Dig into the joy of a life outdoors
Find peace and purpose by reconnecting with nature, creativity and the joy of making things in your own patch of paradise.
Discover extraordinary, unusual, and beautiful plants from around the world — each with growing and care tips to help you cultivate these weird and wonderful species in your own space.
Allium sativum
Garlic
An easy, hardy crop planted from cloves in autumn, forming fat, pungent bulbs by summer.
- Full sun
- 30–60 cm (12–24 in)
- H6 · Zone 5
Pisum sativum
Pea, Garden pea, Mangetout, Snow pea, Sugar snap pea
A cool-season climbing crop grown for sweet shelling peas, flat snow pea (mangetout) pods or crunchy…
- Full sun
- 0.5–2 m (1–7 ft)
- H3 · Zone 9
Allium cepa
Onion, Bulb onion, Shallot
A staple kitchen crop grown from seed or small sets for bulbs that store for months,…
- Full sun
- 30–60 cm (12–24 in)
- H5 · Zone 5
Vicia faba
Broad bean, Fava bean
A hardy, upright bean with scented black-and-white flowers loved by bumblebees, grown for large, buttery beans…
- Full sun
- 0.6–1.2 m (2–4 ft)
- H4 · Zone 8
Allium schoenoprasum
Chives
A very hardy, clump-forming perennial herb with fine, onion-flavoured leaves and pompom flowers in pink or…
- Full sun, Partial shade
- 20–45 cm (8–18 in)
- H7 · Zone 3
Cerinthe major var. purpurascens
Honeywort
A quick, self-seeding hardy annual with blue-grey waxy foliage and nodding purple-blue tubular flowers.
- Full sun
- 30–45 cm (12–18 in)
- H3 · Zone 8
