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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

Browse lathyrus

Sweet peas (annuals)

Perennial peas

Sweet peas trial results

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Useful advice

Climbers: using annuals

Climbers: using annuals

Hardy annuals: sowing in autumn

Hardy annuals: sowing in autumn

Hardy annuals: sowing in spring

Hardy annuals: sowing in spring

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