No paper seed catalogs for me these days
I admit that this is hard. However, the range of online seed vendor options means that I can browse without the environmental burden of yet another dead tree count.
I plan to grow sweet peas this spring. In 1996, I grew them to fair success. Henry Mitchell writes lovingly and practically about growing these cool-preferring darlings. I am tempted to buy two plants from Annie's Annuals and set them out in my bunny-poo prep spot.. Read about this dream here. Poetic bit there, too, should you need tempting. Too bad the internet does not yet include a scratch- and-sniff option.
Chiltern Seeds online includes a detailed entry on the classic progenitor of the range of sweet pea strains: Lathryus odoratus "Cupani." Behnke's, local family-owned nursery in Beltsville, MD, used to carry Chiltern packets in a range of varieties. This year, not so. I may order from this energetic little company, J.Hudsons, seedman, in Northern California. Look here for "wild Italian" strain of annual sweet peas.
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I so love sweet peas, have grown them a few times but not recently, the "coffee" version of the sweet pea interest me. Visited my brothers cottage a few times on the shores of Lake Huron there in a harsh climate he had perennial sweet peas (white and pink if I remember correctly) - very lovely.
Coffee sweet pea? Tell more. I am thinking about perennial sweet pea, too. In my first house (1986! and 600 sq. feet) the neighbor's exuberant vine smothered our common fence....not that there is anything wrong with that.
The coffee ones (I probably have the name wrong - terrible short/immediate term memory) are from your link. Will look to see if I can find pictures.
In my search I found this site in BC - blue sweet peas - amazing.
http://www.avantgardener.com/sweet_peas/index.html