Sweet Pea Shrub Size
Use as a border accent or in a container.
Sweet pea shrub size. Compact evergreen shrub with rounded grey green leaves. Trained onto a wigwam shaped plant support. Unlike other types of this genus sweet peas are toxic and the seeds should not be ingested by humans or pets. Tall 180 270 cm and 3 6 ft. Plant your peas in a container that s at least 6 inches 15 cm deep and 8 inches 20 cm in diameter. Unrelated to sweet pea garden flowers lathyrus odoratus the sweet pea shrub polygala spp gets its name from its similar looking flowers. When you plant your container grown sweet peas depends a lot on where you live.
It grows 2 to 3 feet 0 5 to 1 m tall and thrives in sun or shade. Give them at least 6 feet of good support. Sweet peas are one of the most popular cottage garden flowers prized for their beautiful blooms and gorgeous scent. Purple pink sweet pea shaped blooms appear spring to fall. Some varieties may climb to 9 or 10 feet. Like other sweet peas lathyrus odoratus king sized navy blue is perfect for training up an obelisk or trellis in the garden or even growing in a pot on the patio. Polygala fruticosa petite butterflies masses of vibrant purple magenta pea like flowers will adorn the compact mound of gray green foliage for much of the year.
If you don t have a fence or trellis provide brush or chicken wire or bushy stubbly twigs that they can cling to. Perennial sweet pea broad leaved everlasting pea everlasting pea hardy sweet pea perennial pea recipient of the prestigious award of garden merit of the royal horticultural society grows up to 6 9 ft. Full sun or morning sun afternoo. The mature size will depend on the variety you choose to grow but expect the vines to stretch to at least 6 to 8 feet tall. Growing and planting sweet peas is easy and they are excellent cut flowers the more you pick the more they ll grow. Monrovia priced higher. Plant with butterfly bush characteristics landscape size.
A choice variety for its extraordinarily dark navy blue sweet pea flowers and superb intense fragrance. They form an impressive column of fragrant summer colour in beds and borders. Water regularly weekly or more often. Except for the bush types sweet peas are real climbers. Sweet pea shrubs attract bees butterflies and birds making it an excellent choice for wildlife gardens. Sweet pea king size navy blue bears up to 5 large frilled blooms on each slender long stem making this an excellent cut flower for filling a vase with just a few stems. It bears up to five large wavy blooms on long slender stems making it an excellent cut flower.
2 3 tall 2 3 width light requirement. It also has a wonderful fragrance. Plant your peas 2 inches 5 cm apart and when they re a few inches high thin them to 4 inches 10 cm apart.