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Sweet pea colour changes

leonie.parkinsleonie.parkins Posts: 2
in Plants
Hi I am very new to growing sweet peas. I purchased two colours. An orange and a dark purple. Grew them from seeds and the result is very different from the plants on the packaging. Is this because I planted them together? Is it my soil? Or have I been given the wrong seeds? :) 

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  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    I think only one lot of seeds germinated. Very pretty, though.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    No, you got the wrong seeds.  The sweet peas I have , two of the sorts don't match the description. I didn't order any purple ones but they seem to predominate.  Strangely I have a couple of matucanas in mine. They are very distinctive.
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    I collected seeds from ours over the years and this year having sown many seeds we have had a great success with the bicolour ones...no idea what the "official" name is but they are great and the perfume is also great.
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