Bring your garden alive with bees and butterflies! Single flowers, mainly shades of red and yellow. Mostly green foliage but different shaped leaves. Compact plants that do not need support. Sow seed in the Spring, will flower within three months from sowing and will continue until the Autumn. Plants produce tubers that can last for many years.

'Coquette' A warm coral pink, spring flowering cultivar that was most likely introduced in 1941, and has been constantly reselected in Japan. It has good stems and is well liked by florists. Sow May to September.

25 seeds per packet. Store in fridge or freezer.

SOLD OUT 'Frilly Milly' As the name suggests, Milly is indeed frilly. This is her main attribute. The first "Spencer" Sweet Peas caused a sensation because their petals were waved in comparison with what had gone before, but nowhere near to this extent. 'Frilly Milly' has blooms that are pink flush over a cream ground and she is Spring flowering. Her main vice is that she is shy to produce seed and it may well be that it will not be viable to offer her on an ongoing basis. However, a keen gardener might like her and be able to save enough seed each season to have his or her exclusive stock? Approximately 25 seeds per packet. 

SOLD OUT 'Home Fires' A two-tone segregating mixture of large crimson and scarlet blooms arising from 'Lipstick'. The tonality of segregating mixtures is superior to formulated mixtures of named cultivars. Four to five flowers on strong stems. Approx. 25 seeds per packet.

'Lord Anson's Pea' This is a perennial species from South America. It has somewhat succulent leaves and stems and prefers to scramble rather than climb. It will grow outside as well as under cover, but can be temperamental. I have found that it prefers to flower during the winter months here in Auckland. Can be sown at any time of the year. Limited stock. 10 seed per packet.

Tangier Pea This is an unscented annual relative of the Sweet Pea from the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. It is notable for a very large standard petal relative to the small wing petals. This form is a rich purpleish cerise colour that came to me via the Howick Village in Auckland. Limited stock. 10 seed per packet.

'Mrs Collier' is an ancestral cultivar of historic significance - first introduced in the UK in 1905. It has primrose coloured buds which open cream, and a delicate vanilla scent. More recently it became notable as the foundation cultivar used in the cross between Lathyrus odoratus and L. belinensis, which has led to the various Lathyrus x hammettii hybrids. 15 seeds per packet.

The original Sweet Pea is bicoloured, with the standard petal darker than the wings. All subsequent bicolours followed this pattern. Many years ago, I saw Pisum elatius which caused me to see if I might produce "reverse bicolour" Sweet Peas, where the standard is paler than the wings. Edible and beautiful in its own right. Stock limited. 10 seed per packet. Sow Spring-Summer.

'Somewhere' - 'Erewhon' was a breakthrough reverse bicolour, having the greatest colour contrast between standard and wing petals. 'Somewhere' has larger, somewhat better shaped flowers with the open Spencer keel petals. Pale pink standard, mauve wings.