Plants ready for your garden

A handful of hardy perennials we'd plant in our own borders — long-flowering and loved by the bees.

A reliable British favourite. Crops early, copes with our soggy Welsh summers and tastes properly of tomato.

Our most-loved kitchen four, potted up together so you can keep them by the back door and snip as you cook.

Tray of six seedlings hardened off in the polytunnel. Pinch them out and they'll romp away up a wigwam.

A gentle introduction to chilli growing — happy on a sunny windowsill or in the greenhouse.

Vigorous mint we grow on for tea and Sunday lamb. Best kept in its own pot — it has opinions.

Pre-planted basket of trailing fuchsia — perfect for a north-facing porch where most baskets sulk.