Lavatera Beauty Mix
Sometimes called Mallow. Bushy plants with maple-like leaves. Colours include glowing pink, white, rose and salmon. Showy plants bloom all summer long. Makes a very attractive background amongst flower borders.
Lavender Hidcote
Subtle blue-green colouring and sweetly fragrant, Hidcote is also one of the most versatile Herbs in the world. Rich in lavender oils, Hidcote provides greater fragrance power, is suitable for creams and perfumes potpourris and sachets. If you're really adventurous it can be used in candies and cakes! (a process called Lavender Crystallization). Hidcote also has a superior erect, compact habit with darker flowers compared to standard lavender - perfect for hedges.
Layia Tidy Tips
A cheerful, annual daisy permeating yellow petals tipped with white. Like most daisies they like a sunny free draining site , flowering from late spring and all summer long.
Leek Defiant F1 Hybrid
Try this new variety of leek for an excellent disease tolerant plant. Defiant has a long shank with dark green upright leaves. Close plantings - 15cm between plants with 50cm between rows - will encourage long shank development. Defiant is a mid-late season maturing variety. Sowing time: July-Sept - Transplanting: Oct-Dec.
Leek Musselburgh
A great, well established home garden variety that is very popular. Sow spring summer for transplanting summer autumn.
Leek Swiss Zermatt
A very early maturing leek that is perfect for growing Baby Leeks. Long shanks with erect leaves. Normally sown in summer for autumn-winter harvest, but can also be sown in spring.
Lemon Balm
A lemon scented herb that comes from the same family as mint. It's used widely in herbal medicine and to flavour tea and food.
Leonurus Siberia
A tall, beautiful annual with pinkish flowers in whorls on long stalks. A strong and vigorous grower, portraying a natural elegance as it creates a real presence in high borders or as a background for lower growing annuals.
Lettuce - Mesclun Mix
Add a fantastic spicy mix to your salads with this great "Mesclun Mix". Mix includes: Endive, Corn Salad, Rocket, Chicory/Raddichio along with Oakleaf, Curled Green and Curled Red Lettuce.
Lettuce Bug Off
High quality F1 hybrid breeding of 15 years has finally produced a few aphid resistant (Nasonovia ribisnigri) lettuces. Bug Off! Is one of those varieties. It is a quick growing, tasty iceberg lettuce that is aphid resistant... Who could ask for more?! Medium to large sized, round well filled heads with a fresh green colour. A vigourous grower that is also strong against "tipburn". For spring, summer and autumn cropping. Nasonovia Resistant.
Lettuce Cisco
Produces medium sized crisphead lettuce with excellent cold tolerance. Harvest spring, autumn and winter. Bright green colour.
Lettuce Cos Little Gem
A high quality, green, selection of Cos lettuce. Very uniform, compact habit with well filled hearts. Little Gem has bred in Mildew resistance. The smaller sized heads are suited for the smaller family.
Lettuce Cut & Come Again MIX
This is a mix of both green and red Cut & Come Again Lettuce. Fantastic, economical mix to have continual, fresh salad leaves all summer long. Simply use scissors to trim leaves off the plant as required. Providing you leave 2-3cm of leaf on the plant, ensure there is sufficient water and have good soil; the leaves should resume their growth, ready for your next salad! Best planted as a mass planting so you can cut selected areas at different times.
Lettuce Drunken Woman (Pellets)
An old Heirloom variety Drunken Woman has ruffled green leaves with bronzed edges. These seeds have been ThermoCure Primed, this process assists germination at temperatures of up to 10C higher than raw seed. The ThermoCure treatment also breaks photodormancy, allowing seed to germinate in both light and dark conditions. Ensure your media is thoroughly wet when first sowing to allow the pellets to fully saturate and breakdown. Currently available in both pelleted and raw seed. Pelleted Seed
Lettuce Drunken Woman (Raw Seed)
An old Heirloom variety Drunken Woman has ruffled green leaves with bronzed edges. Available in both raw seeds and pelleted seed. Raw Seed
Lettuce Gourmet Salad Blend
Crisp, tangy, vitamin filled loose leafed lettuces. A very popular blend of 15 fast maturing mixed coloured varieties with balanced leaf shapes. Sow at fortnightly intervals from September to mid-January for a continuous supply.
Lettuce Great Lakes (Pelleted Seed)
A great favourite that has been tried and true for many years Great Lakes is well established as being a good lettuce for summer and autumn harvesting. Good value for money. These seeds have been ThermoCure Primed, this process assists germination at temperatures of up to 10C higher than raw seed. The ThermoCure treatment also breaks photodormancy, allowing seed to germinate in both light and dark conditions. Ensure your media is thoroughly wet when first sowing to allow the pellets to fully saturate and breakdown. Pelleted Seed
Lettuce Great Lakes (Raw Seed)
A great favourite that has been tried and true for many years Great Lakes is well established as being a good lettuce for summer and autumn harvesting. Good value for money.
