{"id":4513,"date":"2015-04-05T01:57:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T08:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2015-03-29T02:39:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T09:39:41","slug":"top-10-sweet-pea-varieties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/top-10-sweet-pea-varieties\/","title":{"rendered":"My Top 10 Sweet Pea Varieties"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"8\" cellpadding=\"8\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/sweetpeas\/antique-bouquet.jpg\" alt=\"sweetpeas\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h4>Sweet Pea &#8211; Antique Bouquet<\/h4>\n<p>Traditional varieties of sweet pea colours with great scent.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/sweetpeas\/blue-ripple.jpg\" alt=\"sweetpeas\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h4>Sweet Pea &#8211; Blue Ripple<\/h4>\n<p>Delicate light blue frills on the end of white flowers. It is a lovely blue reminiscent of delphiniums<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/sweetpeas\/granidflora-flying-flag.jpg\" alt=\"grandiflora\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h4>Sweet Pea &#8211; Grandiflora<\/h4>\n<p>Strong bold colours in fashion of Union Jack. Great contrast between colours<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/sweetpeas\/melody-rose.jpg\" alt=\"melody-rose\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h4>Sweet Pea &#8211; Melody Rose<\/h4>\n<p>Very charming colours with a light delicate touch. Great fragrance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/sweetpeas\/suga-spice-bicolor.jpg\" alt=\"sugar-spice\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h4>Sweet Pea &#8211; Sugar and Spice &#8211; bicolor<\/h4>\n<p>Like traditional old fashioned varieties. Shorter stems, but wonderful old fragrance &#8211; evocative of cottage gardens.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/sweetpeas\/sugar-spice.jpg\" alt=\"sugar\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h4>Sweet Pea &#8211; Sugar and Spice<\/h4>\n<p>&#8211; basket variety. Makes intense display of flowers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/sweetpeas\/cream-southbourne.jpg\" alt=\"cream\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h4>Sweet Pea &#8211; Cream Southbourne<\/h4>\n<p>Delicate wavy flowers. Great large frilly blooms with extravagant scent to give a great allrounder sweet pea<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/sweetpeas\/firecrest.jpg\" alt=\"firecrest\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h4>Sweet Pea &#8211; Firecrest.<\/h4>\n<p>Uniformity of red, eyecatching colour on strong stems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/sweetpeas\/fragrant-ripples.jpg\" alt=\"fragrant\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h4>Sweet Pea &#8211; Fragrant Ripples<\/h4>\n<p>A long strong stem, with wonderful wavy colouring. Also provide beautiful smell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/sweetpeas\/chatsworth.jpg\" alt=\"chatsworth\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h4>Chatsworth<\/h4>\n<p>Lovely lilac flowers and fragrance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=sweet-pea\"> Sweet Pea seeds at Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/flowers\/sweet-peas\/tips-for-growing-sweet-peas\/\">Tips for Growing Sweet Peas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/flowers\/growing-everlasting-sweetpea\/\">Everlasting Sweet Peas<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Sweet Pea Harvest by Baha'i Views \/ Flitzy Phoebie, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/85934826@N00\/2871085737\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3021\/2871085737_bd93fbe2ca.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet Pea Harvest\" width=\"500\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Photo Credit<br \/>\nSweet Pea Harvest by Baha&#8217;i Views \/ Flitzy Phoebie CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1847972500\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1847972500.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Sweet Peas: An Essential Guide <a href=\" http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1847972500\/richardpettin-21\">by Roger Parsons<\/a> <\/strong><br \/>\nThe sweet pea is a favourite flower of the gardener because of its delightful scent and diverse range of beautiful colours as this Top 10 Sweet Pea variety selection shows. The book by Roger Parsons looks at the genus in detail and explains how the novice gardener or the seasoned grower can get the most from their sweet peas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet Pea &#8211; Antique Bouquet Traditional varieties of sweet pea colours with great scent. Sweet Pea &#8211; Blue Ripple Delicate light blue frills on the end of white flowers. It is a lovely blue reminiscent of delphiniums Sweet Pea &#8211; Grandiflora Strong bold colours in fashion of Union Jack. Great contrast between colours Sweet Pea &#8211; Melody Rose Very charming colours with a light delicate touch. Great fragrance Sweet Pea &#8211; Sugar and Spice &#8211; bicolor Like traditional old fashioned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/top-10-sweet-pea-varieties\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-top-ten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}