RED CARLIN PEA

ANCIENT TRADITIONAL HEIRLOOM VARIETY

PROLIFIC CROPPER

GROW A LITTLE TASTE OF HISTORY

RARE SPECIES

THIS LOVELY ANCIENT TALL RED PEA WAS FIRST RECORDED GROWING IN MONASTERY GARDENS IN ENGLAND IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND WERE IN POPULAR USE FROM ELIZABETHAN TIMES.

CARLIN PEAS WERE TRADITIONALLY SERVED AND EATEN ON CARLIN SUNDAY, THE SUNDAY BEFORE PALM SUNDAY IN NORTHERN COUNTIES.

YOU ARE BIDDING ON 50 FRESH ORGANIC SEEDS.

THIS RARELY OBTAINABLE SPECIES FORMS ROBUST VINES BETWEEN SIX TO NINE FEET TALL, SMOTHERED IN BEAUTIFUL SCENTED BI-COLOURED FLOWERS, FOLLOWED BY MASSES OF SHORT PODS, CONTAINING VERY ATTRACTIVE RED MOTTLED AND FLECKED PEAS.

VERY PROLIFIC AND DISEASE RESISTANT THIS SPECIES WAS EVEN UNTOUCHED BY THE DREADED PEA MOTH ON MY PLOT THIS YEAR.

EASY FROM SEED

FULL GERMINATION AND CULTURAL DETAILS SUPPLIED

COMBINED P+P ON MULTIPLE ITEMS.

PLEASE SEE MY OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE RARE AND UNUSUAL SPECIES.