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Sweet Pea Dwarf Bijou Mix Seeds
Info: Sweet Pea Dwarf Bijou Mix is a dwarf, busy variety ideal for borders, baskets and containers. This variety produces an abundant display of brightly coloured flowers in white, pink, red and blue with up to 5 high fragrant flowers per stem. The plants are early blooming, heat resistant and require no staking.
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 | 10 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 |
Image Source: KENPEI, Lathyrus odoratus1, CC BY-SA 3.0