Grows to 2.4m so needs good support. Attractive bicolour flowers and pink blushed 'snaps' in abundance. A tasty addition to salads and tirfries. Harvest June-August.
Here's four 'highsugar' varieties to offer home-growers an attractive mix of fruits to brighten the veg patch and the dinner plate.
A high yielding semi leafless variety, needing no support when grown in a block. These floriferous pea plants produce heavy crops of crunchy, stringless 8cm (3in) pods over a long period if picked regularly to encourage further flower development.
This yellow-podded sugarsnap pea will bring a colour contrast to your dinner plate, especially if served alongside a traditional green-podded variety. Pea ?Opal Creek? is the first yellow-podded sugarsnap available, producing vigorous climbing stems and an excellent crop of sweet and tasty peas.
Description for Pea 'Purple Magnolia' (Sugarsnap) not available
This beautiful Clematis is a must for your garden. Clematis ?Sugar Sweet? gives you a sweet almond like fragrance, so it is ideally planted near an entrance or a pathway. This Clematis prefers a free draining and fertile soil and is a fast grower. It can be planted in pots or borders and likes full sun or partial shade. The beautiful lilac coloured blooms flower between April and May.
Unique, autumn-flowering wallflowers, giving blooms within 8 weeks of planting! Jazz up your autumn pots and borders with something a bit different! Full rainbow colour range, hybrid vigour and intoxicating sweet fragrance, perfect for those crisp, autumn days. Ht. 30cm. Supplied as plug tray plants.
A fine quality Sugarsnap Pea with round, fleshy, pale green, sweet tasting, succulent pods. Sugarsnap Pea Zuccola is very early and heavy cropping. Ideal raw or in stir fries. Suitable for freezing. Eat immature when stringless but less sweet or remove string when fully developed. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection. Sow Sugarsnap Pea Zuccola in succession for a long season of picking.
This striking bicolour tulip combines shades of warm cinnamon and rose-pink for a most unusual display. As they mature, the intriguing blooms deepen to a rich caramel colour, with a sweet sugary fragrance to match.
As their name suggests, Tomato ?Sugar Plum Raisin? are absolutely packed with sweetness.
This specially bred dwarf sweet pea is guaranteed to spice up your containers and baskets with its unmissable fragrance. Sweet Pea 'Sugar n Spice' comes in a spectacular colour range, including bicolours. The blooms are produced all along the short stems and from each leaf node, forming a ball of rich colour when planted in hanging baskets. The plants are naturally neat and compact so there is no need for pinching. Allow 15 plants per 35cm (14) basket. Height and spread: 18cm (7).
Sugar Rush' completely turns conventional wallflower growing on its head! Not only does this unique hybrid starts to flower in the autumn just 10 weeks after sowing, but will flower again in the spring after deadheading. Just the job for adding vibrant colour - as well as a wonderful fragrance - to your garden in autumn as well as spring.