Sweet Pea Varieties
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Sally Ann ( Spencer )The 'Sally Ann' sweet pea selection from Spencer bears outstanding, big rose blooms on white. The petals are beautifully tousled, somewhat slanting to the fore.
Sweet Pea Varieties
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Aerospace ( Spencer )As the name suggests, the 'Aerospace' sweet peas possess white well crafted patulous wings that are cheerily aromatic. The wings of this variety of sweet pea are patulous and spread.
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Sweet Pea, 'Miss Willmott'
Anyone who has ever grown sweet peas wants them close by, where their delicious fragrance can permeate the air. A cool climate favorite for northern gardeners in the summer.
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Sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus) is a flowering plant in the genus Lathyrus in the family Fabaceae (legumes), native to the eastern Mediterranean region from Sicily east to Crete.
Sweet Peas - The Queen of the Annuals
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Sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus)
Winning qualities: Their unparalleled fragrance. 'The perfume industry has yet to duplicate it naturally,' says Kolla.
Sweet Pea (Lathyrus Odoratus)
Perhaps the most precious annual plant grown. There are many ways in which it may be prettily used in a garden.
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annual climbing plant (Lathyrus odoratus) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family), a legume native to S Europe but, since its introduction to horticulture c.1700, widely cultivated for its fragrant flowers.
Sweet Peas are often grown in clumps up tall twiggy pea sticks in the flower border. On other occasions they are grown on the cordon system up single bamboos and are dis-shooted carefully. They may easily grow to 2.
The Sweet Pea, Lathyrus odoratus, is generally considered to be a vining plant which often reaches a height of ten feet, but there are also varieties which are more bush-like and only grow to a height of 30 inches.
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Sweet peas belong to the group of vines that grow by sending out coiled tendrils. Because of this, sweet peas cannot grow up anything very large and are not able to use a tree for support.
Sweet Peas are fragrant and have an old-fashioned charm! They were brought to the New World from Europe. There are annual and perennial varieties in a range of colors including blue, white, pink, cream, and purple flowers.
Cape Sweet Pea, Mile-a-minute Vine
Scientific Name: Dipogon lignosus (L.) Verdc.
Synonym: Dolichos lignosus
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This sweet pea is a modern Grandiflora type and good as an exhibition cultivar, as well as a good choice for the cutting garden.
Photographed in author's garden.
Grow 'Matucana' and all sweet peas by soaking the seeds at least overnight, then sowing them directly into a sunny spot in the garden in early spring as soon as soil can be worked.
Sweet pea lovers will be attracted to this herbaceous, perennial, Southern European climber, but disappointed that it is scentless. A delightful plant, perfect for trailing over a bank or training through shrubs to give a foliage border a lift.
Sweet peas planted now begin to bloom in March, continue into May.
Gloxinia seeds planted now will give bloom in late spring and through most of the summer.
Sweet pea (Lathyrus odorata). 3 to 6-1/2 feet. Intense spicy scent; one of the best-selling flowers a century ago and still popular today. Many colors available. Unlike most annual vines, likes rich soil and cool, moist conditions.
Sweet pea commonly produces sports & is easily manipulated for color varieties.
Sweet pea multi colours Annual. Summer flowering.
sow seeds early in the year
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Sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus)
Weeping caragana, Chinese pea tree (Caragana arborescens)
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Sweet Peas grow best under cool conditions. Plant in late winter for early spring bloom. Plant at Christmas on the coast.
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(Helichrysum petiolare)
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Fragrant Sweet Peas Plant Profile
From heirloom cottage gardens to today's modern landscapes, the twining sweet pea adds colorful fragrance to any home garden space.
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Everlasting sweet pea
Lathyrus latifolius 'Pink Pearl' (syn. Rosa Perlel)
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Lathyrus spp, Sweet Peas
japonicus, Beach Pea
ochroleucus, Pale Pea
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Breynia disticha, Breynia nivosa (Snow bush, Hawaiian-Leaf Flower, Sweet Pea Bush, Calico Plant, Family: Euphorbiaceae)
Bridelia ovata (Ragah, Family: Euphorbiaceae) ...
K Keel " A longitudinal fold or ridge; in the Fabaceae family, the two anterior united petals of a papilionaceous flower -- a flower shaped like a sweet pea blossom. L Lacerate " Unevenly cut or incised.
Some of the hardy annuals (as sweet pea) withstand considerable frost. The "half-hardy" and "tender" annuals are alike in that they require more warmth for their germination and growth. The tender kinds are very quickly sensitive to frost.
Perennial Sweet Pea, normally utilized as a climbing vine but also found as a rambling groundcover, is an old-fashioned perennial having flowers (pink, red, or white) that bloom from early summer until frost, ...
The flowers have a perfume rather like that of sweet peas. Sometimes, flat seed pods follow, though they can look a bit messy when they drop on the ground.
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This annual climber has winged stems and deliciously fragrant, ruffled blossoms. Many cultivars exist with varying bloom color (solid, mixed, or bicolor), size, and climbing habit.
Also known by other names such as sweet pea, green pea, garden pea, or English pea, the fresh pea is grown to be removed from the pod and eaten raw or used as an ingredient to be added to salads, soups, stews, casseroles, and other dishes.
Seed pods look similar to garden sweet pea and are covered with coarse, stiff hair becoming hard when mature. Found on a variety of dry sites. It is browsed by white-tailed deer, eaten by livestock and the seeds are eaten by quail and other birds.
Orange Flower Oil as obtained from pomatum, slightly modified with other extracts, can be employed to make 'Sweet Pea' and 'Magnolia' perfumes, the natural odours of which it slightly resembles.
The desert ironwood is the only member of the Olneya genus, but is part of the Fabaceae, or Pea family. Its leaves and flowers resemble those of the sweet pea.
FIG. 68. - Stamens and pistil of Sweet Pea (Lathyrus). The stamens are diadelphous, nine of them being united by their filaments (f), while one of them (e) is free; st, stigma; c, calyx.
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