Perennial Spinach ( Perpetual Beta Vulgaris)

£5.00

Highly productive crop with larger, fleshier leaves than normal spinach,  perfect raw in salads.

16 in stock

Chinese Artichoke (Crosne - Stachys sieboldii) edible tuber

£6.00

A hardy, unusual root vegetable grown for its spiral-shaped tubers with a crisp texture and nutty flavour. Easy to grow and harvest in late autumn, Crosne thrives in most soils and adds interest to edible gardens or permaculture plots. The small, knobbly tubers (crosnes) can be eaten raw, cooked or pickled.

10 in stock

Asparagus plant / sold as crowns in autumn-winter (Connovers Colossal)

£6.00

A time-tested heirloom asparagus with tall, tender spears and excellent flavour. First introduced in the 1800s, this reliable variety produces thick green shoots with purplish tips, ideal for steaming, roasting, or adding fresh to spring dishes. Long-lived and productive, asparagus thrives in a sunny, well-drained spot and rewards patience with harvests for up to 20 years. Eventual height and spread 50cm. These are sold as crowns over the Autumn and Winter months.

4 in stock

Perennial tuber Helianthus maximiliani

£8.00

A stunning plant that also produces great food! Produces edible tubers (a perennial artichoke). A mass of sunflowers stand around 1 metre tall. Likes a well-draned soil; hardy to -30°C

4 in stock

Alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum)

£6.00

The young shoots, leaves, flower buds and roots are all edible, with a celery-like flavour; the seeds are peppery and can be ground as a condiment. Virtually evergreen over the winter and a very useful winter salad and cooking vegetable

2 in stock

Cardoon (Artichoke Italian Purple)

£8.00

A dramatic, architectural relative of the globe artichoke, with huge silvery, deeply cut leaves and towering purple thistle flowers. The blanched stems are a traditional Italian delicacy, while the plant itself makes a bold statement in any border.

1 in stock

Pack of 15 Bulbs: Wild Garlic (Allium ursinum0

£10.00

Wild Garlic fills the spring garden with lush green leaves and starry white flowers, all with a delicious, mild garlic flavour. A forager’s favourite, it’s perfect for pesto, soups, or salads—and bees adore the blooms!

1 in stock

Asparagus Kale (Daubenton's Kale)

£6.00

A remarkable perennial kale that rarely flowers, instead producing a steady, year-round supply of tender leaves from the same plant for years. Tough, reliable, and a genuine rarity in the modern vegetable patch.

Asturian Tree Cabbage (Brassica oleracea)

£7.00

A remarkable heirloom brassica from northern Spain, growing tall and woody over the years like a small palm tree while continually producing tender kale-like leaves. A genuine curiosity and a productive, long-lived addition to the perennial vegetable patch.

Babington Leek (Allium Ampeloprasum var Babingtonii)

£8.00

A useful and unusual perennial vegetable, Babington’s leek combines ornamental structure, edible value, and long-term productivity in a low-maintenance garden plant. Unlike cultivated leeks, Babington’s leek is a long-lived perennial that spreads gradually by bulbils and division, forming clumps over time. It thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, and is particularly well suited to coastal gardens, dry borders, and wildlife-friendly planting schemes due to its hardiness and tolerance of exposed conditions.

Beef & Onion plant (Chinese cedar) -Toona sinensis

£6.00

A medium sized deciduous tree from China, fast growing in most soils, even chalk. Cultivated in China for its edible young shoots and leaves which are cooked and have an onion/garlic flavour. Hardy to -35ºC

Earth Chestnut (Bunium bulbocastanum)

£7.00

A rare native umbellifer producing small, chestnut-flavoured tubers traditionally dug and eaten much like a nut. A quietly unusual addition to the forager's perennial vegetable patch.

Earthnut / Pignut (Conopodium majus)

£6.00

A delicate native woodland and meadow plant, long foraged for its small, nutty-flavoured tubers found a little way below the soil surface. A quiet, old-fashioned treat once popular with country children, and a true taste of the British hedgerow.

Earthnut Pea (Lathyrus tuberosus)

£6.00

A climbing perennial pea grown for its small, sweet, nutty-flavoured tubers as much as its fragrant pink flowers. A forgotten cottage garden crop, scrambling happily through other planting.

