In recent years many people have had problems ‘setting’ runner beans due to poor weather conditions and a shortage of bees. Runner Bean Moonlight has been bred to counter this problem. It produces masses of white flowers with excellent self-pollination characteristics, flowering even in poor weather or high temperatures. So you can look forward to a bumper crop of smooth, stringless pods, with a flavour that is simply delicious! You can buy 10 pot ready plants for £9.95, they’ll be delivered in mid May but it’s not too late to plant seeds. This weekend we’re also offering a free pack of Runner Bean Moonlight seeds worth £2.99 when you spend £10.00 or more on seeds at suttons.co.uk.
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Bank holiday seed offer
Apr 30
If you’ve ever tried to grow Perennial Sweet Peas, you’ll know that they are generally not very fragrant, most unlike their annual cousins. Sweet Pea Lord Anson is an honourable exception to this rule: a lavender-blue Sweet Pea that is delightfully fragranced.
We’ve currently got this on special offer, just £3.95 for 5 pot ready plants with any order. Why not give them a try this summer?
It can be difficult to grow good carrots in heavy clay soil or in soils that are compacted or stony. Our simple-to-use growing pouches will ensure you a bumper crop from your patio – you can start harvesting in as little as 10 weeks! The secret? Our specially prepared “primed” carrot seeds have undergone a pre-germination process used by the best commercial growers ensuring that they start growing more quickly, guaranteeing you a better crop.
The kit contains 3 Growing Pouches and 1 pack of Primed Carrot seed (Norwich variety). Give it a try and let us know how you get on!
10 Pinks for just £6.00
Jan 22
If you like scented plants that flower and flower, these pinks are for you!Dianthus Doris – scented double pale pink flowers with darker pink centres and silver green foliage. Long flowering – right through the summer and longer if deadheaded. Hardy. Height 40cm (16″). Flowers July-September.
Dianthus Cranmere Pool - large headed pink, with double palest pink flowers with magenta eye. Great for cut flowers with a delicate perfume. Long flowering and fully hardy. Height 25cm (10″). Flowers July-September.
For everyone who loves a beautiful garden, there’s always room for perennials! Perennials are the plants that truly keep on giving. They’re also a cost effective way to brighten your garden year after year and whether in borders or patio containers, they will delight you with their stunning shapes and colours. The more you plant, the more dazzling the display will be.
This collection includes 19 plants of of 8 different perennials.
Geranium Himalayense Plenum – A stunning double geranium with ruffled flowers of striking purple and red.
Eucomis Twinkle Stars - It’s a dwarf variety with a very short flower stem that appears in July and can flower till the end of August.
Sisyrinchum Sapphire - This jewel of a plant will look beautiful drifting across a border, sparkling in a patio container or brightening a rockery, its sapphire blue flowers with yellow eyes nestling amongst emerald green foliage.
Arisarum Proboscideum - The uniquely shaped flowers are a lustrous brown with a white throat that tapers to a long, curled ‘tail’!
Helleborus Orientalis Tutu - With a pleated anemone-like centre, its deeper pink petals with lighter picoteed edges surround golden stamens.
Epimedium Orange Queen - The pretty heart-shaped evergreen foliage – young leaves can be blushed red – is a wonderful foil for the dancing, pale copper orange flowers.
Rudbeckia Hirta Cherry Brandy - The bright cherry red flowers are ideal for attracting butterflies into your garden and are also superb as a cut flower.
Ascelpias Tuberosa - A very popular long flowering perennial with bright orange flowers borne on sturdy stems.
Buy 2 Hydrangeas, Get 1 Free
Nov 20
To achieve a stunning display in your garden for years to come, don’t miss this offer: hydrangeas are useful in any garden as they are excellent as specimen plants, in group plantings, in a border or in containers. Vigorous, spreading to upright, these deciduous ‘paniculata’ with conical panicles are some of the most reliable hydrangeas and will also provide an eye-catching show of colour. We have chosen for you three of the best – choose your favourite or buy Pinky Winky and Limelight and get the exquisite Vanilla Fraise FREE!
Well I am here to extol the virtues of the Suttons Mushroom kits! I love them!! 
I bought one of these (Portobello) for my partners birthday and we planted it up on the 27th September (I say planted.. all we had to do was open the bag of soil and tip it out, not really rocket science! ) and with great expectations but a little doubt sprayed it with water and put it into our utility room. The doubt was only because we have bought kits in the past and not had a single solitary fungi in sight!
Every other day found me peering in with excitement hoping to see a mushroom or two and spraying the surface with water to keep it damp. The utility room isn’t particularly dark, nor warm but it was the only place we could think of to keep the crate. There is no truth in the rumours that I talked to my kit to encourage lots of growing!
And then – only two weeks later, on the 19th October there they were! The tiniest baby mushrooms I have ever seen! Cue much celebration in Diva land as we both had to have our photographs taken with said mushys and I have to admit I even rang a friend to share the fun with! (I am reading this and realising what a sad life I must have.. *chuckles*)
Then on the 25th Oct they looked like real mushrooms and finally on the 30th we had 4 to 5 inch portobello mushrooms just ready for eating! MUCH happiness chez Diva and we put some in the oven with some knobs of garlic butter (garlic grown by us this year) and a pile of grated cheese. Unfortunately we did over cook them and they looked rather like someone had stepped on them but they tasted great, still had a really meaty texture and earthy flavour. And under the big ones there are more tiny baby ones waiting to come up. I am in mushroom heaven.
Now I can assure you I do not work for Suttons but I took a look at the website and these kits are now only £12.95 each or a tenner if you buy two and I cannot recommend them highly enough. Kids would love it cos you only have to wait two weeks for results and then you are eating them in a month. There is also a choice of four different mushrooms to grow, so order now I say!
If you want to see my very artistic slide show of the mushroom experience from start to finish just click HERE! (Ok, it isn’t artistic but it IS a slide show!)
Diva.x
Autumn is the best time for planting fruit trees: the soil is both warm and moist, – the perfect environment for a young tree, allowing it to become established in its new home very quickly. When next spring comes around your fruit tree will be strong and secure, producing outstanding blossoms with delicious fruit following later in the year. No matter what size your garden, there’s always a space for a tree and many fruit trees can be grown in containers. It’s also a unique way to send someone special a memorable Christmas gift which will give years of pleasure if not giving immediately.
That’s why we’ve added this range of bargain fruit trees for just £10 each. Choose from Eating Apple Jonagold, Plum President, Cherry Sasha, Pear Burre Hardy and Cooking Apple Howgate Wonder.
Incredible – you can now grow three different varieties of apple or pear on 1 tree that’s small enough to fit on your patio! Three specially selected fruit varieties have been hand grafted to a compact rootstock and then grown on in a specialist nursery to create the highest quality multi cropping trees.
Called Family Trees, these plants will thrive in the smallest of gardens and even in a large container on your patio – and the three fruits mean a bigger and longer harvest. You can enjoy the full beauty of apple blossoms in spring before the rewards of a bumper harvest without a large garden or orchard.
These exquisite miniature daffodils will bring colour and beauty in early spring. The prestigious Tete-a-Tete is one of the most popular dwarf varieties- the deep golden yellow flowers are among the earliest to appear in Spring with each stem bearing up to 3 blooms! Due to its ease of culture, perfect form, vigour and prolific bloom, it will be a perfect choice to brighten up your patio, terrace, hanging baskets and rockery. This great value offer contains 15 daffodils and an ornamental plastic terracotta pot for only £1.99 with a fantastic saving of £8.00! All you need to do is add compost, water occasionally and wait!
