Villa Roma Formula Mix Sweet Pea Seeds

Needs No Staking!
Blooms earlier and far more profusely than others!
Genus: Lathyrus
Species: odorata
Variety: ‘Villa Roma Formula Mix’
Item Form: (P) Pkt of 25 seeds
Bloom Start To End: Mid Summer – Early Fall
Habit: Mound-shaped
Seeds Per Pack: 25
Plant Height: 10 in
Plant Width: 10 in
Additional Characteristics: Award Winner, Bloom First Year, Butterfly Lovers, Cool Season, Direct Sow, Easy Care Plants, Flower, Fragrance, Free Bloomer, Season Extenders
Bloom Color: Mix
Foliage Color: Medium Green
Light Requirements: Full Sun
Moisture Requirements: Moist,  well-drained
Resistance: Heat Tolerant
Soil Tolerance: Normal,  loamy
Uses: Baskets, Beds, Containers, Cut Flowers, Outdoor, Winter Interest

At last Sweet Peas are getting the recognition they so richly deserve! Villa Roma Scarlet was awarded the 2011 Fleuroselect Gold Medal, the highest honor a seed variety can receive, and now there’s a formula mix of all the colors in the series! Fragrant, bright, and so easy to grow, this is just the cool-weather plant your garden has been needing!

Eight brilliant colors grace this mix: carmine, navy blue, pink, raspberry, rose, scarlet, white, and bicolor white-and-rose. All share Scarlet’s award winning ability to deliver armloads of sweetly fragrant, blooms for up to 4 months straight . . . on plants only 10 inches high and wide!

The 20 Fleuroselect judges were bowled over by Villa Roma Scarlet’s strikingly bright color, overall plant attractiveness, and outstanding garden performance . . . in other words, EVERYTHING. And we have to agree. The flowers are incredibly brilliant, standing out even from a distance and suffused with that irresistible Sweet Pea aroma. Each stem bears a cluster of about 4, and this compactly mounded plant is simply packed with blooming stems.

The flowers begin in early summer and continue through early fall in most climates. Gardeners in the deep south and west do better with Sweet Peas in spring and fall, and they famously bloom all winter in subtropical climates. But Villa Roma is quite heat tolerant, so even if other Sweet Peas have melted out in the summer heat of your garden, give this one a try and prepare to be wowed!

Villa Roma is ideal for flowerpots, windowboxes, hanging baskets, and the good old garden soil — in other words, just about anywhere! It doesn’t vine, but masses together in a fiery display that steals the scene from all neighboring plants. If you’re thinking of a combination planting, white annuals such as Sweet Alyssum and Lobelia are always good choices. In cool-season gardens, Pansy makes a fine companion. Villa Roma shares its heavenly scent with all its less-fortunate neighbors, beautifully perfuming any sunny setting!

Like all Sweet Peas, Villa Roma is easy to direct-sow from seed, or can also be started indoors in January for setting out in early spring. Vigorous, so easy to grow, and endlessly attractive, it’s a must-have for any flower lover this year! Pkt is 25 seeds.