Sweet Pea 'Windsor'
- Loved by Pollinators
- Scented
- Good for Cutting
Sweet Pea 'Windsor' is a Spencer type with large flowers, long stems, prolonged flowering season and good scent
Scent 7/10.
Spencer type sweet peas were initially bred by Silas Cole, a gardener working for the Spencer family in 1900. Everyone went mad for this frilly, flamboyant, scented flower and lots of work went into expanding the range so that they gradually became available in almost every colour.
No garden is complete without sweet peas. Grow them over arches, teepees and trellis and plant them with your runner beans to draw lots of insect pollinators into your veg patch. Sweet peas are all easy to grow and will fill your garden and house with the best scent ever.
- Loved by Pollinators
- Scented
- Good for Cutting
Product details
- Type
- Climber
- Position
- Cutting Garden, On a Climbing Support
- Soil
- Broad Tolerance
- Flowers
- May - August (winter-sown) or June - September (spring-sown), or 12-14 weeks from spring-sowing of seed.
- Height
- 1.8m (6ft)
- Group/Species
- Spencer
- Common name
- Sweet Pea
- Moisture
- Moist but Well-drained
- Aspect
- Full Sun
- Spread
- 15cm (6in)
- Cultivation
- Sow October to April, 2 seeds into 1 Rootrainer. When roots fill container, pot on 2 seedlings together into a 1 litre pot. Pinch out tips when plants have 4 pairs of leaves. If autumn sown, overwinter in a light, cool place.
Care Tips
Plant seedlings out during a mild spell March-May, providing support. Tie the stems into your framework on a regular basis and pinch out tendrils.
Flowering Time
May - August (winter-sown) or June - September (spring-sown), or 12-14 weeks from spring-sowing of seed.
