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New products at Suttons Seeds

by Sarah - November 16th, 2013.
Filed under: New Products, Suttons Seeds.

Suttons Seeds just added these new products

Seed Tin & Sweet Pea Seed Collection

Seed Tin & Sweet Pea Seed Collection £9.99
Seed Tin – Keep your seed packets safe in this seed tin which is based on an original cover design from our historic catalogue archives, we think it’s a real collectors item!PLUS five packets of Sweet Pea seed (1 of each variety):Albutt Blue – Elegant and unusual pale-lavender-blue flowers on a white background, very strong scent and long stems make this an ideal sweet pea for cutting and for showing. Bred by Harry Albutt and named in his honour. HA – Hardy annual. Height 1.8m (6′).Noel Sutton – A traditional sweet pea variety that still takes some beating. These sweet pea seeds produce large mid-blue scented flowers. Height 1.8m (6′)St George – Fly the flag! A special blend of rich red and white Spencer types (large flowered). Height 1.8m (6′).Prince of Orange – A re-selected heirloom variety producing masses of relatively small blooms of striking orange with a light fragrance. Some flowers have a flash of bright pink. Stunning! Height 1.8m (6′).Lady Turrell – Wow! A modern grandiflora type with small-medium sized, strongly fragrant blooms of magenta with a lilac- coloured wing petal. Height 1.8m (6′).

Seed Tin & Fast Flower Seed Collection

Seed Tin & Fast Flower Seed Collection £9.99
Seed Tin – Keep your seed packets safe in this seed tin which is based on an original cover design from our historic catalogue archives, we think it’s a real collectors item! PLUS five packets of Fast Flower seed (1 of each variety):Phlox Delight Mix – Large, stunning blooms in a popular mixture over a long period. Attractive to butterflies. Height 20cm (8).Stock Night Scented Evening Fragrance – Pastel coloured blooms giving a delicious evening scent. Height 30cm (12).Pansy F1 Summer Glow Mix – A beautiful large-flowered mixture, in a range of dazzling shades, all with distinctive dark faces. Height 15-23cm (6-9).Candytuft Fantasia Mix – Colourful border plant for spring or autumn sowing. Height 15cm (6).Alyssum Golf Mix – This superb edging plant with dark foliage makes a good contrast with bright flowers. Height 25cm (10).

Seed Tin & Unusual Seed Colletion

Seed Tin & Unusual Seed Colletion £9.99
Seed Tin – Keep your seed packets safe in this seed tin which is based on an original cover design from our historic catalogue archives, we think it’s a real collectors item! PLUS five packets of unusual seed (1 of each variety):Ornamental Rice – Easy-to-grow, long-lived plants bearing narrow leaves in shades of green to deep purple. Origin – Southern Asia. Height 40cm (16). HHA – Half hardy annual.Ornamental Corn – Zea means cause of life, and mays our mother. Maize originated in Central America. Legend tells how it was first discovered in a mountain by small animals. The gods opened the mountain with a thunderbolt to let in the humans. This turned the white maize yellow, red and blue. White kernels represent the sky and black the earth. In some traditional cultures blue corn is said to be the most sacred and red the most powerful. Asarina – This beautiful climber has exquisite snapdragon-like flowers. Watch how its sensitive leaf stalks cling to supports. As it originates in southern USA and Mexico, it is best grown as an annual in the conservatory, greenhouse or in a container on a sunny patio. It also looks great trailing from hanging baskets.Bell Vine – This Mexican climber has sensitive leaf stalks which twine round any convenient support. Best grown as an annual, it does well in a conservatory, up a sunny wall or trailing down from a basket. The name comes from Rhodo, meaning red, and Chiton, a cloak, referring to the stunning flowers.Cobaea – Bring a bit of tropical America into your garden with the cup and saucer vine, also called cathedral bells. This woody peren-nial looks great up a sunny wall, pergola or fence. In chillier areas treat as an annual or bring inside in a pot over winter.

