The Small delight of sweet peas.

There’s something magical about sweet peas.  The way that the more you pick them, the more flowers they produce.  The flowers are so delicate, with translucent petals in lovely pastel shades of  blue, pink, purple and white.  Sweet peas always make me think of the ‘Flower Fairy’ books by Cicely Mary Barker.

Apparently there is a national collection of sweet peas.  A company called ‘English Sweet Peas’ took over the stewardship of it in 2025. New varieties are breed by them, each of which can take up to a decade. They even offer the chance to name a new sweet pea! Now there’s a present for the person who has everything!

These lovely sweet peas were a fragrant gift from a friend’s garden.