FREE: Heirloom Variety Climbing Sweet Pea - 50 Seeds

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The Climbing Sweet Pea is a beautiful scented old English garden favorite. It is often called the "Queen of Annuals". Traditional sweet peas typically produce less showy blooms than newer cultivars, but they make up for this with their fragrance. These are likely the flowers your grandmother grew in her flowerbed - before plant breeders began their work to improve flower color and size at the expense of fragrance. The first seeds were introduced into England at the end of the Seventeenth century; it has been popular ever since.
Sweet Peas are the ideal plant for whooshing up a trellis, a wigwag of sticks or they can be left to scramble through shrubs. Plant some by your kitchen door or have a special patch just for cutting so you can enjoy that wonderful scent indoors. Sweet peas are hardy annuals and can be sown outdoors from March onwards. The seeds do best if you soak them in tepid (the temperature for a baby's bath) water for a day before you sow them. They grow quite fast and as they are a tendril climber (meaning they like something to cling onto) make sure you give them something to climb up or through.
If you want bigger flowers then nip out the growing tip when they are about 4 inches high as this will encourage them to grow bushier and produce more flowers.
But you can just leave them to their own devices and you will still get a good crop of flowers. If you want your Sweet peas to keep flowering for longer deadhead them(just nip off the dead flower before it develops its seed) throughout the summer.
These Old Fashion climbing or vining Sweet Peas grace the flowerbed with delicate blooms in pink shades, And are favorites for covering a garden wall or fence. Blooms attract both butterflies and hummingbirds. The Sweet pea has been a firm favorite in English Gardens for over 200 years. It has beautiful colors, delicious scent and is easy to grow. Offer 50 Seeds.
**seeds can be poisonous if eaten.