Seed Tin & Bedding Seed Collection

Seed Tin & Bedding Seed Collection £9.99
Seed Tin – Keep your seed packets safe in this seed tin which is based on an original cover design from our historic catalogue archives, we think it’s a real collectors item! PLUS five packets of bedding seed (1 of each variety):Calendula Lemon Zest – Dwarf, well branched, quick-growing plants that are ideal for pots and tubs as well as summer bedding. The plants had one of the longest flowering periods of calendulas in our trials, and were very weather hardy too! Ideal for cutting. Easy to grow – ideal for beginners. The brightly coloured flowers are cheerful in borders whatever the weather. HA – Hardy annual. Height 20cm (8). Lupin Pink Fairy – Attractive and unusual, small bicoloured white flowers with rose-red guard petals (that deepen in colour with age) contrast with the attractive light green cut foliage. A good bedding or filler plant. HA – Hardy annual. Height 60cm (2′). (Seeds/plants harmful if eaten.)Marigold (French) Mowgli Orange – Dazzling deep gold flowers with an orange base petal. Their branching habit produces many blooms over a long period. Height 15-18cm (6-7). HHA – Half-hardy annual. Nasturtium Little Gem Mix – A real treasure. Very easily grown, versatile plants, flowering freely throughout the summer. Happiest in free-draining soil in sunny positions, they can be used to cover banks, fences and hedges. HA – Hardy annual. Height 23-30cm (9-12). Convulvulus minor Blue Ensign – Take refuge from the summer heat in the soothingly cool blue, white centred, flowers of Blue Ensign. It makes a superb ground cover. Easy to grow. Large flowers throughout the summer. At the end of the season plants die, and no roots remain to grow again. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. HA – Hardy annual. Height 30-35cm (12-14).

Seed Tin & Climbing F1 Seed Collection

Seed Tin & Climbing F1 Seed Collection £9.99
Seed Tin – Keep your seed packets safe in this seed tin which is based on an original cover design from our historic catalogue archives, we think it’s a real collectors item! PLUS five packets of Climbing F1 seed (1 of each variety):Ipomoea Inkspots – An enchanting new ipomoea of these popular, fast-growing climbers, producing a glorious display of large, trumpet-shaped blooms in a range of blue shades, overlaid with deep rose markings. An easy to grow climber reaching 2.4-3m (8-10′). Beautiful on a sunny wall, or in a cool greenhouse. Thrives in poor soils! HHA – Half-hardy annual. Seeds/plants harmful if eaten.Nasturtium Jewel of Africa – Will clothe a sunny fence or trellis with its attractive cream and green foliage and vibrant flowers. Can also be used for ground cover, pots and patio containers. Climbing, single-flowered variety. HA – Hardy annual. Height 180cm (6′). Bell Vine (Rhodochiton) – Beautiful bell-shaped blooms of deep salmon with a purple central tube. Ideal against a wall or fence. Also looks good trailing from hanging baskets. A popular fast-growing climber for the greenhouse or sunny, sheltered spot outdoors. GP – Greenhouse perennial. Height 180-240cm (6-8′). Sweet Pea Pinata – A large and early-flowering sweet pea with fully frilled blooms in a jazzy mixture of oranges, purples and white. British bred, it boasts long, strong stems that are ideal for cutting.Canary Creeper – A quick covering for tall fences, trellis work and sunny walls, growing up to 3-3.6m (10-12′). Bright yellow flowers in summer. An attractive climber.

Seed Tin & Perennial Seed Collection

Seed Tin & Perennial Seed Collection £9.99
Seed Tin – Keep your seed packets safe in this seed tin which is based on an original cover design from our historic catalogue archives, we think it’s a real collectors item! PLUS five packets of perennial seed (1 of each variety):Scabious Pin Cushion Mix – Good range of bright colours. Can be sown in September for flowers April-June the following year. Flowers in dense domed heads on long wiry stems. Simple, very attractive border plants and good for cutting. HA – Hardy annual. Height 90cm (3′). Cyclamen Sweet Scented Mix – Early flowering in an appealing range of colours. A widely grown winter-flowering pot-plant. Neat, decorative foliage, some varieties marbled silver. GP – Greenhouse perennial. Height 30cm (12). Campanula Tiny Bells – A beautiful campanula producing bushy plants with finely cut foliage, smothered in masses of delicate, mauve, five-petalled flowers. Ideal for patio containers, borders or rockeries. HP – Hardy perennial. Height 25cm (10). Beautiful plants producing shapely bells year-after-year. Anemone Sweetheart Mix – These small corms (pips) produce large single blooms in a wide range of bright colours. A glowing mixture of crimson, scarlet, cerise, mauve, blue and white. HP – Hardy perennial. Height 25cm (10). Lupin Pink Fairy – Attractive and unusual, small bicoloured white flowers with rose-red guard petals (that deepen in colour with age) contrast with the attractive light green cut foliage. A good bedding or filler plant. HA – Hardy annual. Height 60cm (2′). (Seeds/plants harmful if eaten.)

