Versatile new varieties to fill your plot & plate next year
Thompson & Morgan is proud to launch its fantastic new fruit and vegetable seed range for 2024, including heart-shaped cherry tomatoes, fast-growing chillies, black-coloured peppers, sweeter-tasting broccoli and super-sized basil.
New range highlights 2024
A tasty tomato to steal your heart with its looks & flavour
Tomato ‘Heartbreakers Vita’ F1
Tomato ‘Heartbreakers Vita’ F1
Solanum lycopersicum Bush/Determinate
‘Heartbreakers Vita’ boasts beautiful heart-shaped fruit – a shape that’s fully revealed when the cherry-sized fruits are halved for salads and garnishes.
Sweet & juicy This productive little bush tomato plant variety has excellent vigour, producing masses of juicy fruits with tender skins and a great, sweet taste rating 8 on the Brix scale.
Great for patio pots Reaching a height of just 50cm, this petite plant is perfect for growing in patios, pots, window boxes and in the greenhouse on staging.
Tomato ‘Heartbreakers Vita’ F1
Sow: February to April Harvest: July to October Height: 50cm (20in) Spread: 35cm (14in)
Tomato ‘Heartbreakers Vita’ F1 Code: KF2515 6 Seeds £3.49
A hot chilli with a Scoville Rating of 40,000 SHU, ‘Quick Fire’ is the fastest UK variety currently available, maturing in as little as 65 days from sowing.
Edible & ornamental
‘Quick Fire’ is an ornamental variety, bearing conical chillies that grow with an upward habit as they mature from green to red, with fruiting that can continue for up to three months.
Compact & perfect for windowsill growing
This compact chilli is great for growing in smaller spaces, thriving in containers and even on small windowsills. It’s ideal for year-round growing indoors in a sunny spot or in a heated glasshouse – simply sow successionally from January to June.
Chilli Pepper ‘Quick Fire’ F1
Sow: February to April Plant: May June Harvest: July to October Height and spread: 15cm (6in)
Chilli Pepper ‘Quick Fire’ F1 Code: KF2499 6 Seeds £3.99
Upright and bushy, pepper ‘Mamba Sweet’ forms attractive plants that are perfect for growing in large containers or in the greenhouse or polytunnel, with unsual black peppers that ripen to bright red.
Easy to see and pick, plants produce masses of sweet and crunchy peppers that point downwards when they ripen.
Sow: March to April Harvest: July to October Height: 80cm (32in) Spread: 50cm (20in)
A sweeter-tasting cross between calabrese & stem broccoli
Broccoli (Easy Floret) ‘Skytree’ F1
Broccoli (Easy Floret) ‘Skytree’ F1
Brassica oleracea L. convar. botrytis (L.) Alef. var. cymosa Duch.
A cross between calabrese and stem broccoli, ‘Skytree F1’ has a sweeter flavour, with well-segmented heads that are easy to divide into florets in the kitchen.
Quick maturing & easy to harvest
‘Skytree’ is a quick maturing variety, ready to harvest 65-75 days after sowing. Easy to harvest, a large head rises above a strong, mostly leafless stem for quick picking. Heads are uniform, with minimal yellow halo on the florets compared to other varieties.
Sow: March to June Harvest: July to November Height and spread: 60cm (24in)
Broccoli (Easy Floret) ‘Skytree’ F1 Code: KF2517 15 Seeds £3.99
Basil (Lettuce Leaved) ‘Sally’ Copyright: Rob Smith’s Allotment
Basil (Lettuce Leaved) ‘Sally’
Ocimum basilicum
Basil ‘Sally’ boasts big leaves with the same soft texture and intense, clove-like flavour as their smaller cousins. Their large size makes them perfect for wrapping around meat, fish or veg before barbecuing or roasting.
A highly ornamental edible
A lovely addition for the ‘Potager’, herb garden or summer containers, this large ‘lettuce-leaved’ variety produces softly crinkled leaves flushed with dark purple. The fabulously fragrant foliage looks great growing alongside hot-coloured annuals like as Calendula.
Sow: February to June Harvest: June to October Height: 45cm (18in) Spread: 30cm (12in)
Discover new vegetable seeds at Thompson & Morgan including exciting varieties of tomatoes, chillies, brassicas and herbs. With innovative improvements in taste, look and resilience, these new veg seeds will invigorate next season’s harvest.
Lilac is a quintessential cottage garden shrub, ranging in size from large ‘standard’ specimen lilac trees to compact bushes for growing in patio pots. It comes in a fantastic range of colours and has a lovely scent, making it a fabulous feature for every garden. These tough and undemanding shrubs burst into bloom every spring and need very little attention. They’re also wonderful for wildlife, with nectar-rich blooms that attract pollinating insects.
Learn how to grow low-maintenance lilacs with this handy guide. And browse our full range of lilac shrubs for inspiration.
T&M is proud to announce that four of our new flowering plants have been shortlisted for the RHS Chelsea Plant of the Year 2023 award and will be judged at the show on 22nd May. All plants are available to view in the floral marquee during the event!
