Bouquet Navy Sweet Peas

Bouquet Navy Spencer sweet pea

Bouquet Navy sweet peas are one of the darkest blue varieties on the market, with deep navy flowers and hints of dark purple. It's a Spencer Summer Multiflora type, which means they have the Spencer-type frilly flower form but carry from four to six blooms per long, strong stem, making them a favourite with exhibitors, professional florists and home flower arrangers. It has a medium-strong fragrance.

Browse our other Sweet Peas, or all of our Bedding Plants.

Our Sweet Peas are delivered in purpose-designed, recycled cardboard packaging, and are ready to be planted out when you get them.
We generally send them out between March and May, but we will email you with the likely delivery timescale once you have placed your order.

Features

• Colour: Deep navy blue
• Stem: Long and strong
• Height: 2m
• Type: Spencer Summer Multiflora
• Scent: Medium to strong
• Flowering: May to October
• Planting Months: March to June
• Perfect for exhibition, bouquets and vases

Goes well with other sweet peas

As with all sweet peas, it's best to place Bouquet Navy close to a path or sitting area where you can appreciate the perfume and subtle changes of colour and texture in the petals. It also makes deadheading a lot easier, so blooming continues throughout the summer. Whereas some varieties need to be appreciated on their own, Bouquet Navy looks at its best providing a dark contrast with other pale or vibrant varieties, so it's a really useful flower to have around.

As its name suggests, it looks elegant in a bouquet or vase, where its deep shades will form an excellent framework for other flowers. Bouquet Navy's long, strong stems make it easy to use in floral arrangements. Try growing some in the cutting garden purely for use in summer vases.

Did you know?

Introduced by Denholm in 1998, it has two 'sister' varieties, Bouquet Crimson and Bouquet Pink, which share its Spencer Summer Multiflora attributes as excellent cut flowers and exhibition varieties.

Plant Bouquet Navy Sweet Peas in well prepared, moist soil that ideally was enriched with organic matter the previous autumn (if you did not do it then, do it now!). Erect supports for the peas to climb up before planting. They can also be planted in pots of sufficient size - allow 6 litres per plant - and with an ideal planting medium of 50% compost, 40 %top soil and 10% well-rotted manure. General-purpose compost will do however but produces fewer flowers.

The principal requirement is enough water - Sweet Peas are thirsty and hungry plants. They can cope with a little shade but flower better in full sun.

Space plants about 10-15 cm apart and 5 cm from their support. The hole should be deep enough to accommodate the longest root and the soil should come up to the level of the first side shoot. Use wire/netting/twine between the supports so that the Sweet Pea can climb naturally. You will still need to tie them in to the frame. They grow fast, so check every ten days or so.

Water well; the soil around sweet peas should never dry out. As the flowers develop pick them and then pick again, otherwise they start to form seedpods and will stop flowering altogether. Keep tying in and picking for as long as you can. Perfectionists will remove the curling tendrils which grip other stems and can result in flowers with wiggly stems and also will remove side shoots. see the website for more advice on training sweetpeas.

By all means apply a high potash and phosphate fertiliser during the growing season. (Sweet Peas actually fix nitrogen from the air into the soil so you don't need more of that.) Home-made comfrey liquid is perfect or Tomorite will do especially if you are on a sandy soil.