Description
Mr Fothergills Sweet Pea Cherry Ripple Seeds are a vigorous climbing variety producing striking, frilly blooms in bold, rippled colours on long stems. Perfect for trellises and cut flowers, they deliver height, fragrance, and vibrant garden displays.
Key Features
- Distinctive rippled blooms bold, frilly flowers with eye-catching colour patterns
- Long stems for cutting ideal for bouquets and floral arrangements
- Vigorous climbing habit reaches up to 180cm for vertical impact
- Highly fragrant classic sweet pea scent for garden and home
- Hardy annual reliable flowering in the same year as sown
- Versatile planting suitable for borders, fences, trellises, and containers
Product Description
Mr Fothergills Sweet Pea Cherry Ripple Seeds produce a stunning display of large, frilly flowers with bold, rippled colouring. This vigorous climbing variety reaches up to 180cm in height, making it ideal for creating vertical interest in borders, along fences, or over trellises and garden structures.
The long, strong stems make this variety particularly well-suited for cutting, allowing you to enjoy its vibrant blooms and sweet fragrance indoors. Easy to grow and adaptable, it can be sown directly where it is to flower or started indoors for earlier results.
Thriving in full sun, Cherry Ripple is a hardy annual that provides a long flowering season. Regular picking of blooms encourages continued flowering, ensuring a colourful and fragrant display throughout the summer months. Autumn sowings can be overwintered in frost-free conditions for earlier blooms the following year.
Specifications
- Brand: Mr Fothergills
- Product Name: Sweet Pea Cherry Ripple Seeds
- Botanical Name: Lathyrus odoratus
- Plant Type: Hardy annual
- Height: Approx. 180cm
- Spread: Approx. 45cm
- Position: Full sun
- Pack Size: Approx. 21 seeds
- Suitable For: Trellises, fences, borders, containers, cut flowers
- Sow: January May, September October
Care & Usage Tips
- Sow indoors for best results or directly outdoors where plants are to flower
- Provide tall supports such as canes or netting for climbing growth
- Protect seedlings from birds using twigs or netting
- Pick flowers regularly to encourage continuous blooming
- Overwinter autumn sowings in cool, frost-free conditions
- Note: Pods and seeds are not edible
Why Choose Mr Fothergills Sweet Pea Cherry Ripple Seeds
Create a bold and fragrant garden display with Mr Fothergills Sweet Pea Cherry Ripple Seeds a vigorous, long-flowering variety perfect for vertical colour and beautiful cut flowers.
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