I’m rather excited about my sweet peas this year. They have just started flowering, and I can’t stop crouching over the willow obelisk to have a good sniff. All this is hardly unusual, but the real reason I’m excited about these sweet peas is that they are among the first varieties ever grown in gardens. And I think they’re the most beautiful. Some new cultivars are a little too showy, and come in some mildly disturbing colours as well. But ‘Matucana’ has a lovely scent and elegant wine-and-lilac petals.
I sowed these in February, and pinched out the growing tips when they had reached three or four inches tall. In March, when the weather had started to cheer up a little, I planted them out beneath my homemade willow obelisks, and have really left them to their own devices since. From now on, I’ll be giving them plenty of water, and deadheading regularly to encourage repeat flowering.
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