Spinach New Zealand

There is a loyal group of gardeners that seek out and enjoy NZ Spinach. It has a strong, quite unique flavour - almost the opposite of Spinach Perpetual which has a lovely sweet flavour. Unsure which one will suit you? - try them both! Soaking seeds in warm water for two to eight hours prior to sowing may help soften the seed coat and improve germination results.

Spinach Orach

Sometimes known as Red Mountain Spinach, Orach has purple lance-shaped leaves that made a tasty addition to your salad mixes or can be cooked like spinach. The leaves can also be used for "stuffing" or making attractive food parcels. It can also make a lovely border plant in the garden, bearing purple flowering spikes in summer which complement the foliage.

Spinach Oriental Imperial Green

An Asian Spinach often used raw in salads but equally useful as a traditional spinach. Erect plant habit keeps leaves clean. Rapid growing and resists bolting. Good mildew resistance.

Spinach Perpetual

An attractive dark green variety noted for its fast growth and holding ability. Also known as Spinach Beet.

Spinach Teton Baby Spinach F1 Hyb

Perfect for the new-age patio garden, container or window.

Stachys Fuzzy Wuzzy

An easy to grow perennial with soft silver-grey foliage to enhance both in-ground and container plantings. Common name is Lambs Ear due to its similarity in appearance and texture!

Statice Pacific Mix

A popular dried flower that grows to approximately 70cm high.

Stevia Rebaudiana Sugar Grass

Other common names are Sweetleaf, Sugarleaf or Sugar Grass. Overseas it is widely grown for its sweet leaves. Easy to grow. As a sugar substitute, Stevia's taste has a slower onset and longer duration than that of sugar. Cooking with Stevia does require a learning curve, but since the advantages of reducing sugar in your diet (as well as eliminating your consumption of aspartame and other artificial sweeteners) are so important, it's well worth the effort. The most important thing to remember is not to use too much, which can result in excessive sweetness and an aftertaste. Try this website: www.cookingwithstevia.com

Stock Evening Scented

Actually a member the cabbage family! One of the easiest plants to grow.

Stock Mime Mixed

Strong stems make for great garden performance. Sweetly scented with approximately 55% double blooms. Once planted out en masse the doubles and singles blend together and are of very little significance. Lots of fantastic blooms top the true-green foliage. Colours may include : blue, rose, red, white and pink.

Stock Vintage Mix

Producing a wide variety of colours in single and double flowered formats. Excellent garden bed performance during autumn and winter. Stocks prefer the cool seasons.

Stock Virginia Spring Sparkle

Bright rose flowers slowly evolving to lilac blue. Very easy to grow and terrific garden performance. Delightful fragrance.

Swede Invitation F1 Hybrid

Regardless of whether you have the disease ‘Club Root’ or not, Invitation is the best Swede to grow. Hybrid vigour offers a strong-growing, Club Root & Powdery Mildew resistant variety. Swedes, being in the ground for a long time, are very susceptible to club root, making Invitation the natural choice.

Swede Purple Champion

Excellent tasting globe shaped swede. Tender yellow flesh with a purple crown and shoulders. Also commonly known as Rutabega Purple Champion.

Sweet Pea Elegance Diana Pink

Specially bred and selected for flower production under the shorter days of early spring and autumn. Delicate light-pink blooms.

Sweet Pea Hammet's Horizon Mixed

This beauty was bred in New Zealand. Best sown in spring, seeds sown in autumn flower later, on taller plants. Wide range of unique colours not normally found in sweet pea. Well scented blooms.

Sweet Pea Hammet's Melody Mixed

Another New Zealand bred item. A fantastic blend of bicoloured blooms. Combinations of red, maroon, lavender, lilac, violet and pink. Recommended.

Sweet Pea Hammett's Dwarf Cupid Mix

Not everyone has a trellis fence or situation that suits tall growing sweet peas. Hammett 's Cupid Mix is a dwarf sweet pea growing only 20cm tall. It's great for planters baskets and bedding plants. Cupid has been re-selected for very dwarf bushy habit. Beautiful bright flowers in both pure and bicolour. Of course Cupid has the impressive perfume we all know and expect from our sweet peas.

Sweet Pea Hammett's Erewhon

A reverse bicolour Sweet Pea - the wings are mid blue with a delicate pale pink petal. Best grown in light shade.

Sweet Pea Heirloom Mix

This vibrant mix of all the Heirloom colours is truly striking! The lovely balance of dark, striped and lighter shades has real impact both in the garden or when presented as a bouquet.

Sweet Pea Ocean Foam

Super fragrant flowers in Navy, mid-blue, light-blue and frothy cream. Good heat resistance.

Sweet Pea Perfume Delight

Adorable old fashioned scent. Slightly smaller flowers but is a small sacrifice for the delightful perfume. Good strong stems and good colour range

Sweet Pea Spencer Midnight

This distinguished beauty was discovered in the gardens of The Earl of Spencer in the 18th century. A large and late flowering Spencer-type with many flowers per stem. Colour is a majestic Maroon.

Sweet Pea Tickled Pink

Pale, bicoloured sweet pea, with amazing coral rose pink blooms. Tickled Pink is a vigourous and energetic variety which will fill displays and smother fences, trellis or pergola's throughout the summer. Can also be cut and bought indoors to admire alongside your other selections from the garden.

