Creamy-Blush Sweet Peas
Creamy-blush sweet pea comparison, from left to right: Juliet, Castle of Mey, Piggy Sue
When we look at sweet pea varieties online, we often see them alone, and it can be hard to understand the slight differences between similar varieties. To help give you some visual answers, I’ll be doing this series of sweet pea variety comparisons.
In this comparison, we look at three creamy-blush sweet peas. All three of these sweet peas have a scent rating of 5 or higher. So if you are looking for strong scented cream sweet peas, you can’t go wrong with any of these three. They all tick the romantic box as well - so lets dig in a bit deeper.
Juliet sweet pea blooms
A lovely butter cream with a soft rose blush. Juliet is a semi-grandiflora variety, which typically means that it’s blooms are a tiny bit smaller, a little bit less frilly, and stems a tiny bit shorter than it’s spencer cousins. Juliet, at least in my field, is as close to a spencer that I’ve seen a semi-grandiflora get. And with a scent rating of 6 (which is higher than the typical scent scale having 5 as the strongest scent), she is worth her weight in gold.
Designer tip: Juliets color comes very close to the pale shades of Kings Ransom, tuck a few blooms of Juliet in with your Kings Ransom, and get the best of both, Juliet adds the scent that Kings Ransom is lacking, but the color palette is seamless.
Castle of Mey sweet pea blooms
Castle of Mey is anything but simple - this creamy spencer sweet pea has hints of blush and fades to the softest cream, the shifts might be subtle, but they are non the less beautiful for it. Castle of Mey on the softer cream side of Juliet.
Castle of Mey is a stand out for wedding work because of it’s soft shifts in color, it also has a scent rating of 5, so it’s amazing for adding our favorite sweet pea scent in the garden or bouquet.
Piggy Sue sweet pea blooms
Piggy Sue, one of the first sweet peas I ever grew, so I have a soft spot for her, but you should too. While the “cream” in her blooms fades to white fairly fast, she brings more blush to the the game. If Castle of Mey sits on the cream side of Juliet, Piggy Sue sits on the blush side.
As a multiflora spencer, Piggy Sue generally has 5+ blooms per stem, giving an incredibly lush, fullness to bouquets and show in the garden.
Let’s look at them all together again. From left to right: Piggy Sue, Castle of Mey, Juliet.