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Seed Catalogues

This is a work in progress... Please feel free to add any of your favourites that I might have missed, and any comments or reviews of the sites listed. Cheers, Bupster.

Alphabetical list

• Alan Romans

Potato mad. Also (slightly limited) range of seeds at just 50p a packet.

• Association Kokopelli/Terre de Semences

An activistic organisation providing an amazing open pollinating range, especially if you join and have access to their full list, their catalogue is a beauty, bed time reading of the highest quality. Seeds are not cheap but are excellent.

• Chiltern Seeds

No pictures but very entertaining descriptions of a good range of flowers, fruit and vegetables, including an enormous selection of wildflowers. "Very reliable, lots of unusual veg seeds, and they give you *loads* of seeds per packet." - fluffygrue

• CN Seeds

Supplier to commercial growers of herbs and salads, but they sell to the public, too and offer a few things you don't see elsewhere.

• Dobies

Long-established supplier of seeds and plants

• DT Brown

"Excellent seed suppliers that work out fairly cheap." - Sandersj89.

• Edwin Tucker

"Very very good seed supplier, especially good for spuds, but I am biased as my family have used this outfit for over 50 years." - Sandersj89.

• Mr Fothergill's

Very wide range of seeds in useful categories.

• Exhibition Seeds

For the exhibitionists amongst us.

• Henry Doubleday Research Association (now Garden Organic)

Heritage seed library. Different range every year; members can choose twelve, of which they receive their top six plus a lucky dip.

• Kings

If you have an allotment, you probably get most of your seeds here. Kings have a deal with several allotment societies - so check before you order online.

• Mammoth Seeds

W Robinson's Mammoth Vegetable seeds. Sounds like you can grow your own woolly elephant type animal.

• Meadowmania

Organic herbs and vegetables and, peculiarly, horse paddock grass mixtures. Should you like your manure fresh.

• Medwyn's prize vegetables

Medwyn Williams has won many Chelsea prizes for his veg - this is his seedshop

• Moles Seeds

Another big supplier to the large scale grower - probably of interest only if you have a need to buy cheaply in bulk.

• Nicky's Nursery

A recently improved site and a good range, especially of chilli peppers, and reasonably priced.

• The Chilli Seed Company

Does what it says on the tin.

• The Organic Gardening Catalogue

The first stop if you're gardening organically with a huge range, but can be pricy. Commercial arm of the HDRA (now Garden Organic).

• Plants of Distinction

Mail order only - the most attractive seed catalogue you'll ever own. A pleasure to browse.

• The Real Seed Catalogue

'Real' seeds from a firm that started on a Cambridge allotment. No hybrids. Many heirloom varieties. Reasonable prices, generous quantities, and customers are encouraged to save their own seeds.

• Ready to Grow

Suppliers of a range of rare and unusual seeds including chilli seeds, heirloom tomato seeds, banana seeds and exotic fruit seeds.

• Sarah Raven

Very pretty website but outrageously expensive.

• Secret Seeds

Rare and unusual seeds. Organic vegetables and herbs, though not all that rare or unusual.

• Seeds by Size

Very cheap seeds by weight, large range and fast delivery.

• Seeds of Italy

Wonderful range but be careful what you order as some packets contain up to 10,000 seeds!

• Suttons Seeds

Major seed supplier.

• Thompson and Morgan

Another major supplier, T&M often have special offers - the current season's offer is your most expensive packet of seeds free. Dangerous, if you ask me.