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The range of colours available in both old-fashioned Grandiflora sweet peas and the modern Spencer sweet peas is simply amazing and for this new season Thompson & Morgan are releasing two exclusive blends that bring together a huge range of varieties. ‘Heirloom Bicolour Mixed' (left) is exactly...
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The Eagle Sweet Peas display is a little oasis of tradition and calm in the Great Pavilion of the Chelsea Flower Show , their lovely Silver-Gilt Medal winning display showing off old favourites as well as three bright new introductions. I wrote about ‘Leominster Boy' before the Show, but they also...
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This year Eagle Sweet Peas alone carry the flag for sweet pea growers at the Chelsea Flower Show (stand B17). In recent year's they're shared the spotlight with Matthewman's Sweet Peas but this year their superbly arranged quality sweet peas will be the only sweet pea exhibit in the Great...
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Keith Hammett is one of the world’s leading flower breeders, and I’m delighted to say that a wide range of his sweet peas is now available in Britain for the first time. His talents are many - last week he was awarded the Cory Cup by the RHS for his innovative work breeding new dahlias - now you can...
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Sweet peas are always a special feature at Chelsea, and both sweet pea exhibitors were awarded Gold Medals this year. But somehow, in the hurly-burly of the show, my news of their four new sweet pea introductions never made it on to the new plants pages on the RHS Chelsea website. So let me just run...
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