Touchwood Seed List, Unusual, Rare and Cottage Garden seeds. Aquilegia specialist

75p / packet, 10 or more 50p so use this ready reckoner: 1=75p,2=£1.50, 3=£2.25, 4=£3, 5=£3.75, 6=£4.50, 7=£5, 8=£5, 9=£5., 10=£5, 11=£5.50, 12=£6, 13=£6.50, 14=£7, 15=£7.50, 16=£8, 17=£8.50, 18=£9, 19=£9.50, 20=£10, have free packet! 21=£10, 22=£10.50, 23=£11, 24=£11.50….et cetera! See main seedlist for postage costs in UK and abroad.

Or let me choose and go for: LUCKY FIVE £2.50 A lucky dip of 5 packs of last year’s seeds TERRIFIC TWENTY £8 or FANTASTIC FORTY £12 My choice, but I won’t include anything from your 2008 order, & you can choose categories you want/don’t want from: annuals, biennials, perennials, trees and shrubs, alpines, bulbs, vegetables, climbers, herbs, Aquilegias, Geraniums.

Last year's seed (2007) .......updated November 2007

Acacia saligna
+~ACHILLEA	'Cerise Queen'	hp	Pretty flat heads of white-centred red flowers, easy from seed.
Albuca shawii		hbulb	yellow bell flowers, bulb 2'
ALCEA	ficifolia yellow	hp	A truly perennial hollyhock, more resistant to fungal infection than the usually grown type. Creamy yellow. Pretty. Pathetic pic!
+ALLIUM	schoenoprasum	hblb	Chives. Indispensable. Edible leaf and purple flowers, which look smashing in a potato salad!
AQUILEGIA SEEDS			INCLUDING FROM THE TOUCHWOOD NATIONAL COLLECTION
AQUILEGIA	stellata		ex dark pink
AQUILEGIA	stellata		ex pale pink
AQUILEGIA	stellata		ex pink
AQUILEGIA	stellata		ex 'Starburst' huge stellata flowers
AQUILEGIA	stellata		ex burgundy
AQUILEGIA	stellata		ex dark purple
AQUILEGIA	stellata		ex palest hint of a tint of blue
AQUILEGIA	ex burgundy single
AQUILEGIA	ex maroon single
AQUILEGIA	ex black double
AQUILEGIA	ex ruby and cream double
AQUILEGIA	ex bicolours		All colours with white, eg red-and-white.
AQUILEGIA	ex 'Ruby Port'
AQUILEGIA	ex 'Tower Light Blue'
AQUILEGIA	ex discolor		Rock garden, dwarf aquilegia
AQUILEGIA	ex olympica
ARAUJIA	sericofera	h/hp	Rare chance for seed of the cruel plant, so called as it catches moths by the tongue as part of the pollination procedure. Survives outside here but flowers earlier in (cold) greenhouse. Rather nice flowers on exuberant climber.
+~AUBRETIA	'Cascade Mix	hp	Grow for rock gardens, covering down walls, hanging baskets, etc.
CABBAGE	Jersey walking stick	hp	Grow your own walking stick. Yes, and edible foliage!	Follow this link for a photo!
CALENDULA	ex single	ha	Well formed flowers with darker centers. Self-sows. Drat, I'll never be able to sell you another packet!
CAMPANULA	trachelium	hp	Mix of blue-purple or white flowers. The nettle-leaved bellflower, 2-3', resplendant in eary summer.. A good ‘doer’, which gently self-seeds.
CAREX	atrata
CENTAUREA	‘Black Beauty’	ha	The blackest form of the much-loved cornflower.
+CYTISUS	scoparius	hp	Wild broom. Yellow pea flowers, make your own sweeping tool!
+CYTISUS	nigricans 'Cyni'
Dianthus	barbatus 'Tuxedo'	hb	Sweet William in deepest 'black' with a white centre. Incredible!
DICENTRA	Ex CC3806	hp	I love these ferny leaved, yellow flowered Dicentras. This has reddish inflated seedpods, flowers the first year and MAY be D. scandens or D. lichiangensis	climbing dicentras article
DIGITALIS	grandiflora	hp	yellow foxglove
DIGITALIS	lutea	hp	yellow foxglove
DIPSACUS	strigosus
Echium	'Pink Fountain'		Giant echium bred at Plantworld. Not fully hardy but any amount of trouble worthwhile to grow this spectacular beast!
+ESCHOLTZIA	californica	hha	Californian Poppy bright glowing orange.
GOURD	decorative	hha cl	Yellow pumpkin-shaped gourds. Great grown on trellis or over archways! ..or have William Tell 'fun'!
HELIANTHUS	annua ? 'Valentin'	hha	Sunflower, many headed light yellow, darker centred flowers.
+~LAVATERA	‘Silver Cup’	h(h)a	2” (or more!) wonderfully smothered with open pink trumpets for many weeks!
Lilium	davidii	h blb	Elegantly beautiful recurved ‘turkscap’ blooms. Yellow
~Limnanthes	douglasii	ha/p	Poached egg plant. Grow a ground cover jungle of friendly yellow-and-white flowers.
linaria	purpurea	hp	Tall, slim spires of massed purple flowers.
Millium	effuseum var. aureum	hp	Bowles Golden Grass. Brightest yellow springtime foliage, airy flower-heads.
nicotiana	rustica	hha	A large half-hardy annual with green ‘mob-cap’ flowers at 1m or more.
Nigella	damascena	ha	Love-in-a-mist, here in white double form (some blues may occur!), and many of the strange horned pods (‘devil-in-a-bush’) are striped crimson, all good for flower arranging, fresh or dried.
Paeonia	officinalis v banatica
+periploca	species (10)	hcl	Rare opportunity: exotic climber with good foliage, and oversized and very decorative pods compared to the small flowers
Petunia	surfinia 'purple cascade'
Rudbeckia	subtomentosa
Salvia	sclarea turkestanica
satureJa	montana	hp	Winter Savory. Bee-loved white flowers, aromatic culinary herb, easy to please.
+saxifraga	'White Hills’	hp	Tight silvery-encrusted rosettes and pink-flecked flower sprays
sisyrinchium	striatum	hp	Flowers the year after sowing, with cream-and-yellow flowers up 50 cm flowering spikes. Clumps in flower are an arresting sight! Evergreen iris-like foliage.
Thalictrum	aquilegiifolium album
tropaeolum	peregrinum (12)	(h)ha	Canary creeper. Strange yellow flowers on attractive climbing plants with rather lovely, delicately lobed leaves.
ZEA	mays (20)	(h)ha	Arresting, amazing, astonishing, astounding and permanently attractive...and that's just the superlatives beginning with A!! Blue corn, decorative sweetcorn, corn-on-the-cob. Choose from ones I describe as chocolate, blackcurrant sorbet or choose a packet of mixed colours.

