March is a perfect time to sow sweet peas so that you are happily awash with them all summer. There is no greater luxury than a houseful of sweet peas and growing your own is the best way to achieve this.

Sweet peas come in a range of incredibly beautiful colours such that the only hardship is making your selection.

Our March class will focus on seed sowing techniques and tips and their successful and enjoyable cultivation thereafter.  You will sow your own sweet peas with us here at Hortus Poeticus to take home to grow on and enjoy in your own garden.  

We will provide a beautiful selection of seeds for you to choose from, based on our experience of growing them and our work with colour. We will have a range of stunning tints and tones, from the bold and brilliant and the deeply hued to the soft classic midsummer pastels often associated with sweet peas.

We will also look at the planting situations that sweet peas prefer, whether growing outside on wigwams, arches or tunnels, or shorter varieties in pots, together with greenhouse cultivation if you have one.

We will show you how we create the right growing soil environment for the best sweet peas as well as structures to grow them up - and how to protect them from hungry mice and voles - who love them too.

You will go home with your own sown sweet peas plus hazel poles and pea sticks from our own woodland to create your own wigwam - all of which is biodegradable and fully compostable.

Coffee and home made cake will of course be provided and we always have a tour of the farm.