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On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:48:18 +0100, "Kate Morgan"
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Apples pears plums and damsons have been and still are good, toms very late
in getting started but going well at the moment altho there are not so many.
Shrubs trees etc all good but the best of all are the Sweet Peas, picking
almost every day and the smell is brilly. My daughter gave me the seeds but
cannot remember if they had a name or type or even where she bought them, I
hope that she can remember cos I want some more for next year. The smell is
amazing the colour is deep purply red, small flower on a fairly short stem.
They came in a brown paper seed packet with a cartoony sketch of a jolly
gardener on the front, does it ring any bells anyone ?


Possibly Heritage and Heirloom seeds?


Sounds like they could have come from Pennard Plants in East Pennard,
Somerset. They specialise in this type of thing and who packet their
seeds as you describe. After they spoke to our local garden club in N.
Dorset in spring, I bought a few packets of heirloom veg seeds (all did
well) as well as sweet pea seeds. They were/are superb and the fragrance
is delicious. My problem is I can't recall which ones I bought but I
suspect they will know when I chat with them.

You may find the link helpful:

http://www.pennardplants.com/categories.php?cat=197

Note: if you go through the home page of the site, follow this route:
All Categories/Heritage Seed Collection (Vegetable &
Flowers/Flowers-Sweet Peas. After that you have the choice of Heritage
Grandiflora or Spencer Sweet Peas ... both have a number of types and
all are fragrant.

Hope this helps.
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