Suttons is proud to launch its seed range for 2025, featuring fabulous new flowers and new vegetables to inspire UK gardeners to grow deliciously different varieties.
Flower Seed Range Highlights
Calendula ‘Double Lemon’
Calendula officinalis – Hardy Annual
With a unique pale lemon colour, dwarf Calendula variety ‘Double Lemon‘ has a neat and bushy habit, making it perfect for edging beds or in container displays
Large and abundant double and semi-double blooms are borne on reliable, easy to grow plants, which thrive on almost any soil.
Delphinium ‘Hunky Dory Mix’ F1
Delphinium grandiflorum – Hardy Perennial
Germinating more readily than older types, ‘Hunky Dory Mix‘ is a vigorous F1 hybrid, which excels by flowering earlier and more prolifically over a longer period.
This dwarf perennial forms ultra-branched plants, producing multiple shorter flower stems for continuous blooms all summer long.
The large blooms open in three harmonising colours – rich blue, sky-blue and white – on compact plants ideal for the front of borders or containers.
Nasturtium ‘Baby Yellow’
Tropaeolum minus – Hardy Annual
The pale-yellow blooms of Nasturtium ‘Baby Yellow’ are complemented by dark-green foliage – the size of the flowers pleasingly matching its lily-pad-like leaves.
Demonstrating excellent heat tolerance, Nasturtium ‘Baby Yellow’ is petite and mounding, so won’t flop, for abundant blooms even in the hottest of summers.
Vegetable Seed Range Highlights
Broccoli ‘Beneforte’ F1
Brassica oleracea var. italica
This ‘superbroccoli’ tastes great and supports well-being with every bite!
Bred by UK scientists to contain high levels of a key plant nutrient, glucoraphanin, ‘Beneforte‘ is a health-boosting variety that may protect against heart disease and some cancers.
Looking and tasting like any other broccoli but with a secret superpower, ‘Beneforte’ is a cross between commercial varieties and wild broccoli.
Developed from publicly-funded research at two of the UK’s world-leading biological research institutes, the Quadram Institute and the John Innes Centre, ‘Beneforte’ is an exciting breakthrough in understanding the role of broccoli and other similar vegetables in promoting health.
Sweetcorn ‘Sweet Start’ F1
Zea mays
Sutton’s earliest sweetcorn yet, ‘Sweet Start‘ F1 boasts plenty of hybrid vigour and is perfect to grow in the British climate.
Produces tender cobs, with kernels far sweeter than any you can purchase from the supermarket, capture the sugars by cooking cobs immediately after harvesting – delicious to barbecue, steam or boil and slather with butter.
Tomato ‘Fraise’
Solanum lycopersicum – Cordon/Indeterminate
Choose Tomato ‘Fraise‘ for a heart-shaped harvest that resists cracking and fruit drop, plus boasts an incredible shelf life after picking.
‘Fraise’ is vigorous and high-yielding, producing lots of long cascading trusses, each bearing approximately 16 glossy tomatoes. The deep-red, soft-skinned fruits have a firm texture and sensational sweet flavour, rating 8 to 10 on the Brix scale.
Squash Kabocha ‘Rosie’ F1
Cucurbita maxima
Offering pretty pink fruits adorned with a subtle blue star on the base, plus sweet, nutty flesh, Squash ‘Rosie’ both looks and tastes great!
Each 1.3-1.8kg fruit has long storage potential of up to 6 months and contains dense flesh that is perfect for roasting, stewing and for soups.
Climbing French Bean ‘Vine’
Phaseolus vulgaris
From the breeder of ‘Cobra’ and with the same quality and flavour assured, ‘Vine‘ additionally offers an extended cropping period for even bigger harvests of slightly glossy and darker pods.
A space-saving French climbing bean, ‘Vine’ produces up to double the crops of ‘Cobra’, so growers can enjoy sweet, tender, 14-16cm long pods from June right through to October.
Cucumber ‘Quick Snack’ F1
Cucumis sativus
Greenhouse/Outdoor Type
Grow ‘Quick Snack‘ on your windowsill and get the convenience of 5-6cm long cocktail-sized cucumbers at your fingertips
A game-changing Cucumber, ‘Quick Snack’ is the result of a breeding breakthrough, with petite 50-60cm plants perfect for compact spaces.
This parthenocarpic variety sets fruit without the need for pollination, so growers can enjoy seedless, non-bitter cucumbers that never fail due to lack of pollination.
For further information or images of any of Suttons’ products please contact us at pr@suttons.co.uk.
Last Updated on November 11, 2024 by Suttons Horticultural Team
