SWEET PEAS ROYAL NAVY BLUE, 1g
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SWEET PEAS ROYAL NAVY BLUE, 1g
€1,20
Sale price
€1,20
Regular price
Elegant, exceptionally rich-flowering plants that delight gardeners, balcony owners, and cut flower growers with their dense foliage, delicate appearance, and continuous blooming. The "Royal Navy Blue" sweet peas from the breeding house Toraf are a premium quality variety that creates a magnificent, aristocratic, and intensely deep cascade of color throughout the summer. This exclusive variety boasts flexible, strong shoots and large, ruffled butterfly-shaped flowers in an unusual, saturated, and dark midnight blue hue, filling the garden with an intoxicating, sweet, and enchanting fragrance. By nature, this is a reliable and fast-growing annual climbing plant, distinguished by elite-class decorativeness and adding sophisticated vertical structure to the garden. Toraf's carefully prepared 1g seed packet guarantees high germination and excellent varietal purity, offering the opportunity to grow this gemstone-toned garden and bouquet queen yourself.
🌱 Suitable for:
- Exclusive cut flowers and floristry: The deep, royal blue tone is a particularly sought-after and valuable material for florists – it adds unparalleled color depth to summer and autumn bouquets, and the large flowers on sturdy stems remain fresh in a vase for a very long time.
- Fences, pergolas, and garden trellises: Thanks to its strong, climbing growth and tendrils, it is a perfect choice for vertical greening, where shoots quickly grow upwards and form a dense, dark blue wall of flowers.
- Large balcony containers and terrace pots: Providing a stable support trellis or climbing net, these sweet peas serve as a magnificent, flowering, and unusually fragrant green screen on sunny terraces or loggias.
✨ Key advantages:
- Unique and noble midnight blue tone: "Royal Navy Blue" stands out with one of the purest and darkest blue tones in the sweet pea world, creating a stunning visual effect in the garden and contrast with lighter plants.
- Large and expressive flowers: This "Royal" elite series is genetically engineered to develop significantly larger, wavy, and ruffled petals than standard varieties.
- Intense and pleasant aroma: The flowers emit a strong, natural, and intoxicatingly sweet fragrance that easily spreads through the surrounding environment and lingers indoors after a bouquet is brought into the house.
- Excellent seed germination: The 1g packet contains professionally selected seeds with high germination power and strong growth energy, ensuring dynamic and uniform development of young plants.
🧪 Technical data and parameters:
- Product type: Annual climbing flower seeds.
- Brand: Toraf.
- Variety/Species: Sweet Pea / Lathyrus odoratus "Royal Navy Blue".
- Colour: Distinctly dark blue (midnight blue).
- Package contents: 1g.
- Shoot length: Slender, strong, and climbing shoots that can reach approximately 150–200 cm in height under suitable conditions.
⚙️ Growing instructions and recommendations:
- Sowing and seedling cultivation: For earlier flowering, seeds should be sown indoors in spring – in April in individual seedling pots (preferably deep peat pots to avoid root damage when transplanting). To accelerate germination and soften the hard seed coat, it is recommended to soak the seeds in lukewarm water for 24 hours before sowing. Seeds can also be sown directly into open ground in early May at a depth of about 2–3 cm. Seeds germinate in approximately 10–14 days.
- Planting out and spacing: Young plants should be planted out in their permanent location in the garden or balcony boxes in mid-May, after the last severe spring frosts, maintaining a distance of approximately 15–20 cm. When the plant reaches about 15 cm in height, it is recommended to pinch off the top above the 3rd or 4th pair of leaves – this will stimulate the formation of additional side shoots and produce significantly more magnificent flowers.
- Site and soil selection: Sweet peas prefer a maximally sunny, warm, and sheltered from gusty winds location. The plant absolutely needs fertile, humus-rich, deeply cultivated, and moderately moist neutral soil with good drainage.
- Care and the most important rule: This variety completely dislikes the drying out of the root zone. Due to lack of moisture, the plant will quickly stop flowering and drop buds, so it must be watered regularly and abundantly on hot summer days. To maintain continuous and explosive flowering, all spent flowers and formed pods must be regularly cut off, preventing the plant from expending energy on seeds.
📦 Storage:
Store seeds in a dry, cool, and dark place in their original and tightly sealed packaging until sowing. Protect from moisture and direct sunlight.
Store seeds in a dry, cool, and dark place in their original and tightly sealed packaging until sowing. Protect from moisture and direct sunlight.