Varieties
Varieties of Pea
Which variety suits you depends on site, space and taste. Here are the Pea varieties with their particulars.
- ‘Ambrosia’A sugar pea of the Kaiserschote type, where you eat the whole flat pod young and tender.
- ‘Blauwschokkers’An old Dutch caper or gray pea with striking violet‑blue pods and two‑tone rose‑purple flowers, a real eye‑catcher on the fence.
- ‘Frühe Heinrichs Riesen’The *‚Frühe Heinrichs Riesen’* is a productive, seed-fixing marker pea with long, well-filled pods on tall-growing plants.
- ‘Kelvedon Wonder’An early wrinkled pea with compact growth that needs only a low support of twigs.
- ‘Kleine Rheinländerin’An old German shelling pea from the Rhineland with low, self supporting growth that gets by with little in the way of support.
- ‘Norli’An early sugar snap pea of low habit that suits small beds, raised beds and even large containers on the balcony.