LAST YEARS VEG	SPARE SEEDS
+~PEA	Mangetout 'Zuccola'	maincrop sow March-June 8cm apart Mature in 14-16 weeks
+~PEA	Mangetout 'Sugar Ann'	Early organic sow late March onwards 5-8 cm apart Mature July
+~PEA	Mangetout 'Carouby de Mausanne'	maincrop sow April onwards 5cm apart Mature early July onwards
+~PEA	Sugar pea 'Oregon Sugar Pod'	early sow March to early May 5-8cm apart Mature late Juneonwards
+~CLIMBING FRENCH BEAN	Corona d'Oro	Tasty and virtually stringless golden pods.
+~CLIMBING FRENCH BEAN	Cosse Violette	Well flavoured large darkest purple pods.
BORLOTTA BEANS		Red and green seedpods. Grow and harvest as runner beans, or wait and harvest the seeds themselves as dried beans.
+~MITSUBA		A type of Japanese parsley, grown for the leaf. Cut and come again.
+~Tatsoi Tah Tsai		Chinese cabbage. Rosette forming, spoon shaped leaves.
+~SAVORY		Winter savory, great herb used rather like thyme. Bees love the plants. Hardy perennial.
~BASIL		Italian large leaf. Cut and come again.
+~MUSTARD	'Golden Streaks'	Finely divided tasty leaves. Cut and come again.
+~MUSTARD	'Red Giant'	Large leaves, red colouring, fine flavour. Cut and come again.
+~ROCKET	'Sky'	Rocket is one of the easiest salad crops to grow. Even the flowers are edible! Cut and come again.
+~BEETROOT	'Crimson Globe'	Try it raw: grated. Tastes good and is even better for you!
+~BROCCOLI	Early purple sprouting	Sow spring for crops the next spring when nothing else exciting is available. Good raw as well as cooked.
+~CHINESE CELERY	Kintsai	Perennial, grown for the leaves and stalks. Cut and come again
+~SALAD MIX	Spicy green	A great mix of wonderful cut and come again saladlings.
+~LETTUCE	'Tom Thumb'	Sow March-April (under glass if necessary). Good for also raising in pots or windowboxes.
+~SUMMER PURSLANE		Unusual salad crop. Succulent leaves.
+~WELSH ONION	Red form!	Perennial grown for the tasty leaves...here in red.
+~SPRING ONION	White Lisbon	For sowing March to Sept
+~RADISH	Rat tail ...eat the pods!	Long long pods to harvest. Forget the roots when each plant bears hundreds of tasty pods that are even juicier, and nicer, than the roots!
+~RADISH	Easter Egg 2 Mix	All shapes and sizes and colours...including purple! Sorry, no pic.
+~RADISH	Jaba sprouting seeds	Grow indoors in jam-jars as a sprouting seed, or in the garden as a cut and come again leaf salad.
+~SPINACH	Campania f1	Sow Jan-March and Oct-Dec Use young leaves in salads and cook older ones.
+~SPINACH	Fiorano f1	Sow April-Sept Use young leaves in salads and cook older ones.
+~CORIANDER		Salad leaves, very easy to grow. Musky orange flavour.
+~TOMATO	Alicante	Well flavoured fleshy tomato.

LAST YEAR'S SEED PRICES:

Follow this link for seed of aquilegias

List of vegetable seeds

Link for seeds as wedding favours

Here is the list of last years seeds and swaps

Link for sowing information, including sowing ferns

LABELS

Good quality white labels …….30 for £1 ................70 for £2

‘Invisible’ green labels……….20 for £1 .................50 for £2

‘Highly visible’ yellow ....……. 20 for £1 ..................50 for £2

or mix yellow and green…….20 for £1 ..................50 for £2

or mix 5 colours…………......….20 for £1 ..................50 for £2

Label postage: they are relatively heavy, so 50p per 50 (or part thereof)

But no seed postage to pay if you order labels, and labels sent free with plants-by-post orders

Stabilo Write-4-all permanent marker ........ £1.50 plus 40p postage (free postage with seed order)

GUARANTEE

I fully expect you to enjoy a good germination from my seeds. If that is not the case, please let me know, for either information and advice, replacement seed or a credit note. But when you do get good results…please tell your friends and let them benefit from good seed of cottage garden, rare and unusual plants at a brilliant price!!

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