Illustrated List: K

Kale : Black Tuscany

the fully grown plants of Kale Black Tuscany have attractive dark green, deeply savoyed, strap-like leaves with traditional winter hardiness, making this a useful winter to spring vegetable at a time when fresh garden produce is scarce. Kale Black Tuscany can also be grown as a baby salad leaf ingredient adding texture and a peppery taste to mixed salads.

Kale : Cavolo Palmizio Senza Testa

Increasingly popular, Cavolo Palmizio Senza Testa can be used as a 'baby salad leaf' to add colour, texture and taste to mixed salads. The mature plant of Kale Cavolo Palmizio Senza Testa can also be used as a winter hardy vegetable when fresh produce is in short supply.

Kale : Dwarf Green Curled

Kale Dwarf Green Curled produces dark, tightly curled leaves. Excellent quality, very cold hardy, Kale Dwarf Green Curled is good for difficult or windswept gardens or poor wet soils.

Kale : Fizz

Kale Fizz is a fast growing kale with an upright plant habit which is a product of British breeding in brassica leaves with new leaf shapes and textures. These highly nutritious salad leaves, which are deeply and finely lobed, will complement any mixed leaf salad.

However, if Kale Fizz is grown outdoors or at wider spacings in a large container, the plants will be more productive and the larger leaves can be used as a cooked vegetable. Larger plants are very winter hardy.

Kale : Reflex F1 Hybrid

Curly Kale! Recent breeding has given Kale Reflex more intensely curled, succulent and nutritious, dark leaves which stand well without yellowing and can be picked for much of the year from successional sowings. Kale Reflex is fully winter hardy. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection.

Kale : Scarlet

Highly decorative, dark green, red veined leaves which show more colour as colder weather approaches. Kale Scarlet can be eaten as a 'salad leaf'. Mature plants show excellent winter hardiness, supplying fresh winter greens when they can often be scarce. Long season of harvest. Kale Scarlet prefers a moist, rich, well-drained soil. Good source of Vitamins A, C, K and folate and provides 50% of the daily requirement in a single 80g portion.

Kale : Starbor F1 Hybrid

Brassica oleracea convar. acephala. Grow all the year round as a 'baby leaf' indoors on the windowsill. Outdoors if given wider spacing it will make an abundance of densely curled leaves over a very long period. Winter hardy as a full sized plant.

Kale : Walking Stick

(Jersey Cabbage) This famous Channel Islands heirloom kale makes a tall, straight stem, 2m (6ft) tall topped with a rosette of edible leaves. When the stems of Kale Walking Stick mature in the autumn, they can be cut, carved and varnished to make attractive walking sticks. Plants left in a second year may run to seed or increase in height to over 3m (9½ft).

Kew : Alyssum maritima procumbens Sweet White

Absolutely glorious honey fragrance. Sprinkle seed direct into tubs, window boxes, patio areas and borders.

Height: 10-20cm (4-8in)

Kew : Antirrhinum pendula multiflora Chinese Lanterns

Trailing. A breeding triumph: cascading Antirrhinums! In a mixture of seven colours, including pure colours and bicolours, the "Snapdragon" flowers are borne on self branching, vigorous plants. Ideally made for hanging baskets, containers and window boxes.

Kew : Aquilegia Sweet Rainbows

A breeding breakthrough! The result of merging a full range of top quality Aquileglas, all selected for form, colour and the best fragrance. Ideal for adding sweet scentsation to any border.

Kew : Aster chinensis Moonshine Mixed

A colourful combination of Blue Moon and Bright Rose pom-poms, with a paler circle of light around the edge of each flower, shining like a halo around the moon. Outstanding in borders, or as a cut flower.

Kew : Campanula lactiflora Dwarf Pink

Over the past 5 years, T&M's flower breeders' careful selection, brings you the First Pink of this variety, from seed! Not only an attractive soft pink, a dwarf habit, but also first year flowering. Outstanding garden performance. 12in. high in the first year, growing up to 36in. high the following year.

Kew : Coleus Palisandra

Almost certainly the purest and deepest colour in existence. Lush, rich, broad leaves, like velvet, lightly serrated and nearly black in colour. Superb mixed with summer patio container plants.

Kew : Cornflower Dairy Maid

Beautiful, large, sweet scented flowers of a gorgeous golden yellow, a new and exciting colour which we have not been able to offer on its own before. Perfect for cutting and a very easy and lovely plant for bedding or border.

Height: 45-60cm (18-24in).

Kew : Dianthus Siberian Blues

Compact, bushy mounds of bluish evergreen foliage erupt into a sea of mauve-blue flowers in late spring and are the closest yet to a true blue Dianthus. Ideal planted in borders, rockeries and containers, flowering over a long period each summer for many, many years.