Celosia Brains Trust
A special compact and dwarf variety suitable for pots container planting and bedding. The unusual flower form creates an interesting option for containers. Celosia like it warm and require full sun.
Celosia Flamingo Feather
An interesting "wheat-type" celosia with soft purpley-pink feathery blooms, fading to blush as the bloom matures. Strongly branched in the upper part of the stems. These delicate plumes are fantastic in both the garden and in the vase. If harvesting for cut flowers, do so when the flower head reaches the desired size, but it's best done before the flower goes to seed. For similar flowers consider Ptilotis or Lagurus (Bunny Tails) they all have delicate, graceful flowers.
Celosia Kimono Mix
A dwarf selection suitable for container planting and formal bedding displays. Very even growth habit, clear bright colours. A huge improvement over old strains.
Centaurea Sweet Sultan Mix
Soft thistle-like flowers with a delicate honey scent in shades of Lilac, Rose and White. A very old heirloom variety used in cottage gardens or as a cut flower. Natural attractor of bees and other beneficial insects.
Centranthus Pretty Betsy Deep Red
Easy to grow and a great border filler, has dense crimson flowers that billow out above the grey green foliage. Perfect for creating that natural looking effect in gardens.
Chamomile (German)
German chamomile is a sweet variety that has been used for centuries in teas as a mild, relaxing sleep aid. Research has identified chamomiles specific anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, muscle relaxant, antispasmodic, anti-allergenic and sedative properties, validating its long-held reputation. It is an annual plant, flowers have a yellow centre and white outer petals.
Chervil
Finely cut Chervil leaves add a sensational subtle seasoning in fish, vegetable and cheese dishes. Very good for soups and herb butter. Add Chervil to dishes at the last moment of preparation to maximize anise taste - cooking / boiling the leaves will result in a very bland flavour.
Chicory Grumolo Verde (Green)
Dark green head with rosette. Harvest as a cut-and-come-again or loose leaves for salads and risottos.Slightly bitter tasting but the bitterness will reduce if exposed to frost, soaking in ice cold water or cooking. If grown for Autumn harvest, initial growth is a somewhat elongated head with large rounded leaves. After cutting, leave the root and crown and you will get the grumolo rosettes in the spring. Alternately, plant later in summer and you should get rosettes the following spring.
Chicory Italiko
An heirloom variety from Italy, it is also known as "Red Dandelion" due to its beautiful dark-red stems. Popular in salads with its bitter spicy taste. It is also great to harvest as a baby leaf variety. Cut leaves off as required and the plant will continue to produce new ones.
Chionochloa Flavicans
Tough yet elegant, Chionochloa flavicans provides shapely foliage all year round and elegant pale creamy-green flower plumes in mid-summer. Flower heads grow to approx. 1.5m. Resembles a mini Toe Toe. "Cold Stratify" required - detailed cultural information on packet.
Chives Common
Mild onion flavoured leaves. Cut regularly to ensure a supply of new young leaves. Lightly spread the seed directly in the area required. Plants will then grow together forming a tight "clump".
Chives Garlic
A strong scent of garlic can be found in these popular herbs that are used for flavouring. Lightly spread the seed directly in the area required - plants will then grow together forming a tight "clump".
Chrysanthemum Snowland
Cute daisy like flowers (3-4cm) growing up to 20cm in height. Relatively pest and disease free, Snowland is an excellent spring bedding plant with tremendous flower power.
Cineraria Hansa Strain Mix
Cineraria add a cottage touch to borders and shady situations. Prefers shelter from wind and a cool, moist location. Naturalises readily, providing great spring colour.
Cineraria Silverdust
Has the common name Dusty Miller. Height shown is for foliage. Cineraria Silverdust is noted for its silvery leaves. Excellent for containers bedding and landscape plantings. Although not grown for the flowers, plants do produce yellow flowers the second year.
Clarkia Double Flowered Mix
A tall, red stemmed annual covered loosely in dainty four petalled flowers in shades of pink, salmon and purple. Great addition to wildflower and perennial borders. Please note: This is Treated Seed due to Biosecurity Requirements.
Clematis
Easy to grow climbing vine that looks fantastic when in full bloom. Medium sized white flowers in spring. Great for training across pergola's shed or garages!
Cleome Queen Mix
Cleome also known as Spider Plant, gets its nickname from the spidery-like flowers with long, waving strands atop strong leafy stems. Planted in mass they look like blooming shrubbery with 20cm balls of blossoms. Prefers hot and dry conditions but will tolerate partial shade. Striking background plant.
Coleus Black Dragon
Medieval magic! Black Dragon creates an exotic background in your shady garden beds. Unique serrated leaves mass together creating a stunning contrast with ferns or many other plants of your choice.
