Sweet Pea Little Red Riding Hood - 41860
Little Red Riding Hood' is a very striking bicoloured sweet pea with a red standard petal and white wings. It has the greatest colour contrast between the standard and the wings of any sweet pea. Great garden performer and attracts attention from a distance. Bred by Dr. Keith Hammett.
Sweet Pea Mahogany - 41880
Striking dark maroon scented flowers. Four flowers per stem. Bred by Dr. Keith Hammett. Sow March-June for Spring flowers or June-September for summer flowers.
Sweet Pea Maloy - 41890
Absolutely stunning orange/apricot pink blooms with as many as seven flowers per stem. Maloy is a reverse bicolour sweet pea where the wing petals in the foreground are darker in colour than the flag petals in the background. Great for using in arrangements. Bred by Dr. Keith Hammett.
Sweet Pea Maximorph - 41910
Maximorph is an updated version of Blue Shift bred by Dr Keith Hammett. It still has the same morphing colours as Blue Shift but has a light blue-lavender threaded throughout it. Photos just don't do this beauty justice. Plant en masse for maximum effect. Sow March-June for Spring flowers or June-September for summer flowers.
Sweet Pea Mollie Rilestone - 41940
Extremely popular cut flower. Gorgeous creamy coloured flowers edged in a soft apricot/pink, that fade with age. Highly fragrant. Bred by Tremewan in England.
Sweet Pea Mrs Collier - 41960
Mrs Collier' is an ancestral cultivar of historic significance - first introduced in the UK in 1905 by Dobbie's and named for the wife of one of the employees at their Mark's Tey seed farm. It has primrose coloured buds which open cream, and a delicate vanilla scent. More recently it became notable as the foundation cultivar used in the cross between Lathyrus odoratus and L. belinensis, which has led to the various Lathyrus x hammettii hybrids.
Sweet Pea My Navy - 41970
My Navy' has large dark blue wavy flowers. Bred by Dr. Keith Hammett.
Sweet Pea Nimbus - 41980
Moody, inky blue-grey blooms are flaked and rimmed with aubergine colouring. Very unique in appearance. Bred by Unwins.
Sweet Pea North Shore - 41990
Another Egmont favourite, 'North Shore' was an absolute picture with its large frilly bicoloured blooms. Contrasting dark violet with pale blue wings and delectably fragrant, definitely one to plant. Bred by Dr. Keith Hammett & is named to recognise the help afforded to Keith by Jack Bridger in his early breeding here in New Zealand. Jack lived on the North Shore
Sweet Pea Nuance - 42000
Nuance', as the name suggests is a subtle combination of two tones of pink in a bicoloured flower. Five large well spaced flowers per stem. Bred by Dr. Keith Hammett. Sow March-June for Spring flowers or June-September for summer flowers.
Sweet Pea NZ Gardener - 42010
NZ Gardener' was named to celebrate 75 years of publication of the NZ Gardener magazine. True blue is a rare colour in flowers and this is a step closer for Sweet Peas. It resulted from the cross 'Big Blue' x 'Blue Wonder'. It has 5-7 flowers per stem, each with clamped keels and slightly hooded standard petals. Bred by Dr. Keith Hammett.
Sweet Pea Ocean Foam - 42020
A mix of flowers in Navy, mid-blue, light-blue and frothy cream.
Sweet Pea Original - 42030
This is the genuine wild Sweet Pea. It is very highly scented. All other Sweet Peas have been developed from it. This is distinct from the cultivar Cupani, which is an impostor. Keiths stock seed was collected in Sicily during the 1970's.
Sweet Pea Pandemonium - 42040
Large flowers of with a magenta flake on a white background. Bred by Dr. Keith Hammett. Sow March-June for Spring flowers or June-September for summer flowers.
Sweet Pea Piggy Sue - 42070
Piggy Sue' (no, not Peggy Sue) is named after a pig rescued from farrowing stalls. It is a pink flush on a cream ground, young flowers when first open appear as a pink picotee. Popular among flower farmers for its vintage, romantic appearance. Bred by Dr. Keith Hammett. Sow March-June for Spring flowers or June-September for summer flowers.
