What's New
2014 Spring
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New Vegetables
Gourmet Gardener
Premium varieties grown to an advanced size for a stronger start!
Gourmet flavours for those who appreciate the finer things in life. Gourmet Gardener caters for gardeners who love to cook and cooks who love to garden. The range is a collection of top quality vegetable and herb varieties that have been specially selected for their fine flavours and excellent yields. Available as healthy advanced seedlings in 100mm pots, Gourmet Gardener plants are easier to establish in the garden and mature faster.
Tomato Tiger Eye
Lycopersicon esculentum
trailing tomato
Tomato Tiger Eye is a mid-season fruiting variety with an attractive trailing habit ideal for display in pots, hanging baskets and garden beds. The fruit are oval and a bright red-orange with showy yellow stripes. Each roma-style tomato weighs approximately 30-35 grams with a moderately sweet flavour with a touch of acidity. Tomato Tiger Eye makes an appealing addition to salads, antipasto and other uncooked dishes. The fruit flavour will intensify the longer it is left on the vine.
Position: Full sun
Height: 35cm approx.
Spacing : 90cm
Growing tip: Apply ample organic matter to soil before planting. Keep soil
moist. Fertilise with a complete tomato food after flowering begins.
Pot growing tip: a pot 30-40cm in diameter is a good size.
Snow Pea Mix
Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon
colour combo
Snow Pea Mix is a combination of green and purple pod varieties. Both have sweet, flat, crisp, edible pods which may be grown for a decorative result in both the garden and on the plate. For added show, the purple pod variety also has a pretty purple flower. Enjoy cooked or raw, harvesting before full maturity for the best flavour. The purple pods when included as a raw ingredient will add colour to salads and other uncooked dishes. They will turn green when cooked.
Position: Full sun
Height: 60-75cm approx.
Spacing : 5-10cm
Growing tip: Grow in enriched soil. Protect from frost. Provide trellis or other support if desired.
Pot growing tip: a pot 40cm in diameter is a good size.
Capsicum Sweet Stuff Gold
Capsicum annuum
high yields
Capsicum Sweet Stuff Gold is prolific fruiting variety that produces mini, bell-shaped peppers approximately 8cm x 6cm in size. The apple-shaped fruit mature from a green to a gold colour and have a sweet flavour that is ideal for enjoying fresh in salads or cooked stuffed with your favourite gourmet feta or lamb filling. Joins the existing red-fruiting Sweet Stuff capsicum already in the range.
Position: Full sun
Height: 50-70cm approx.
Spacing : 45cm apart
Growing tip: May benefit from staking. Liquid feed regularly.
Pot growing tip: a pot 30cm or larger in diameter is a good size.
Ornamental and edible
Range of heat ratings
Position: Full sun
Height: 15 - 20cm
Growing tips:
• Plant in well drained soil
• Pick fruit often to prolong harvest
• Suits pots and garden beds
Chilli Samba
New Chilli Samba produces 1cm x 4cm long, edible fruit which mature from a yellow-green shade through orange to a bold red. This is an attractive, compact chilli with long, slender fruit and lush green foliage. The fruit have a medium (5/10) heat rating.
This attractive, compact chilli with its long, slender fruit and lush green foliage is the perfect feature plant for garden beds, borders and pots which is also suitable for short-term indoor display. Picking fruit regularly may help to prolong the harvest period.
New Flowers
Perfect for Pots™
Stylish, sophisticated seedlings for the discerning gardener!
Perfect for Pots advanced seedlings take the guess work out of gardening.
Perfect for Pots seedling varieties are chosen specifically for their suitability for pot culture.
We look for plant colours and forms that reflect current and emerging style trends, and which also contribute a reliable display over many months to deck, courtyard and balcony planters. What's more, many Perfect for Pots varieties are available already in flower to that there's even less waiting for the show to begin.
Faster to flower in pots or garden beds!
GERANIUM COCONUT ICE
Pelagonium x hortorum F1
Loves hot spots!
Geranium Vogue Coconut Ice thrives in the sun and adds that quintessentially Mediterranean look to pots, urns, garden beds and borders. Coconut Ice flowers develop a distinctive, bicolour effect in the garden thanks to petals that open white then deepen into a rose-pink shades. These abundant, large flowers contrast superbly with the deeper green foliage decorated with deeper green zonal markings. Hardy Floriana Vogue Geraniums are easy to grow and maintain. They require only moderate watering once established.
Position: Full sun
Height: 25-60cm approx.
Spacing: 30-45cm approx.
Growing tip: Apply a general purpose liquid fertiliser at recommended rates.
Flowering: 4-6 weeks after planting.
PETUNIA AFRICAN SUNSET
Petunia x hybrida F1
Bright & Spreading!
PETUNIA African Sunset spreads up to 80cm across to fill garden beds, pots, urns and hanging baskets with glorious, glowing colour. This superb petunia has an appealing, mounded habit and an improved capacity to withstand heat, humidity and rain. It flowers profusely right through the warmer months.
Position: Full sun
Height: 35cm approx.
Spacing: 60cm approx.
Growing tip: Apply a general purpose liquid fertiliser at recommended rates.
Flowering: 4-6 weeks after planting.