Everlasting sweet pea

vigorous climber with showy clusters of pinkish sweet pea-like flowers among grey-green folaige

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Lathyrus latifolius
aka Broad-leaved everlasting pea, Hardy sweet pea, Perennial pea
  • herbaceous perennial
  • clambers vigorously with tendrils
  • greyish-green leaves
  • racemes of pale-pink unscented flowers
  • blooms summer to autumn
  • winter dieback

H 8ft
S 3ft

sun
part shade

moist
well-drained

Notes: Purchased Matlock Garden centre March 2023 for the Potted Cottage front garden, to replace one from last year which was decimated by grazing mice or voles.

Info: native to Southern Europe. Attractive to brimstone butterflies