Illustrated List: Exotic Varieties Range

Exotic : Australian Honeysuckle (Banksia hookeriana)

Brilliant flame red cone-shaped heads often 15x10cm (6x4 inches). Cultivated extensively for cut flowers. Height: 60-180cm (2-6ft).

Exotic : Banana (Ensete ventricosum)

Decorative, huge leaves rivalling any expensive mature house plants. Grows 3ft in the first four months!

Exotic : Bat Plant (Tacca chantrierei)

In Malaya they call it the Devil's Flower and strange, fascinating stories surround it. Originating, no doubt, from the malevolent way the eyes in the bloom seem to be following your every move! It grows to about 2 feet in height with flowers complete with filaments or whiskers 12 inches long forming a flowing forked tail.

Exotic : Cactus Special Mixed

All sorts of easy to grow cacti all ideally suited to window sills, sun rooms or greenhouses.

Exotic : Chinese Tea Plant (Camellia sinansis)

Dried leaves are used to make the popular beverage. In the garden, this makes a fine shrub with lush foliage and cup-shaped, fragrant blooms.

Exotic : Flame Tree (Delonix regia)

Elegant tree with flame-red, striped blooms, also makes a great ferny foliage plant for indoors.

Exotic : Giant Viper's Bugloss (Echium pininana)

No wonder this is also called Tower of Jewels or 'Pride of Tenerife! Exceptionally tall flower spikes packed with either rose or purple-blue flowers, interspersed with silver-green lanceolate leaves.

Exotic : Glory Lily (Gloriosa superba)

A truly lovely climber with showy scarlet and yellow blooms with crimped petals. Few climbers can compare for brilliance or for their fantastic recurved flowers and unusual foliage. They are not difficult to manage and make very attractive pot plants for the sun room or cool greenhouse or even indoors, trained in a circle on a sunny windowsill. Flowers summer. Climber to 1.8m (6ft).

Exotic : Glory Pea (Clianthus formosus)

Dazzling flowers and Acacia-like silvery foliage. Survives with little moisture and plenty of sun.

Exotic : Indian Bean Tree (Catalpa bignonioides)

Striking tree with large leaves, panicles of speckled blooms, and slender seedpods. Also makes a shrubby foliage plant.

Exotic : Iris - Wild Iris (Dietes Grandiflora)

Very gracious, unusual tropical iris like blooms, pure white with a bronzey-yellow throat flanked by three mauve veined petals.

Exotic : Loofah (Luffa Cylindrica)

From the cucumber and marrow family, the Luffa is a rather curious example which originates from America. After drying, the fibrous internal structure of the Luffa magically transforms itself into a' sponge', 30cm (12 inches) long. Home-grown sponges, whatever next?! Treated as a half hardy annual in all areas, Luffa can be grown on any ordinary soil in a position of full sun. Climber.

Please note that due to the nature of our exotic range of seeds, some varieties are more challenging and may require more care and patience to grow than other less exotic varieties. However we wish you every success and hope you agree that they are definitely worth the effort.

Exotic : Papaya (Carica Papaya)

Grow the tropical fruits of Papaya, also known as Pawpaw. Carica Papaya plants also make good foliage specimens for indoors.

Exotic : Peacock Flower (Caesalpinia Pulcherrima)

Beautifully fringed, orange and red blooms cover this magnificent,West Indian shrub with deeply divided foliage.

Exotic : Pineapple Broom (Cytisus battandieri)

Silky foliage and golden yellow, pineapple scented flowers. Superb on a warm wall.

Exotic : Pineapple Lily (Eucomis Bicolor)

Highly desirable and dramatic plants with large, lush green foliage from which rise strong, erect stems bearing pineapple-like heads with clusters of small starry flowers, some of which are bicoloured. T&M have selected some of the most impressive hybrids for container and border use.