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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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Trees & Shrubs

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Seeds A-Z

Our latest seed sets

Women’s Herbs

Traditional herbs for balance and well-being

Incense Herbs

For making your own incense

Men’s Herbs

Traditional herbs for strength and grounding

Cool Flowers - sow now for earlier blooms next spring

Discover which flowers are suitable as Cool Flowers.

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

2,39 € *

White Cornflower 'White Ball' (Centaurea cyanus) seeds

2,39 € *

Pink Cornflower 'Pink Ball' (Centaurea cyanus) seeds

2,39 € *

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

2,59 € *

Cool Flowers - Hardy summer flowers for an early display - Seed kit No.34

10,99 € *

Apricot coloured Pot Marigold 'Touch of Red Buff' (Calendula officinalis) Seeds

2,49 € *

Pale Yellow Pot Marigold 'Lemon Cream' (Calendula officinalis) Seeds

2,49 € *

Salmon Pink Pot Marigold 'Pink Surprise' (Calendula officinalis) Seeds

2,59 € *

Common Corn-Cockle (Agrostemma githago) seeds

2,29 € *

Pincushion Flower / Mourning Bride (Scabiosa atropurpurea) seeds

2,99 € *

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

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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.

Sowing & growing

Cool Flowers – a cool move for your flower garden

Have you heard of ‘Cool Flowers’? If not then you definitely need to! These flowers are not just cool in every sense of the word – they’re a real game-changer for all flower lovers. But let’s start at the beginning. Where does this name come from and what’s it all about? And why do you need to know more? What are Cool Flowers? The term ‘Cool Flowers’ was popularised by the author and dedicated gardener Lisa Mason Ziegler. She brought the concept to a wide audience in her book ...