white striped leaves and large pure white stems. Good for harvesting from the end of summer and throughout the winter. Radicchio also grows well in containers, pots, or raised beds.

Radish Amethyst

A round radish with striking purple skin that contrasts very well with the crisp white flesh. Slow to go pithy, good shape and strong tops. Great colour for those salads.

Radish Black Spanish

As the name suggests this variety is black skinned! These medium-hot, white fleshed, 6-8cm radishes are harvested in winter. Plant the seeds in late summer and begin enjoying your crop in autumn. Very good keepers... up to 50 days.

Radish Cabernet F1 Hybrid

Tall red globe style radish. Fast maturing with lush hardy tops. Deep red colour with crisp flesh. Great all-purpose radish.

Radish Champion

Please select either Tape or Seeds This traditional round globe shaped variety is deep scarlet in colour. Brighten up your salads with this spicy condiment.

Radish Cherriette F1 Hybrid

A bright-red radish that performs really well during the warmer season. Maturity is a quick 25-30 days from sowing. Roots are globe-shaped, very uniform and have silky smooth shoulders with a refined tap root. Excellent yield potential. A quality variety.

Radish Daikon Omny F1 Hybrid

A favourite vegetable for oriental dishes. Diverse usage such as... Grated - use as an alternative to salt and pepper. Baked, grilled, stir-fried, boiled and of course as we are mostly accustomed to, raw in salads. Allow more spacing than common radish varieties as Diakon Omny produces massive fruits.

Radish French Breakfast

French Breakfast is an earlier variety than other long red radishes. It is oblong in shape, red towards the top, tapering to white at the tip This delicious hot, crisp radish is best pulled immediately at maturity, as the flavour and texture do not hold in the garden.

Radish Mixed

This mix has all the common shapes of salad radish. Very easy to grow. Fast maturing.

Radish Pink Beauty

This lovely radish displays a unique rosy-pink colour. Mild tasting, crisp flesh. Very early.

Radish Round Mix

A mix of red, purple, yellow and white round radishes. Maturing over an extended period of time. Stays crisp and mild even when large.

Radish Sparkler

Zesty and spectacularly colourful. This delightful two-tone jewel has three key selling points and great for quick harvests mild peppery bite (great for kids) and looks terrific on your plate!

Red Kaka Beak

Lush, green, wide-spreading shrub that produces stunning large red flowers which hang in clusters of 15-20 blooms in spring. Flowers are shaped like a parrots beak, hence the name. Caution: snails can strip masses of leaves overnight!

Rhubarb

No garden is complete without a rhubarb patch! Strong, healthy upright growth - produces thick green shaded red stalks. Plants regenerate quickly after cutting. Sow seeds in spring and autumn.

Rock Melon Honey Dew

Honey Dew has a really sweet flavour, it's lovely and juicy and delicious served chilled. Flesh is pale green to green. Prefers hot dry climates. Fruit grows approx 10-12cm in diameter.

Rocket

The lovely perfume of rockets flower only is given off in the evening. Leaves picked before it blooms are nutritious salad greens. Sometimes spelt Roquette.

Rocket Voyager 'Wild Rocket'

The lovely perfume of Rocket's flower is only given off in the evening. The leaves of Wild Rocket are used for the same purpose as Salad Rocket. It has a much stronger taste than its close relative, Eruca sativa 'Salad Rocket' and can be easily distinguished by its more deeply divided leaf shape. Wild rocket is a hardy perennial, but is often grown as an annual. It has green, deeply divided aromatic leaves that form a rosette as the plant matures.

Rosemary

Rosemary is a woody, perennial herb with fragrant evergreen needle-like leaves. While commonly used to flavour meats poultry and potatoes Rosemary is also great in homemade potpourris. Rosemary is extremely high in iron, calcium, and vitamin B6.

