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These seven themes are gateways to our vast range of seeds, covering more than 1,000 plant varieties in all. Whether you’re looking for vegetables, herbs or flowers, you can be sure of finding just the plant you need – there’s something here for every gardener and every individual garden.

Our special passion has always been heirloom and open-pollinated varieties and the biodiversity they help to preserve. So there’s a huge choice of heirloom vegetables, herbs and medicinal plants here, as well as an extensive range of ethnobotanical plants from all over the world.

Immerse yourself in our magic garden – and share our fascination with the world of plants.

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High time to sow biennials

Common Hollyhock Assortment (Alcea rosea)

Beautiful biennial to perennial flower with impressive height. Mixture of different blossom colours.

Clary Sage (Salvia sclarea)

Beautiful, splendid sage variety with a strong, resinous scent that's slightly euphoriant. On humans as well as on cats.

Garden Angelica (Angelica archangelica)

Six unusuaImpressive, robust wild herb from Scandinavia. Old medicinal plant whose pulpy roots are neurotonic, anti-convulsant, and digestive.l and distinctive herbs and spice plants

New arrivals

Just arrived in our range - discover all new arrivals for 2026.

Pink Cornflower 'Pink Ball' (Centaurea cyanus) seeds

2,39 € *

Dark Purple Cornflower 'Black Ball' (Centaurea cyanus) seeds <ai>

2,39 € *

Lavender-blue Sweet Pea 'Lady Grisel Hamilton' (Lathyrus odoratus) Seeds

2,59 € *

Sweet Pepper 'Sweet Chocolate' (Capsicum annuum) Seeds

2,59 € *

White Cornflower 'White Ball' (Centaurea cyanus) seeds

2,39 € *

Canary Creeper (Tropaeolum peregrinum) seeds

2,59 € *

Cream-white Nasturtium 'Milkmaid' (Tropaeolum majus) seeds

2,59 € *

Dark Red Nasturtium 'Indian Chief' (Tropaeolum majus) seeds

2,59 € *

Crimson Cosmos 'Sensation Dazzler' (Cosmos bipinnatus) seeds

2,59 € *

Pale Pink Cosmos 'Sensation Daydream' (Cosmos bipinnatus) seeds

2,59 € *

We're passionate about preserving biodiversity – which is why we’ve been selling only open-pollinated seeds for more than 25 years.

Blog: Garden Secrets

Sowing & growing

Winter vegetables? Now’s the time to get sowing!

Time to leap into action: sow in June for a wonderful autumn show Summer is just getting going – but this is precisely the time when you need to be thinking about winter. Because if you want to be harvesting your own crispy-fresh, home-grown veg when it’s cold outside then mid-June is when you can leap into action. While tomatoes, courgettes and cucumbers are growing it’s the start of the key sowing period for many winter vegetables.

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From Asian greens to winter lettuce: the salad leaves your garden needs

Salad leaves are a truly multi-talented garden crop – they can be tender, spicy or crispy, ranging from classic lettuces and rocket salad across an astonishing range of different varieties, leaf shapes and flavours. Some are great for growing a quick crop in spring – others will survive the first frosts and give you fresh green leaves through into winter.