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Redcurrant Red Lake
Redcurrant Red Lake
€6.00
Redcurrant Red Lake A very popular mid-season variety of redcurrant, ‘Red Lake’ is a fairly vigorous, medium-sized, upright bush which gives very reliable, heavy crops of very large, well-flavoured, juicy berries carried on long ‘strings’, which makes them very easy to pick. Don’t plant in a frost pocket, as it flowers early in the year. Good di...
Redcurrant Rovada
Redcurrant Rovada
€6.00
Redcurrant Rovada A late-season redcurrant, ‘Rovada’ is also late to flower, making it a good choice for colder areas. Fairly vigorous, medium-sized, upright bush which gives reliable, exceptionally heavy crops of very large, well-flavoured berries on long 'strings', making them easy to pick. Crops for a long period, is disease resistant, and ve...
Rhubarb Champagne
Rhubarb Champagne
€4.00
Rhubarb Champagne An old variety of early rhubarb, Rhubarb ‘Champagne’ has delicious, sweet, scarlet stems ready to pull from May. It is also one of the best for forcing; cover with an upturned bin as it starts into growth for paler, even sweeter stems. After cutting the forced stems, allow the plant to recover with cutting for the rest of the ...
Rhubarb Glaskin’s Perpetual
€4.00
Rhubarb Glaskin’s Perpetual Raised in Brighton in 1920, Rheum x hybridum Glaskin’s Perpetual is a very reliable rhubarb, and quick to establish. The stems are long, thick, bright red, and sweet and juicy with a good flavour. Because it has a low oxalic acid content, it can be picked until late in the year (hence the name ‘Perpetual’) giving it a...
Rhubarb Timperley Early
Rhubarb Timperley Early
€4.00
Rhubarb Timperley Early Perhaps the earliest rhubarb cultivar and the best for forcing, Rheum x hybridum Timperley Early is a clump-forming herbaceous perennial with huge green leaves. The stems are thick and deep red at the base, fading to light green with red flecks. The succulent flesh is light green and well-flavoured, and holds together whe...
Rhubarb Victoria
Rhubarb Victoria
€4.00
Rhubarb Victoria A very old variety of late rhubarb, Rhubarb ‘Victoria’ was named for the young Queen Victoria at her accession in 1837. A big, handsome rhubarb with beautiful stems, raspberry-red at the base, flecked green at the leaf-end, it is ornamental enough to grow in a flower border. The thick stems hold together well when cooked; the fl...
Schisandra chinensis
Schisandra chinensis
€8.00
Magnolia Berry A medicinal plant from Northern China, Schisandra chinensis is also called Five-Flavour Berry from its odd taste, which combines sweet, salty, bitter, sour and spicy. The berries are said to be anti-inflammatory, adaptogenic and rich in anti-oxidants and are used in traditional medicine to fight ageing and fatigue. Magnolia berry ...
Strawberry Cambridge Favourite
€1.00
Strawberry Cambridge Favourite Popular old variety of mid-season strawberry, once the most widely commercially grown. Exceptionally reliable. Moderate yields of large fruit, with rather pale flesh and good flavour, which holds on the plant in good condition longer than most. If it does not succumb to virus disease, Strawberry ‘Cambridge Favourit...
Strawberry Elsanta
Strawberry Elsanta
€1.00
Strawberry Elsanta Now the most popular commercial variety, Strawberry ‘Elsanta’ is a vigorous, high-yielding, mid-season variety. Medium to large, glossy, firm, orange-red fruit with outstanding flavour and a strong strawberry scent. Homegrown ‘Elsanta’ are far better flavoured than shop-bought. The skin is firm, so not susceptible to damage. R...
Strawberry Eros
Strawberry Eros
€1.00
Strawberry Eros Raised at the UK’s East Malling research station from a cross between Elsanta and Allstar, Fragaria ananassa Eros Is a moderately vigorous, heavy-cropping, mid-season summer strawberry, with resistance to the disease Red Core and hardy in colder, northern areas. The mid-red, glossy, well-shaped fruit is juicy and firm, with a sw...
