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Introducing...
Lathyrus
Lathyrus are loved by gardeners for their colourful and often sweetly-scented pea-like flowers. A mainstay of the cottage or cutting garden, climbing annual sweet peas give summer-long fragrance and colour. Add spring or late summer interest with perennial or everlasting peas; what they lack in scent they make up for by returning year after year. All are easy to grow.
Growing guide
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How to grow lathyrus
All the information you’ll need to grow & care for sweet peas and perennial peas in your garden.
Lathyrus we recommend
Lathyrus grandiflorus
two-flowered everlasting pea
- 1.5–2.5 metres
- 1–1.5 metres
Lathyrus odoratus 'Valerie Harrod'
sweet pea 'Valerie Harrod'
- 1.5–2.5 metres
- 0.1–0.5 metres
Lathyrus grandiflorus
two-flowered everlasting pea
- 1.5–2.5 metres
- 1–1.5 metres
Lathyrus odoratus 'Valerie Harrod'
sweet pea 'Valerie Harrod'
- 1.5–2.5 metres
- 0.1–0.5 metres
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Useful advice
Climbers: using annuals
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Hardy annuals: sowing in autumn
Hardy annuals: sowing in spring
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