Lathyrus odoratus grandiflora Sunshine Burgundy Seeds - Sweet pea

The Sweet Pea or Lathyrus odoratus Spring Sunshine 'Burgundy' offers a superb colour, a dark brown with purple reflections. The Spring Sunshine series offers early and heat-resistant varieties, suitable for Mediterranean climates. The fragrant flowers are dense and uniform, with a rare and beautiful dark colour. The plants are vigorous and very floriferous, with long stems. They make excellent cut flowers. This climbing annual plant with large growth develops tendrils that attach themselves to the support you provide.

The Lathyrus odoratus is an annual herbaceous plant of the Legume family, native to southeastern Italy and Sicily. The Spring Sunshine Burgundy variety stands out for its high-end performance for very early flowering. It can reach 2m in height and 40cm in width in just a few months. Its leaves are arranged in pairs on quadrangular stems, with stipules at the base and extended into tendrils. They are light green in colour. Flowering takes place between April and June. The papilionaceous flowers are large, grouped in axillary clusters, with a deep colour, a dark brown with purple reflections, rare in sweet peas, with slightly undulated petals. They consist of 5 petals, with the upper one, which is also the largest, taking the form of a banner, while the others have an intermediate shape between the lip and the tube. They give off a delicate fragrance, with a sweet floral aroma with hints of honey and musk, very feminine. The fruit is a flat pod that twists and expels its seeds at a distance. It is essential to remove faded flowers, as seed production immediately stops flowering. Sweet peas root deeply in the soil to draw water and nutrients.

Fragrant Vetches or sweet peas thrive in warm and sunny places, in well-drained, even rocky soils. Their touching and old-fashioned flowering brings a lot of charm to bouquets, hanging baskets, and any support they bravely cover in one season. They are just as charming and wandering in flower beds, using neighbouring plants or shrubs as support. Combine them with coreopsis, echinaceas, gauras, and annuals such as poppies or cosmos. They can also create beautiful carpets by mixing the colours of several varieties. They are inseparable from cottage gardens and also thrive in the fertile and well-watered soil of vegetable gardens or cutting gardens, where they allow for a good supply of cut flowers.