Comfrey Common
A perennial herb with lower leaves that are bristly, up to 30cm long and attached to winged leaf stalks that emerge from the base of the plant. Smaller leaves that are also bristly but lack petioles are borne on 60-90cm tall flowering stems. Flowers are bell-shaped and the colour is either yellow or blue hues, they form distinctive curled clusters. Great plant to include in your composting. We recommend using gloves when working with this product. This snippet from the growing-guides.co.uk website explains Comfrey's value to the Organic Gardener... Comfrey is a particularly valuable source of fertility to the organic gardener. It is very deep rooted and acts as a dynamic accumulator,[6] mining a host of nutrients from the soil. These are then made available through its fast-growing leaves (up to 1.8-2.3 kilograms (4.0-5.1 lb) per plant per cut) which, lacking fibres, quickly break down to a thick black liquid. There is also no risk of nitrogen robbery when comfrey is dug into the soil as the C:N ratio of the leaves is lower than that of well-rotted compost. Comfrey is an excellent source of potassium, an essential plant nutrient needed for flower, seed and fruit production. Its leaves contain 2-3 times more potassium than farmyard manure, mined from deep in the subsoil, tapping into reserves that would not normally be available to plants. https://growing-guides.co.uk/companion-planting-comfrey/
Coreopsis Sunfire
Large sunny-yellow flowers with burgundy centres springing forth from a compact, attractive mound of foliage. With its early and uniform flowering, Sunfire has earned the Fleuroselect Quality Mark, which is widely recognised by gardeners and professional growers worldwide.
Coriander
Coriander has become increasingly popular in the past couple of years. A fine and feathery herb of graceful pink flower umbels which in turn produce the valuable seed clusters. Harvest of individual leaves can begin as soon as the first mature leaves have developed. Very versatile, being used in cakes and breads through to curries and other meats.
Corn Bicolour Honey N Pearl F1 Hybrid
Finely textured, well filled, bicolour cobs. Main crop variety, maturing 100-105 days. A "Supersweet" variety, with cobs reaching 18 to 20cm.
Corn Early Marika F1 Hybrid
Cobs are sweet, crisp and have impressive quality and long life after picking. Compact plant, crisp high quality cobs that reach approx 22-24cm long. A top variety Marika is the earliest of the Supersweets maturing at approx 80-90 days.
Corn Florida Staysweet F1 Hybrid
An excellent main crop, yellow variety. Produces high yields of large cobs that mature in approximately 100 days. A "Supersweet" variety, with cobs reaching 19.5cm.
Corn Popcorn Mushroom F1 Hybrid
Mushroom popcorn kernels produce firm, round pieces of popcorn with a bit of chewiness. It is denser and more compact than butterfly corn and because it doesn’t have the “wings” like the butterfly type it holds up well in the stirring and coating process. Make your own delicious caramel corn, yum! Popcorn is becoming increasingly popular, now you can grow your own! Just grow as you would a normal sweet corn, except leave the cobs to dry on the plant. Popcorn is a heavy feeder and needs plenty of nitrogen. Your Popcorn will be ready to harvest when the husks have dried and the kernels are plump, well-coloured and shiny. Remove the husks and dry the cobs fully in a cool, well ventilated place for at least a month. Your kernels will not pop if they are too moist. Test if they are ready by attempting to pop several kernels, if they don't pop, or if the popped corn is chewy, try again after several more days of drying. When cobs are fully dry, harvest them by rubbing seeds off the cob via a twisting action with your hands. Store in an air-tight container (you can pop your container in the fridge) until you are ready to pop them. If stored well they should retain their popping quality for several years!
Corn Popcorn Ruby Red F1 Hybrid
Crunchy, nutty tasting popcorn. It has a brilliant deep red kernel, which pops into brilliant white popcorn. As it dries for popping, the kernel becomes a deeper and deeper red. After popping it holds more anthocyanin and cyanidin than yellow popcorn. These components are known to have high antioxidant activity, so it has a higher nutritional value. Popcorn is becoming increasingly popular, now you can grow your own! Just grow as you would a normal sweet corn, except leave the cobs to dry on the plant. Popcorn is a heavy feeder and needs plenty of nitrogen. Your Popcorn will be ready to harvest when the husks have dried and the kernels are plump, well-coloured and shiny. Remove the husks and dry the cobs fully in a cool, well ventilated place for at least a month. Your kernels will not pop if they are too moist. Test if they are ready by attempting to pop several kernels, if they don't pop, or if the popped corn is chewy, try again after several more days of drying. When cobs are fully dry, harvest them by rubbing seeds off the cob via a twisting action with your hands. Store in an air-tight container (you can pop your container in the fridge) until you are ready to pop them. If stored well they should retain their popping quality for several years!
