Edible Flowers : Borage

A beautiful upright herb with rough leaves covered with silvery hairs and most attractive celestial blue flowers beloved by bees. Borage is an annual growing to 45-90cm (18-36in) which self seeds happily. Cooking: Add Borage to summer drinks and wines because of its, cucumber flavour. Chopped leaves make a healthy soup or YOUNG leaves can be dipped in batter and lightly fried until crisp. Finely cut leaves make a delicious sandwich filling. Companion Plant: Grow it close to tomatoes to attract bees which fertilise the tomato blooms, and anything else in the vegetable garden. Nature's Remedy: Borage is a fine source of calcium and potassium and is recommended for toning up the glandular system, and all bronchial, lung and chest disorders. Prolonged use is not advisable. Special Note: Always check with your doctor before using herbs for medicinal purposes.

Egg Plant : Baby Rosanna F1 Hybrid

Produces an abundance of golf ball sized, bitter free baby fruits throughout the summer on dwarf plants 60cm (24in) high, making Aubergine Baby Rosanna ideal for growing in containers on the patio. Fruits hold their flavour, quality and colour well after picking.

Egg Plant : Black Enorma

Early to crop with prolific sets of huge jet-black fruit up to 680g (1½lb). Just three plants will keep a family of four with aubergines from mid summer to late autumn. Aubergine Black Enorma is ideal for garden, patio or greenhouse. Stake plants and pick fruit regularly.

Egg Plant : Calliope F1 Hybrid

The compact, spineless plants of Aubergine Calliope produce a heavy crop of baby 5cm (2in) fruits that mature to bitter free, oval, 10cm (4in) fruits of a beautiful cream streaked purple colour.

Aubergine Calliope is ideal for growing in a container on the patio, or in the greenhouse.

Egg Plant : Florida High Bush

Vigorous, upright, well branched plants, Aubergine Florida High Bush produces an abundance of long/oval, shiny purple skinned fruits with tasty pure white flesh.

Egg Plant : Listada de Gandia

Early to ripen, Aubergine Listada de Gandia produces a large crop of stunning white streaked, purple skinned, oval fruits up to 15cm (6in) in length of excellent flavour. Looks attractive in containers.

Egg Plant : Melanzana Prosperosa

Plants grow similarly to sweet peppers and fruit abundantly throughout the summer, preferably under glass or in a sunny spot outdoors. Aubergine Melanzana Prosperosa produces flattened round, paler purple fruits with firm, bitter-free flesh.

Egg Plant : Melanzana Viserba

Plants grow similarly to sweet peppers and fruit abundantly throughout the summer, preferably under glass or in a sunny spot outdoors. Aubergine Melanzana Viserba ;produces cylindrical, glossy purple skinned fruits with bitter free flesh.

Egg Plant : Moneymaker F1. Hybrid

Early and reliable, Aubergine Moneymaker is high yielding, producing tasty, long, slender, matt purple fruits.

Egg Plant : Orlando F1 Hybrid

Attractive, virtually spineless, dwarf plants yield an abundant crop of 'baby' fruits, 5cm (2in) in length. Aubergine Orlando produces finger-length aubergines that have beautiful dark-purple skins and are not at all bitter tasting.

Aubergine Orlando is excellent for growing in the greenhouse or on a sunny patio in containers. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection.

Endive : Indivia D'Estale A Cuore Giallo

Grown similarly to lettuce, mature blanched hearts will be less bitter and have a creamy yellow centre with darker green outside leaves. Indivia D'Estale A Cuore Giallo is an ideal ingredient for a mixed leaf salad to add taste and texture contrasts.

Endive : Indivia Mixed

A mixture of different tastes, colours and leaf shapes, from light to dark green outer leaves and white to gold centres, plus deep green salad endive with upright irregular shaped leaves. Ideal for summer and autumn cultivation.

Endive Indivia Mixed contains Endive Romanesca da Taglio, Fijne Krul Geel (Sempre Bianca), Pancalieri a Costa Bianca, Riccia a Cuore d'Oro.

Exotic : Papaya (Carica Papaya)

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