Fat Hen (Chenopodium album)

£6.00

A once-staple wild green and ancient grain crop, foraged and cultivated across Britain for thousands of years before spinach became common. Easy to grow, prolific, and a genuine taste of ancestral British food.

Florence Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare var. azoricum)

£5.00

A traditional culinary vegetable, Florence fennel combines ornamental foliage with an aromatic, aniseed flavour and a useful harvest. Unlike herb fennel, it is grown for its swollen, tender leaf bases, which form bulbs when given the right conditions. The feathery foliage is also edible and can be used fresh in salads, sauces and other dishes. It thrives in full sun and fertile, well-drained soil, making it a rewarding addition to kitchen gardens, productive borders and food forests.

Garlic Chives (Allium Tuberosum)

£6.00

A popular and easy-to-use perennial herb, garlic chives are simple to grow and need very little maintenance. The combination of a chive-like appearance and strong garlic flavor makes garlic chives a popular seasoning.

Good King Henry (Chenopodium bonus-henricus)

£6.00

A once-common cottage garden perennial green, grown for centuries as a reliable 'poor man's asparagus' and spinach substitute. Tough, shade-tolerant, and happy to be left undisturbed for years once established.

Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria)

£6.00

Also known as Bishop's Weed, it is a fast spreading perennial herb with edible leaves.

Jerusalem Artichoke or Sunchoke (Helianthus tuberosus)

£6.00

Grow your own delicious and versatile root veg with these easy-to-grow Jerusalem artichokes. A member of the sunflower family, this hardy perennial produces tall, cheerful yellow flowers in late summer and knobbly tubers underground that can be harvested from late autumn. The tubers have a sweet, nutty flavour and can be roasted, sautéed, or used in soups and mash as a low-carb alternative to potatoes. Once planted, they’ll come back year after year, spreading steadily to form a useful screen or windbreak.

Land Cress (Barbarea Verna)

£6.00

A hardy, peppery salad green similar in flavour to watercress but far easier to grow, cropping right through the colder months when little else is ready to pick. A reliable, low-maintenance addition to the perennial vegetable patch.

Malabar Spinach (Climbing or Ceylon Spinach) -Basella alba

£6.00

A more versatile alternative to spinach, suitable for hot and cold weather.

Marsh Samphire (Salicornia europaea)

£6.00

Also known as glasswort, a native saltmarsh succulent with crunchy, salty stems traditionally eaten steamed or pickled. Grows only in tidal mud and saltmarsh, giving it a genuinely wild, of-the-coast character.

Mashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum)

£7.00

A vigorous Andean climber related to the garden nasturtium, grown for its peppery, colourful tubers and cheerful orange-red flowers. A productive, ornamental addition to a sunny fence or trellis, best lifted after the first frosts.

Miners Lettuce ( Claytonia perfoliata)

£6.00

A mild, succulent salad green named for the Gold Rush miners who foraged it to ward off scurvy. Self-seeds readily in a shady, cool spot, providing fresh leaves through winter and early spring when little else is cropping.

Nine Star Perennial Broccoli (Brassica Oleracea Botrytis Asparagoides)

£6.00

A fast growing, hardy plant that produces one small central cauliflower-like head and a number of smaller broccoli-like spears in early spring.

Oca (Oxalis tuberosa)

£6.00

An Andean tuber crop producing colourful, knobbly tubers with a tangy, lemon-sorrel flavour. A low-maintenance, pest-resistant alternative to the potato, harvested after the first autumn frosts.

Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus)

£6.00

A heat-loving annual vegetable producing ridged, edible seed pods used in cuisines worldwide, from gumbo to curries. Best grown under cover or in a warm, sheltered spot in the UK climate.

Orpine (Sedum telephium Livelong)

£6.00

Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked and roots can be eaten cooked. Pretty pink flowers in Summer/Autumn.

Pack of 3 Sorrel plants (Rumex Acetosa)

£10.00

Adds variety to a salad, leaves taste a bit like apple. Just leave it in the ground and pick leaves when required.

Pack of 8: Welsh Onion (Allium fistulosum)

£10.00

Evergreen perennial onion that produces profuse clumps of bulblets which are pulled off the sides as needed for cooking. Very hardy.

