A(caps)dding some blooming annuals flowers is one of the quickest ways to freshen up your garden or yard. One of them is sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus) These beautiful and flouncy annuals are grown from seed each year for their fragrance and for cutting. Sweet Peas are care-free plants they are loved by all gardeners, and are a popular addition to every garden flower. Sweet peas thrive in cool temperatures, so it's important to get them blooming early, before summer heat knocks them out!
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Sweet Pea Prince of Orange
A re-selected heirloom variety producing masses of long stems of large, frilled flowers.
The combination of shades within each flower is breathtaking. They are quite hardy, and will grow through the winter with a minimum of protection.
Height 1.8 m.
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Sweet Pea ‘Bijou Mix’ Lavender/Pink/Purple/Red/Salmon/White
About Bijou Mixed Sweet Pea:
According to traditional lore, poet John Keats first called these fragrant country flowers sweet peas. It has also been called the queen of annuals and is the quintessential old-fashioned English flower. Though accounts of this flower's origins differ, most historians agree that a Franciscan monk named Francisco Cupani found it growing when visiting the island of Sicily. In 1699, he sent the seeds of the plant to a botanist in Amsterdam, Dr. Casper Commelin, who published the first recorded description and illustration of sweet peas in 1701. Dr. Leonard Plukenet, the Royal Professor of Botany and gardener of Queen Mary, also recorded obtaining a specimen of sweet pea in the early 18th century. Bijou Mixed Sweet Pea Germination: To soften the hard coating of these seeds, soak them for several hours or overnight in warm water before planting. Most of the seeds should have softened and begun to swell, but if a few remain hard, make a slight nick in the seed coat with a sharp knife. In climates with mild winters, these prepared seeds can be sown in the fall to bring the earliest spring blooms. Otherwise, they should be planted in spring as soon as the ground can be worked!
Earthcare Seeds Fragrant Sweet Peas Royal Family (Lathyrus odoratus)
Royal Family Sweet Peas produce larger blooms and more flowers per stem than other Sweet Pea varieties. The more you pick, the more they produce.
Zones: 3 - 9
Water: Moderate
Light: Full Sun/Part Shade
Soak seeds in water for 24 hours before sowing. Sow 2–3 seeds 4"- 6" apart and 1” deep. Keep moist until established. Germination 4–14 days. Maturity 65 - 90 days. Train vines on support.
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Sweet Peas are wonderfully easy plants to grow, and they grow fast! Sweet Peas can tolerate light frosts and prefer cooler weather, so they can be sown in mid-spring and will climb up to 6 feet within a few weeks. A vase of Sweet Peas is a welcoming sight, and plus their wonderful fragrance will fill the air indoors or out.
If I could grow one flower from seed to add charm, beauty and fragrant scents to my garden, it would be for sure sweet peas, simply because no one can resist to their beautiful and fragrant flowers!
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