Seed Tin & Patio Seed Collection

Seed Tin & Patio Seed Collection £9.99
Seed Tin – Keep your seed packets safe in this seed tin which is based on an original cover design from our historic catalogue archives, we think it’s a real collectors item! PLUS five packets of patio seed (1 of each variety):Cineraria Spring Glory – Early-flowering dwarf plants producing large flowers in a good colour range. Easy to grow spring-flowering pot plants for house and greenhouse. Daisy flowers in varying sizes and in many different colours. GB – Greenhouse biennial. Height 20-25cm (8-10). Calendula Fiesta Gitana – Compact plants producing double flowers in a richly coloured mixture. Easy to grow – ideal for beginners. The brightly coloured flowers are cheerful in borders whatever the weather. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. HA – Hardy annual. Height 30cm (12). Calceolaria F1 Bubblegum Mix – A high quality, great value calceolaria, with large, exotic-looking, balloon-like flowers, in a bright mixture of colours. The compact habit means less foliage damage. Spring flowering pot plants for conservatory or greenhouse. Can also be flowered for Christmas/New Year. GB – Greenhouse biennial. Height 20cm (8). Sweet Pea Bounce Mix – Unlike most sweet peas these are much bushier, sturdier plants with shorter but stronger flowering stems. They produce masses of flower stems on every plant, each one boasting up to 6 frilled blooms, and come in a host of vibrant colours, all deliciously scented. Height 60cm (2′).Sunflower Waooh! – A great value, easy-to-grow, multi-headed variety, producing masses of golden flowers with large, dark, central discs. The bushy plants are ideal for border or container, and were still blooming at the end of September in our trials. Height 80cm (32). HA – Hardy annual. Easy to grow. A real favourite with children. Flowers like very large daisies with brightly coloured petals.

Seed Tin & Wildlife Seed Collection

Seed Tin & Wildlife Seed Collection £9.99
Seed Tin – Keep your seed packets safe in this seed tin which is based on an original cover design from our historic catalogue archives, we think it’s a real collectors item! PLUS five packets of wildlife seed (1 of each variety):Sunflower Tall Yellow – Enormous flowers that are equally beloved by children and seed-eating birds. HA – Hardy annual.Honesty Mixed – Pretty purple and white flowers carried on robust, branching plants. Use the flat silvery seed pods in winter bouquets. Height 60cm (2′). HB – Hardy biennial.Buddlea Butterfly Mix – An easily grown shrub that will bloom year after year, producing flowers that are excellent for cutting and are nectar heaven for butterflies! HP – Hardy perennial.Lawn Mix – A mixture of colourful, low-growing wild flowers for sowing with standard lawn seed mixture. Includes harebell, cowslip, field poppy and wild thyme. To provide a varied and colourful display and attract a diverse range of wildlife. (Some mixtures may contain varieties which can be harmful if eaten.)Field Poppy – Poppies are simply delightful, their delicate heads dancing in the breeze. Field poppies are good in borders, and also for drying. Try poppy seeds sprinkled on bread, cakes and biscuits. Height 30-60cm (12-24).

Seed Tin & Wildlife Scented Seed Collection

Seed Tin & Wildlife Scented Seed Collection £9.99
Seed Tin – Keep your seed packets safe in this seed tin which is based on an original cover design from our historic catalogue archives, we think it’s a real collectors item! PLUS five packets of wildlife scented seed (1 of each variety):Cyclamen Sweet Scented Mix – Early flowering in an appealing range of colours. A widely grown winter-flowering pot-plant. Neat, decorative foliage, some varieties marbled silver. GP – Greenhouse perennial. Height 30cm (12). Sweet Pea Fragrant Skies – An attractive Spencer Sweet Pea with large, highly scented, with blooms in shades of blue mixture. Beautiful in the garden, but equally useful for flower arrangements and superb for showing. HA – Hardy annual. Height 1.8m (6′).Night Scented Stock Evening Fragrance – Pastel coloured blooms giving a delicious evening scent. Height 30cm (12).Fragrance Mix – A colourful mix of annuals and perennials, all deliciously scented! Height 75cm (30). Flowers in just 6 weeks.Phlox Delight Mix – Large, stunning blooms in a popular mixture over a long period. Attractive to butterflies. Height 20cm (8).