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Freeport Gardening Guide: Sweet Pea

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Sweet Peas

Sweet Pea Seeds, Blue Reflections:

Description: Shimmering shades of lilac, blue, and white with a rich, sweet fragrance make Blue Reflections a stunner! Complete your cottage garden design, or simply grow up a fence or trellis that needs some love. Either way, you (and the pollinators) will be delighted. Bred by renowned flower breeder Keith Hammett of New Zealand.

A close-up detail of several Blue Reflections Sweet Pea flowers.

 

Sweet Pea Seeds, High Scent:

Description: (Lathyrus odoratus).  Celebrated for their intense floral scent, they truly are the pinnacle of sweet peas when it comes to selecting a variety for their fragrant flowers. Enchanting aroma aside, these peas are a natural beauty, with mesmerizing ruffled petals bathed in soft cream hues and kissed with delicate lavender fringes.  A choice variety for cut flowers, as their stunning mauve-tinged blooms perfume the air with honey-like aromas. This irresistible flower was developed in Auckland, New Zealand, by botanist and ornamental specialist Dr Keith Hammett.

High Scent Sweet Peas arranged in vase against a light background.

 

Sweet Pea Seeds, Old Spice Mix:

Description: A gorgeous and fragrant mix of the finest sweet peas. Selected from varieties dating from about 1900, it has many brilliant shades of colors. Great heat resistance. Modern varieties are just not the same. (Warning: The seeds, pods and plants are poisonous!)

Old Spice Mix Sweet Pea flowers in a glass vase on a white background.

 

Sweet Pea Seeds, Painted Lady:

Description: One of the most fragrant sweet peas! The striking flowers are bicolored deep pink and white. This variety is quite old, dating to the 1730s. It is becoming very popular with seed savers and is a very good producer of flowers with a rich, sweet, old-timey scent.

Painted Lady Sweet Pea

 

Sweet Pea Seeds, Perennial Mix:

Description: Hardy perennial. Wild sweet pea that comes in pink, red and white. Beautiful clusters of scentless blooms. Sow in place fall or spring. Hardy.  (Warning: The seeds, pods and plants are poisonous!)

A posy of Perennial Sweet Pea Mix flowers on a dark brown background.

 

Sweet Dreams Mix Sweet Pea Seeds:

Description: Old-fashioned fragrance.  An old-fashioned looking sweet pea, with room-filling fragrance. Beautiful collection of colors. The large flowers have ruffled, bicolor petals on 8-12" stems, which makes them wonderful for arrangements. Plants are heat tolerant. GARDEN HINTS: Sow near a fence or trellis, in a sunny area, as soon as the soil can be worked in the spring. Plants grow best in cool weather. Mulching is recommended to keep soil cool and conserve moisture. For earlier bloom, start seeds indoors, in a cool location, 6-8 weeks before last heavy frost. In the Deep South, Gulf and Pacific Coast areas, sow seeds from fall to early spring.

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Eckfords Finest Mix Sweet Pea Seeds:

Description: HEIRLOOM. This mix has an incredible color range.  Switch on the color! An admirable collection of heirloom sweet peas in an array of lovely hues. Our prismatic mix of selected Eckford sweet peas—shell pink, maroon, violet, cream, blue, and crimson striped with white—exudes sweet fragrance, with tantalizing hints of honey or orange. Inspired mix makes for vasefuls of the prettiest cut flowers.

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High Scent Sweet Pea Seeds:

Description: Delicate and fresh, room filling aroma.  Just one cluster of cut stems delicately permeates a room with a pure, clean scent. Large, heavenly blossoms are silky white with a lavender picotee edge. Vines ramble to 6 ft.; an ideal choice for flowing over patio urns or climbing up a small garden trellis.

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Incense Peach Shades Sweet Pea Seeds:

Description: Pastel flowers on strong stems are ideal for cutting.  Delicate shades of highly fragrant, large wavy blooms in pastel pink to blush creamy-white. Long, strong stems are ideal for cutting. Soft pastel flowers are blushed cream, with the standard and wing petals brushed and banded deep pink. Adds soft colors to contrast more vivid hues of sweet peas and other climbers. Accents for trellises, fences and other living walls. Shield from direct hot sun.

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