Onion Spring Long White

Soft and pungent, produces thin white shanks for bunching.

Onion Yellow Sweet Spanish

Large, dark yellow, globe-shaped bulbs flesh is creamy-white and mild-flavoured. Sweet Spanish onions will grow quite large and because of their sweet flavour they are particularly good used raw in salads and hamburgers. This onion variety is not a winter keeper

Oregano

Mainly used dry, Oregano has a spicy flavour, strong to stand up to bold Italian dishes tomato sauces pizzas and fish dishes. Bushy small leaved plants featuring lilac-purple flowers.

Oregano Greek

Looks much the same as regular oregano, however the flavour is more intense. A hardy perennial that has aromatic green leaves. Oregano produces mauve flowers in the summer that are particularly attractive to bees and other pollinators. A very popular culinary herb that you can add to many dishes. Plant in a well-drained sunny site. Can be grown in pots or containers. Pick fresh leaves when needed or you can freeze or dry them for all-year-round use.

Oriental Chrysanthemum Chopsuey Greens

This form of edible Chrysanthemum has a sweet herbal taste; pick the first tender leaves about 40 days after sowing. Leaves are at their best when they are young and picking leaves regularly will encourage a bushier plant. Older leaves can become bitter as they age, or if the plant is left to flower. All is not lost if your plant blooms, as the flower petals are also edible and along with the leaves are used in a variety of Asian dishes. Plants dislike high temperatures so some degree of shade is recommended in summer.

Oriental Kailaan

Another popular Chinese green. Deep green with a good taste.

Oriental Mini Li Ren Choi

Li Ren Choi is an extremely attractive Mini Pak Choi with light green stems and slightly darker green leaves. This variety develops a Pak Choi shape at a very early stage. It can even be planted in trays and harvested at transplanting time. It is one of the smaller Mini Pak Choi on the market.

Oriental Mini Toy Choi

Toy Choy is a compact hybrid Canton Pak Choi with thick, broad, milky white petioles and glossy, dark green leaves. It is perfect for home gardeners. Toy Choy is tolerant to heat, which makes it well suited for production in summer months and offers an early maturity of 30 days harvest from sowing.

Oriental Misome

Deep green savoyed leaves. Vigourous grower that can be grown all year round. Use for cooking or stir-fry.

Oriental Mizuna Early

Very vigourous and high yielding. Serrated edged leaves. Mild, fresh, crisp and tasty. Use in salads or cooking.

Oriental Mizuna Miz America

These serrated dark-red leaves are a flavoursome addition to any leaf salad. Best described as having a mild peppery flavour, but not spicy or bitter.

Oriental Pak Choi Green Fortune

Compact plant, early with high heat tolerance. Nice green petioles. Crisp and sweet.

Oriental Pak Choi Pai Tsai May Song

Pai Tsai is a form of Chinese Cabbage said to have a nutty taste. May Song is heat tolerant and fast to mature making it less prone to bolting.

Oriental Tatsoi

Spoon shaped, thick, very deep-green leaves. Compact rosette plant. High vitamin content

Pak Choi Joi Choi F1 Hybrid

Bright green leaves with thick pure white petioles (stems). Very good bolt resistance. Pak Choi is easy to grow, easy to cook and becoming firmly established in the NZ vegetable garden portfolio.

Pak Choi Red Choi F1 Hybrid

Bronze-red almost purple leaves with white stems. Adds colour and pleasant flavour to your ‘green vegetable intake’. Perfect steamed, in stir fries or blended raw into salads.

Pansy Blue Flashing F1 Hybrid

Extremely Popular. Medium sized flowers many of them having excellent weather tolerance. New colour break in pansies.

Pansy Cats Whiskers F1 Hybrid

Pronounced "whiskers" grace each flower, creating an unprecedented display. An ongoing display of flowers throughout autumn and spring. Well branched plants with large flowers.

Pansy Fizzy Lemonberry F1 Hybrid

We are continually asked for new, exciting and different pansies, Lemonberry fits the bill perfectly. Large flowers of intriguing colour and flower form. Adds the WOW factor to cool season planters or baskets.

Pansy Frizzle Sizzle Mix F1 Hybrid

A growing colour range of ruffled pansies, Frizzle Sizzle is perfect anywhere and great for adding interesting flower form and colour into your garden in winter. The ruffling is enhanced in the cooler months of winter and early spring.

Pansy Frizzle Sizzle Raspberry F1 Hybrid

A fantastic, bold colour with large frilly flowers. The ruffling is enhanced even more in the cooler months of winter and early spring. Thrives in planters and perfect for cool season bedding.

Pansy Imperial Antique Shades F1 Hybrid

Pastel colours yet crisp and clear making this pansy irresistible. Unique colours from apricot to rose. Flower size medium to large.

Pansy Karma Strawberry Cream Shades F1 Hybrid

A breath taking Pansy spotted in a recent California Seed Trial visit. Intense colours in a range of strawberry shades, each with a light frill to it's petals. Very attractive.

Pansy Majestic Giants II Mix F1 Hybrid

Majestic Giants II is a world leader for large flowered pansies. Huge flowers often 10cm plus on big strong plants. Allow plenty of space and shelter and remember to keep dead-heading spent flowers for a continual display of eye catching colour.

Pansy Matrix Blotch Mix F1 Hybrid

Matrix pansies are well established, popular, large flowering plants. Matrix Blotch Mix is a mixture of some exciting blotched face pansies, you won't be disappointed. Best in our trials.

Pansy Matrix Blue Blotch

A vibrant purple-blue pansy with a distinct black blotch in the centre. Contrasts nicely with a lot of other colours or grow on its own for a real punch of colour.

Pansy Matrix Citrus Mix F1 Hybrid

A selection of large flowered clear shades of orange, yellow, primrose and white make an inviting "citrus" colour mixture.

Pansy Matrix Clear Orange F1 Hybrid

Again, a great selection of popular large flowered clear faced pansies that are "tried and true".

Pansy Matrix Clear Scarlet F1 Hybrid

Again, a great selection of popular large flowered clear faced pansies that are "tried and true".

Pansy Matrix Clear True Blue F1 Hybrid

Clear True Blue is a favourite among the Maxtrix selection.

Pansy Matrix Clear White F1 Hybrid

Clear White is fantastic for making some great patterns in the garden. Plant them among the other vibrant colours to make a showy display.

Pansy Matrix Clear Yellow F1 Hybrid

Yellow doesn't seem to be one of the most popular colours in the flower world, but Matrix Clear Yellow shines out amongst the gloomiest of winter days in your garden. A great selection.

Pansy Matrix Full Mix F1 Hybrid

A great selection of popular large flowered clear faced pansies that are "tried and true". The Matrix Series stood up well in our Outdoor Trials.

Pansy Matrix Lavender Shades

Pansy Lavender Shades will put on a beautiful display of varying tones of lavender with the added interest of a striped face. Plant by itself for an easy no fuss mix.

Pansy Matrix Sangria

Just like the Spanish drink, Pansy 'Sangria' is a delicious purple-maroon colour with a yellow to dark-maroon face. Part of the Spring Matrix collection that produces large flowers and performs well during Spring and Autumn.

Pansy Morpho F1 Hybrid

A premium F1 pansy selected for your benefit. Because they both have the same exotic colouring, Morpho was named after a rare and beautiful butterfly found in Costa Rica. The unique flower is a bright pastel blue with a yellow centre, introducing a new colour combination within the pansy range. One not to be missed!

Pansy Nature Mulberry Shades F1 Hybrid

Unique colour. Warms up any garden in a cool season. Pansy Nature has slightly smaller flowers than the average pansy but gives excellent weather (wind and rain) tolerance because of this.

Pansy Promise Blue White Whiskers F1 Hybrid

A novel, different colour combination, light blue outer petals with a white face with whiskers, really delightful. Large flowers (7cm plus) on strong plants. Excellent landscape vigour. Plants flower over a very long period.

Papaya Amber Lady

Amber Lady is sweet tasting with orange-red flesh. It is a vigourous grower and has good fruit set, however it needs an average temperature of around 25-30 °C for optimal growth. To grow good papaya you need a frost free climate, lots of sunlight, lots of water and very good soil. They also require fertiliser on a regular basis, young plants should be fed every 14 days, older trees once a month. Although papaya need lots of water for good fruit production, the most common problem with them is root rot due to overwatering, so a fine balancing act is required. Trees need to be planted in an area where they will be protected from strong winds. If birds or possums are helping themselves, pick the fruit as soon as it starts to change colour, it will ripen ok on the kitchen bench. We also read somewhere that you can pop a paper bag over the fruit to protect them from pests!

Parsley Green Envy

A shorter more compact plant than "Plain Parsley". With its tightly curled leaves and strong stems this parsley is rich deep green in colour and is a fabulous herb. Far superior to Triple curled or Moss curled.

Parsley Plain

The bright green leaves are deeply segmented and flat. Stronger flavour than curled parsley. Water well in hot weather. Very easy to grow.

Parsnip Hollow Crown

Please select either Tape or Seeds A "strong top" variety Hollow Crown produces long white tapered roots. Enjoy the fruits of your labour practically all year round. Please Note: our catalogue says x3 - 1.3m tapes, this is incorrect, there is only x1 4m tape per packet.

Parsnip Supersnip

A versatile vegetable, parsnip can be sown in autumn giving you winter crops for adding to those lovely hot soups and stews or in spring for summer crops to add variety to your meals.

Passionfruit

Once established this climber will supply good crops of round, plump, purple fruit. Dark green foliage - good strong grower.

Peas Chickpea

They have attractive grey-green foliage and also the capacity to fix nitrogen. Unlike many crops Chickpeas appear to germinate more readily on roughly cultivated soil. We are constantly looking for interesting and sought after vegetables to enhance our catalogue selection. Where possible we like to try to grow out the product so we have some idea on whether it is likely to perform OK. This hasn't been the case with Chickpeas (we haven't attempted to grow these so far) but they certainly look like an interesting crop. It appears they are a bit on the tender side but can possibly withstand a very light frost. In hotter climates they are grown for the dried pea-like seeds. These are used for both sprouting and making into hummus. In damper climates Chickpeas can be harvested green, like petit pois (very small green pea.) When harvested green they taste somewhere in between a fresh raw French bean and a garden pea.

Peas Dwarf Massey

Everyone loves fresh garden peas with their Christmas dinner! This early variety with dwarf plant habit is an excellent cropper that doesn't require staking.

Peas Dwarf Sugar Snap

Dwarf Sugarsnap is basically the same delicious variety as the regular Sugarsnap pea, the only difference being the height it grows. Thick, fleshy pods containing sweet juicy peas. A lovely dwarf sugarsnap pea that is ideal for gardeners who want to avoid staking their plants.