Perfume Delight Heirloom Sweet Pea Seeds

Sweet Pea - Perfume Delight (Heirloom) - Lathyrus odoratus Annual - a practical sweet pea choice for hot summer areas, Perfume Delight is a lovely color mix of intensely fragrant and heat-tolerant antique sweet pea varieties. The seductively scented, winged flowers bloom abundantly on tall climbing vines in a rich blend of rose, pale pink, lavender, deep purple, crimson and white with many unique bi-colors. Their color and fragrance will fill your garden each spring and a bouquet of their nostalgic orange and honeyed sweetness softly perfumes any room.

Variety Details

• Botanical name: Lathyrus odoratus
• Plant type: Annual
• Growth habit: Vining
• Crop category: Pea
• Recorded feature: Fragrant
• Product format: Seed packet

Sowing & Growing

• Soil Temperature: above 50°F
• Planting Depth: 1"
• Germination: 12-28 Days
• Height At Maturity: 6-8 feet
• Sun/Shade: Full Sun
• Spacing After Thinning: 4"

Direct sow Perfume Delight Heirloom Sweet Pea into a prepared bed during the appropriate cool-season window. Keep the seed zone moist during establishment without leaving it waterlogged, and provide support when the recorded growth habit calls for climbing space. Once plants begin flowering, inspect developing pods regularly and harvest at the size and texture preferred for the kitchen. Local temperature, soil conditions, and harvest stage can affect the time from sowing to usable pods.

Soil & Water: Sweet peas must have well-drained soil, so dig deeply and enrich with aged manure or compost before sowing seeds.

Planting & Growing: Sow seeds in full sun in cool early spring weather (as early as the ground can be worked).

Before sowing Perfume Delight Heirloom Sweet Pea, review the packet alongside the current product details and note any range in temperature, germination, or maturity. Ranges reflect biological and seasonal variation rather than a fixed promise. Label each planting with its date and location, then compare emergence, growth, and harvest with local weather. This record is useful for succession plantings and for deciding whether the crop fits better into an earlier or later seasonal window.

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