Heritage seeds

I went to Wisley again today.

They were having a taste of autumn festival selling foods and seeds. One of the stalls was full of heritage and heirloom seeds. That's seeds that were grown generations ago, often in Victorian times or even earlier. Some are rarely grown any more and others are still popular. Often the ones that aren't grown any more are ones that don't meet supermarket requirements in some way (e.g. they damage easily in transport) rather than that there's something wrong with them as a plant for your garden. I like the idea of growing something a bit unusual that I can't buy in the shops (or at least not as easily), so I bought a load: