On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 21:19:52 +0100, Warwick
wrote:

On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 11:25:31 +0100, Sacha wrote:

hackety

There are perennial forms of sweet peas which are pretty but not
spectacular.

Right. In the next couple of days I'm taking my camera to Saffron lane in
Leicester where there is a bank of perennial sweet peas that is
absolutely purple with flower and has been flowering like the blazes for
at least 3 weeks.

Warwick

Not being funny, but let's not call them "sweet peas". They're
"everlasting peas", and can be very nice (I've got some pink-purplish
bicolours which appeared by accident from a packet of seed from
Chiltern).

The reason for my fussiness is not pedantry but consumer protection:
too many rogues, thieves, vagabonds, sons of guns, bashibazouks,
bandits, and brigands are selling so-called "sweet peas" which look
cute but are hardly sweet at all. These monsters should not have been
allowed into such a treasured gene pool, and the culprits should be
sent to an island where the only vegetation is horsetail and striped
petunias until they sincerely repent.

--
Mike.