Sweet Pea Pink Diana - 42080
Specially bred and selected for flower production under the shorter days of early spring and autumn. Delicate light-pink blooms.
Sweet Pea Pink Nines - 42090
An outstanding multiflora type with large wavy pink flowers and capable of producing up to nine flowers per stem. Bred by Dr. Keith Hammett. Sow March-June for Spring flowers or June-September for summer flowers.
Sweet Pea Porlock - 42100
A very appealing grape and violet bicoloured flower bred by Dr. Keith Hammett. Stems are shorter than normal, so best used in small posy vases or cut the whole branch for use in arrangements.
Sweet Pea Primrose - 42110
Bred by Dr. Keith Hammett, 'Primrose' was produced early in Keith's Lathyrus belinensis x L. odoratus breeding programme. It was not disseminated earlier as he was aiming for a bright buttercup yellow. Notwithstanding, it has recently been described in the UK as the nearest yet to yellow. A summer flowering modern grandiflora.
Sweet Pea Princess Elizabeth - 42120
Large and late flowering 'Spencer type' is also 'multflora' (named for the number of flowers per stem). The original 'Spencer type' was discovered in the garden of the Earl of Spencer in the 18th century, from which all modern colours were bred from. 'Princess Elizabeth' has stunning salmon pink flowers and is very floriferous.
Sweet Pea Route 66 - 42140
Route 66' is an updated version of 'Renaissance', which was the first modern pink and white bicolour. Good in the garden and can hold it's own on the show bench. Bred by Dr. Keith Hammett.
Sweet Pea Shell Pink - 42160
Shell Pink' smothers itself in delicate subtle coral-pink flowers all summer long. It is unique as both the pedicels and calyxes that subtend each flower are pigmented rather than green. Bred by Dr Keith Hammett. Sow March-June for Spring flowers or June-September for summer flowers.
Sweet Pea Sign Post - 42170
Signpost' is a striking lavender/pink and white bicolour. Five blooms per stem. Bred by Dr. Keith Hammett.
Sweet Pea Somewhere - 42190
A hammettii hybrid bred by Dr. Keith Hammett. Pink/Mauve bicolor, slightly less subtle in colour to that of Erewhon.
Sweet Pea Spanish Dancer - 42200
Also known as 'Painted Porcelain'. A profusion of the cutest dainty flowers in cream, pink and lavender. Bred by Dr. Keith Hammett.
Sweet Pea Strawberry Fields - 42210
Eye-catching bicoloured flowers in two tones of pink. Beautifully scented and early to flower. Bred by Dr Keith Hammett. Sow March-June for Spring flowers or June-September for summer flowers.
Sweet Pea Three Times as Sweet - 42250
As its name indicates 'Three Times As Sweet' is highly scented. It has unusual tricoloured flowers where the standard petals are maroon on white, while the wing petals are purple on white. It was bred in England by Charles Valin.
Sweet Pea Tickled Pink - 43300
Pale, bicoloured sweet pea, with amazing coral rose pink blooms. Tickled Pink is a vigourous and energetic variety which will fill displays and smother fences, trellis or pergola's throughout the summer. Can also be cut and bought indoors to admire alongside your other selections from the garden.
Sweet Pea Triple G - 42260
The darkest of all the Navy Blue Sweet Peas. 5-6 flowers on each long stem. Bred by Dr. Keith Hammett. Sow March-June for Spring flowers or June-September for summer flowers.
Sweet Pea Turquoise Lagoon - 42270
A feast of colour for your eyes all at once, colours of purple, lilac, mauve, pale and iridescent blue and turquoise. The earliest flowers are pink/mauve and as they develop they shift and morph through bright shades of blue. Bred by Keith Hammett and created from cross breeding with Lathyrus belinensis, this is part of a new class of plants called Lathyrus x hammetti
Sweet Pea Vaudeville - 42280
Vaudeville' is a flaked sweet pea with vibrant pink flakes on a white ground. Bred by Dr. Keith Hammett.
Sweet Pea Wild Swan - 42290
Large wavy pure white flowers on long stems emerge from pale green buds that add to the appeal of this lovely sweet pea. One of the best white sweet peas available. Bred by Dr. Keith Hammett.