Corn Super Sweet NZ Bicolour F1 Hybrid
Sweet corn is one of the real treats from the late summer garden. As the name suggests, Super Sweet Bicolour, is grown in NZ and therefore does not need the chemical treatment that imported sweetc orn requires. Because NZ Bicolour is produced in NZ it does not need to be chemically treated.
Corn Super Sweet NZ Yellow F1 Hybrid
Sweet and juicy, bursting with goodness! Sweet corn is one of the real treats from the late summer garden. As the name suggests, Super Sweet NZ Yellow F1 Hybrid, is grown in NZ and therefore does not need the chemical treatment that imported sweet corn requires. This reliable variety produces sweet, yellow kernels with rich, mouth-watering flavour. Untreated seed produced in NZ A "Supersweet" variety, with cobs reaching 18 to 20cm.
Corn Xtra Tender Yellow F1 Hybrid
The most tender variety the world has to offer. Xtra-Tender's seedling vigour makes it one the leading earlier maturing sweetcorn varieties. Bred with strong disease resistance.
Corn-Salad
Historically classed as a weed known as Lamb's Lettuce - this could be because it generally appeared about the lambing season, or because it is a favourite food of lambs! The young leaves in spring and autumn are particularly tasty - a great addition to your salad mixes or eaten on its own.
Cornflower Classic Fantastic
Captivating blue shades ranging from a heavenly light blue to a rich dark blue. The flowers are often two toned, with darker centres making for a magnificent bicolour display. Great for mass planting.
Cornflower Classic Romantic
Fabulous shades of rosy red to charming pink with white tips. The flowers are often two toned with darker centres, magnificent bicolour displays. Great for mass planting.
Cornflower Fireworks
A highly effective, bright mix of red, white and blue. Great as a cutf lower and a border or background plant. Very easy to grow.
Cornflower Polka Dot Mix
A good mix of another great border plant. Polka Dot Mix grows to about 45cm
Cosmos Apricot Lemonade
A cream coloured cosmos blushed with pink.
Cosmos Capriola
Extraordinary colour pattern, white with a light rosy-red picotee and dark purple-red centre. Beautiful round flowers with occasional second row of smaller petals. Early flowering with a strong branching habit, these gorgeous blooms will be a stand out in any garden. Great to bring the summer cheer indoors too. Easy to grow.
Cosmos Cosmic Orange
For ongoing flowering throughout the summer Cosmos Cosmic Orange is a great choice. Dwarf compact plants (30cm) are stocky and well branched.
Cosmos Picotee Mixed
Delightfully delicate. Some straight colours, but mostly white with a red or rose picotee edge that looks like it has been handpainted on! Garden art at its best for cheerful display.
Cosmos Rubenza
A masterpiece of understated elegance. Flowers open ruby red, slowly fading to old rose. Early flowering.
Cosmos Sea Shells Mix
Cosmos are all time favourites with almost everyone. Sea Shells is a great mix of colours with tubular petals reaching out towards the sun. A real delight.
Cosmos Sensation Daydream
Who doesn't love bright, pretty cosmos! Daydream blooms are white with a delicate rose blush that sit upon extra strong stems, making it the perfect choice for your garden. These magnificent blooms grow just over a metre tall and will make a fantastic mass display. The foliage is a lovely deep green, a perfect contrast to the beautiful flowers. Great for attracting the butterflies and bees, cosmos is notoriously known to be "so easy to grow". The strong stems make it suitable as a cut flower, allowing you to have "sensational daydreams" inside as well as out! An AAS winner (All-America Selections - these items are tested nationally in North America for superior garden performance.)
Cosmos Sonata Mixed
Large single flowers smile endlessly in the garden, or from pots. Delicate feathery foliage. Dwarf variety. Easy to grow.
Cosmos Sonata White
Large single flowers smile endlessly in the garden, or from pots. Delicate feathery foliage. Dwarf variety. Easy to grow.
Cosmos Tango
A mass of vivid bright orange flowers are produced en-masse throughout the season. Excellent for planting in drifts among borders. Makes an outstanding back drop up against a fence or similar. Good heat tolerance.
Cosmos Xsenia
The stunning apricot and magenta coloured flowers appear to almost glow. Slightly shorter than your normal cosmos, you can see why it is highly favoured with florists.
Courgette Amanda F1 Hybrid
Good virus and powdery mildew resistance. Open and upright plant habit for easier growth and picking. Smooth, shiny dark-green courgettes. Harvest when 25cm long.