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Sweet pea plans

I am not sure I can overwinter a blooming sweet pea. However, I may try this. Besides, I can enjoy now, the scent and purple pink blooms. I can even install a small grow light, if need be. I will buy the Cupani strain of Lathyrus odoratus. Annie's Annuals in Richmond, CA must be propagation-heaven. Here is her Cupani pea image: lovely, lovely, and the scent is not to be believed.  I smelled this particular sweet pea in the Mission Santa Clara garden, circa 1980.  Father Warren grew this on a warm wall in February, in the very old and enclosed and off-limits rose garden adjacent to the mission church.

This garden is atop -- yes, on top -- of the original cemetary for this Franciscan-turned-Jesuit mission.

II hope I can pull this off. Sweet peas are heavy feeders, requiring lots of bunny poo, in a tea at planting and then as a side dressing.

This is the goal of my BPPP -- Bunny Poo Pea Plan.

And a snip of poem about sweet peas by John Keats:

 From "Endymion," read the rest of the excerpt here.

Many and many a verse I hope to write,
Before the daisies, vermeil rimm'd and white,
Hide in deep herbage; and ere yet the bees
Hum about globes of clover and sweet peas,
I must be near the middle of my story.

And, another Keats snip, again, about sweet peas:

Here are sweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight:
With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white,
And taper fingers catching at all things,
To bind them all about with tiny rings.

This is from "I Stood Tip-Toe." Read it here at Bartleby.
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I grew sweet peas successfully in Maryland circa 1998.  They unfurled and climbed by tentrils on a net strung between bamboo poles.  Ah, the scent.  The scent!  I do not recall the strain.  But, the colors were shades of blush and dark pink, with many flowers bi-colored.
Posted on Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 04:59PM by Registered CommenterMinxterBloom | CommentsPost a Comment | References71 References

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