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TOUCHWOOD

SEED-LIST 2008

Last year's seeds 

 

 

 

 

 Follow this link for current seed of  aquilegias

 

List of vegetable seeds

Link for seeds as wedding favours

Here is the list of this years seeds

Link for sowing information, including sowing ferns

Scroll down for list of all other seeds

Below I list spare seeds from Touchwood or from swaps/purchases from 2007.

None appear in this year’s main seedlist.

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:

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.

 

 

 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!!

 

Payment is by cheque, payable to 'Touchwood Plants'. You may also choose to pay by card, which can ONLY be done through email and the Paypal secure site. Email me which seeds you want, I'll check availability, let you know and send an electronic invoice.  And, yes, of course you may also use Paypal if you have an account.

 

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