Plants
SUMMER & AUTUMN 2025 SEASON
Our winter plant supply has finished now. We will have a selection of Mediterranean plants available in June, and our normal range of trees, shrubs and perennials available to order from August for delivery October to December 2025.
We will be stopping plant supply at the end of 2025, but will still supply seeds, books etc. See more FAQ here
Propagation course
Would you like to learn more about how to grow edible perennials, trees and shrubs? Hosted in our nursery in June and later in the year, this one day course will cover growing from seed, by cuttings, layering, and grafting. It will also cover the logistics of setting up your own growing area (small or larger). See full info here
We send plants to the UK, Channel Islands and Isle of Man. But no longer to Northern Ireland or the EU due to Brexit.
Our plant nursery cycle means that plants go live online to buy from early August onwards, for delivery October onwards.We also grow a small summer and Mediterranean plant selection available to buy June/July.
New plants last 2024-5 season
FRUITS
Apples – Oaken Pin, Tinsley Quince
Apricot – Isabella
Bullace – hardy close relative of plum and damson
Crab apples – Butterball, Wisley Crab,
Figs – Little Miss Figgy, Yellow Giant
Grapes – Concord, Isabella
Heartnut – Wright seedling
Medlar – Apyrana (seedless)
Peaches – Benedicte, Early Rivers
Pears – Black Worcester, Hessle, Pierre Corneille, Pitmaston Duchess
Sweet chestnuts – grafted varieties
Veitchberry – a delicious blackberry – raspberry hybrid
OTHER PLANTS
Achillea ageratum (English mace, sweet yarrow) – hardy perennial for flavouring and insects
Achillea filipendula ‘Cloth of Gold’ – tall perennial for insects and flowers
Achillea millefolium ‘Cerise Queen’ – pink flowered yarrow for insects and flower
Achillea ptarmica (Sneezewort) – perennial with peppery edible leaves
Agastache rugosa ‘Korean Zest’ (Korean mint) – zesty fragrant anise hyssop relative
Apium graveolens (Wild celery) – the wild perennial ancestor of celery: delicious
Arnica chamissonis (American arnica) – medicinal uses same as for European arnica
Aster oblongifolius (Aromatic aster) – perennial with edible shoots, leaves, flowers
Betula pubescens (Downy birch) – great pioneer/nurse tree for damper / more acid soils
Cardaria draba (Arrow cress) – fiery edible perennial
Cercis occidentalis (California redbud) – N-fixing shrub with edible flowers
Elatostema umbellatum (Dents de Kyoto) – non-stinging nettle relative with edible leaves
Gymnocladus dioica (Kentucky coffee) – tree with pods containing large seeds used for coffee
Hosta ‘Pauls Glory’ – variegated leaves and lavender flowers; edible shoots and flower
Inula helenium (Elecampane) – tall perennial, roots used medicinally and for dyeing
Laburnum anagyroides (golden chain) – small N-fixing tree, for bees and nitrogen
Laportea bulbifera (Bulbous nettle) – Japanese perennial with edible young leaves
Marrubium vulgare (Hoarhound) – European perennial for medicine, dyes and bee plant
Mentha requienii (Corsican mint) – low carpeting species for well drain rocky spots
Monarda fistulosa ssp. menthifolia (Bee balm) – more minty flavouring than the species
Nasturtium officinale (Watercress) – well known edible
Nepeta cataria (catmint) – perennial for bees (and cats!)
Nepeta racemosa ‘Felix’ (catmint) – purple-blue flowered perennial for bees and flowers
Oreganum syriacum (zatar) – Middle Eastern variety with strong spicy leaves
Origanum vulgare ‘Himalayan’ – spicy fragrant oregano variety
Phormium tenax ‘Eamonn’ – a fibre variety of New Zealand flax
Physalis alkekengi ‘Gigante’ (Chinese lantern) – robust perennial with edible sweet fruit in ‘lanterns’
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium (Slender mountainmint) – minty edible herb and great flowers for bees
Rumex vesicarius (Arabian sorrel) – drought tolerant sorrel with good edible leaves
Sanguisorba officinalis ‘Little Red Tanna’ (Burnet) – perennial with edible leaves and good flowers
Sedum sarmentosum (Dol-namul) – Ground covering sedum with good edible leaves and stems
Sium sisarum (skirret) – perennial root vegetable, flowers loved by insects
Tanacetum balsamita (Costmary) – perennial with edible leaves and flowers