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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: Yorkshire Lass on June 29, 2014, 16:38:20

Title: Perennial Sweet Peas
Post by: Yorkshire Lass on June 29, 2014, 16:38:20

These are perennial sweet peas from my garden.  They are just as pretty as annual sweet peas but unfortunately they don't have any perfume. 

Title: Re: Perennial Sweet Peas
Post by: Jayb on June 29, 2014, 18:42:45

Lucky you, they are gorgeous  :icon_cheers:

Title: Re: Perennial Sweet Peas
Post by: Jayb on June 30, 2014, 07:08:47

I forgot to ask, are they easy to grow?

Title: Re: Perennial Sweet Peas
Post by: Yorkshire Lass on June 30, 2014, 09:15:00

Yes, very easy. Do you want some seeds when they're ready to collect?

Title: Re: Perennial Sweet Peas
Post by: Palustris on June 30, 2014, 16:01:38

Choose carefully where you plant them ,they are the devil to get rid of.

Title: Re: Perennial Sweet Peas
Post by: Yorkshire Lass on June 30, 2014, 17:03:52

I've not had any problem with them running wild.

Title: Re: Perennial Sweet Peas
Post by: caroline7758 on June 30, 2014, 19:07:30

Quote from: Yorkshire Lass on June 30, 2014, 17:03:52

I've not had any problem with them running wild.

Lucky you- mine are absolutely rampant! I do love the flowers, but as soon as they are finished I'm out there pulling up the plants in the hope of getting fewer next year- and it never work! But try to pass them on to fribnds and I find they are really hard to root. And they don't seem to produce seedpods like the annual ones.

Title: Re: Perennial Sweet Peas
Post by: Yorkshire Lass on June 30, 2014, 20:17:41

I must have a different variety as they produce seedpods after flowering from which I grow  new plants. I've not tried growing from roots.

Title: Re: Perennial Sweet Peas
Post by: galina on July 01, 2014, 07:39:50

Same here.  They are easy from seeds and not rampant.  Only difference between us is that mine are nowhere near ready to flower.  They are in a shady spot and will flower eventually.  They come up every year too.