Elegance Cut Flower Production
Elegance Series is the world's first Sweet Pea series to be developed specifically for flowering under short days. Since sweet peas can be grown under low light and cool greenhouse conditions (13 C or 55 F), the Winter Elegance? short day flowering make them an attractive Christmas/January crop for growers (Northern Hemisphere). If a grower sows by early August, the grower can sell these fragrant cut flowers during the Christmas season. With Silver Thiosulfate and storage at cool temperatures, cut flower sweet peas can last up to 10 days. Traditionally, cut flower sweet peas are planted in beds with an eight inch spacing between plants and a 3 foot spacing between beds. Pre-soak seeds for 12 hours. With Elegance, vernalization of seeds should not be necessary. Seeds should be direct sown, two seeds per drill hole. Once seed has germinated, thin to one plant per eight inches. Seedlings are allowed to grow up toward wire lines that run horizontally above the planted row. These horizontal lines which run the length of the bed provide a trellis and are spaced about 6 inches apart, starting 6 inches from the ground and running above the bed to a height of about 5 to 6 feet. The Elegance series will produce fewer side shoots than spring flowering varieties. Never-the-less, side shoots should be pinched to promote flower size and stem length. Plants usually bloom at a height of about 5 to 6 feet. After blooming, remove vines from trellis, wind the vine like a rope, tie the looped vine to the trellis with the leader pointing upward. Allow this leader to grow another 5 to 6 feet upward, remove the flowers and repeat the process. The process can be repeated 3 to 4 times, thus each plant can produce up to four pickings of 3 to 4 cuts per plant per picking. We feed our Elegance 20-10-20 with chelated micro-nutrients and iron, as needed (this will depend on temperatures). The only problems we have encounted growing sweet peas have been powdery and downy mildew. We avoid both with fungicide and good ventilation.
Elegance Series WNT
Due to their day-neutrality, the Elegance Series, bred by Bodger, is the only true winter, greenhouse flowering Sweet Pea series we have seen. Couple this with their superior heat tolerance (our best performing Sweet Pea), and the home gardener benefits by growing a sweet pea with the longest blooming window of any. Also selected for cut flower qualities, Elegance series has long stems and are large flowered (Multifloras). Excellent for greenhouse production. Cut flower cultural recommendations follow. Climbing type.
Mammoth Choice Series SPR
An improvement over the Early Multiflora Gigantea Series for garden performance. They have the same blooming season of the Multiflora Giganteas, but the flowers are larger and have longer stems. For cut flowers, we recommend the Elegance Series (see below). Climbing type.
Melody™ Series
A collection of large-flowered, ruffled bicolors. Great for cutting.
Old Spice Designer Series By Bodger
Old Spice Series SUM
A wonderful collection of heirloom varieties that have exceptional heat resistance and highly scented flowers. Climbing type.
Reflection Series
Royal Family Series SUM
An improvement on the Cuthbertson varieties by having better colors, longer stems, very large flowers and being earlier flowering, as well. Royal Family varieties are climbing types that are more heat resistant than the Spencer varieties. Climbing.
Spencer Series
Streamers Series
All Streamer colors are striped with white ?flakes? throughout the flower.
The following Sweet Peas are Selected varieties from Keith Hammett
5029 Continental Mix
Vining type with large flowers. Mixed colors.
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5040 Cuthbertson Floribunda Choice Mix SUM
Slightly heat resistant, they were developed from the old Cuthbertsons for improved earliness and for more blooms on long stems. Separate colors available. Climbing type.
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P845-0 Explorer Mix SUM
The bush type Explorer Mix is unique in that all colors have been bred to be tendril free. Explorer Mix is an excellent blend of eight separate colors which include mid-blue, crimson, scarlet, rose pink, light pink, purple, white and navy blue. Four of these colors and the mix were Highly Recommended by the Royal Horticultural Society/ National Sweet Pea Society at Wisley.
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5070 Galaxy Mix
Vining with long stems which produce 4 to 5 flowers per stem. Suitable for cut flowers.
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5038 Incense™ Mix
Bodger’s most fragrant mix. We selected our most fragrant cutting varieties and combined them to make this elegant mix.
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5090 Knee-Hi Mix SUM
Bush type mixture that needs little or no support. Flower stems are long enough for cutting. Wide color range of scented flowers with multiple florets per stem. Garden height: 60 to 75 cm (24 to 30 in.)
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5085 Little Sweetheart Mix SUM
This very dwarf variety has a bright color range of red, pink, white, rose, purple, lilac and blue. Bush type. Garden height: 7 to 10 cm (18 to 20 in.)
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5400 Patio Dwarf Mix
Bush type mix. Popular for container uses. Grows to 35cm (15 in.)
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5051 Supersnoop Dwarf Mix
Nearly prostrate with mixed colors. Non-tendril. Vines grow to 120 cm (48 in.)
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