Courgette Dario (Summer Squash)
Long cylindrical fruit. Broad, dark-green with alternating thin, light-green stripes. Firm, white flesh. Dario is a relatively small plant with an open growth habit and high yielding crops.
Courgette Patty Green Tint F1 Hybrid
A lime green version of Sunburst. Patty Green Tint adds variety, colour and shape to all your zucchini/courgette/marrow dishes!
Courgette Scallop Mix
These scallop shaped courgettes/zuchinni come in green, gold and white helping to provide another colourful dimension to your dishes. Try them steamed at just 5cm in diameter or stuffed at 10cm. The fantastic, attractive meals that fill our TV screens via the proliferation of cooking shows is helping us all with great ideas, inspiring the art of making good food look attractive! It is almost becoming an important key to a ‘great’ meal, these courgettes will make an interesting addition.
Courgette Solar Flare F1 Hybrid
A deep golden-yellow version of Amanda and just as easy to grow! Keep well picked to prolong fruiting. It's nice to have a yellow option for your gourmet dishes.
Courgette Sunburst F1 Hybrid
Produces yellow scalloped fruit on small compact plants that have a "Sunburst" pattern at both blossom and stem ends. Prolific space-saving bush plants.
Craspedia Billy Buttons
An excellent cut flower variety. Striking when clustered closely together in flower arrangements. While Billy Buttons only comes in yellow, it is common practice to dye the round flower heads in bright colours such as red, blue, orange, purple and green. Makes a nice addition to mixed planters.
Cress American Upland or Land Cress
Similar in appearance to its better-known cousin, Watercress but boasts a deeper pungency. A member of the mustard family, Upland Cress packs a sharp, peppery heat. For the simplest preparation, use Upland Cress the same way you would watercress. Left raw, the leaves can be chopped and mixed into a salad, tucked into a sandwich, or use as a garnish. Upland Cress will grow in almost any soil - provided it's cool and damp.
Cress Common
Tiny... Tangy... Tasty ! These easy to grow Cress seeds will produce lovely sprouts to add to your salads sandwiches and can also be used as delicate garnishing. Plant in pots or simply in handy containers inside, ready for instant use. Because they are quick to germinate they are great for the kids to grow... be it on a saucer with cotton wool... or as a creative masterpiece.
Crystal Leaf Ice Plant
Something a little different for all those brave enough try is this Crystal Ice Plant that makes a crunchy, tangy, salty snack! Pop the raw leaves into salads or stir-fry, as the leaves remain crunchy even with heat. Usually grown as an ornamental with its succulent leaves that look as though little ice crystals are forming all over them, it has the added bonus of being edible
Cucumber Crystal Apple
This vigorous plant produces small white apple shaped fruit. Thin skinned with excellent eating qualities this is a popular home garden variety.
Cucumber Green Slicer F1 Hybrid
Fast maturing standard long green type cucumber. Excellent dark green colour and being an F1 Hybrid has typically higher yields. Good disease resistance including cucumber mosaic virus powdery and downy mildew.
Cucumber Marketer
An open pollinate variety. Very popular for home garden use. Value for money.
Cucumber Martini F1 Hybrid
A fantastic disease resistant cucumber. A pale beauty that wont turn yellow. Martini's fruit are sweet and crunchy, even so the skin stays tender.
Cucumber Mini Me
Delicious, healthy “snack” cucumber. This baby cucumber produces high yields of smooth skinned fruit early and continues on through the season. Crispy with excellent appearance. Smooth skinned, uniform fruit.
Cucumber Patio Snacker F1 Hybrid
A controlled yet vigourous variety with short branching vines. Can be grown in large containers, with a small trellis, on decks or balconies. Perfect in small gardens as well. Dark green fruit. High yielding with continuous harvests.
Cucumber Spacemaster
A bush-crop type, bred for its compact plant habit. Produces large numbers of medium to dark green fruit, 19-20cm in length. Great for the smaller garden due to its compact plant habit.
Cucumber Tasty Green F1 Hybrid
Long, slender dark green fruit with the added feature of being "burpless". Very heavy yielding, Tasty Green is also resistant to powdery mildew. Fruit grow to approx 22cm long and 4cm in diameter. Suitable for greenhouse culture. Extremely popular.
Cucumber White Wonder
Slicer type with firm flesh and a sweet juicy flavour. Fruit is approx 20cm long and plants will produce a heavier crop if allowed to climb and if fruits are harvested promptly once mature.
Dahlia Diablo Dwarf Bronze Leaf Mix
Double and semi-double blooms held neatly above deep bronze foliage. A great improvement over the old Redskin variety.
Dahlia Garden Pride
Vivid colours make an enormous impact that immediately catch the attention of passers-by A well balanced mix of 10+ colours on double and semi-double flowers. Long flowering season.
Dahlia Sunny Reggae
Cheerful, large semi-double flowers in various sunny shades of orange, scarlet and yellow. Easy to grow from seed in organically rich, moist, well-drained soils. Sunny Reggae produces a mass of flowers in autumn when most flowers are beginning to fade.
