Cooltonagh Irish Sweet Peas

Seed List for the 2009-2010 season.

Cooltonagh Irish Sweet Peas have bred all these varieties. All are in our own packets, filled with graded seed of a fair size for the variety. Since we make up our own packets to customers’ requirements, for all sorts we charge just 10 pence or 15 cent per seed, rather than quoting prices per packet.  Seed is still cheap, so grow extra and give plants away!

 

Quality News: For most of our varieties this season we are able to guarantee seed size, which helps you to get uniform germination and a uniform batch of plants when growing for exhibition. In packets of 20 or more, all seed will meet or exceed the equivalent diameters listed below.

 

Variety News: Unfortunately seed production at Rush, Co. Dublin, has been hit by an acute attack of root rot and we have had to withdraw some varieties for this season.  However, we are pleased to introduce LAUREN LANDY and also ROUBEENA, which is a ruby-coloured addition to the “Gardeena” group that have been spectacular on the trellis up here for more than two months now.

 

LAUREN LANDY is a delightful warm rose-pink pea you can rely upon to produce elegant classically-proportioned flowers well placed on good stems – “They look you straight in the eye”.  Lauren was a lovely West-country girl who died of osteosarcoma five years ago, so to commemorate her we will be giving the entire proceeds of sale of her variety to support the Bone Cancer Research Trust.

 

BARONSCOURT *** (5 mm) Certificate of Merit (CofM) 1994. Baronscourt is a richer mauve sweet pea than its ancestor, the ever-reliable Eclipse, and has all its other merits combined with a little more frill.

(Introduced by Kerton Sweet Peas) (Colour group 7).

 

BLUE BEGUINE *** (5 mm) CoM 2004.

A good bright mid-blue to exhibit, with reliable shape and firm stems. (Colour group 9a).

 

BROOK HALL *** (4.5 mm) Award of Garden Merit (AGM) 2002. Brook Hall is a bright and branchy garden decorator, smothered with purest white blossoms of excellent form, with good long stems for your big bowls and inspired flower arrangements. (Introduced by E W King & Co Ltd, 2005) (Colour group 1).

 

BURNISHED BRONZE ** (5 mm) First Class Certificate (FCC) 1991. Its reddish maroon colour is uniform right to the root of the standard. (Introduced by Kerton Sweet Peas) (Colour group 5).

 

CASTLEWELLAN  *** (4.5 mm) Bronze 2001 The most vigorous pea we grow – pale pink on a cream base – Castlewellan needs more space than most and should be encouraged to branch early by stopping the main shoots before knee height.  Grown in this way, it will produce a mass of very sweetly scented blooms all summer long. (Introduced as Harlow Carr, Unwins 2004) (Listed colour group 11a but we would say group 11)

 

CHRIS HARROD **** (4.5 mm) AGM 2006; Award of Merit – Exhibition (AM) and Harriss Award of 2005; CoM 2004)  Light blue, big shapely flowers on long stems and already showing wins in the national audits. (Introduced by Kerton Sweet Peas, 2007) (Colour group 9b).

 

CORALEENA * Firm texture and a branchy habit, combined with Cooltonagh’s usual freedom from malformation, make this floriferous coral red pea an excellent garden decorator.  (Colour group 3a).

 

DAVE THOMAS  *** (5 mm) AGM 1999; AM (Exhibition) and Harriss Award of 1997; CofM 1997; Silver Award for Garden Decoration and Bronze Award for Exhibition 2001.

As befits a pea named to honour a professional soldier, Dave Thomas is the most decorated of all our varieties. This strong and reliable scarlet cerise has appeared in major winning exhibits in national shows for almost a decade.

(Introduced by Kerton Sweet Peas) (Colour group 3a).

 

DREAM GIRL *** (5 mm) CoM 2003 A truly beautiful rich rose pink on cream, Dream Girl has already made friends across the world since we introduced her last autumn. (Colour group 11b).