USA Customers: Please follow these steps to get your green and yellow PPQ 508 shipping labels before ordering seed from NZ. We have recently learned of seed being destroyed upon entry to the USA. After advice from plants people in the USA we have put together a PDF detai..
Sweet Pea Seed Production Overview. Powerpoint presentation prepared by Dr Keith Hammett and Dharini Marinkovich. We present an overview of sweet pea seed production based on our methods of hand harvested and supported production in New Zealand. ..
USA Customers: Please follow these steps to get your green and yellow PPQ 508 shipping labels before ordering seed from NZ. We have recently learned of seed being destroyed upon entry to the USA. After advice from plants people in the USA we have put together a PDF detai..
Sweet Pea Seed Production Overview. Powerpoint presentation prepared by Dr Keith Hammett and Dharini Marinkovich. We present an overview of sweet pea seed production based on our methods of hand harvested and supported production in New Zealand. ..
New Zealand Gardener November 2018 Sweet on Sweet Peas - Story: Jack Hobbs, Photos: Jason Dorday/Stuff. "Thanks to the work of Dr Keith Hammett, New Zealand is the centre of the world when it comes to the development of this fragrant bloom. ..." Click here to ..
More than meets the eye What is most often overlooked with Sweet Peas, is that different strains have been developed that have the ability to flower at different times of the year. The original Sweet Pea comes from Sicily and this must have over twelve hours of daylight each day..
Bee Dawson investigates the fascinating history of Sweet Peas in the April 2017 edition of New Zealand Gardener and announces the Great Sweet Pea Challenge, ... Read the full article (/pdf/S.Pea Contest NZG April2017 .pdf) ..
Dahlia imperialis is the best-known Tree Dahlia in Northern New Zealand. It can grow to 3 or more metres in height and flowers briefly in May, usually coinciding with strong equinoxal winds. Its’ hollow stems frequently succumb. The most commonly seen form has large pendulous “pocket..
Until a few years ago, the Sweet Pea (Lathyrus odoratus) was a relatively unusual garden plant in that it behaved as a pure inbreeding species and all the variations we saw in the modern Sweet Pea arose as mutations. In contrast, most other ornamental garden plants owe their variation to charact..
"Developing a new plant variety can take a long time. The packets of sweet peas I am going to plant in my garden this autumn represent a lifetime of work for Dr Keith Hammett, who has been breeding sweet peas for more than 60 years – initially in England and for the past 50 years in his ad..
The Story of Cosmos astrosanguineus by Graham Rice - The Plantsman, New Series Volume 16 Part 2, June 2017 Chocolate Cosmos, Cosmos astrosanguineus, has been intriguing botanists and captivating gardeners since it arrived in Britain from Mexico in 1861 ... View the full article (/pdf/..
National Dahlia Society Annual 2010 Make no mistake, to a large extent I attribute my lifetime career in plant science to the skills I acquired in learning how to grow Dahlias for exhibition. Recreational horticulture was very popular in the decades immediately following World War II. Many ..
Sweet peas (Lathyrus odorata) are annual climbing plants with fragrant and romantically ruffled, pea-shaped blooms. Though they have intoxicated cottage gardeners since their discovery way back in 1695, I had no burning desire to grow them. At least I didn’t until a recent, fateful, visit ..
Garden News February 21 2015 Article (/pdf/Garden News February 21 2015 Article.pdf)..
Latest update on the development of a yellow Sweet Pea. read more here (https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/publications/magazines/the-plantsman/2014-issues/december/developing-a-yellow-sweet-pea)..