Lettuce Kaiser
The earliest producing crisp head Lettuce available. Recommended harvest summer and autumn. Bright green colour.
Lettuce Legacy
Vigorous crisp head even under low temperatures. Best variety for harvest winter and spring. Deep green colour.
Lettuce Red Romaine Cos
A red version of the favourite green Cos lettuce. Pick leaves individually as needed or harvest as a whole lettuce. Perfect for adding colour to salads.
Lettuce Redfire
Beautiful light green leaves with dark red frills. Adapts well in warm or cool seasons. Slow to bolt.
Lettuce Tin Tin Cos
A comeback sensation in lettuces. A popular variety similar to those which have taken supermarkets and restaurants by storm recently. Tin Tin has textured dark green leaves with a fantastic sweet taste. Nasonovia Resistant.
Limnanthes Poached Egg Flower
This Californian annual is very easy to grow in almost any soil, in a sunny spot. The bright white and yellow cup-shaped flowers create a cheerful patch of ground cover. Commonly called the Poached Egg Plant. It will self-seed freely and naturalise readily.
Linaria Fairy Mix
Linaria is one of the most cheery and colourful of all garden plants providing a multitude of bright shades and hues including bicolours. Often called Fairy Flax it is an erect, slender annual plant with small lance-shaped fleshy, emerald green leaves. The long-spurred, two-lipped, snapdragon-like flowers create an all summer long display. Perfect for wildflower displays, tubs and bedding.
Linum Blue Dress
Blue Dress is a lovely sky-blue with darker veins running through its petals to the outer edges. A delightful border plant or great for tubs and pots. Pretty flowers dance on fine foliage throughout summer. A recipient of the prestigious Fleuroselect Quality Mark Award.
Linum Charmer Mix
Great for filling in the gaps with a bright mix of dainty cup shaped flowers. Flowers through summer through until autumn. Perfect for borders and planters. Prefers full sun.
Lisianthus Abc Mix F1 Hybrid
These fabulous Lisianthus make a spectacular cut flower display. Good strong stems and outstanding colours make these double blooms "first choice" among keen lLisianthus growers.
Lisianthus Dwarf Julietta White F1 Hybrid
Plant this hybrid Lisianthus in small containers and enjoy these fully double, long-lasting flowers from late spring through late summer. Julietta is compact with large buds, ideal for pots and tubs.
Lobelia Regatta Mix
These early to flower cascading Lobelia make a beautiful display, they have vigorous growth and are great for baskets.
Lobelia Riviera Blue Eyes
Mid-blue with white eye. Great compact plants for colourful borders.
Lobelia Riviera Blue Splash
Blue and white bicolour. Great compact plants for colourful borders.
Lobelia Riviera Midnight Blue
Deep-blue flowers. Great compact plants for colourful borders.
Lobelia Riviera Mix
Mixture of Riviera colours: white, rose, lavender and mixed blues. Great compact plants for colourful borders.
Lobelia Riviera Sky Blue
Sky-blue. Great compact plants for colourful borders.
Lobelia Riviera White
White. Great compact plants for colourful borders.
Lunaria Honesty (Silver Dollar)
Great for dried arrangements. Produces a mass of dainty, purple flowers on a nice plump plant. These flowers are followed by delicate, flat round seed pods, when cleaned up these dried seed cases form the translucent "Silver Dollars". Sometimes known as Honesty Plant.
Lupin Israel Blue Admiral
Intense deep blue flowers spike out from beautiful foliage. Quick growing and an excellent potted colour if grown in a larger pot.
Lupin Pixie Delight Mix
Short, branched spikes of White, Pink and Blue flowers. A common wildflower in California with good potential for colourful, low maintenance bedding plants.
Lupin Russell Mix
Grows readily throughout the South Island of New Zealand. Great perennial, flowering all summer. A tough variety that handles most conditions including drought, wind and salt.
Malope Cottage Mix
Pale pink to dark purple veined flowers cover the plant all summer long. Sure to be a talking point in your garden. Sandy's Tip: Pinching the top out of plants will encourage bushier plants and more flowers.
Malva Zebrina
A beautiful heirloom plant, made fashionable once again because of its striking flower colourings. Rich purple flowers with plum veins appear late in summer and continue right into autumn.
Manuka
Also known as Tea Tree. White to red flowers cover this native tree/shrub from early spring through to early summer. Needs careful pruning, since mature wood does not have live buds. In general, a light pruning after the flowering period is suggested.
Marigold African Ivory
It is good to have some bedding items with additional plant height in the garden. 'African Ivory' does this. Nice creamy white flowers create a cool display throughout the summer. The large and tall plants are covered with a mass of flowers.
Marigold Bonanza Bright Yellow
Sister line and perfect match to Bonanza Deep Orange.
Marigold Bonanza Deep Orange
A world leader in French Marigolds Bonanza produces 6cm crested blooms of pure deep-orange. A really intense colour. Compact, bushy plants.