Illustrated List: F

Fatsia japonica

Create a tropical took in the garden. These easy to grow shrubby plants, are surprisingly hardy and suitable lor borders or grown as a pot plant. Large hand-shaped, glossy foliage is accompanied by branching heads of white flowers in autumn, often followed by black fruits.

Fava Bean : Bunyards Exhibition

A gardener's favourite for over 100 years for its reliable performance and heavy crop of long pods in most soils. The pods contain an average of 6 beans, with some up to 8 seeded. Broad Bean Bunyards Exhibition has a very good flavour and excellent for freezing.

Prefers well-drained, moist, rich soil.

Feijoa sellowiana

Fuchsia-like blooms followed by delicious guava-flavoured, green fruit. Hardy in mild winter areas.

Felicia bergeriana

A very easy to grow annual, known as the Kingfisher Daisy because of its daisy like flowers. Plants form a mat of bright green foliage and from the beginning of summer to first frosts, they will continually be covered in flowers of electric blue with a typical yellow daisy-like centre. Good value for money, use to edge borders and beds, or simply in containers and window boxes. Flowers summer to autumn. Height 15cm (6in).

Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)

Cooking: Fennel is delicious, with a sweet and delicate aniseed flavour. Use in salads and with fish to counteract oiliness. Beauty: An infusion of Fennel used as a compress is excellent for softening rough chapped hands. Pour hot water over the leaves and stems for a cleansing facial steam bath. Nature's Remedy: Reputed use for many ailments, particularly regularising painful and abnormal menstrual periods. It has long been recommended to combat obesity and aid slimming, as an eyewash for sore eyes and as a gentle laxative. Steep 1 tablespoonful of freshly crushed seeds in 1 cup of water for 5 minutes. Sweeten with honey to taste.

Fennel : Victoria F1 Hybrid

Oustanding yields of large, smooth and pure white bulbs with an enticing and traditional aniseed flavour. Fennel Victoria is a newly bred form which has neat foliage and improved resistance to bolting.

Ferns : House & Garden Tree Ferns Mixed

Develops a trunk or caudex, like palms, as each frond dies. Mixture is drawn from Cyathea and Dicksonia species. Hardy in light to medium frost areas. Pack includes enough spores for 25 plants.

Festuca glauca

Densely tufted true azure-blue grass. Effective ground cover, invaluable border or rockery plant.

First Year Flowering Perennials Collection

SPECIAL OFFER - First Year Flowering Perennials Collection comprises 1 packet each of:

• Coreopsis Presto
• Kniphofia Traffic Lights
• Hollyhock Appleblossom
• Verbena Pink Spires

Flame Tree (Delonix regia) : Exotic

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

Flax : grandiflorum Blue Dress

Stunning border plant, producing tine sprays with masses of attractive true-blue flowers throughout the summer. Ideal for borders, bedding or containers.

Flax : grandiflorum rubrum

It may be safely accounted as one of the easiest, showiest and most beautiful of all hardy annuals. From early summer to autumn, brilliant blood-red flowers with a beautiful satin sheen are produced. Height: 35-45cm (15-18in).

Flax : Heavenly Blue

One of the finest blue flowered plants. A profusion of luminous ultra-marine blue flowers.

Flax: grandiflorum Charmer Mix

A charming mixture of attractive cup shaped flowers in shades of red, salmon and white, each with a darker central eye above delicate foliage. Plants are quick to flower and easy to grow, blooming for up to 2 months in borders or containers.

Height: 45cm (18in)

Fleece - Horticultural

All year weather protection for seedlings and plants. Gives the perfect growing environment by holding heat in winter and providing shade in summer. Porous to enable watering without removal. Provides -6°C protection which can be increased by folding.

Dimensions: 10m x 1.6m.

Also available with 8 anchor pegs.

Flower & Vegetable of the Year Collection 2009

SPECIAL OFFER

T&M is proud to offer these two varieties that have been chosen as Flower & Vegetable of the Year:

Collection comprises one packet each of:

Nasturtium Cobra - -bushy, dark-leaved plants will quickly trail through borders or over the sides of containers and baskets, whilst the contrasting dark red, double blooms, exclusive to this variety. Trailing to 75cm (30in).

Tomato Cherrola - long trusses often hold up to 20 well-spaced, dark red fruits weighing on average 20g (¾oz)! Suitable for growing outside or under glass.