T&M’s Shortlisted Plant of the Year Varieties
Hydrangea serrata ‘Euphoria Pink’
Hydrangea serrata ‘Euphoria Pink’
The first Hydrangea serrata that’s all about stunning foliage AND flowers!
The striking tricolour foliage of this handsome Hydrangea flushes vibrant pink, white and green each spring. As the pink fades, unique lacecap-style blooms burst from pale pink buds into two-tone red flowers with pale centres.
Ideal for pots, containers & borders
This easy to grow shrub is ideal for moisture-retentive but well-drained soil in sun or shade and is hardy down to -20C.
The latest in Hydrangea breeding
‘Euphoria Pink’ was discovered in a long-term Japanese breeding programme with rooted cuttings sent to Osco Garden BV in Aalsmeer, The Netherlands. Van Son & Koot Nursery BV from Kaatsheuvel / Netherlands rooted cuttings under license and prepared the plants for the show.
Exhibited in partnership with Stonebarn Landscapes, stand GPF090, and Mr. Nagasaki T. from Japan representing Osco Garden BV, Aalsmeer/Netherlands.
Hydrangea serrata ‘Euphoria Pink’ foliage detail
Hydrangea serrata ‘Euphoria Pink’
Flowers: June to September Height and spread: 120cm.
Larger and longer-lasting blooms produced in profusion!
‘Black Jack’ offers bigger flowers and more blooms through the season. This amazing Agapanthus produces 10 times as many florets per flowerhead for a flowering season twice as long as its competitors.
The “must have” Agapanthus for a striking display
Easy to grow and heat tolerant, ‘Black Jack’ boasts strong vigour and a striking presence in borders and containers. Large flowerheads are filled with black buds that open to deep black-purple striped blooms – these fade to deep purple and take on a dazzling metallic sheen with age.
A unique variety from 20 years of breeding
De Wet Plant Breeders, South Africa, set out to produce disease resistant, vigorous, heat-tolerant and multi-flowering cultivars and a black cultivar was always high on the wish list. 17 years into the program, they finally got “the one”! ‘Black Jack’ is a unique Agapanthus that’s the result of years of dedicated hybridised breeding.
Agapanthus ‘Black Jack’ is exhibited in partnership with Sparsholt College, stand GPA008.
Agapanthus ‘Black Jack’
Agapanthus ‘Black Jack’
Flowers: July to September Height: 80cm. Spread: 70cm
Tradescantia ‘JS® Brainstorm’ produces masses of blooms with a high flower count per flower head for an eye-catching display. Dark purple buds open to reveal large magenta-purple blooms with prominent bright golden anthers with fluffy filaments.
The longest-flowering Tradescantia – enjoy flowers for 6 months!
Flowering continuously over an astonishing six months from June to November, ‘JS® Brainstorm’ blooms for two months longer than most other Tradescantia.
Selected from a long-term Tradescantia breeding programme
‘JS® Brainstorm’ was initially selected for its purple foliage and subsequently for its large flowers, number of flowers per umbel and long flowering period. This easy-care perennial is versatile, low-maintenance and hardy to -30C.
Tradescantia ‘JS® Brainstorm’ is exhibited in partnership with Hare Spring Cottage Plants, stand GPD065.
Tradescantia JS®Brainstorm flower detail
Tradescantia andersoniana JS® ‘Brainstorm’ PBR
Flowers: June to November Height: 50cm. Spread: 40cm
‘Camouflage’ is a stunning compact Weigela with variegated bright green and dark black/green foliage. These petite plants become smothered with bright ruby-red funnel-shaped flowers borne on aching stems in May and June, attracting pollinators to the garden.
Sensational for small spaces
Weigela ‘Camouflage’ is a deciduous, low-maintenance, fully hardy shrub that’s perfect for small gardens and container growing. Grow in a sunny or semi-shaded position, in any well-drained soil.
From T&M’s own breeding programme
Our Weigela breeding programme began in 2008 with the aim of producing compact plants with fabulous, coloured foliage, which are ideal for any size of garden. The programme continued until 2018, when selections were made from stock in the field and ‘Camouflage’ is the first in a series with variegated foliage.
Weigela ‘Camouflage’ is exhibited in partnership with Stonebarn Landscapes, stand GPF090.
The RHS Chelsea Plant of the Year award celebrates the new and exciting plants launched at the show and the prestige of winning is recognised worldwide. RHS Chelsea is the ideal global platform for the launch of new plants, which often go on to be bestsellers!
The judges will be looking for the winning criteria, which includes the following:
Innovation
The plant must be genuinely new and offer significant benefits within those features. This will outweigh a new colour on an existing plant for example.
Appeal
Will the plant stand the test of time? It will need to sustain its popularity to secure a place with those of true significance.
Excellence and impact
Judges (and gardeners) will be looking for the “wow” factor.
The judging panel is comprised of industry experts with a wealth of knowledge and passion who come together, volunteering their time, to make the incredibly tough decision on the winning plant.
New 2023 Flowering Plants Range
The plants featured are only a small selection of the new flowering plants on offer and the full range is available to browse and buy online.
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