Strawberry Framberry
Strawberry Framberry
€4.00
Fragaria × ananassa 'Frau Mieze Schindler' A variety of garden strawberry, more recently known as the Framberry or Strasberry, the berries have the sweetness and growth habit of a strawberry with the scent and taste of raspberries. It’s taller and sturdier than modern strawberries, but is grown in the same way. The berries are small, sweet, juic...
Strawberry Ostara
Strawberry Ostara
€3.00
Strawberry Ostara A ‘perpetual’ or ‘ever-bearing’ strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa Ostara produces white flowers and fruit in flushes from June until the frosts, instead of the one big crop of the summer-bearing strawberries. The berries are large, conical and bright red, red-fleshed with a sweet, juicy flavour and good fragrance, and total yield...
Strawberry Snow White - Pineberry
€4.00
Fragaria x ananassa 'Snow White' A mid-season, June-bearing variety, Strawberry Snow White has white flesh and bright red pips, like a photographic negative. The berries are medium-sized, conical, and, like other white strawberries, intensely aromatic, with a suggestion of pineapple in the taste. A vigorous variety, it is disease-resistant and h...
Strawberry Symphony
Strawberry Symphony
€1.00
Strawberry Symphony This late-season variety was bred in Scotland, and is particularly good for cooler, damper areas. Strawberry ‘Symphony’ is a vigorous, high-yielding plant, with medium to large, conical, brilliant red fruit, firm and juicy, with lovely old-fashioned strawberry flavour. Susceptible to powdery mildew if grown under cover, but n...
Strawberry Toscana
Strawberry Toscana
€4.00
Strawberry Toscana An F1 strawberry with hybrid vigour and very decorative flowers, Fragaria x ananassa Toscana has a trailing habit which makes it ideal for growing in hanging baskets or on balconies where space is limited, although it can also be grown in conventional beds. The flowers are a beautiful deep rose-pink. The fruit is mid-sized and...
Tayberry
Tayberry
€5.00
Tayberry A hybrid between a raspberry and a blackberry, perhaps the best and easiest of the hybrid berries, although not suitable for the coldest areas. Tayberries are very vigorous, consistent growers and reliable, heavy croppers. Fruits on 2nd year wood, so they should ideally be grown like summer raspberries, on wire supports- but can also be...
Vaccinium cylindraceum Blau Perle
€6.00
Azores Blueberry Blue Pearl Originally from the Azores, Vaccinium cylindraceum Blau Perle is a compact cultivar of the species, forming a medium-sized, rounded, semi-evergreen shrub. Small, bright green, pointed leaves, slightly toothed, on reddish-yellow stems persist through a mild winter. Attractive deep pink flowers opening to yellow appear...
Whitecurrant Blanka
Whitecurrant Blanka
€6.00
Whitecurrant Blanka Bred in the Netherlands, Whitecurrant Blanka is a new variety, increasingly in demand for its very heavy cropping. The berries are large, ivory-coloured and translucent with a sweet flavour, and can be eaten straight off the bush, or used to make a delicious pink jelly or as a very pretty garnish for cakes and puddings. They ...
Whitecurrant White Versailles
€5.00
Whitecurrant White Versailles Justly popular early variety of whitecurrant, very reliable, heavy-cropping and easy to grow; fruits well even in northern areas. Upright growth on a medium-sized bush which will produce for many years. Fruit borne on long, heavy ‘strigs’ which makes for easy picking. The currants are large, pale yellow and transluc...
Worcesterberry
Worcesterberry
€8.00
Worcesterberry Looks like a gooseberry, but is in fact, a species of currant, Ribes divaricatum, from the western United States. Worcesterberries are big, vigorous, upright and very thorny – makes a good stock-proof hedge, but not one for the smaller garden, where it’s more manageable grown as a cordon. Reliable, heavy cropper, with small, smoot...