Sweet peas: a favourite at every show
Good: Strong flower spikes with well spaced blooms, each fully open and fresh. Large flowers with erect standards, rigid wings and keel closed. Flower free from colour running, spotting or scorching a bright colour with silken sheen. Stems long and straight and in portion to the size of the blooms. 4 or more flowers
Bad: Weak spikes, irregular spacing, undeveloped flowers, poor colour malformed, spotted, scorched. stems crooked or disproportionately short or long for the size of blooms. Less than 4 flowers
Marking advice
Freshness, cleanliness and condition 7 points
Form, placement and uniformity 6 points
Trueness of colour 4 points
size of bloom in balance with stem 3 points
total 20 points
Good: Strong flower spikes with well spaced blooms, each fully open and fresh. Large flowers with erect standards, rigid wings and keel closed. Flower free from colour running, spotting or scorching a bright colour with silken sheen. Stems long and straight and in portion to the size of the blooms. 4 or more flowers
Bad: Weak spikes, irregular spacing, undeveloped flowers, poor colour malformed, spotted, scorched. stems crooked or disproportionately short or long for the size of blooms. Less than 4 flowers
Marking advice
Freshness, cleanliness and condition 7 points
Form, placement and uniformity 6 points
Trueness of colour 4 points
size of bloom in balance with stem 3 points
total 20 points
