Favourites for fragrance

‘Bristol’

A Spencer sweet pea whose buds open with a creamy rim, but develop into fragrant wavy-edged blooms of soft blue, paling towards the edges.

‘matucana’

For the strongest, most pervading fragrance with jewel-like magenta and purple blooms, this Grandiflora type reaches 6ft (1.8m) tall.

‘Gwendoline’

This Spencer type has wavy-edged, rose-pink standard and keel petals, fading to white at the base. Vigorous, fragrant and lovely in bouquets.

‘Villa roma Scarlet’

Create impact in pots or the fronts of borders with this short, heat-tolerant, floriferous and fragrant red-flowered sweet pea, reaching 8in (10cm) high.