Introducing...
Lathyrus
Lathyrus are loved by gardeners for their colourful and often sweetly-scented pea-like flowers. A mainstay of the cottage or cutting garden, climbing annual sweet peas give summer-long fragrance and colour. Add spring or late summer interest with perennial or everlasting peas; what they lack in scent they make up for by returning year after year. All are easy to grow.
Growing guide
How to grow lathyrus
All the information you’ll need to grow & care for sweet peas and perennial peas in your garden.
Lathyrus we recommend
Lathyrus odoratus 'Matucana'
sweet pea 'Matucana'
- 1.5–2.5 metres
- 0.1–0.5 metres
Lathyrus odoratus 'King Edward VII'
sweet pea 'King Edward VII'
- 1–1.5 metres
- 0.1–0.5 metres
Lathyrus odoratus 'Jilly'
sweet pea 'Jilly'
- 1.5–2.5 metres
- 0.1–0.5 metres
Lathyrus odoratus 'Matucana'
sweet pea 'Matucana'
- 1.5–2.5 metres
- 0.1–0.5 metres
Lathyrus odoratus 'King Edward VII'
sweet pea 'King Edward VII'
- 1–1.5 metres
- 0.1–0.5 metres
Lathyrus odoratus 'Jilly'
sweet pea 'Jilly'
- 1.5–2.5 metres
- 0.1–0.5 metres
prev
next
Useful advice
Climbers: using annuals
Hardy annuals: sowing in autumn
Hardy annuals: sowing in spring
Get involved
The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity. We aim to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place.