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SWEET PEA - EVERLASTING PEA -- OUT OF STOCK -- Everlasting Pea Lathyrus odoratus - A cottage garden favourite, this perennial variety will climb its way up to 3m sporting 30 cm wide flowers of pink, red, and white. A hardy player, climbing along a fence, wall or just allowed to ramble in a hard to fill area, providing almost evergreen foliage and months of blooms. Unscented. Sow early spring/late fall. I. A flower with a mystique exhaulted to almost angelic proportions is the heavenly sweet pea. The gardener�s love affair with the Sweet Pea goes back to 1699 to the cool, mountainous pastures of Sicily where it was �discovered� by an Italian monk. Seed was sent to a Dr. Uvedale, a gardener and physician in England who grew it under glass. Its heady fragrance made it most desirable and after the development of several new colours and an increase in bloom size, it was much sought after cut flower gracing the finest of tables. In the language of flowers, the sweet pea means adieu or departure. Fanciers adore its intoxicating perfume, its colour and its generosity as a cut flower (but disagree on cultivation methods!). We soak the seeds, sow them directly in fertile soil in early spring 2.5 cm deep, pinch back when 15 cm high and provide netting or strings for them to climb up. Mulch to keep roots cool. Cut bouquets often to prevent seeds from forming. �Keep on cutting, keep on flowering� said J.S. Eckford, the son of Henry Eckford, the great Victorian sweet pea grower. A nursery catalogue from 1907 shows 461 varieties trialed at the Royal Seed Establishment in Reading, England. Exquisite and highly fragrant, these varieties of sweet peas from yesteryear are slowly making a comeback and we at Florabunda are delighted to offer multiple choices. SEED COUNT: 30 plus |
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