Sweet Pea Streamer Purple

Oh, Sweet Pea lovers, our moment has arrived! Streamer is the most exciting thing to come along in this family in . . . well, certainly in my gardening lifetime! Not only are these flowers BIGGER, but they're streaked with white for a showy look, they arise 4 per stem, make great cuts, and have a heavenly fragrance! I think we should call them Sweetest Pea -- and we should certainly get every spare inch of ground ready to receive them this spring!

Streamer is just magnificent, each flower about 2 inches across (that's gigantic by Sweet Pea standards), colored a rich purple and boldly streaked with white. They arise about 4 on every stem, so even a small cutting gives you a big, sweet-scented bouquet!

This is a trailing Sweet Pea (since Sweet Pea is one of those plants that obliges you with bush varieties as well as vining types!) reaching 5 to 6 feet high. If you've got a trellis, chain-link fence, porous wall, or absolutely anything else that will hold a lightweight vine, you're in luck, for Streamer will transform it from mid-spring right into summer. It begins early and finishes late -- in other words, there's just nothing less than first-rate about this Sweet Pea!

Now, did you know that if you live in zones 8-10 or a particularly warm microclimate of zone 7, you can plant out your Sweet Peas in late fall and get winter blooms? And no matter where you live, try to prepare your soil in fall for spring planting; Sweet Pea likes a settled-in home. Very, very easy to begin from seed, it prefers deeply-prepared, rich, fertile soil, and does best when protected from harsh winds. That said, it's a snap to grow and blooms in no time! Start in indoors 4 to 6 before last frost if you want even earlier blooms!

In addition to this gorgeous purple, Streamer is available in 5 other separate colors -- pink, orange, chocolate, scarlet, and blue -- plus a glorious mix of all shades! Try them all -- you'll find yourself craving that fragrance and wishing summer would never come! Pkt is 50 seeds.