Rudbeckia Goldsturm

A great plant that is easy care, Goldsturm is unbothered by insects or drought and is very long blooming. Beautiful bright mounds of yellow flowers with a deep brown center. Starts blooming mid-summer all the way through to autumn. Cut a bunch and bring some of that brightness inside. Suitable for large containers also. Although this plant has been bred to flower in the first year its planted, sometimes if you don't plant early enough the 1st-year result is not spectacular. Year two however will be a totally different story, your garden will be graced with lush, vigorous plants with long lasting blooms

Rudbeckia Sahara

A delightful mix of caramel and soft pink-red blooms. Flowers are semi to fully double. Good heat tolerance. Makes for a nice home cut flower.

Sage

Ornamental, hardy branching perennial that is strongly aromatic. The young stems are covered with a white down, but become woody as they age. Thick, velvety leaves. Many culinary uses.

Salvia Bonfire Red

The red beacon of your garden. Bonfire provides a focal point that all else in your garden can shine around. Tall, vigourous plants with low maintenance required. Long lasting colour.

Salvia Dwarf Cirrus White

White counterpart to Rhea. Both make great displays in mixed planters.

Salvia Dwarf Rhea Blue

Dwarf Rhea has pure blue flower spikes. Salvia farinacea thrive in a vast range of climatic conditions. They are great garden performers and will flower early right through until autumn. Relatively pest and disease free.

Salvia Sizzler Mix

The most intensely coloured Salvia series in the world is now available. Compact, early flowering plants with short dense spikes of vivid colour.

Scabiosa Imperial Mix

An extra large flowering mixture. Large fully double, dense heads on long stems in unusual tones of blue, salmon, pink, rose, crimson, lavender and white. Stamens protrude like pins, hence common name of Pin Cushion Flower.

Schizanthus Angel Wings

Bushy plants have fern-like foliage and are perfect for a small border, however they do enjoy semi-shade as opposed to full sun. Also great for some delightful colour splashes in the shady (cooler) part of the garden or in dappled light under some larger shrubs or tree canopies Angel Wings has spotted flowers in shades of cream, pink, violet, blue and rose. When growing Schizanthus, the best thing you can do is provide is an early start and mostly cool weather, so begin your plants indoors about three months before your last anticipated frost date in the spring. Then in cooler regions of NZ, once late spring or early summer arrive, it's time to pop your plants out in a semi-shaded location. They will also benefit if protected from strong winds and extreme weather attacks. Schizanthus will stop producing once the heat of summer sets in. Also a great container plant.

Sedum Voodoo

A beautiful and versatile plant that thrives with virtual neglect. Ideal for the rock garden, green roof, vertical wall, containers or between paving stones. Voodoo is a stunning little perennial ground cover. Intense, dark mahogany foliage that provides an eye catching contrast to the almost neon, luminous rosy-red flowers.

Seed Tape - Spinach Hybrid Number 7

A new and improved tape, the middle tape contains the seed with the side tapes containing a row of fertiliser, giving the seedlings a healthy start ahead of the weeds. The Seed tapes now use a thicker layer of blotter on each side of the seed row, this helps reduce the amount of weeds that can get through early on in germination. No more worrying about rain or watering washing your seeds away. Spinach Hybrid Number 7 is a semi-savoyed variety. Sow in spring and autumn. Useful for winter and spring production. 2 x 2.5 metre tapes per packet Our 2024 catalogue says 1x 4m Tape, this is incorrect, it is currently 2x 2.5m Tapes Seed Tape

Seed Tape - Spring Onion Lisbon

A new and improved tape, the middle tape contains the seed with the side tapes containing a row of fertiliser, giving the seedlings a healthy start ahead of the weeds. The Seed tapes now use a thicker layer of blotter on each side of the seed row, this helps reduce the amount of weeds that can get through early on in germination. No more worrying about rain or watering washing your seeds away. Lisbon is a popular spring onion that can be sown through late winter-spring for spring-summer production. 1 x 4 metre tape per packet Seed Tape