Misc	RHS AGM
Shade	Full Sun
Area	Coastal Areas, Frost Pockets, Scotland & The North
Soil	Good, Well Drained
Colour	Red/Crimson
Type	Rootrained, Seedling
Also Good	Fragrant, Repeat Flowering
Flowering	May, Jun, Jul, Aug

Lathyrus odoratus America

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America Sweet Peas

Just like apple pie, America sweet pea is a patriotic floral outpost with wonderful red stripes on a white background. The stripes are known as flakes where a darker shade is striped or 'flaked' over a paler shade. America's flakes are more like a subtle splattering of cherry red rather than the prison pyjama stripes you might be imagining. It is heavily perfumed and even boasts a notably erect flag petal. America is firmly in the old-fashioned camp being an heirloom variety where you will see lots and lots of gorgeous 3 cm flowers that just keep on coming so long as you keep picking them. Gradually the stems become shorter with age, but the flowers retain their beauty and intense fragrance to the end. If you want sweet peas to exhibit or to have more than one flower per stem you would need to look for a Spencer variety from our range like Raspberry Flake or take a look at our full list of sweet peas.

Hoist the Flag

America would look fantastic in pots underplanted with red geraniums on a terrace. Support it in a border with Salvia 'Hot Lips' which has a similar bi-coloured flower, and if you really wanted to get all American you could intersperse some lovely blue cornflowers or grow another American sweet pea, the pale blue Flora Norton. That way you have a ready-made posy when you need something for the kitchen table. We also like the idea of growing America with the pure red Edward V11. When using sweet peas as cutting flowers try to pick them early in the morning and leave them in a bucket of cold water before arranging them.

Features of America Sweet Peas

Colour: red and white
Stem: medium
Height: 1.8 m
Type: Heritage Grandiflora
Scent: Good
Flowering: May to October
Planting Months: March-June
RHS Award of Garden Merit

Born in America

America was given its RHS AGM in 1995 almost a hundred years after it was first introduced onto the market by Vaughan, having been raised in California by Mr Morse.

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Delivery: Our standard delivery charges are:

Small box (Orders containing only seedlings or rooted cuttings) £7.20 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £60 inc VAT)
Standard box (Bareroots up to 1.2m) £11.40 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £60 inc VAT)
Large box (Pots up to and incl. 7.5L) £15.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £100 inc VAT)
Trees & Hedging (Bareroots & trees 1.2m+) £18.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £120 inc VAT)
Pallets (Root balls, large pots, trees etc) £60.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £240 inc VAT)

*Surcharges to the Highlands and Islands still apply.

Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
We will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.

Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.

Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.

Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week in summer if there is no heavy rain.

Our nursery has been supplying container grown and bareroot hedging plants to gardeners, farmers and town planners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying hedging plants online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.

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