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Sweet Pea Spencer Wiltshire Ripple Seeds
Info: Sweet Pea Spencer Wiltshire Ripple is a heirloom variety with distinctive bicolour, flushed and rippled blooms of rich claret on a creamy white background. Each stem carries 3 to 4 richly scented blooms on strong stems that make superb and romantic cut flowers.
The sweet pea is a popular ornamental plant and as a climbing plant a great fence greening. They belong to the papilionaceous family and form beautiful flowers from pink to white to blue. Sweet Peas flower longer if flower shoots for the vase or dead flowers are removed very regularly. When the first seeds ripen, the development of new flowering shoots decreases. Attention: the seeds are poisonous when consumed. The variety Mrs. R. Bolton is a slightly fragrant variety with very beautiful large flowers in magenta to light pink.
Sowing & Cultivation: It is advisable to soak the seeds beforehand or even let them pre-germinate. It is also possible to sow them directly in the field from mid-April, preferably next to a fence. If they have enough space for climbing, they can reach a height of 220 cm. They like a nutrient-rich, permeable soil and a sunny to semi-shade location.
Botanical name | Lathyrus odoratus |
Content | 5 seeds |
Sowing | from mid April outdoors |
Location | sunny to half-shady position, nutrient rich soil |
Germination temperature | 15 - 18°C |
Germination | 10 - 14 days |
Blooming | from June |
Lifespan | annual |
Height | 50 - 220 cm |