Delphinium Dwarf Fountains Mix
Dwarf Fountains Mix has the widest range of colours in dwarf delphinium. The mix includes both dark and white "bees". Stocky plants.
Delphinium Pacific Giants Mix
Delphiniums are popular as background plants and cutflowers. Pacific Giants Mix is a mixture of basic colours some with white and some with dark bees.
Delphinium Summer Colours Mix
Compact, dwarf plants with masses of flowers in attractive colours. Sown in spring this variety will flower in summer. Colours include blue, light blue, pink and white.
Dianthus Corona Mix
Startling display of intense colour with unique bicolours. Produces multiple flowers on a compact, mounded plant. Best performance is in the cool weather, making it great planted along with other cool-season flowers such as pansies.
Dianthus Midget (Improved Wee Willie)
Early flowering mix of cute little plants bearing masses of single flowers. Most Sweet William needs to over-winter before flowering, but sown in spring Midget will flower in summer.
Dietes Bicolour
Also known as African Iris or Fortnight Lily. Long sword-like pale-green leaves. The flowers are creamy yellow with three dark purple spots, each surrounded by an orange outline. Tough plants for landscaping. Drought tolerant, wind tolerant, relatively pest and disease free. Dietes is often used in perennial gardens, beautification of commercial premises and along roadsides.
Digitalis Apricot Beauty
Delightful shades of apricot-pink flowers smother the 120cm tall stems of this great cut flower. Digitalis produces a definite cottage garden appeal wherever it's planted. Sow autumn to flower the following spring.
Digitalis Dwarf Foxy Mix
A mixture of many coloured flowers around the stem. Flowers first year from seed. Digitalis produces a definite cottage garden appeal wherever it's planted. Sow autumn to flower the following spring.
Dill Bouquet
Finely cut lacy foliage makes a nice garnish. Bouquet is an early flowering selection with large seed umbels and foliage. Dill seeds are great for pickles.
Echium Cottage Charm Mix
A nice mix of blues, pinks and whites. Great low maintenance plants. Easy to grow. Excellent for attracting bees (for pollination around your garden).
Eggplant Black King F1 Hybrid
Vigourous plant habit and high yielding, this F1 Hybrid produces large oval fruit which is shiny black in colour. Grow only in warm climates.
Eggplant Early Prolific F1 Hyb
Heavy yielding, remarkably tender, small gram fruits. Glassy, Black, egg-shaped appearance, along with superb flavour have made these a favourite in lasagnes. Egg plants generally need long summer seasons however as the name suggests this variety produces fruit extremely early and is perfect for NZ's climate.
Eggplant Ping Tung
This variety originated in the town of Ping Tung in Taiwan, hence its name. Hardy, disease resistant plants bear heavy yields of sweet and tender fruits - sometimes as many as twenty per plant. The fruits are light purple, length varies from 30-45cm long and they are only 3cm in diameter. Best to stake the bushy plants for the straightest fruits.
Eggplant Rabi Long Green
Produces tender, long green, shiny fruit that weigh approximately 80-100 grams. Mild, sweet tasting.
Eggplant Shikou
A slender Asian type eggplant with dark-purple glossy fruit, measures approximately 15-20cm in length and 2-3cm wide. Shikou has tender, thin skins and few seeds making it ideal for stir-fry and grilling.
Eggplant Thai Oval
As the name suggest this plant produces oval fruit that is green with white stripes. These can be eaten raw in Thai salads, but are often cooked with garlic or basil in butter or chopped into a curry.
Endive Green Curled Ruffec
Very similar to a fancy lettuce only the thick, frilled, buttery leaves are tender, yet crisp and have a distinctive, if not slightly bitter flavour. Excellent for salads or mesclun blends. The inner leaves blanch to a creamy white. Great texture for warm chicken or feta salads.
Eschscholzia Ballerina Mix
A double and semi-double flower form of the Californian Poppy. Full colour range. Bright and bouncy flowers. Excellent for coastal areas or wildflower plantings. Naturalises readily.
Eschscholzia Sundew
Attractive, very compact plant. Lemon-yellow, scented blooms. Good for containers, cottage gardens and naturalising. Drought tolerant. Performs well, even in poor soils.
Eschscholzia Thai Silk Appleblossom
Nice to have this item back after four years of no seed. Beautiful creamy-lemon, pink and rose colour petals all in the one exquisite flower. No wonder this item was so popular.
Eschscholzia Thai Silk Milkmaid
Double and semi-double cream fluted (frilled) flowers. Absolutely beautiful, much sought after.
Eucalyptus Baby Blue
Keeping it's small juvenile foilage is key to why this Baby Blue is a favourite among florists. It can be kept as a small shrubby tree when regulary harvested or left to grow to a height of 3-4 metres.
Euphorbia Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro produces pure white bracts that contrast well with the mid-green foliage. A perfect filler for natural style bouquets, great for flower arranging or something a little different for the garden.
Felicia Spring Melchen
Quick to flower, a bright mixture of pink, white and blue daisy-like flowers. A novel plant that self seeds readily. Great in pots or for bedding.