Veggies & Edibles
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Bean ‘Sadies Horse’ Runner
A beautiful heirloom runner with huge beans have to be seen to be believed! - a gorgeous mix of colors including pink mottled black, lavender mottled brown and pure white. The vigorous vines are covered in a mix of white and almost fluorescent orange/red flowers all summer long and also attracts hummingbirds. Simply breathtaking! (110 days for dried beans) Pole.
approx 15 seeds per packet. Runner beans (Phaseolus coccineus)
Bean ‘Sunset’ Runner
Beautiful peach-pink blossoms are one of a kind! Attractive enough for flower gardens or patios, but this one is in a class by itself with luminous peach to shell-pink blossoms - absolutely unique! Vines to 6' (2m) or so, covered with cascades of runner bean pods, equally wonderful whether used as snaps fresh, canned or frozen, or as shell beans. Can also be used as a dry bean. Lovely!
60-70 days
approx 15 large seeds
Bean ‘Trionfo Violetto’ Pole Bean
Translated from Italian, this bean's name means "purple triumph", and this Italian heirloom will surely win you over! This treasure is a crisp, flavorful treat & highly ornamental. Abundant lavender flowers bloom against lush green foliage with a hint of burgundy that almost seems to be applied with a water-color brush. All of this accented against slender, dark stems, and long, thin, purple beans that are delicious fresh off the vine! It is so pretty you may want to grow it even if you don’t eat a single bean!
Stunning, prolific, and delicious!
Read about growing beans in my blog post here.
Celosia -MIX
(argentea spicata) Celosia edible ornamental annual grown for its distinctive, erect flower spikes reminiscent of a sheaf of wheat that give it the common name of wheat celosia. Grown for their unique, textural blooms, vigorous and free flowering. Easy to grow plants. Brilliant colours in a range of reds, pinks, orange, salmon, yellow and cream.
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Chives – Garlic Chives
aka Chinese chives (Allium tuberosum) can be used the way you use regular chives. Distinguishable from chives by their flat, broader leaves & fragrant white edible flowers in midsummer, in the 2nd year of growth. Flowers make a great addition to bouquets. The budded flower stalks known as "gow choy" can be found in Chinese grocery stores.
Pull the florets apart and sprinkle on salads, dips, sauces, soups, stir-fries, and pizza & potato salad. Flavour is a delicate garlic, midway between garlic & onion - used extensively in oriental dishes. Good choice for those who shy away from full-flavoured garlic.
Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)
Chives have a unique, spicy flavour that's somewhere between the taste of garlic and onions in both the leaves and flowers. A relative of onions and leeks, but classified as an herb with tall, dark green, slender leaves that are hollow inside. The beautiful pale purple blooms made of tiny flower clusters are edible too.
Not only a cinch to start growing, they’re a perennial herb (zones 3 -10) —meaning they will grow in your garden for years!
Used as a garnish mostly, the promising health benefits of these alliums suggest adding them into your diet more often!
Coriander/Cilantro – ‘Caribe’
Dense bunches of aromatic dark green leaves on long-standing, bolt-tolerant plants. A lovely cilantro with nice big meaty leaves with a nice, fresh, strong flavour. High yielding over an extended period of time. Plants produce flowers that are attractive to beneficial insects.
In this part of the world tend to call the leaves cilantro and the dried seeds coriander.
Cucumber – ‘Salt & Pepper ‘
(Cucumis sativus)The most delicious crunchy cucumber I've eaten! The sweeter, smoother little sister of Silver Slicer, Salt & Pepper has Powdery Mildew as well as Angular Leaf Spot resistance, best suited for eating fresh and pickling. Small, squat, and cylindrical, roughly 7-12 cm long. Its outer skin is thin and white (pale green) with bumps and black spikes.
approx 40 seeds
Dianthus – ‘Sweet William Mix’
(Dianthus Barbatus) So beautiful! The array of colours, including white, pink and bi-colour varieties are so charming! An irresistible, colourful, biennial, or short-lived perennial, flower with single or double blooms , blooming most profusely in the spring and summer. The plants require minimal care & give lovely, low-maintenance colour to borders, beds and containers. The flowers are edible and may have medicinal properties. Attracts bees, birds, and butterflies.
Dianthus ‘Holborn Glory’
(Dianthus Barbatus) Heirloom Sweet William with striking bi-colour flowers - raspberry-red and pure white, blooming most profusely in the spring and summer. The plants require minimal care & give lovely, low-maintenance colour to borders, beds and containers. The flowers are edible and may have medicinal properties. Attracts bees, birds, and butterflies.
Fennel ‘Bronze Leaf’
Foeniculum vulgare dulce 'Rubrum' Elegant, copper lacy foliage bursts with delightful anise flavour & aroma.
Perennial. Host for the Swallowtail butterfly, long lasting, fragrant filler in bouquets. Ebible, tasting like anise (leaves and seeds) & medicinal. What more could you ask for?!
Similar in appearance to dill. The smokey bronze colour contrasting beautifully with the mustard yellow blooms. An aromatic herb that attracts beneficial insects!
If you follow author/flower farmer/florist Georgie Newbury at Common Farm Flowers in England you will know this is one of her favourite fillers too!
