beautiful pea flowers

[flighty1]

Some weeks back I was fortunate enough to be given some Lancashire Lad peas by a very kind grape. I just wanted to say that I have a wonderful display of purple flowers & am really looking forward to trying them. Thanks Flummery

[zazen999]

I just happened to take these of Flum's Lancs Lad last week [saved from some she sent me last year and grown on].

Beautiful!

[Veggiemama]

The flowers are really quite beautiful

[Alison]

Even the plain white flowers of peas are in my opinion beautiful but I was particularly taken with the flowers on my yellow podded mange tout up the plot, my mum even has some growing up a wigwam in her garden where she normally has sweet peas.

[zazen999]

Even the plain white flowers of peas are in my opinion beautiful but I was particularly taken with the flowers on my yellow podded mange tout up the plot, my mum even has some growing up a wigwam in her garden where she normally has sweet peas.

The Golden Sweet? Gorgeous aren't they....

[Flummery]

I love pea flowers. I find Lancashire Lad, unless you are keen on mushy peas (which I am!) are really good eaten whole at mangetout size. They aren't a true mangetout as they have some fibre in the pods, but when they're young they are lovely. Good raw with a salad, when of course, they keep the purple.

[chris]

Really nice i've just seen my sutton broadies flowering too - never seen them before (or pea flowers for that matter) - they're incredible!

[womble]

Love the colour of the flowers.

Bah! it costs £20 to join the HSL and you only get 6 types of seeds. Humbug

[Flummery]

Love the colour of the flowers.

Bah! it costs £20 to join the HSL and you only get 6 types of seeds. Humbug

But you can save them - you've got them forever! And another 6 next year.

[zazen999]

Love the colour of the flowers.

Bah! it costs £20 to join the HSL and you only get 6 types of seeds. Humbug

And if you become a seed guardian you get another 2-3 types each year which of course you can save some of yourself to grow.

Got to speculate to accumulate you know

[Alison]

The Golden Sweet? Gorgeous aren't they....

Yep, thems the ones, started growing them about 4 years ago and absolutely love them. Now have half my family and some of the plot growing them too

[Flummery]

One of my Lancashire Lad crosses has the gorgeous bicoloured flower but has green pods with sweet shelling peas in. I'm growing that line on!

[armthorpe]

When my peas were in flower a couple of weeks ago there were loads of cracking white flowers. In the middle of that lot one stem grew to about 5' and had dark maroon flowers . The variety is Early Onward. Is this a genetic throwback and if I save these pods, dry them would they be worth planting next year.

[Flummery]

Yes. Try the peas in the new pods first though. Often older varietied are a bit melay or even bitter when the peas are mature. If you like it though, grow it on. It might still show some variability in future years but just select for qualities you like.

Good luck.

By the way, what colour were the pods?

[armthorpe]

By the way, what colour were the pods?

The rest of the flowers have died back and are forming pods. This overgrown mutant is still in flower.

I'll take a photo tomorrow.