Sweet Pea Unwins Master Mix

A unique opportunity to have a superb formula mixture of Spencer Sweet Peas in your garden. This mixture is inclusive of some of the recent introductions from one of the world's leading breeders of sweet peas. Recommended for those with desires of a big colour range but having a limited space!

Sweet Pea Unwins Royal Wedding

The most vigourous and longest stemmed, pure-white sweet pea available today. It has a delightful scent and is ideal for exhibitions or your own pleasure in the garden. A truly regal and bridal elegance this stunning sweet pea has a presence which will enhance any garden. Pure virginal white petals are held proudly erect and demand your attention and would make a perfect partner with any number of colour combinations.

Tamarillo (Tree Tomato) Ruby Red

Hidden under a tough skin is a very flavoursome golden-pink flesh. Once considered "the lost food of the Incas". Tamarillo were commercialised in New Zealand and we are now seen as the world leader supplying tamarillo all over the world. Requires a frost free location along with shelter from wind. Easy to germinate.

Tanacetum Robinsons Mix

Masses of daisy like flowers, in varying shades of pink, rose and red, rise above the softest fern like dark green foliage in short spreading mounds. The stems are sturdy and straight and make for an excellent cut flower, while the foliage is strongly aromatic and helps to deter unwanted insects.

Tarragon

One of the four "Fines Herbs" of French cooking, the mild taste of Tarragon is particularly suitable for chicken, lasagne, fish and egg dishes. Tarragon actually prefers poor soils and happily tolerates drought and neglect. Can also be used as an insect repellant!

Thyme Common

Once just a French cooking essential but Thyme is now a must for a wide variety of dishes - casseroles vegetables soups stuffings and sauces. The Thyme plant is an extremely aromatic, woody perennial shrub. Stems are lined with tiny grey-ish leaves and topped with equally tiny pale white/pink flowers. Avoid watering the leaves and try surrounding the plant with bark or stones to help keep the leaves off the ground as Thyme dislikes wet foliage.

Thyme French Summer

Pinkish-white flowers with grey narrow leaves. Said to have more depth of flavour than common thyme. Requires protection from frosts.

Tithonia (Mexican Sunflower) Red Torch

Known more commonly as the Mexican sunflower, this bright beauty will thrive in hot dry conditions. The bright red orange flowers attract Monarch Butterflies that love its open daisy like flower.

Tomatillo Verde

Tomatillos are the key ingredient in fresh and cooked Mexican and Central-American green sauces. Fruit should be firm and bright green, as the green colour and tart flavour are the main culinary contributions of the fruit.

Tomato Birdie Yellow Canary

Super early, delicious and brightly attractive!. Birdie Yellow Canary has 2-3cm round, excellent tasting, yellow cherry tomatoes that are nicely displayed against deep green foliage. Plants are perfect for hanging baskets and mixed patio containers.

Tomato Chocolate Sprinkles F1 Hybrid

First in this type with resistance to Fusarium, Nematode and Tobacco Mosaic Virus. The 2-4cm fruit are a unique chocolate and green striped colour. This variety is best grown in the ground.

Tomato Cocktail Sweet 100 F1 Hybrid

This cherry type tomato produces amazing yields (in the hundreds!). It is VF (two nasty tomato diseases) tolerant, and produces large numbers of branched clusters of fruit.

Tomato Cocktail Sweet Gold F1 Hyb

This is an extra early, tall growing F1 Hybrid variety. Yellow cherry tomatoes with excellent flavour. Plants are vigourous with good fruit sets. Each fruit weighs about 14 grams. Probably best described as a yellow fruiting version of Sweet 100.

Tomato Cocktail Sweet Million F1 Hybrid

Produces dark-red fruit approx 2.5cm in diameter (about twice the size of Sweet 100.) Vigourous plants with increased disease resistance and improved tolerance to cracking. Sweet tasting fruit.

Tomato Cocktail Tumbling Tom Red F1 Hybrid

Not only sweet and delicious but also very ornamental. The cascading and branching plant is ideal for container use.

Tomato Cocktail Tumbling Tom Yellow F1 Hybrid

Like its red brother, very sweet and equally attractive on the patio.

Tomato Dwarf Enterprise F1

Dwarf Enterprise has multiple disease resistance, which is just so important for growing dwarf tomatoes. Early production of nicely shaped, medium sized fruit.

Tomato Early Girl F1 Hybrid

This popular hybrid tomato is an excellent early variety. The tall growing plants provide medium-sized, dependable, uniform tasty tomatoes. Good disease resistance. A good choice for short season climates.

Tomato Grosse Lisse

A popular home garden variety that does well in very warm humid areas. Produces large fruit on a tall vigourous plant.

Tomato Heirloom Black Krim

One of the best flavoured black tomatoes the world. Yes that's right... BLACK! Fruits turn an 'almost' black when ripe. They have been described as "they look almost rotten" to "elegant", but what people do agree on is Black Krim has a wonderful smoky/sweet taste totally unique to the variety.

Tomato Heirloom Mix

Surprise yourself with this mix. A wide range of old fashioned, tall heirloom varieties in all shapes and sizes.

Tomato Heirloom Russian Red

The Russian Returns. We have resorted to growing our own seed after years of frustrating stock shortages with our suppliers. This variety performs well outdoors, with strong foliage tolerant of cooler conditions. Very popular variety.

Tomato Moneymaker

Large vigorous plants producing globe shaped fruit of approx 100g. Suitable for fresh market and home garden. This popular plant sets under most conditions making it very popular. Value for money.