Everwilde Farms - 1 lb Royal Family Mixed Sweet Pea Garden Flower Seeds - Gold Vault Bulk Seed Packet

Fit for royalty, these gorgeous blooms perfume the air with an intoxicating scent. This noteworthy mix includes red, purple, mauve, pink, blue, and white blooms. Every annual flower garden needs this flower in a corner somewhere to add its perfume to the garden. According to traditional lore, poet John Keats first called these fragrant country flowers "sweet peas." It has also been called the queen of annuals and is the quintessential old fashioned English flower. Though accounts of this flower's origins differ, most historians agree that a Franciscan monk named Francisco Cupani found it growing when visiting the island of Sicily. In 1699, he sent the seeds of the plant to a botanist in Amsterdam, Dr. Casper Commelin, who published the first recorded description and illustration of sweet peas in 1701. Dr. Leonard Plukenet, the Royal Professor of Botany and gardener of Queen Mary, also recorded obtaining a specimen of sweet pea in the early 18th century.

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