Rampion (Campanula rapunculus)

£6.00

The plant that gave Rapunzel her name, grown since medieval times for its sweet, parsnip-like root and peppery young leaves. Spikes of lilac bellflowers make it as pretty in the border as it is useful in the kitchen.

Ramps (Allium tricoccum)

£7.00

A North American woodland allium, prized by foragers for its garlicky, onion-like leaves and bulbs that emerge each spring before the tree canopy closes over. A genuine delicacy, distinct from native UK ransoms, and slow to establish but long-lived once settled.

Red Orach (Atriplex hortensis var. rubra)

£6.00

A striking deep-red leafy annual, equally at home in a vegetable patch or an ornamental border. Young leaves have a mild, spinach-like flavour, while the vivid foliage colours up a salad bowl or a border alike.

Rock Samphire (Crithmum maritimum)

£6.00

A native coastal perennial with fleshy, aromatic leaves traditionally pickled or used fresh as a salty, savoury salad green. Thrives in free-draining, sandy soil and tolerates salt spray and poor conditions with ease.

Salsify (Tragopogon porrifolius)

£6.00

An old-fashioned root vegetable with a delicate, oyster-like flavour when cooked, topped with striking purple, star-shaped flowers in its second year. A genuine heirloom crop, rarely seen outside specialist growers.

Scorzonera (Scorzonera hispanica)

£6.00

Known as black salsify for its distinctive dark-skinned roots, with a subtle, earthy-sweet flavour beneath. A hardy, low-fuss root crop that can be left in the ground and lifted through winter as needed.

Sea kale / Sea cabbage (Crambe Maritima)

£6.00

A hardy perennial vegetable native to coastal areas, valued for both its ornamental foliage and edible shoots. In spring, it produces large, glaucous blue-green leaves with a bold, architectural form that makes it attractive in both kitchen gardens and ornamental planting schemes.

It thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, particularly sandy or free-draining conditions, and is highly tolerant of salt and drought once established. Mature plants develop deep roots and can live for many years with minimal maintenance.

Sea Purslane (Atriplex portulacoides)

£6.00

A native saltmarsh shrub with silvery, succulent leaves and a mild, salty flavour, traditionally foraged alongside rock samphire. Thrives in poor, salty soils where little else will grow, and tolerates drought with ease.

Set of 5 Potato Onion plants (Coral Mountain Allium cepa var. aggregatum)

£20.00

An heirloom multiplier onion, each bulb dividing into a cluster of new onions come harvest - plant once and you'll never be without a steady, self-renewing supply. A forgotten favourite of old cottage gardens, prized for its keeping qualities and mild, sweet flavour.

Skirret (Sium sisarum)

£6.00

A near-forgotten Tudor-era root vegetable, producing clusters of sweet, creamy-white roots with a flavour somewhere between carrot and parsnip. A hardy, low-maintenance perennial once a cottage garden staple.

Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas)

£6.00

A tender, trailing vine grown for its sweet, orange-fleshed tubers, usually raised as an annual in the UK from rooted slips. Needs a warm, sunny spot or polytunnel to crop well, but makes an attractive, vigorous foliage plant regardless.

Tree Purslane (Atriplex halimus)

£7.00

A silvery-leaved, salt-tolerant shrub whose mild, slightly salty leaves can be used much like spinach. Extremely drought tolerant once established and equally useful as an attractive, edible hedge.

Udo (Aralia cordata)

£7.00

A shade-tolerant Japanese perennial grown for its blanched young stems, prized in Japanese cuisine for their delicate, celery-like crunch. An unusual, low-maintenance addition to a woodland edge vegetable patch.

Ulluco (Ullucus tuberosus)

£7.00

A colourful Andean tuber crop with waxy, jewel-toned skins in shades of pink, yellow, and red. Easy to grow in cool conditions, with a crisp texture and mild flavour similar to a cross between potato and beetroot.

Water Chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis)

£8.00

An aquatic sedge grown for its crisp, sweet corms, a familiar ingredient in East and Southeast Asian cooking. Needs a sunny, boggy spot or shallow still water to crop well.

Yacon (Smallanthus sonchifolius)

£7.00

An Andean relative of the sunflower, grown for its large, juicy tubers with a sweet, refreshing flavour reminiscent of pear and apple. A tender perennial best lifted and stored over winter in the UK climate, much like a dahlia.